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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Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor -
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Stalin, Roosevelt, and Churchill in Tehran
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Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
|---|---|
| Independence Day in Albania (1912), Mauritania (1960) and Panama (1821) | Albania: refimprove section; Mauritania: refimprove; Panama: refimprove sections, outdated |
| Navy Day in Iran (1980) | refimprove |
| 1470 – Emperor Lê Thánh Tông of Annam (Vietnam) launched a military expedition against Champa, beginning the Cham–Vietnamese War. | rough translation |
| 1520 – Three ships under the command of Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan became the first Europeans to sail from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific via the now-eponymous Strait of Magellan. | Magellan: refimprove section; Strait: lots of CN tags |
| 1785 – The United States signed the first Treaty of Hopewell with the Cherokee, laying out a western boundary for white settlement. | unreferenced section |
| 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. | unreferenced section |
| 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. | refimprove section |
| 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. | refimprove section |
| 1990 – After being elected as leader of the British Conservative Party one day earlier, John Major officially succeeded Margaret Thatcher as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. | refimprove section, date not cited |
| 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. | refimprove section |
| 2000 – Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma was publicly accused of being involved in the abduction of journalist Georgiy Gongadze. | date not cited to reliable source, unreferenced section |
Eligible
- 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.
- 1912 – At the All-Albanian Congress, the Assembly of Vlorë was constituted, which declared the independence of the Albanian Vilayet from the Ottoman Empire.
- 1942 – A fire in Boston's Cocoanut Grove nightclub killed over 490 people and injured hundreds of others.
- 1943 – World War II: U.S. 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 Tal was assassinated by the Black September unit of the Palestine Liberation Organization in Cairo.
- 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.
- 2016 – LaMia Flight 2933 crashed near Medellín, Colombia, killing 71 people, many of whom were players from Chapecoense Football Club.
- Born/died this day: William Blake (b. 1757) · Esther Wheelwright (d. 1780) · Adina Emilia De Zavala (b. 1861) · `Abdu'l-Bahá (d. 1921) · Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque (d. 1947) · Whitney Engen (b. 1987)
November 28: Thanksgiving in the United States (2019)
- 1443 – Having deserted the Ottoman army, Skanderbeg arrived in the Albanian city of Krujë 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.
- 1925 – Grand Ole Opry, the longest-running radio broadcast in the United States, first aired on WSM in Nashville, Tennessee.
- 1967 – Jocelyn Bell Burnell noticed a "bit of scruff" in data (pictured) from a radio telescope, which turned out to be from PSR B1919+21, the first discovered pulsar.
- 1979 – Air New Zealand Flight 901 crashed into Antarctica's Mount Erebus, killing all 257 people on board.
Betty Parris (b. 1682) · Johann Peter Salomon (d. 1815) · Keith Miller (b. 1919)