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A boat carrying migrants from Libya to Italy sank off the Italian island of Lampedusa, resulting in more than 360 deaths.
The Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008, establishing the Troubled Asset Relief Program, commonly referred to as a bailout of the U.S. financial system, was enacted.
Roy Horn of the American entertainment duo Siegfried & Roy (both pictured) was mauled by a tiger during a performance at the Mirage on the Las Vegas Strip.
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Bengali, Assamese, Marathi, Pali and Prakrit are accorded the Classical language status by the Government of India
Wab Kinew is elected to be the first First Nations Premier of a Canadian province in the 2023 Manitoba general election
Svante PÀÀbo is awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
Eight people are killed in an airplane crash near Milan, Italy.
Forty-two people are killed and 33 go missing in the Kunduz hospital airstrike in Afghanistan.
At least 360 migrants are killed when their boat sinks near the Italian island of Lampedusa.
Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Turkey join in the Turkic Council.
The Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 for the U.S. financial system is signed by President George W. Bush.
O. J. Simpson murder case: O. J. Simpson is acquitted of the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman.
An American attack against a warlord in Mogadishu fails; eighteen US soldiers and over 350 Somalis die.
Nadine Gordimer is announced as the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature.
The German Democratic Republic is abolished and becomes part of the Federal Republic of Germany; the event is afterwards celebrated as German Unity Day.
A coup in Panama City is suppressed and 11 participants are executed.
TASCC, a superconducting cyclotron at the Chalk River Laboratories in Canada, is officially opened.
The Space Shuttle Atlantis makes its maiden flight, carrying two DSCS-III Satellites on STS-51-J.
The hunger strike at the Maze Prison in Northern Ireland ends after seven months and ten deaths.
A violent coup in Honduras begins two decades of military rule.
Project Mercury: US astronaut Wally Schirra, in Sigma 7, is launched from Cape Canaveral for a six-orbit flight.
The California State Superior Court rules that the book Howl and Other Poems is not obscene.
The United Kingdom successfully tests a nuclear weapon in the Montebello Islands, Western Australia, to become the world's third nuclear power.
Korean War: The First Battle of Maryang San pits Commonwealth troops against communist Chinese troops.
WERD, the first black-owned radio station in the United States, opens in Atlanta.
An American Overseas Airlines Douglas DC-4 crashes near Ernest Harmon Air Force Base in Stephenville, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, killing 39.
World War II: German forces murder 92 civilians in Lingiades, Greece.
A German V-2 rocket reaches a record 85Â km (46Â nm) in altitude.
Second Italo-Abyssinian War: Italy invades Ethiopia.
The Kingdom of Iraq gains independence from the United Kingdom.
The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes is renamed to Yugoslavia by King Alexander I.
Cincinnati Reds pitcher Adolfo Luque becomes the first Latin American player to appear in a World Series.
Tsar Boris III of Bulgaria accedes to the throne.
U.S. forces defeat Nicaraguan rebels at the Battle of Coyotepe Hill.
Chief Kintpuash and companions are hanged for their part in the Modoc War of northern California.
The last Thursday in November is declared as Thanksgiving Day by U.S. President Abraham Lincoln.
American Civil War: The two-day Second Battle of Corinth begins as Confederate forces under General Earl Van Dorn attack Union defenses led by General William Rosecrans around Corinth, Mississippi.
A militia departs from the Spanish stronghold of Valdivia to quell a Huilliche uprising in southern Chile.
George Washington proclaims Thursday November 26, 1789 as Thanksgiving Day.
The Treaty of NiĆĄ is signed by the Ottoman Empire and Russia ending the RussianâTurkish War.
The Duke of Montrose issues a warrant for the arrest of Rob Roy MacGregor.
Qing dynasty naval commander Shi Lang receives the surrender of the Tungning kingdom on Taiwan after the Battle of Penghu.
The Siege of Leiden is lifted by the Watergeuzen.
Muhammed VII becomes the twelfth sultan of the Emirate of Granada.
Roman Emperor Theodosius I concludes a peace treaty with the Goths and settles them in the Balkans.
Liberators' civil war: Triumvirs Mark Antony and Octavian fight to a draw Caesar's assassins Brutus and Cassius in the first part of the Battle of Philippi, where Cassius commits suicide believing the battle is lost.
Gallic Wars: Vercingetorix, leader of the Gauls, surrenders to the Romans under Julius Caesar, ending the siege and battle of Alesia.
Gaecheonjeol, Hwanung (íì ) purportedly descended from heaven. South Korea's National Foundation Day.