November 28th
November 28 is the 332nd day (333rd on leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 33 days remaining.
Events
- 1095 - On the last day of the Council of Clermont, Pope Urban II appointed
bishop Adhemar of Le
Puy and Count Raymond IV of Toulouse to lead the First
Crusade to the Holy Land.
- 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.
- 1582 - In Stratford-upon-Avon, William
Shakespeare and Anne Hathaway pay a 40-pound bond for their marriage license.
- 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.
- 1843 - Ka Lahui: Hawaiian Independence Day. The Kingdom of Hawai`i was officially
recognized by the United Kingdom and France as an independent nation.
- 1862 - American Civil
War: Battle of Cane Hill.
- 1895 - First American Automobile race. 54 miles from Chicago's Jackson Park to Evanston, Illinois. Frank Duryea wins in about 10 hours.
- 1905 - Irish nationalist Arthur
Griffith founds Sinn Féin as a political party whose goal is the independence for all 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 - Lady Astor is elected to be the first female member of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
- 1920 - The
Mask of Zorro, starring Douglas Fairbanks,
Sr. 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 night club kills 491
people.
- 1943 - World War II: Tehran 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 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
- 1969 - The Rolling Stones release the classic 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 American soap operas that had resisted going to pre-taped
broadcasts, aired their last live episodes.
- 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 flight 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.
- 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.
- 1994 - In Portage,
Wisconsin, convicted serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer is clubbed to
death 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.
- 2000 - Ukrainian politician Oleksander Moroz touches off the Cassette Scandal by publicly accusing President Leonid Kuchma of involvement in the
murder of journalist Georgiy
Gongadze.
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)
- 1772 - Luke Howard, scientist,
developed system for naming clouds (d. 1864)
- 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
- 1965 - Erwin Mortier, Belgian author
- 1967 - Anna Nicole
Smith, model, television personality
- 1984 - Andrew Bogut, Australian basketball player
- 1988 - Scarlett Pomers,
actress (Star Trek: Voyager, Reba)
- 2004 - Hazel and Phinnaeus Moder, twin children of actress Julia
Roberts
Deaths
- 741 - St. Gregory III,
Pope
- 1170 - Owain Gwynedd, Prince of
Gwynedd
- 1262 - Shinran, founder of Japan's True
Pure Land Buddhist sect
- 1694 - Matsuo Basho, Japanese
haiku poet
- 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
- 1907 - Stanisław
Wyspiański, Polish dramatist, poet, painter, architect (b. 1869)
- 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 - Charles Meredith, 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
- 2001 - William Kienzle,
author
- 2003 - Harold von
Braunhut, American, creator of Amazing Sea Monkeys and
Ku Klux Klan and Aryan
Nations member
Holidays and observances
November 27 - November 29
- October 28 - December 28
-- listing of all days
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