1789 – U.S. President Washington set aside this day to observe the adoption of the Constitution of the United States.
1867 – J.B. Sutherland patented the refrigerated railroad car.
1940 – The Nazis forced 500,000 Jews of Warsaw, Poland to live within a walled ghetto.
1941 – U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed a bill establishing the fourth Thursday in November as Thanksgiving Day. In 1939 Roosevelt had signed a bill that changed the celebration of Thanksgiving to the third Thursday of November.
1943 – The HMS Rohna became the first ship to be sunk by a guided missile. The German missile attack led to the death of 1,015 U.S. troops.
1949 – India’s Constituent Assembly adopted the country’s constitution The country became republic within the British Commonwealth two months later.
1950 – China entered the Korean conflict forcing UN forces to retreat.
1965 – France became the third country to enter space when it launched its first satellite the Diamant-A.
1998 – British Prime Minister Tony Blair made a speech to the Irish Parliament. It was a first time event for a British Prime Minister.
2008 – 10 Pakistani members of Lashkar-e-Taiba, an Islamic militant organisation, carried out a series of 12 coordinated shooting and bombing attacks lasting four days across Mumbai. The attacks, which drew widespread global condemnation, began on Wednesday, 26 November and lasted until Saturday, 29 November 2008, killing 164 people and wounding at least 308
