November 28

Events

1095 - On the last day of the Council of Clermont, Pope Urban II appoints Bishop Adhemar of Le Puy and Counts of Toulouse|Count Raymond IV of Toulouse to lead the First Crusade to the Holy Land.

1443 - Skanderbeg and his forces liberate Kruja, in Middle Albania and raise the Flag of Albania|Albanian flag.

1520 - After navigating through the South American strait, three ships under the command of Portugal | Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan reach the Pacific Ocean, becoming the first Europeans to sail from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific.

1582 - In Stratford-upon-Avon, William Shakespeare and Anne Hathaway (Shakespeare's wife)|Anne Hathaway pay a £40 bond for their marriage licence.

1660 - At Gresham College, 12 men, including Christopher Wren, Robert Boyle, John Wilkins, and Sir Robert Moray decide to found what is later known as the Royal Society.

1729 - Natchez Indians massacre 138 Frenchmen, 35 French women, and 56 children at Fort Rosalie, near the site of modern-day Natchez.

1785 - The Treaty of Hopewell is signed

1821 - Panama Independence Day. Panama separates from Spain and joins the Great Colombia.

1843 - Ka Lahui: Hawaiian Independence Day - The Kingdom of Hawaii is officially recognized by the United Kingdom and France as an independent nation.

1862 - American Civil War: In the Battle of Cane Hill, Union troops under General John Blunt defeat General John Marmaduke's Confederates.

1895 - The first American automobile race takes place over the 54 miles from Chicago's Jackson Park to Evanston, Illinois. Frank Duryea wins in approximately 10 hours.

1905 - Irish nationalist Arthur Griffith founds Sinn Féin as a political party whose goal is the independence of Ireland.

1907 - In Haverhill, Massachusetts, scrap-metal dealer Louis B. Mayer opens his first movie theater.

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 - Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor|Lady Astor is elected to be the first female member of Parliament of the United Kingdom|parliament in the UK.

1920 - ''The Mark of Zorro (1920 film)|The Mark of Zorro'', starring Douglas Fairbanks (1883-1939)|Douglas Fairbanks opens.

1925 - Country-variety show ''Grand Ole Opry'' makes its radio debut on station WSM.

1942 - In Boston, Massachusetts, a fire in the Cocoanut Grove fire|Cocoanut Grove nightclub kills 491 people.

1943 - World War II: Tehran Conference - US President Franklin Delano Roosevelt|Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet leader Joseph Stalin meet in Tehran to discuss war strategy.

1944 - Albania is liberated by the Albanian partisans.

1958 - Chad, the Republic of the Congo, and Gabon become autonomous republics within the French colonial empire|French Community.

1960 - Mauritania becomes independent of France.

1964 - Mariner program: NASA launches the Mariner 4 probe toward Mars (planet)|Mars.

1964 - Vietnam War: United States National Security Council|National Security Council members 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 U.S. 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 final episode of BBC soap-opera ''The Newcomers'' is broadcast.

1969 - The Rolling Stones release the album ''Let It Bleed.''

1975 - East Timor declares its independence from Portugal.

1975 - ''As the World Turns'' and ''The Edge of Night'', the final two United States|American soap operas that had resisted going to pre-taped broadcasts, air their last live episodes.

1979 - The Mount Erebus disaster: an Air New Zealand DC-10 crashes into Mount Erebus on a sightseeing trip, killing all 257 people on board.

1980 - Mark Morris, choreographer, puts on the Mark Morris Dance Group's first show at the Merce Cunningham Studios.

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|honorary citizens of the United States.

1987 - South African Airways flight 295 crashes into the Indian Ocean, killing all 159 people on-board.

1987 - Tawana Brawley is allegedly raped by six white men, some of them police officers, in Wappingers Falls, New York.

1989 - Cold War: Velvet Revolution - In the face of protests, the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia announces they will give up their monopoly on political power.

1990 - Margaret Thatcher formally tenders her resignation to The Queen and leaves Downing Street for the last time. John Major is elected her successor.

1994 - Voters in Norway reject European Union membership (see Norwegian EU referendum, 1994).

1994 - In Portage, Wisconsin, convicted serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer is clubbed to death by an inmate in the Columbia Correctional Institute gymnasium.

1995 - U.S. President Bill Clinton signs a highway bill that ends the federal 55 mph speed limit.

1997 - Kosovo Liberation Army, Albanians|Albanian guerrilla group fighting for freedom of Kosovo, presents in front of the people of Kosovo.

2000 - Ukraine|Ukrainian politician Oleksander Moroz begins the Cassette Scandal by publicly accusing President of Ukraine|President Leonid Kuchma of involvement in the murder of journalist Georgiy Gongadze.

2000 - The eighth tar drop falls in the University of Queensland pitch drop experiment.

2002 - 13 people are killed in a Kenyan hotel bombing|hotel bombing in Mombasa.

2005 - The Official Opposition (Conservative Party of Canada , New Democratic Party, and Bloc Quebecois) bring down the 38th Minority Liberal Government of Canada in a vote of non-confidence forcing immediate campaigning for the 39th Federal Election.

Births

1489 - Margaret Tudor, Queen of James IV of Scotland (d. 1541)

1570 - James Whitelocke, English judge (d. 1632)

1598 - Hans Nansen, Danish statesman (d. 1667)

1628 - John Bunyan, English cleric and author (d. 1688)

1632 - Jean-Baptiste Lully, French composer (d. 1687)

1640 - Willem de Vlamingh, Flemish sea captain

1661 - Edward Hyde, 3rd Earl of Clarendon, British Governor of New York and New Jersey (d. 1723)

1681 - Jean Cavalier, French protestant rebel leader (d. 1740)

1700 - Nathaniel Bliss, Astronomer Royal (d. 1764)

1757 - William Blake, British poet and artist (d. 1827)

1772 - Luke Howard, British meteorologist (d. 1864)

1785 - Achille Charles Léon Victor, duc de Broglie, Prime Minister of France (d. 1870)

1792 - Victor Cousin, French philosopher (d. 1867)

1793 - Carl Jonas Love Almqvist, Swedish romantic poet (d. 1866)

1805 - John Stephens, American archeologist (d. 1852)

1810 - William Froude, British engineer and naval architect (d. 1879)

1820 - Friedrich Engels, German philosopher (d. 1895)

1821 - Nikolai Alekseevich Nekrasov, Russian poet (d. 1878)

1829 - Anton Rubinstein, Russian composer, pianist, and conductor (d. 1894)

1837 - John Wesley Hyatt, American inventor of celluloid (d. 1920)

1853 - Helen Magill White, first American woman to earn a Ph.D. (d. 1944)

1864 - Lindley M. Garrison, American lawyer, United States Secretary of War|U.S. Secretary of War from 1913 through 1916 (d. 1932)

1866 - Henry Bacon, American architect (d. 1924)

1881 - Stefan Zweig, Austrian writer (d. 1942)

1887 - Ernst Röhm, Nazi official (d. 1934)

1895 - Jose Iturbi|José Iturbi, Spanish pianist (d. 1980)

1896 - Lilia Skala, Austrian actress (d. 1994)

1902 - Victor Jory, Canadian actor (d. 1982)

1904 - Nancy Mitford, British essayist and satirist (d. 1973)

1907 - Alberto Moravia, Italian writer (d. 1990)

1908 - Claude Lévi-Strauss, French anthropologist

1916 - Mary Lilian Baels, Princess of Rethy, Belgium (d. 2002)

1925 - Gloria Grahame, American actress (d. 1981)

1925 - József Bozsik, Hungary national football team|Hungarian international footballer (d. 1978)

1927 - Chuck Mitchell, American actor (d. 1992)

1929 - Berry Gordy Jr., American record company owner and founder of Motown (d. 1992)

1931 - Hope Lange, American actress (d. 2003)

1931 - Tomi Ungerer, French graphic artist, and author

1936 - Gary Hart, American politician

1941 - Laura Antonelli, Italian actress

1942 - Paul Warfield, American football player

1943 - Randy Newman, American composer and musician

1949 - Alexander Godunov, Russian composer and ballet dancer (d. 1995)

1949 - Paul Shaffer, Canadian orchestra leader and musician

1950 - Ed Harris, American actor

1950 - Russell Alan Hulse, American physicist and Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize laureate

1952 - S. Epatha Merkerson, American actress

1955 - Adem Jashari, Albanian freedom fighter

1957 - David Van Day, British singer (Dollar)

1958 - Dave Righetti, American baseball player

1959 - Judd Nelson, American actor

1961 - Martin Clunes, British actor

1961 - Alfonso Cuaron|Alfonso Cuarón, Mexican film director

1961 - Jane Sibbett, American actress

1962 - Jon Stewart, American comedian, actor, and television host

1963 - Walt Weiss, American baseball player

1964 - Cornelia Guest, American debutante

1965 - Erwin Mortier, Belgian author

1965 - Matt Williams (baseball)|Matt Williams, American baseball player

1967 - Anna Nicole Smith, American model and television personality

1967 - Stephnie Weir, American actress and comedienne

1968 - Dawn Robinson, R&B singer (En Vogue)

1969 - Robb Nen, American baseball player

1969 - Lexington Steele (Clifton Britt), American adult film actor

1973 - Rob Conway, American professional wrestler

1974 - András Tölcséres, Hungarian footballer

1974 - Styles P (David Styles), American rapper

1977 - DeMya Walker, American basketball player

1978 - Freddie Mitchell, American football player

1978 - Mehdi Nafti, Tunisian footballer

1979 - Chamillionaire (Hakeem Seriki), American rapper

1979 - The S.A.T.|Joel Maximo (Kelvin Ramirez), American professional wrestler

1980 - Stuart Taylor, British footballer

1984 - Andrew Bogut, Australian basketball player

1988 - Scarlett Pomers, American actress

Deaths

741 - Pope Gregory III|St. Gregory III

1170 - Owain Gwynedd, Prince of Gwynedd

1262 - Shinran, Japanese religious leader (b. 1173)

1290 - Eleanor of Castile (1241-1290)|Eleanor of Castile, Queen of Edward I of England (b. 1241)

1574 - Georg Major, German protestant theologian (b. 1502)

1585 - Hernando Franco, Spanish composer (b. 1532)

1667 - Jean de Thévenot, French traveller and scientist (b. 1633)

1675 - Basil Feilding, 2nd Earl of Denbigh, English Civil War soldier

1675 - Leonard Hoar, American President of Harvard University (b. 1630)

1680 - Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Italian baroque sculptor (b. 1598)

1680 - Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi, Italian architect and painter (b. 1606)

1694 - Matsuo Basho, Japanese poet (b. 1644)

1695 - Giovanni Paolo Colonna, Italian composer

1695 - Anthony Wood, English antiquarian (b. 1632)

1698 - Louis de Buade de Frontenac, Governor of New France (b. 1622)

1794 - Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben, Prussian army officer (b. 1730)

1815 - Johann Peter Salomon, German violinist, impresario, and composer (d. 1745)

1859 - Washington Irving, American writer (b. 1783)

1870 - Frédéric Bazille, French painter (b. 1841)

1872 - Mary Somerville|Mary Fairfax Somerville, British scientific writer (b. 1780)

1878 - Orson Hyde, American religious leader (b. 1805)

1907 - Stanisław Wyspiański, Polish dramatist, poet, painter, and architect (b. 1869)

1912 - Walter Benona Sharp, American oil tycoon (b. 1870)

1921 - `Abdu'l-Bahá, Persian leader of the Bahá'í Faith (b. 1844)

1935 - Erich von Hornbostel, Austrian musicologist (b. 1877)

1939 - James Naismith, Canadian creator of basketball (b. 1861)

1945 - Dwight F. Davis, U.S. Secretary of War and donor of the Davis cup (b. 1879)

1954 - Enrico Fermi, Italian physicist and Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1901)

1960 - Richard Wright (author)|Richard Wright, American author (b. 1908)

1962 - Queen Mother Wilhelmina of the Netherlands (b. 1880)

1963 - Karyn Kupcinet, American actress (b. 1941)

1968 - Enid Blyton, British children's author (b. 1897)

1972 - Havergal Brian, British composer (b. 1875)

1973 - Marthe Bibesco, Romanian writer (b. 1886)

1976 - Rosalind Russell, American actress (b. 1907)

1977 - Trevor Bardette, American actor (b. 1902)

1983 - Christopher George, American actor (b. 1929)

1986 - Herb Vigran, American actor (b. 1910)

1987 - Choh Hao Li, Chinese biochemist (b. 1913)

1994 - Jeffrey Dahmer, American serial killer (b. 1960)

1994 - Jerry Rubin, American activist (b. 1938)

2000 - Liane Haid, Austrian actress (b. 1895)

2001 - William Kienzle, American author (b. 1928)

2003 - Antonia Forest, British children's author (b. 1915)

Holidays and observances

Calendar of Saints|R.C. Saints - Pope Gregory III

Also see November 28 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Bahá'í Faith: Holy Day - Ascension of `Abdu'l-Bahá

Episcopal Diocese of Hawaii: Feast of the Holy Sovereigns in honor of the founders of the Anglican Communion|Anglican Church of Hawaii

Public holidays in Albania|Albania - History of Albania#Independence|Albanian Independence day (from Turkey, 1912); also known as Albanian Flag Day due to other National events that correspond to this day

Mauritania - Independence Day (from France, 1960)

External links

http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/november/28

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