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Events on November 26

• 1346 Charles IV is crowned King of Germany in Bonn as a counter-king to Louis the Bavarian.
• 1872 The first edition of Charles Darwin's work The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals (The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals) is published.
• 1922 Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon enter the tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamun for the first time.
• 1930 The first volume of Robert Musil's novel The Man Without Qualities is published.
• 1942 Michael Curtiz's film Casablanca premieres at the Hollywood Theatre in New York City.
• 1945 Astrid Lindgren's children's book Pippi Longstocking is published.
• 1976 The dissident Robert Havemann is sentenced to house arrest by the Fürstenwalde district court. To the displeasure of the East German leadership, he publicly spoke out in support of his friend, the singer-songwriter Wolf Biermann, who had been stripped of his citizenship.
• 1983 The two former members of the Bundestag for the CSU, Franz Handlos and Ekkehard Voigt, found the party The Republicans in Munich.
• 1985 The ICE predecessor InterCityExperimental is officially presented to the public. On the same day, it sets a new speed record for rail vehicles in Germany at 317 km/h.
• 1993 Following a series of attacks on Turkish facilities, the PKK is banned by the German Interior Ministry.
• 2000 The first case of BSE in Germany is officially confirmed.
• 2003 The final Concorde flight takes place under the direction of Chief Pilot Mike Bannister from London Heathrow Airport to the Air and Space Museum in Filton.

Born on November 26

• 1885 Heinrich Brüning, German politician
• 1903 Alice Herz-Sommer, Austrian-Israeli pianist and music educator
• 1921 Françoise Gilot, French painter and author, Pablo Picasso's lover
• 1922 Charles M. Schulz, American comic strip artist
• 1931 Adolfo Pérez Esquivel, Argentine civil rights activist
• 1950 Dieter Burdenski, German football player
• 1951 Angelika Barbe, German civil rights activist and politician
• 1961 Dirk Michaelis, German singer and composer
• 1990 Rita Ora, British singer
• 2001 Pauline Brünger, German climate activist

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Source of events and birthdays: German Wikipedia article „26. November“, licence CC BY-SA 4.0, selected, shortened and translated by Birthday Paper.

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