Notable Historical Events on November 28th
November 28th Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
587 |
Treaty of Andelot: King Guntram of Burgundy names cousin Childebert II as heir |
1291 |
Eleanor of Castile, wife of King Edward I of England, dies in Northamptonshire. Crosses are erected where her body rests on the way to London. |
1340 |
Battle of Salado, Spain: last Moorish invasion driven back |
1443 |
Albanian George Kastriotis Skanderbeg and his forces liberate Kruja in Middle Albania from the Ottomans and raise the Albanian flag. |
1520 |
Ferdinand Magellan begins crossing Pacific Ocean |
1569 |
Duke of Alva forces bishop Nicolaas van Nieuwland of Haarlem to resign |
1660 |
The Royal Society forms in London |
1670 |
Pierre Corneille's "Tite et Berenice" premieres in Paris |
1717 |
Blackbeard attacks a French merchant vessel called "La Concorde", which he would capture and rename as the "Queen Anne's Revenge" |
1720 |
Anne Bonny and Mary Read are tried, found guilty of pirating, and sentenced to death in Spanish Town, Jamaica, although their discovered pregnancies won them stays of execution |
1729 |
Natchez Indians massacre 138 Frenchmen, 35 French women, and 56 children at Fort Rosalie, near the site of modern-day Natchez, Mississippi. |
1745 |
-29] French troops attack indians of Saratoga, NY |
1757 |
Britain condemns Convention of Kloster-Zeven |
1775 |
2nd Continental Congress formally establishes US Navy |
1785 |
The Treaty of Hopewell is signed between the Confederation Congress of the United States of America and the Cherokee people |
1795 |
US pays $800,000 & a frigate as tribute to Algiers & Tunis |
1813 |
Cossacks occupy Utrecht |
1814 |
The Times of London is for the first time printed by automatic, steam powered presses built by the German inventors Friedrich Koenig and Andreas Friedrich Bauer, signaling the beginning of the availability of newspapers to a mass audience. |
1821 |
Panama declares independence from Spain |
1833 |
Charles Darwin rides through Las Pietras, returning to Montevideo |
1843 |
Ka Lahui: Hawaiian Independence Day - The Kingdom of Hawaii is officially recognized by the United Kingdom and France as an independent nation. |
1847 |
Bologna: church of San Francisco dei Minori Conventuali initiated with premier of Rossini's Tantum ergo |
1853 |
Olympia forms as capital of Washington Territory |
1854 |
Dutch army stops Chinese uprising in Borneo |
1861 |
Confederate congress officially admits Missouri to Confederacy |
1862 |
Battle at Cane Hill, Arkansas (475 casualties) |
1862 |
Battle of Hooly Spring, MS |
1864 |
3rd day of Battles at Waynesboro/Jones's Plantation, Georgia |
1864 |
Battle of New Creek, WV (Rosser's Raid, Ft Kelly) |
1871 |
Ku Klux Klan trials began in Federal District Court in South Carolina |
1875 |
British explorer Verney Cameron reaches East Africa |
1879 |
Battle at Lydenburg South Africa: Gen Wolseley beats Sekhukhenes Pedi-Zulu |
1893 |
Women vote in a national election for the first time: the New Zealand general election. |
1895 |
America's 1st auto race starts; 6 cars, 55 miles, winner avg 7 MPH |
1899 |
Battle of Mud River (Boer general Cronjé beats British gen Methuen) |
1901 |
Gustav Mahler's 4th Symphony in G premieres |
1904 |
Germany defeats Hottentotten in Warmbad SW-Africa |
1905 |
Arthur Griffith forms Sinn Fein in Dublin |
1906 |
Tommy Burns & Jack O'Brien fight to a draw in 20 for hw boxing title |
1907 |
In Haverhill, Massachusetts, scrap-metal dealer Louis B. Mayer opens his first movie theater. |
1908 |
154 men die in coal mine explosion at Marianna Pa |
1911 |
Zapata proclaims Plan of Ayala Mexico |
1912 |
Ismail Qemali declares Albania independent from Turkey |
1913 |
Heavyweight Jack Johnson KOs Andre Spaul in Paris |
1914 |
World War I: Following a war-induced closure in July, the New York Stock Exchange re-opens for bond trading. |
1916 |
1st German air attack on London |
1917 |
Sigmund Rombergs revue "Over the Top" premieres in NYC |
1918 |
Emperor Wilhelm of Prussia & Germany abdicates |
1918 |
Bucovina voted for the union with the Kingdom of Romania. |
1919 |
US-born Lady Astor elected first female member of British House of Commons |
1920 |
Kilmichael Ambush, Battle of the Irish War of Independence. |
1921 |
Ascension of 'Abdu'l-Baha (Baha'i festival-Qawl 6, 78) |
1922 |
6 ex-minsters executed in Greece |
1922 |
Capt Cyril Turner (RAF) gives 1st skywriting exhibition (NYC) Turner spelled out "Hello USA. Call Vanderbilt 7200." 47,000 called |
1924 |
Pieter Jelle Troelstra leaves Dutch 2nd Chamber |
1925 |
7th French government of Briand sworn-in |
1925 |
Grand Ole Opry premieres as WSM Barn Dance on WSM radio Nashville Tn |
1925 |
NHL goalie Georges Vezina collapses & dies 4 months later of TB |
1927 |
J McHugh & D Fields' musical "Delmar's Revels" premieres in NYC |
1929 |
Adm Richard E Byrd makes 1st South Pole flight |
1929 |
Ernie Nevers scores all 40 pts for Chic Cards vs Bears (NFL record) |
1930 |
Howard Hanson's 2nd Symphony "Romantic" premieres |
1931 |
Bradman scores 226, the 1st Test Cricket century at Gabba, v South Africa |
1932 |
France & USSR sign not-aggression treaty |
1932 |
Groucho Marx performed on radio for 1st time |
1933 |
A Dallas grand jury delivers a murder indictment against Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow for the January 1933 killing of Tarrant County Deputy Malcolm Davis |
1934 |
Winston Churchill tells British Premier Stanley Baldwin not to under estimate German air power |
1938 |
4th Heisman Trophy Award: Davey O'Brien, Texas Christian (QB) |
1939 |
Hans Frank, Nazi Governor-General of Poland, organizes Judenrat |
1939 |
Soviet government revokes Russian-Finnish non-aggression treaty |
1940 |
Dutch law professor Rudolph Cleveringa arrested by nazis |
1941 |
German troops vacate Rostov |
1942 |
492 die in a fire that destroyed Cocoanut Grove nightclub in Boston |
1943 |
FDR, Churchill & Stalin met at Tehran to map out strategy |
1944 |
1st allied ship sails into Schelde Antwerp |
1944 |
400 Rotterdammers attack coal warehouse |
1944 |
Hal Newhouser is named AL MVP |
1944 |
In reprisal 40 Dutch men are executed by Nazis |
1944 |
US 121st Infantry regiment occupies Hurtgen |
1945 |
Australian Services draw second Victory Test Cricket v India at Calcutta |
1946 |
French government of Bidault resigns |
1946 |
Dutch Nazi Anton Mussert to death sentenced |
1948 |
"Hopalong Cassidy" premieres on TV |
1949 |
"Texas, Li'l Darlin'" opens at Mark Hellinger NYC for 293 perfs |
1950 |
Walter O'Malley fires Burt Shotton as Dodgers manager |
1951 |
John Van Druten's "I am a Camera" premieres in NYC |
1951 |
Military coup under Col Adib el-Shishakli in Syria |
1953 |
"Wish You Were Here" closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 597 perfs |
1953 |
41st CFL Grey Cup: Hamilton Tiger-Cats defeats Winn Blue Bombers, 12-6 |
1954 |
1st pro football game in Netherlands |
1954 |
Cleveland Browns' Horace Gillom sets club record with 80-yard punt |
1954 |
KCKT (now KSNC) TV channel 2 in Great Bend, KS (NBC) 1st broadcast |
1955 |
KMVI (now WMAU) TV channel 12 in Wailuku, HI (IND) begins broadcasting |
1955 |
KTHV TV channel 11 in Little Rock, AR (CBS) begins broadcasting |
1956 |
Photography begins on "... & God Created Women" |
1957 |
"Look Homeward, Angel" with Anthony Perkins premieres in NYC |
1957 |
Warren Spahn of the Braves wins Cy Young Award |
1958 |
AL announces Opening Day in 1959 will be earliest ever, April 9 |
1958 |
Chad becomes an autonomous republic within French community |
1958 |
Congo & Mauritania become autonomous members of French Community |
1958 |
George "Punch" Imlach becomes coach of NHL's Toronto Maple Leafs |
1958 |
KCOO (now KABY) TV channel 9 in Aberdeen, SD (ABC) begins broadcasting |
1958 |
Test Cricket debut for Wes Hall, v India at Bombay |
1958 |
US reports 1st full-range firing of an ICBM |
1959 |
47th CFL Grey Cup: Winn Blue Bombers defeats Hamilton Tiger-Cats, 21-7 |
1959 |
KOMC (now KSNK) TV channel 8 in McCook - Oberlin, NB (NBC) begins |
1959 |
Pope John XXIII publishes encyclical Princeps Pastorum |
1960 |
CBS radio expands hourly news coverage from 5 to 10 minutes |
1960 |
Mauritania gains independence from France (Natl Day) |
1961 |
Ernest Davis is 1st black to win Heisman Trophy |
1961 |
General Meeting of UN debates New-Guinea |
1961 |
Martin Walser's "Der Abstecher" premieres in Munich |
1962 |
Telegraph between Netherlands & Indonesia restored |
1963 |
1st million copy record prior to release "I Want to Hold Your Hand" |
1963 |
Beatles "She Loves You" returns to #1 in UK record chart |
1963 |
Crusher beats Verne Gagne in St Paul, to become NWA champ |
1963 |
WHNT TV channel 19 in Huntsville, AL (CBS) begins broadcasting |
1964 |
52nd CFL Grey Cup: BC Lions defeats Hamilton Tiger-Cats, 34-24 |
1964 |
France performs underground nuclear test at Ecker Algeria |
1964 |
Mariner 4 launched; 1st probe to fly by Mars |
1965 |
Browns' Leroy Kelly sets club record for most punt return yds (109) |
1965 |
Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Titleholders Golf Championship |
1966 |
Coup in Burundi overthrows monarchy; a republic is declared |
1966 |
Dominican Republic adopts constitution |
1967 |
33rd Heisman Trophy Award: Gary Beban, UCLA (QB) |
1967 |
1st pulsating radio source (pulsar) detected by postgraduate Jocelyn Burnell and her supervisor Antony Hewish |
1968 |
John Lennon is fined £150 for unauthorized drug possession |
1969 |
Ted Sizemore becomes 7th Dodger to win NL Rookie of Year |
1970 |
58th CFL Grey Cup: Montreal Alouettes defeat Calgary Stampeders, 23-10 |
1971 |
"Me Nobody Knows" closes at Helen Hayes Theater NYC after 587 perfs |
1971 |
59th CFL Grey Cup: Calgary Stampeders defeats Toronto Argonauts, 14-11 |
1972 |
"Via Galactica" opens at Uris Theater NYC for 7 performances |
1972 |
LA Dodgers trade Frank Robinson to California Angels |
1972 |
2 members of the IRA are killed in a premature bomb explosion in the Bogside area of Derry |
1973 |
Arab League summit in Algiers recognizes Palestine |
1973 |
Balt Oriole Al Bumbry wins AL Rookie of Year |
1974 |
Bowie Kuhn suspends George Steinbrenner for 2 years |
1974 |
John Lennon's last concert appearance (Elton John concert in Madison Square Garden NYC) |
1975 |
Democratic Republic of East-Timor proclaimed |
1975 |
Test Cricket debut of Michael Anthony Holding, WI v Australia Brisbane |
1975 |
Wings release "Venus & Mars/Rock Show" medley |
1975 |
As the World Turns and The Edge of Night, the final two American soap operas that had resisted going to pre-taped broadcasts, air their last live episodes. |
1975 |
Bobby Orr plays his last game for the Boston Bruins |
1976 |
64th CFL Grey Cup: Ottawa Rough Riders defeats Saskatchewan, 23-20 |
1978 |
44th Heisman Trophy Award: Billy Sims, Oklahoma (RB) |
1978 |
Reds fire manager Sparky Anderson after 9 years |
1979 |
"King of Schnorrers" opens at Playhouse Theater NYC for 63 perfs |
1979 |
Air New Zealand DC-10 crashes into Mt Erebus on Antarctica kills 257 |
1979 |
LA Dodger Rick Sutcliffe wins NL Rookie of Year |
1981 |
"Merrily We Roll Along" closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 16 perfs |
1981 |
Bear Bryant wins his 315th game to out distance Alonzo Stagg & become college football's winningest coach |
1982 |
"Pirates of Penzance" closes at Uris Theater NYC after 772 perfs |
1982 |
70th CFL Grey Cup: Edmonton Eskimos defeats Toronto Argonauts, 32-16 |
1982 |
71st Davis Cup: USA beats France in Grenoble (4-1) |
1983 |
9th Space Shuttle Mission-Columbia 6-is launched |
1984 |
Over 250 years after their deaths, William Penn and his wife Hannah Callowhill Penn are made Honorary Citizens of the United States. |
1985 |
6th Belgium government of Martens forms |
1986 |
Hilbert van der Duim skates 1 hour world record 39.4928 km |
1986 |
US Reagan administration exceeds SALT II arms limitations for 1st time |
1986 |
OPEC reaches oil production accord |
1987 |
South African Airways Boeing 747 crashes into Indian Ocean, 159 die |
1988 |
Picasso's "Acrobat & Harlequin" sells for $38.46 million |
1989 |
Rickey Henderson signs record $3,000,000 per year Oak A's contract |
1989 |
Romanian gymnast Nadia Comaneci flees to Hungary |
1990 |
Singapore's Lee Kuan Yew resigns, ending his term as Singapore's longest-serving Prime Minister |
1990 |
Margaret Thatcher resigns as Britain's PM, replaced by John Major |
1993 |
"Gray's Anatomy" opens at Beaumont Theater NYC for 13 performances |
1993 |
"Mixed Emotions" closes at John Golden Theater NYC after 48 perfs |
1993 |
81st CFL Grey Cup: Edmonton Eskimos defeats Winn Blue Bombers, 33-23 |
1993 |
Carlos Reina wins Honduras presidential election |
1994 |
Norway votes against joining European Union |
1994 |
In Portage, Wisconsin, convicted serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer is clubbed to death by an inmate in the Columbia Correctional Institution gymnasium. |
1995 |
James Brady, former white house press secretary, suffers a heart attack |
1997 |
Final episode of "Beavis & Butt-head" on MTV |
1997 |
First public appearance of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA), an ethnic Albanian guerrilla group that fought for the independence of Kosovo from Serbia. |
1998 |
The people of Albania vote for their new Constitution in a referendum. |
1999 |
87th CFL Grey Cup: Hamilton Tiger-Cats defeats Calgary Stampeders, 32-21 |
2000 |
Ukrainian politician Oleksander Moroz begins the Cassette Scandal by publicly accusing President Leonid Kuchma of involvement in the murder of journalist Georgiy Gongadze. |
2004 |
Male Poʻo-uli dies of Avian malaria in the Maui Bird Conservation Center in Olinda, Hawaii before it could breed, making the species in all probability extinct. |
2008 |
Canada remains the only OECD country out of the recession at this time |
2008 |
Sweden technically enters the recession after experiencing contraction of 0.1% in the second and third quarter |
2010 |
98th CFL Grey Cup: Montreal Alouettes defeats Saskatchewan Roughriders, 21-18 |
2010 |
24th Soul Train Music Awards: Ron Isley, Anita Baker win |
2012 |
54 people are killed and 120 are injured by two car bombs in Damascus, Syria |
2015 |
21 killed in Nigeria suicide attack |
2016 |
China Detains 9 Managers After Plant Collapse Kills 74 |
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