November 28

What happened that day?

• 2016: A chartered Avro RJ85 plane carrying at least 81 people, including the Chapecoense football team, crashes near Medellín, Colombia.
• 2014: Gunmen set off three bombs at the central mosque in the northern city of Kano killing at least 120 people.
• 2002: Suicide bombers blow up an Israeli-owned hotel in Mombasa, Kenya; their colleagues fail in their attempt to bring down Arkia Israel Airlines Flight 582 with surface-to-air missiles.
• 1991: South Ossetia declares independence from Georgia.
• 1990: British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher resigns as leader of the Conservative Party and the prime ministry, and is succeeded as both by John Major.
• 1989: Cold War: Velvet Revolution: In the face of protests, the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia announces it will give up its monopoly on political power.
• 1987: South African Airways Flight 295 crashes into the Indian Ocean, killing all 159 people on board.
• 1980: Iran-Iraq War: Operation Morvarid: The bulk of the Iraqi Navy is destroyed by the Iranian Navy in the Persian Gulf. (Commemorated in Iran as Navy Day.)
• 1979: Air New Zealand Flight 901, a DC-10 sightseeing flight over Antarctica, crashes into Mount Erebus, killing all 257 people on board.
• 1975: East Timor declares its independence from Portugal.
• 1972: Last executions in Paris: Claude Buffet and Roger Bontems are guillotined at La Santé Prison.
• 1971: Wasfi al-Tal, Prime Minister of Jordan, is assassinated by the Black September unit of the Palestine Liberation Organization.
• 1971: Fred Quilt, a leader of the Tsilhqot'in First Nation suffers severe abdominal injuries allegedly caused by Royal Canadian Mounted Police officers; he dies two days later.
• 1967: The first pulsar known as PSR B1919+21 in the constellation of Vulpecula was discovered by two astronomers Jocelyn Bell Burnell and Antony Hewish.
• 1966: Michel Micombero overthrows the monarchy of Burundi and makes himself the first president.
• 1965: Vietnam War: In response to U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson's call for "more flags" in Vietnam, Philippine President-elect Ferdinand Marcos announces he will send troops to help fight in South Vietnam.
• 1964: Vietnam War: National Security Council members agree to recommend that U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson adopt a plan for a two-stage escalation of bombing in North Vietnam.
• 1964: Mariner program: NASA launches the Mariner 4 probe toward Mars.
• 1960: Mauritania becomes independent of France.
• 1958: Chad, the Republic of the Congo, and Gabon become autonomous republics within the French Community.
• 1943: World War II: Tehran Conference: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin meet in Tehran, Iran, to discuss war strategy.
• 1942: In Boston, Massachusetts, a fire in the Cocoanut Grove nightclub kills 492 people.
• 1925: The Grand Ole Opry begins broadcasting in Nashville, Tennessee, as the WSM Barn Dance.
• 1920: Irish War of Independence: Kilmichael Ambush: The Irish Republican Army ambush a convoy of British Auxiliaries and kill seventeen.
• 1919: Lady Astor is elected as a Member of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. She is the first woman to sit in the House of Commons. (Countess Markievicz, the first to be elected, refused to sit.)
• 1917: The [Estonia](https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Estonia)n Provincial Assembly declares itself the sovereign power of Estonia.
• 1914: World War I: Following a war-induced closure in July, the New York Stock Exchange re-opens for bond trading.
• 1912: Albania declares its independence from the Ottoman Empire.
• 1908: A mine explosion in Marianna, Pennsylvania, kills 154 men, leaving only one survivor.
• 1905: Irish nationalist Arthur Griffith founds Sinn Féin as a political party with the main aim of establishing a dual monarchy in Ireland.
• 1899: The Second [Boer](https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Boer) War: a British column is engaged by Boer forces at the Battle of Modder River; although the Boers withdraw, the British suffer heavy casualties.
• 1895: The first American automobile race takes place over the 54 miles from Chicago's Jackson Park to Evanston, Illinois. Frank Duryea wins in approximately 10 hours.
• 1893: Women's suffrage in New Zealand concludes with the New Zealand general election, 1893.
• 1885: Bulgarian victory in the Serbo-Bulgarian War preserves the Unification of Bulgaria.
• 1862: American Civil War: In the Battle of Cane Hill, Union troops under General James G. Blunt defeat General John Marmaduke's Confederates.
• 1843: Ka Lā Hui (Hawaiian Independence Day): The [Kingdom of Hawaii](https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_Hawaii) is officially recognized by the United Kingdom and France as an independent nation.
• 1821: Panama Independence Day: Panama separates from Spain and joins Gran Colombia.
• 1814: The Times of London becomes the first newspaper to be produced on a steam-powered printing press, built by the German team of Koenig & Bauer.
• 1811: Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 5 in E-flat major, Op. 73, premieres at the Gewandhaus in Leipzig.
• 1785: The first Treaty of Hopewell is signed.
• 1666: At least 3,000 men of the Royal Scots Army led by Tam Dalyell of the Binns defeat about 900 Covenanter rebels in the Battle of Rullion Green.
• 1660: At Gresham College, twelve men, including Christopher Wren, Robert Boyle, John Wilkins, and Sir Robert Moray decide to found what is later known as the Royal Society.
• 1627: The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth Navy has its greatest and last victory in the Battle of Oliwa.
• 1582: In Stratford-upon-Avon, William Shakespeare and Anne Hathaway pay a £40 bond for their marriage licence.
• 1520: An expedition under the command of Ferdinand Magellan passes through the Strait of Magellan.
• 1470: Champa-Đại Việt War: Emperor Lê Thánh Tông of Đại Việt formally launches his attack against Champa.
• 1443: Skanderbeg and his forces liberate Kruja in central Albania and raise the Albanian flag.
• 936: Shi Jingtang is enthroned as the first emperor of the Later Jin by Emperor Taizong of Liao, following a revolt against Emperor Fei of Later Tang.
• 587: Treaty of Andelot: King Guntram of Burgundy recognizes Childebert II as his heir.