THE DAY IN HISTORY · NOVEMBER 26
November 26 in history
What happened on November 26: 2 moments from the Maps of History atlases, in 1937 and 1941, each linked to the map that shows it.
— Battle of Shanghai
13 Aug–26 Nov 1937 — Chiang committed some 700,000 men, including his best German-trained troops, to three months of house-by-house fighting under naval guns. He wanted to show that China would fight and draw the war onto the Yangtze axis. Casualties approached 250,000, among them officers the army could not replace. From the Settlement’s rooftops, the world watched.
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— Japanese fleet sails from Hitokappu Bay
26 Nov 1941 — Six carriers sail from fog-bound Hitokappu Bay into the empty north Pacific, keeping radio silence. On the same day, the Hull note is delivered in Washington.
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