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Notable anniversaries in history for today: November 26
- 100th: 1924 - Birth of George Segal in New York, USA; sculptor lifelike mixed-media figures (Bus Driver).
- 100th: 1924 - Mongolian People's Republic proclaimed.
- 90th: 1934 - Birth of Ludmila Shevtsova in USSR; 800m runner (Olympic-gold-1960).
- 50th: 1974 - Approximately 140 die when suspension bridge collapses (Nepal).
- 40th: 1984 - John W Mercom Junior announces New Orleans Saints are up for sale for US$75 million.
- 30th: 1994 - The first Beatles record ever to be played on radio ("Love Me Do", played by Radio Luxembourg in 1963) sells for CDN$23,000 at an auction in London, England, a world record price for a commercially produced record.
- 25th: 1999 - In Vanuatu Islands, a magnitude 7.5 earthquake and tsunami occur. At least ten people are killed.
- 25th: 1999 - The Norwegian passenger ferry MS Sleipner sinks, killing 16 people on board.
- 20th: 2004 - A group of Iraqi political leaders, primarily from Sunni and Kurdish parties, advocate a six-month delay in popular elections scheduled for January 2005.
- 20th: 2004 - An oil tanker sppills as much as 1.8 million litres of crude oil into the Delaware River between Philadelphia and southern New Jersey, USA.
- 5th: 2019 - 51 people are killed and around 2,000 others injured in a 6.4-magnitude earthquake in northwestern Albania. The earthquake is the strongest to hit Albania in more than 40 years.
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