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==November 26, 1978 (Sunday)==
*[[1978 Holiday Inn fire|A fire killed 10 people]] and injured 34 others at a [[Holiday Inn]] motel in the U.S. in [[Greece, New York]], a suburb of [[Rochester, New York|Rochester]]. Most of the guests who were spending the night on Saturday for the Thanksgiving weekend, and seven of the dead were visitors from Canada.<ref>{{cite news |title=10 Killed in Motel Fire in Upstate N.Y. |agency=AP |newspaper=[[Los Angeles Times]] |date=November 27, 1978 |page=I-5}}</ref>
*Two British [[commercial diver]]s, Michael Ward and Tony Prangley, died of [[hypothermia]] in the [[East Shetland Basin]] after their [[diving bell]] [[Star Canopus diving accident|plunged to the seabed]] at a depth of over {{Convert|100|m}}.<ref name="Limbrick">{{cite book|title=North Sea Divers – a Requiem|last=Limbrick|first=Jim|pages=157–58|location=Hertford|publisher=Authors OnLine|year=2001|isbn=0-7552-0036-5|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lPp68NAoUF0C&pg=PA157}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=Into the Lion's Mouth: The Story of the ''Wildrake'' Diving Accident|last=Smart|first=Michael|location=[[Medford, Oregon]]|publisher=Lion's Mouth Publishing|year=2011|pages=348–355|isbn=978-0-615-52838-0}}</ref>
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