November 28
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November 28 is the 332nd day of the year (333rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 33 days remaining after November 28 until the end of the year.
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[change] Events
- 1443 – Skanderbeg and his forces liberate Kruja, Albania and raise Albania's flag.
- 1520 – Ferdinand Magellan sails through the Magellan Strait.
- 1582 – William Shakespeare and Anne Hathaway were married.
- 1821 – Panama unites with Greater Colombia, declaring independence from Spain.
- 1843 – The Kingdom of Hawaii is recognised as an independent state by the United Kingdom and France.
- 1905 – In Dublin, Arthur Griffith founds the Sinn Fein political party.
- 1912 – Albania declares independence from the Ottoman Empire.
- 1919 – Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor becomes the United Kingdom's first female Member of Parliament.
- 1943 – World War II: The Allied Conference in Tehran takes place.
- 1958 – Chad, the Republic of the Congo and Gabon become autonomous Republics within the French community.
- 1960 – Mauritania becomes independent from France.
- 1964 – NASA launches the Mariner 4 probe towards Mars.
- 1975 – East Timor declares independence from Portugal.
- 1979 – A plane crash on Mount Erebus in Antarctica kills 257 people.
- 1987 – A South African Airways plane crashes into the Indian Ocean near Mauritius, killing all 160 people on board.
- 1989 – Czechoslovakia's Communist Party announces that it will give up its hold on power.
- 1990 – Margaret Thatcher officially resigns as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, and is replaced by John Major.
- 1994 – Voters in Norway reject EU membership in a referendum.
- 2002 – Suicide bombers blow up an Israeli-owned hotel in Mombasa, Kenya.
- 2004 – A mine explosion in Shaanxi province, China, kills 166 people.
- 2010 – WikiLeaks releases 200,000 diplomatic cables, including 100,000 marked as secret or confidential.
[change] Births
- 1489 – Margaret Tudor, wife of James IV of Scotland (d. 1541)
- 1628 – John Bunyan, English cleric and author (d. 1688)
- 1632 – Jean-Baptiste Lully, French composer (d. 1687)
- 1757 – William Blake, English poet (d. 1827)
- 1772 – Johann Gottfried Jakob Hermann, German philologist (d. 1848)
- 1785 – Victor de Broglie, Prime Minister of France (d. 1870)
- 1811 – King Maximilian II of Bavaria (d. 1864)
- 1820 – Friedrich Engels, German thinker who wrote about Communism with Karl Marx (d. 1895)
- 1829 – Anton Rubinstein, Russian composer (d. 1894)
- 1857 – King Alfonso XII of Spain (d. 1885)
- 1880 – Alexander Blok, Russian poet (d. 1921)
- 1881 – Stefan Zweig, Austrian writer (d. 1942)
- 1887 – Ernst Roehm, Nazi official (d. 1934)
- 1895 – Jose Iturbi, Spanish pianist (d. 1980)
- 1907 – Alberto Moravia, Italian writer (d. 1990)
- 1908 – Claude Levi-Strauss, French anthropologist (d. 2009)
- 1925 – Jozsef Bozsik, Hungarian footballer (d. 1978)
- 1929 – Berry Gordy, American record company owner
- 1931 – Tomi Ungerer, French cartoonist
- 1935 – Prince Hitachi, Japanese royalty
- 1943 – Randy Newman, American musician
- 1944 – Rita Mae Brown, American writer and activist
- 1948 – Agnieszka Holland, Polish director and script writer
- 1949 – Alexander Godunov, Russian ballet dancer (d. 1995)
- 1950 – Ed Harris, American actor
- 1950 – Russell Alan Hulse, American physicist
- 1953 – Alistair Darling, British politician
- 1953 – Pamela Hayden, American actress
- 1955 – Alessandro Altobelli, Italian footballer
- 1958 – Kriss Akabusi, British athlete
- 1960 – John Galliano, British fashion designer
- 1961 – Martin Clunes, British actor
- 1962 – Jon Stewart, American comedian
- 1967 – Anna Nicole Smith, American actress and model (d. 2007)
- 1972 – Paulo Figueiredo, Angolan footballer
- 1974 – Apl.de.ap, American musician (Black Eyed Peas)
- 1975 – Takashi Shimoda, Japanese footballer
- 1977 – Fabio Grosso, Italian footballer
- 1977 – Gavin Rae, Scottish footballer
- 1978 – Mehdi Nafti, Tunisian footballer
- 1979 – Chamillionaire, American rapper
- 1983 – Nelson Haedo Valdez, Paraguayan footballer
- 1984 – Andrew Bogut, Australian basketball player
- 1984 – Mary Elizabeth Winstead, American actress
- 1985 – Caitlin McClatchey, Scottish swimmer
- 1985 – Alvaro Pereira, Uruguayan footballer
- 1987 – Karen Gillan, Scottish actress
[change] Deaths
- 1170 – Owain Gwynedd, King of Gwynedd (b. 1100)
- 1290 – Eleanor of Castile, Queen of Edward I of England (b. 1241)
- 1680 – Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Italian sculptor (b. 1598)
- 1680 – Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi, Italian architect and painter (b. 1606)
- 1694 – Matsuo Basho, Japanese poet (b. 1644)
- 1859 – Washington Irving, American writer (b. 1783)
- 1870 – Frederic Bazille, French painter (b. 1841)
- 1915 – Mubarak Al-Sabah, Emir of Kuwait (b. 1896)
- 1921 – 'Abdu'l Baha, Persian religious leader (b. 1844)
- 1939 – James Naismith, Canadian inventor of basketball (b. 1861)
- 1954 – Enrico Fermi, Italian physicist (b. 1901)
- 1962 – Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands (b. 1880)
- 1968 – Enid Blyton, English writer (b. 1897)
- 1973 – Marthe Bibesco, Romanian writer (b. 1886)
- 1992 – Sidney Nolan, Australian painter (b. 1917)
- 1993 – Jerry Edmonton, Canadian drummer (Steppenwolf) (b. 1946)
- 1994 – Jeffrey Dahmer, American serial killer (b. 1960)
- 2007 – Elly Beinhorn, German pilot (b. 1907)
- 2007 – Gudrun Wagner, German festival co-organiser (b. 1944)
- 2010 – Leslie Nielsen, Canadian-American actor (b. 1926)
- 2011 – Ante Markovic, Croatian politician and former Yugoslavian Prime Minister (b. 1924)
[change] Observances
- Independence Day (Albania, 1912 declaration of independence from the Ottoman Empire)
- Independence Day (Mauritania, independence from France in 1960)
- Republic Day (Burundi, Chad)
