On This Day In History– 26 November
1493 Christopher Columbus returns to La Navidad colony, finding it destroyed by the 1st native American uprising against Spanish rule. Taíno cacique Caonabo led his people to attack the settlement after the brutal treatment they received from the garrison who disobeyed Columbus's orders.
1817 US soldiers attack Florida Indian village, beginning Seminole War
1826 John Walker invents friction match in England
1895 Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel's will establishes the Nobel Prize
1944 US 121st Infantry regiment opens assault on Hurtgen
1953 Indians 3rd baseman Al Rosen is unanimously named AL's MVP
1971 Soviet Mars 2 becomes 1st spacecraft to crash land on Mars
1989 US 63rd manned space mission STS 33 (Discovery 9) returns from space
1991 Undertaker beats Hulk Hogan to become new WWF champ
2013 "Frozen", the highest-grossing animated film of all time, starring Idina Menzel and Kristen Bell, is released
2014 Cricketer Phillip Hughes dies two days after being struck on the head by a bouncer
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