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Charles Schulz

1922 - 2000

Cartoonist who created the beloved characters Snoopy and Charlie Brown in his long-running "Peanuts" cartoon.

Tina Turner

1939 - 2023

Legendary American-born singer whose rock and R&B hits include "Proud Mary" and "What's Love Got to Do With It."

Kara Walker

1969 -

American artist best known for her intricately cut paper silhouettes depicting scenes that comment on race, gender and power.

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1983

NOV26

In the then-biggest heist in history, six gunmen break into the Brinks-Mat depot near London's Heathrow Airport, expecting to steal £1 million in currency. Instead, they stumbled on a motherlode of gold bullion worth £26 million.

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Also on This Day in History

Discover more of the major events, famous births, notable deaths and everything else history-making that happened on November 26th

“Alice in Wonderland” manuscript is sent as a Christmas present

On November 26, 1864, Oxford mathematician Charles Lutwidge Dodgson sends a handwritten manuscript called Alice’s Adventures Under Ground to 12-year-old Alice Liddell. The 30-year-old Dodgson, better known by his nom de plume Lewis Carroll, made up the story one day on a picnic with young Alice and her two sisters, the children of one of […]

Vigilantes in California lynch two suspected murderers

A mob of people in San Jose, California, storm the jail where Thomas Thurmond and John Holmes are being held as suspects in the kidnapping and murder of Brooke Hart, the 22-year-old son of a local storeowner. The mob of angry citizens proceeded to lynch the accused men and then pose them for pictures. On […]

Japanese task force leaves for Pearl Harbor

On November 26, 1941, Adm. Chuichi Nagumo leads the Japanese First Air Fleet, an aircraft carrier strike force, toward Pearl Harbor, with the understanding that should “negotiations with the United States reach a successful conclusion, the task force will immediately put about and return to the homeland.” Negotiations had been ongoing for months. Japan wanted […]

“Casablanca” premieres in New York

On November 26, 1942, Casablanca, a World War II-era drama starring Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman, premieres in New York City; it will go on to become one of the most beloved Hollywood movies in history. In the film, Bogart played Rick Blaine, the owner of a swanky North African nightclub, who is reunited with […]

The first Polaroid camera is sold

On November 26, 1948, the first “Land Camera”—better known today as the instant Polaroid camera—goes on sale at Jordan Marsh department store in Boston for $89.75. The invention of Edwin H. Land, who had enrolled at Harvard to study physics in 1926, but dropped out to conduct his own research, becomes an instant hit and […]

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Chinese counterattacks in Korea change nature of war

In some of the fiercest fighting of the Korean War, thousands of communist Chinese troops launch massive counterattacks against U.S. and Republic of Korea (ROK) troops, driving back the Allied forces before them and putting an end to any thoughts for a quick or conclusive U.S. victory. When the counterattacks had been stemmed, U.S. and […]

Air Force helicopter pilot rescues Special Forces team

On November 26, 1968, while returning to base from another mission, Air Force 1st Lt. James P. Fleming and four other Bell UH-1F helicopter pilots get an urgent message from an Army Special Forces team pinned down by enemy fire. The helicopter rescue mission remains one of the most daring of the Vietnam War. Although […]

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