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 throws his German-trained best — some 700,000 men — into three months of house-by-house fighting under naval guns, to prove China will fight and to pull the war onto the Yangtze axis. Casualties approach 250,000, including the army’s irreplaceable officer corps. The world watches from the Settlement’s rooftops.
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— Japanese fleet sails from Hitokappu Bay
26 Nov 1941 — Six carriers slip out of fog-bound Hitokappu Bay under radio silence, into the empty north Pacific. The Hull note is delivered in Washington the same day.
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