Important Events From This day in History – 26th November

Today in History

• 2003 Concorde retired from service

  Concorde retired from service after 27 years of flight

• 1983 Brink’s Mat gold heist

  The £ 26 million robbery occurred in a Brink Mat warehouse at Heathrow Airport in London. The stolen gold, diamonds and cash have never been recovered.

• 1966 World’s first tidal power station opens in France

  French President Charles de Gaulle inaugurated the Rance Tidal Power Station on the Rance River in Brittany, France. It is now one of the world’s largest tidal power plants.

• 1965 France launches Astérix

  With the satellite’s launch from Hammaguir, Algeria, France became the sixth country in the world to have an artificial satellite in orbit, joining the United States, the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, Canada, and Italy. The satellite is named after the popular comic character Asterix, who French writer René Goscinny created.

• 1942 Casablanca premiers

  The classic film starring Ingrid Bergman and Humphrey Bogart won three Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Director, and Adapted Screenplay. The film follows the life of Rick Blaine, a former freedom fighter and club owner in Casablanca, Morocco, who must choose between his love for a woman, Ilsa Lund, and saving her husband from the Nazis.