Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/November 28

This is a list of selected November 28 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.

Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article or picture of the day.

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  Coat of arms of the Royal Society
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  Christopher Wren
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  Robert Boyle
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  Arthur Griffith
• Shi Jingtang
  Shi Jingtang
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  Leonid Kuchma
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  Georgi Gongadse
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  Skanderbeg
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  Ferdinand Magellan
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  Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor
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  Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor
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  Stalin, Roosevelt, and Churchill at Tehran

Ineligible

Blurb	Reason
Mauritania (1960) and Panama (1821)	Mauritania: refimprove; Panama: refimprove section
1520 – Three ships under the command of Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan reached the Pacific Ocean from the now-eponymous Strait of Magellan, becoming the first Europeans to sail from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific.	Magellan: refimprove section; Strait: empty section
1785 – The United States signed the first Treaty of Hopewell with the Cherokee, laying out a western boundary for white settlement.	unreferenced section
1912 – At the All-Albanian Congress, the Assembly of Vlorë declared the independence of the Albanian Vilayet from the Ottoman Empire.	refimprove section
1942 – A fire in Boston's Cocoanut Grove nightclub killed over 490 people and injured hundreds of others.	Tagged with {{refimprove}}
1998 – The current Constitution of Albania, sanctioning a parliamentary republic, people's sovereignty, fundamental rights of the citizens, and other important points, was ratified via a voter-approved referendum.	Tagged with {{refimprove}}
2000 – Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma was publicly accused of being involved in the abduction of journalist Georgiy Gongadze.	date not cited to reliable source

Eligible

• 1443 – Having deserted the army of the Ottoman Empire, Skanderbeg went to Krujë in Middle Albania and using a forged letter from Sultan Murad II to the Governor of Krujë, became lord of the city.
• 1895 – The first automobile race in the United States, the Chicago Times-Herald race, was held in Chicago.
• 1919 – Nancy Astor, the first woman to serve as a Member of Parliament in the British House of Commons, was elected in a by-election.
• 1920 – Thirty-six local Irish Republican Army volunteers killed seventeen members of the Auxiliary Division of the Royal Irish Constabulary, marking a turning point in the Irish War of Independence.
• 1943 – World War II: US President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin met at the Tehran Conference to discuss war strategy against the Axis powers.
• 1971 – Prime Minister of Jordan Wasfi al-Tal was assassinated by the Black September unit of the Palestine Liberation Organization in Cairo.
• 1979 – Air New Zealand Flight 901 crashed into Antarctica's Mount Erebus, killing all 257 people on board.
• 1987 – South African Airways Flight 295 suffered a catastrophic in-flight fire and crashed into the Indian Ocean east of Mauritius, killing all 159 on board.
• 2002 – Suicide bombers blew up an Israeli-owned hotel in Mombasa, Kenya, but their colleagues failed in their attempt to bring down an Arkia Israel Airlines charter flight with surface-to-air-missiles.

November 28: Independence Day in Albania (1912); Navy Day in Iran (1980)

John Major

• 936 – Shi Jingtang was enthroned as the first emperor of the Later Jin by Emperor Taizong of Liao, following a revolt against Emperor Fei of Later Tang.
• 1660 – At London's Gresham College, Robert Boyle, John Wilkins, Christopher Wren and other leading scientists founded a learned society now known as the Royal Society.
• 1905 – Irish nationalist Arthur Griffith first presented his Sinn Féin policy, declaring that the 1800 Act of Union of Great Britain and Ireland was illegal.
• 1925 – The country music radio program Grand Ole Opry was first broadcast on WSM radio in Nashville, Tennessee.
• 1990 – After being elected as leader of the British Conservative Party one day earlier, John Major (pictured) officially succeeded Margaret Thatcher as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

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• November 27
• November 28
• November 29