November 26: What Happened on This Day in History (Elementary Level)?

(Page last edited 10/12/2017)

1. 1778 - In the Hawaiian Islands, Captain James Cook becomes the first European to visit Maui.
2. 1863 - President Abraham Lincoln proclaims November 26 as a nationalThanksgiving Day, to be celebrated annually on the final Thursday of November (since 1941, on the fourth Thursday).
3. 1922 - Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon become the first people to enter the tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamun in over 3000 years.
4. 1970 - In Basse-Terre, Guadeloupe, 1.5 inches (38.1 mm) of rain fall in a minute, the heaviest rainfall ever recorded.
5. 2004 - The last Po'ouli (Black-faced honeycreeper) dies of Avian malaria in the Maui Bird Conservation Center in Olinda, Hawaii before it could breed, making the species in all probability extinct
6. Famous Birthdays: Henry Dunster (English-American clergyman and academic, 1st President of Harvard College), Robert Battey (American surgeon), Mary Edwards Walker (American physician), Karl Ziegler (German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate), Charles M. Schulz (American cartoonist)

For famous birthdays and other daily events in history, visit our Daily Dose Activities.

Click Here for Yesterday in History: November 25

Click Here for Tomorrow in History: November 27

For more history resources on Internet 4 Classrooms, visit our Social Studies and History index. For Pre K-8th Grade Level History and Social Studies Resources, visit our Grade Level Index.