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November 28 is the 332nd day (333rd on leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 33 days remaining.
Events
- 1520 - After navigating through the South American strait, three ships under the command of Portuguese explorer Ferdinand
Magellan reach the Pacific Ocean, becoming the first Europeans to sail from the Atlantic
Ocean to the Pacific (the strait was later named the Strait of
Magellan).
- 1582 - In Stratford-upon-Avon, 18 year-old William Shakespeare and 26 year-old Anne Hathaway pay a 40-pound bond for their marriage license (Shakespeare would later become one of the greatest
playwrights in history).
- 1660 - At Gresham College,
12 men, including Christopher Wren, Robert Boyle, John Wilkins, and Sir Robert Moray meet after a lecture by Wren
and decide to found "a College for the Promoting of Physico-Mathematicall Experimentall Learning}" (later known as the Royal Society).
- 1862 - American Civil
War: Battle of Cane
Hill - Union troops led by General John Blunt push back Confederate forces commanded by General John Marmaduke into northwestern
Arkansas' Boston
Mountains.
- 1905 - Irish nationalist Arthur
Griffith founds Sinn Féin in Dublin as a political party whose goal is the
independence for all of Ireland.
- 1907 - In Haverville, Massachusetts, scrap-metal dealer Louis B. Mayer opens his first movie theater
(in a few years he had the largest theater chain in New England and in
1917 he founded his own production company, which eventually became part of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer).
- 1912 - Albania declares its independence
from the Ottoman Empire.
- 1914 - World War I: Following a
war-induced closure in July, the New York Stock
Exchange re-opens for bond trading.
- 1919 - The American-born
Lady Astor is elected to the Parliament of the United Kingdom, becoming
the first female member of that institution.
- 1920 - The
Mask of Zorro, starring Douglas Fairbanks,
Sr. opens.
- 1925 - Country-variety show Grand Ole Opry makes its radio debut on station WSM (it would
later become the longest-running live music show).
- 1942 - In Boston,
Massachusetts, a fire in the Cocoanut Grove night club kills 491
people.
- 1943 - World War II: Teheran Conference - US President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet Leader Joseph Stalin
meet in Tehran to discuss war strategy.
- 1958 - Chad, the Republic of the Congo, and Gabon become autonomous republics within the French Community.
- 1960 - Mauritania becomes independent
of France.
- 1964 - Mariner program:
NASA launches the Mariner 4 probe toward
Mars.
- 1964 - Vietnam War: National Security Council
members, including Robert McNamara, Dean Rusk, and Maxwell Taylor agree to recommend that
US President Lyndon B. Johnson adopt a plan for a two-stage
escalation of bombing in North Vietnam.
- 1965 - Vietnam War: In response to US President Lyndon B. Johnson's call for "more flags" in Vietnam,
Philippines President Elect Ferdinand Marcos announces he will send troops to help fight in South Vietnam.
- 1969 - The Newcomers stopped
airing on the BBC
- 1975 - East Timor declares its
independence from Portugal.
- 1979 - In Antarctica, a DC-10 carrying Air
New Zealand Flight 901 crashes into Mount Erebus on a sightseeing trip,
killing all 257 people on board.
- 1982 - Representatives from 88 countries gather in Geneva to discuss world
trade and ways to work toward aspects of free trade.
- 1984 - Over 250 years after their deaths, William Penn and his wife Hannah
Callowhill Penn are made Honorary Citizens of the United States.
- 1987 - A Boeing 747 carrying South African
Airways 295 crashes into the Indian Ocean, killing all 159 people
on-board.
- 1987 - In Wappingers Falls, New York,
Tawana Brawley is found
wrapped in garbage bags, with feces smeared all over her body and a racial slur on her body (she later told police that she was held against her will for four days
and repeatedly raped by a group of white men, one of which had a police badge. Her story did not check out, however).
- 1989 - Cold War: Velvet Revolution - With other communist regimes falling all around it and with growing street protests, the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia
announces they will give up their monopoly on political power (elections held in
December 1989 brought the first non-communist government to Czechoslovakia in more than 40 years).
- 1994 - In Portage,
Wisconsin, convicted serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer is clubbed to
death in by a deranged inmate in the Columbia Correctional Institute gymnasium.
- 1994 - Voters in Norway reject European Union membership.
- 1995 - US President Bill Clinton
signs a highway bill that ends the federal 55 mph speed limit.
Births
- 1628 - John Bunyan, cleric, author
(Pilgrim's Progress) (d. 1688)
- 1632 - Jean-Baptiste
Lully, composer (d. 1687)
- 1700 - Revd Nathaniel
Bliss, Astronomer Royal (d. 1764)
- 1757 - William Blake, poet,
painter (d. 1827)
- 1785 - Achille-Charles, duc de Broglie, Prime Minister of France (d. 1870)
- 1805 - John Stephens,
archeologist (d. 1852)
- 1810 - William Froude,
engineer, naval architect (d. 1879)
- 1820 - Friedrich Engels,
social philosopher (d. 1895)
- 1821 - Nikolai Nekrasov, poet, journalist (d. 1878)
- 1829 - Anton Rubinstein,
composer, pianist, conductor (d. 1894)
- 1837 - John Wesley Hyatt, inventor of celluloid, first synthetic plastic (d. 1920)
- 1853 - Helen Magill White, educator, first American woman to earn a Ph.D (1877) (d. 1944)
- 1866 - Henry Bacon, architect
(Lincoln Memorial) (d. 1924)
- 1881 - Stefan Zweig, poet,
essayist, dramatist (d. 1942)
- 1887 - Ernst Röhm, Nazi official (d. 1934)
- 1894 - Brooks Atkinson, drama critic (d. 1984)
- 1895 - José Iturbi, pianist (d.
1980)
- 1896 - Lilia Skala, actress (d.
1994)
- 1902 - Victor Jory, actor (d. 1982)
- 1904 - Nancy Mitford, essayist,
satirist (d. 1973)
- 1907 - Alberto Moravia, writer (d. 1990)
- 1908 - Claude
Levi-Strauss, social anthropologist
- 1908 - Erich von Holst,
behaviorist (d. 1962)
- 1916 - Mary Lilian
Baels, Princess of Rethy, Belgium (d. 2002)
- 1916 - Guy Lapebie,
cyclist
- 1920 - Cecilia Colledge, figure skater
- 1925 - Gloria Grahame,
actress (d. 1981)
- 1925 - Virginia Hewitt,
actress (d. 1986)
- 1929 - Berry Gordy Jr, record company owner (Motown)
- 1931 - Hope Lange, actress
- 1931 - Tomi Ungerer, graphic
artist, author
- 1936 - Gary Hart, U.S. politician
- 1941 - Laura Antonelli, actress
- 1942 - Paul Warfield, American football player
- 1943 - Randy Newman, composer,
musician
- 1949 - Alexander
Godunov, composer, ballet dancer (d. 1995)
- 1949 - Paul Shaffer, orchestra leader, musician
- 1950 - Ed Harris, actor
- 1957 - David Van Day,
musician
- 1958 - Dave Righetti, baseball pitcher
- 1959 - Judd Nelson, actor
- 1961 - Martin Clunes,
actor
- 1961 - Alfonso Cuarón, director
- 1961 - Jane Sibbett,
actress
- 1962 - Jon Stewart, comedian,
actor, television host
- 1964 - Cornelia Guest, debutante
- 1967 - Anna Nicole
Smith, model, television personality
- 1988 - Scarlett Pomers,
actress (Star Trek: Voyager, Reba)
Deaths
- 741 - St. Gregory III,
Pope
- 1170 - Owain ap Gruffydd,
Prince of Gwynedd
- 1262 - Shinran, founder of Japan's True
Pure Land Buddhist sect
- 1815 - Johann Peter
Salomon, violinist, impresario and composer
- 1827 - Dov Baer Schneersohn, Lubavitch leader,
author
- 1859 - Washington
Irving, writer
- 1872 - Mary Fairfax
Somerville , British scientific writer
- 1921 - `Abdu'l-Bahá Son of
Bahá'u'lláh
- 1935 - Erich von
Hornbostel, musicologist
- 1939 - James A Naismith, creator of basketball
- 1945 - Dwight Davis, donator of the Davis cup
- 1954 - Enrico Fermi,
physicist
- 1960 - Richard Wright, author
- 1962 - Queen Mother Wilhelmina of the Netherlands
- 1963 - Fred Uttal, television host
- 1963 - Karyn Kupcinet, actress
- 1964 - , actor
- 1971 - Wasfi Tal, Prime Minister of Jordan
- 1972 - Havergal Brian,
composer
- 1976 - Rosalind Russell,
actress
- 1977 - Trevor Bardette, actor
- 1983 - Christopher George, actor
- 1986 - Herb Vigran, actor
- 1987 - Choh Hao Li, biochemist
- 1994 - Jerry Rubin, 1960s anti-war activist
- 1994 - Jeffrey Dahmer,
serial killer
Holidays and observances
- Bahá'í Faith: Holy Day - Ascension of 'Abdu'l-Baha
- Albanian Independence day
November 27 - November 29
- October 28 - December 28
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