On this day in History - Nov. 28

• 0741 - St. Gregory III dies.
• 1095 - On the last day of the Council of Clermont, Pope Urban II appoints Bishop Adhemar of Le Puy and Count Raymond IV of Toulouse to lead the First Crusade to the Holy Land.
• 1170 - Owain Gwynedd dies. King of Gwynedd
• 1262 - Shinran dies (b. 1173). Japanese religious leader.
• 1290 - Eleanor of Castile dies (b. 1241). Wife of Edward I of England.
• 1443 - Skanderbeg and his forces liberate Kruja, in Middle Albania and raise the Albanian flag.
• 1489 - Margaret Tudor was born (d. 1541). Queen of James IV of Scotland.
• 1520 - Having sailed from the Atlantic Ocean through the passage that came to be known as the Straits of Magellan, three ships under the command of native Portuguese explorer Fernão de Magalhães entered "The Sea of the South" on November 28, 1520. Thus the first westward crossing of the Pacific Ocean was launched. Learn more about Fernão de Magalhães (Ferdinand Magellan). See also: Ferdinand Magellan and the First Circumnavigation of the World
• 1570 - James Whitelocke was born (d. 1632). English judge.
• 1574 - Georg Major dies (b. 1502). German protestant theologian.
• 1582 - William Shakespeare 18, got married ; Shakespeare and Anne Hathaway, 26, pay a 40-pound bond for their marriage license in Stratford-upon-Avon.
• 1585 - Hernando Franco dies (b. 1532). Spanish composer.
• 1598 - Hans Nansen was born (d. 1667). Danish statesman.
• 1628 - John Bunyan was born (d. 1688). English cleric and author.
• 1632 - Jean-Baptiste Lully was born (d. 1687). French composer.
• 1640 - Willem de Vlamingh was born. Flemish sea captain.
• 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.
• 1661 - Edward Hyde, 3rd Earl of Clarendon was born (d. 1723). British Governor of New York and New Jersey.
• 1667 - Jean de Thévenot dies (b. 1633). French traveller and scientist.
• 1675 - Basil Feilding, 2nd Earl of Denbigh dies. English Civil War soldier
• 1675 - Leonard Hoar dies (b. 1630). American President of Harvard University.
• 1680 - Gian Lorenzo Bernini dies (b. 1598). Italian baroque sculptor.
• 1680 - Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi dies (b. 1606). Italian architect and painter.
• 1681 - Jean Cavalier, French protestant rebel leader (d. 1740)
• 1694 - Matsuo Basho dies (b. 1644). Japanese poet.
• 1695 - Giovanni Paolo Colonna dies. Italian composer
• 1695 - Anthony Wood dies (b. 1632). English antiquarian.
• 1698 - Louis de Buade de Frontenac dies (b. 1622). Governor of New France.
• 1700 - Nathaniel Bliss was born (d. 1764). Astronomer Royal
• 1729 - Natchez Indians massacre 138 Frenchmen, 35 French women, and 56 children at Fort Rosalie, near the site of modern-day Natchez.
• 1757 - William Blake was born (d. 12 Aug 1827). English poet, painter, and engraver; Author of the citation: "To generalize is to be an idiot". Guided and encouraged by his visitations from the spiritual world, he engraved and painted many illustrated books, his finest works adorn the National Gallery and many of his poems have been put to music including Jerusalem.
• 1772 - Luke Howard was born (d. 1864). British meteorologist.
• 1785 - The Treaty of Hopewell is signed.
• 1785 - Achille Charles Léon Victor, duc de Broglie was born (d. 1870). Prime Minister of France
• 1792 - Victor Cousin was born (d. 1867). French philosopher.
• 1793 - Carl Jonas Love Almqvist was born (d. 1866). Swedish romantic poet.
• 1794 - Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben dies (b. 1730). Prussian army officer.
• 1801 - Déodat Gratet de Dolomieu dies (b. 1750). French geologist.
• 1805 - John Stephens was born (d. 1852). American archeologist.
• 1810 - William Froude was born (d. 1879). British engineer and naval architect.
• 1815 - Johann Peter Salomon was born (d. 1745). German violinist, impresario, and composer.
• 1820 - Friedrich Engels was born. German social philosopher. Coauthor with Karl Marx of The Communist Manifesto (1848).
• 1821 - Official date of Independence of Panama from Spain
• 1821 - Nikolai Alekseevich Nekrasov was born (d. 1878). Russian poet.
• 1829 - Anton Rubinstein was born (d. 1894). Russian composer, pianist, and conductor.
• 1837 - John Wesley Hyatt was born (d. 1920). American inventor of celluloid.
• 1843 - Ka Lahui: Hawaiian Independence Day - The Kingdom of Hawaii is officially recognized by the United Kingdom and France as an independent nation.
• 1852 - Ludger Duvernay dies (b. 1799). French printer and newspaper publisher.
• 1853 - Helen Magill White was born (d. 1944). First American woman to earn a Ph.D.
• 1859 - Washington Irving dies (b. 1783). American writer.
• 1862 - American Civil War: In the Battle of Cane Hill, Union troops under General John Blunt defeat General John Marmaduke's Confederates.
• 1864 - James Allen was born (d. 1912). English writer.
• 1864 - Lindley M. Garrison was born (d. 1932). American lawyer, U.S. Secretary of War from 1913 through 1916
• 1866 - Henry Bacon was born (d. 1924). American architect.
• 1870 - Jean Frédéric Bazille dies (b. 06 Dec 1841). French Impressionist painter born.
• Wilhelm Reiss became the first climber to reach the top of Cotopaxi, the world's highest active volcano, in Ecuador.
• 1870 - Frédéric Bazille dies (b. 1841). French painter.
• 1872 - Mary Fairfax Somerville dies (b. 1780). British scientific writer.
• 1878 - Orson Hyde, American religious leader (b. 1805)
• 1880 - Inauguration of the railway service between Temiya and Sapporo (Japan)
• 1881 - Stefan Zweig was born (d. 1942). Austrian writer.
• 1887 - Ernst Röhm was born (d. 1934). Nazi official.
• 1895 - The first American (gasoline-powered) automobile race takes place in Chicago. Learn more about automobiles.. . The winner, travelled at a speed of 7 and 1/2 miles per hour! It took him 7 hrs. 53 minutes to make the trek. He won $2,000 for the effort
• 1895 - José Iturbi was born (d. 1980). Spanish pianis.
• 1896 - Lilia Skala was born (d. 1994). Austrian actress.
• 1896 - Dawn Powell was born (d. 1965). American writer.
• 1904 - Nancy Mitford was born (d. 1973). British essayist and satirist.
• 1904 - James Eastland was born. American politician
• 1905 - The Irish political party Sinn Fein was founded by Arthur Griffith in Dublin.
• 1907 - In Haverhill, Massachusetts, scrap-metal dealer Louis B. Mayer opens his first movie theater.
• 1907 - Alberto Moravia was born (d. 1990). Italian writer.
• 1907 - Stanisław Wyspiański dies (b. 1869). Polish dramatist, poet, painter, and architect
• 1908 - Claude Lévi-Strauss was born in Belgium. French social anthropologist, a leading exponent of structuralism.
• 1911 – Václav Renč was born (d. 1973). Czech poet, dramatist and translator.
• 1912 - Morris Louis was born. American abstract expressionist painter
• 1912 - Albania - Declaration of Independence and subsequent formation of a National Government headed by Ismail Qemali. Read "A brief constitucional history of Albania"
• 1912 - Walter Benona Sharp dies (b. 1870). American oil tycoon.
• 1914 - World War I: Following a war-induced closure in July, the New York Stock Exchange re-opens for bond trading.
• 1915 - Mubarak Al-Sabah "The Great", dies (b. 1896). Emir of Kuwait.
• 1915 - Evald Okas was born. Estonian painter.
• 1916 - Mary Lilian Baels was born (d. 2002). Princess of Rethy, Belgium-
• 1919 - American-born Lady Astor (Nancy Astor) is the first woman in British history elected to a seat in Parliament.
• 1920 - The Mark of Zorro, starring Douglas Fairbanks opens.
• 1920 - Kilmichael Ambush Battle of the Irish War of Independence
• 1921 - `Abdu'l-Bahá dies (b. 1844). Persian leader of the Bahá'í Faith.
• 1923 - Gloria Grahame was born (d. 1981). American actress.
• 1925 - Country-variety show Grand Ole Opry makes its radio debut on station WSM.
• 1925 - József Bozsik was born (d. 1978). Hungarian international footballer.
• 1927 - Chuck Mitchell was born (d. 1992). American actor.
• 1929 - Berry Gordy, Jr. was born. He founded the Motown Record Corporation in Detroit in 1959, through which he developed many great rhythm-and-blues performers, including Diana Ross, Marvin Gaye, and Michael Jackson.
• 1929 - Berry Gordy Jr. was born. American record company owner and founder of Motown
• 1931 - Hope Lange was born (d. 2003). American actress.
• 1931 - Tomi Ungerer was born. French graphic artist, and author
• 1932 - Ray Perkins was born. Canadian singer (The Crew-Cuts)
• 1933 - Joe Knollenberg was born. U.S Congressman from Michigan
• 1935 - Prince Hitachi was born. Second son and sixth born child of the HIM Shōwa Emperor and HIM Empress Kōjun
• 1935 - Erich von Hornbostel dies (b. 1877). Austrian musicologist.
• 1936 - Gary Hart was born. American politician
• 1938 - Michael Ritchie was born (d. 2001). American film director.
• 1939 - James Naismith dies (b. 1861). Canadian creator of basketball.
• 1940 - Bruce Channel was born. American singer
• 1941 - Laura Antonelli was born. Italian actress.
• 1941 - Benito de Paula was born. Brazilian actor and composer.
• 1942 - Nearly 500 people died in a fire that destroyed the Cocoanut Grove nightclub in Boston.
• 1942 - In Boston, Massachusetts, a fire in the Cocoanut Grove nightclub kills 491 people.
• 1942 - Paul Warfield was born. American football player
• 1943 - The Tehran Conference, attended by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin, at which Stalin pressed for an invasion of France, opened this day in 1943.
• 1943 - Randy Newman, American composer and musician.
• 1944 - Albania is liberated by the Albanian partisans.
• 1944 - R.B. Greaves was born. Pop singer
• 1945 - Dwight F. Davis dies (b. 1879). U.S. Secretary of War and donor of the Davis cup.
• 1946 - Joe Dante was born. American film director and producer.
• 1947 - Michel Berger was born (d. 1992). French songwriter (Starmania).
• 1947 - Philippe Leclerc dies (b. 1902). French general.
• 1949 - Alexander Godunov was born (d. 1995). Russian composer and ballet dancer.
• 1949 - Paul Shaffer was born. Canadian orchestra leader and musician.
• 1950 - Ed Harris was born. American actor
• 1950 - Russell Alan Hulse was born. American physicist and Nobel Prize laureate
• 1952 - S. Epatha Merkerson was born. American actress
• 1953 - Sixto Lezcano was born. Baseball player
• 1954 - Enrico Fermi dies (b. 1901). Italian physicist and Nobel Prize laureate.
• 1955 - Adem Jashari was born. Albanian freedom fighter
• 1955 - Alessandro Altobelli was born. Italian footballer
• 1957 - David Van Day was born. British singer (Dollar)
• 1958 - Chad, the Republic of the Congo, and Gabon become autonomous republics within the French Community.
• 1958 - Dave Righetti was born. American baseball player
• 1958 - Olegário Mariano dies in Rio de Janeiro (b. 24 Mar 1889). Brazilian poet, in 1938 he won the title "Príncipe dos Poetas Brasileiros" (Prince of the Brazilian Poets).
• 1959 - Judd Nelson was born. American actor
• 1960 - Mauritania declared its independence and left the French Community.
• 1960 - Richard Wright dies (b. 1908). American author.
• 1961 - Gridiron football player Ernie Davis of Syracuse University became the first African American to win the prestigious Heisman Trophy.
• 1961 - Martin Clunes was born. British actor
• 1961 - Alfonso Cuarón was born. Mexican film director
• 1961 - Jane Sibbett was born. American actress
• 1962 - Paul Dinello was born. American comedian and actor
• 1962 - Jon Stewart was born. American comedian, actor, and television host
• 1962 - Matt Cameron was born. American drummer (Pearl Jam)
• 1962 - Queen Mother Wilhelmina of the Netherlands dies (b. 1880)
• 1963 - Walt Weiss was born. American baseball player
• 1963 - Karyn Kupcinet dies (b. 1941). American actress.
• 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.
• 1964 - Cornelia Guest was born. American debutante
• 1965 - Vietnam War: In response to U.S. 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.
• 1965 - Erwin Mortier was born. Belgian author
• 1965 - Matt Williams was born. Baseball player
• 1966 - Sam Seder was born. American comedian
• 1967 - Stephnie Weir was born. American actress and comedienne
• 1967 - Anna Nicole Smith was born in Houston, Texas. American model and television personality.
• 1968 - Dawn Robinson was born. R&B singer (En Vogue)
• 1968 - Enid Blyton dies (b. 1897). British children's author.
• 1969 - The final episode of BBC soap-opera The Newcomers is broadcast.
• 1969 - The Rolling Stones release the album Let It Bleed.
• 1969 - Robb Nen was born. American baseball player
• 1969 - Lexington Steele (Clifton Britt) was born. American adult film actor
• 1971 - Rob Conway was born. American professional wrestler
• 1972 - Paulo Figueiredo was born. Angolan football player.
• 1972 - Havergal Brian dies (b. 1875). British composer.
• 1973 - Jade Puget was born. Guitarist, (AFI)
• 1973 - Marthe Bibesco dies (b. 1886). Romanian writer.
• 1974 - John Lennon performs onstage at Madison Square Garden in New York City with Elton John, as a result of losing a wager that his song "Whatever Gets You Thru the Night" (which Elton also played and sang on) would hit #1 on the pop chart (on November 11). This would also be Lennon's final concert appearance.
• 1974 - András Tölcséres was born. Hungarian footballer
• 1974 - Styles P (David Styles) was born. American rapper
• 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, air their last live episodes.
• 1975 - Erico Verissimo dies (b. 1905). Brazilian writer.
• 1976 - Rosalind Russell dies (b. 1907). American actress.
• 1977 - DeMya Walker was born. American basketball player
• 1977 - Fabio Grosso was born. Italian football player
• 1977 - Trevor Bardette dies (b. 1902). American actor.
• 1978 - Freddie Mitchell was born. American football player.
• 1978 - Mehdi Nafti was born. Tunisian footballer
• 1978 - Brent Albright was born. American professional wrestler
• 1978 - Fernando Peyroteu dies. Portuguese football player.
• 1979 - The Mount Erebus disaster: an Air New Zealand DC-10 crashes into Mount Erebus on a sightseeing trip, killing all 257 people on board.
• 1979 - Billy Smith becomes the first goalie in NHL history to score a goal in a game.
• 1979 - Chamillionaire (Hakeem Seriki) was born. American rapper
• 1979 - Joel Maximo (Kelvin Ramirez) was born. American professional wrestler
• 1979 - Daniel Henney was born. Korean model-actor
• 1980 - Mark Morris was born. Choreographer, puts on the Mark Morris Dance Group's first show at the Merce Cunningham Studios.
• 1980 - Stuart Taylor was born. British football player
• 1982 - Leandro Barbosa was born. Brazilian basketball player
• 1982 - Representatives from 88 countries gather in Geneva to discuss world trade and ways to work toward aspects of free trade.
• 1983 - Christopher George dies (b. 1929). American actor.
• 1984 - Over 250 years after their deaths, William Penn and his wife Hannah Callowhill Penn are made honorary citizens of the United States.
• 1984 - Andrew Bogut was born. Australian basketball player.
• 1984 - Mary Elizabeth Winstead was born. American actress.
• 1986 - Herb Vigran dies (b. 1910). American actor.
• 1987 - South African Airways flight 295 crashes into the Indian Ocean, killing all 159 people on-board.
• 1987 - Tawana Brawley is allegedly raped by six white men, some of them police officers, in Wappingers Falls, New York.
• 1987 - Civilian convoy is attacked by RENAMO in Mozambique, 60 killed.
• 1987 - Choh Hao Li dies (b. 1913). Chinese biochemist.
• 1988 - Scarlett Pomers was born. American actress
• 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.
• 1990 - Margaret Thatcher formally tenders her resignation to The Queen and leaves Downing Street for the last time. John Major is elected her successor.
• 1992 - Sidney Nolan dies (b. 1917). Australian painter.
• 1993 - Jerry Edmonton dies (b. 1946). Canadian drummer (Steppenwolf).
• 1994 - Voters in Norway reject European Union membership (see Norwegian EU referendum, 1994).
• 1994 - In Portage, Wisconsin, convicted serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer is clubbed to death by an inmate in the Columbia Correctional Institute gymnasium.
• 1994 - Jeffrey Dahmer dies (b. 1960). American serial killer.
• 1994 - Jerry Rubin dies (b. 1938). American activist.
• 1995 - U.S. President Bill Clinton signs a highway bill that ends the federal 55 mph speed limit.
• 1997 - Kosovo Liberation Army, Albanian guerrilla group fighting for freedom of Kosovo, presents in front of the people of Kosovo.
• 1998 - The people of Albania voted for their new Constitution in a referendum
• 1999 - Jorge Batlle Ibáñez (Partido Colorado) wins Presidential elections in Uruguay
• 2000 - The parliament of The Netherlands passed a bill permitting euthanasia under specified conditions.
• 2000 - Ukrainian politician Oleksander Moroz begins the Cassette Scandal by publicly accusing President Leonid Kuchma of involvement in the murder of journalist Georgiy Gongadze.
• 2000 - The eighth tar drop falls in the University of Queensland pitch drop experiment.
• 2000 - Liane Haid dies (b. 1895). Austrian actress.
• 2001 - William Kienzle dies (b. 1928). American author.
• 2001 - Kal Mann dies (b. 1917). American lyricist.
• 2002 - 13 people are killed in a hotel bombing in Mombasa.
• 2002 - Dave "Snaker" Ray dies (b. 1943). American blues musician.
• 2003 - Antonia Forest dies (b. 1915). British children's author.
• 2004 - Presidential elections in Romania
• 2004 - Male Po'o-uli dies of avian malaria in Maui Bird Conservation Center in Olinda before it could breed, making the species most in all probability extinct.
• 2005 - The Official Opposition (Conservative Party of Canada, New Democratic Party, and Bloc Québécois) bring down the 38th Minority Liberal Government of Canada in a vote of non-confidence forcing immediate campaigning for the 39th Federal Election.
• Bahá'í Faith: Holy Day - Ascension of `Abdu'l-Bahá
• R.C. Saints - Pope Gregory III
• Independence Day in Mauritania (1960)
• Episcopal Diocese of Hawaii: Feast of the Holy Sovereigns in honor of the founders of the Anglican Church of Hawaii
• Albania - Albanian Independence day (from Turkey, 1912); also known as Albanian Flag Day due to other National events that correspond to this day