This Day in History for 28th November

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Historical Events

Events 1 - 100 of 174

587 - Treaty of Andelot: King Guntram takes cousin Childebert II as heir
1340 - Battle of Salado Spain: last Moor 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 - London Royal Society forms
1670 - Pierre Corneille's "Tite et Berenice," premieres in Paris
1710 - Battle at Brihuega: English General Stanhope captured
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 - England condemns ceasefire of Kloster-Seven
1775 - 2nd Continental Congress formally establishes US Navy
1785 - The Treaty of Hopewell is signed.
1795 - US pays $800,000 & a frigate as tribute to Algiers & Tunis
1813 - Kosacks occupy Utrecht
1814 - The Times in 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.
Naturalist Charles Darwin 1847 - Bologna: church 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 Confederate Army
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 SC
1875 - Verney Cameroon 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 - Albania declares it's Indepenence 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 1st female member of British Parliament
1920 - Kilmichael Ambush, Battle of the Irish War of Independence.
1921 - Ascension of 'Abdu'l-Baha (Baha'i festival-Qawl 6, 78)
1922 - 6 old minsters in Greece, executed
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 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 of TB 4 months later
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 signs not-attack treaty
Comedian Groucho Marx 1932 - Groucho Marx performed on radio for 1st time
1934 - Churchill tells Premier Baldwin not to under estimate German air power
1938 - 4th Heisman Trophy Award: Davey O'Brien, Texas Christian (QB)
1939 - Nazi Gov-Gen of Poland, Hans Frank organizes Judenrat
1939 - Soviet government revokes Russian-Finnish non-attack treaty
1940 - 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 - Aust Services draw second Victory Test Cricket v India at Calcutta
1946 - French government of Bidault, resigns
1946 - Landverrader Anton Mussert to death sentenced
1948 - "Hopalong Cassidy" premieres on TV
1948 - 1st Polaroid camera sold
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

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Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 100 of 225

1118 - Manuel I Komnenos, Greek Byzantine Emperor (d. 1180)
1489 - Margaret Tudor, wife of James IV of Scotland (d. 1541)
1570 - James Whitelocke, English judge (d. 1632)
1598 - Hans Nansen, Danish statesman (d. 1667)
1607 - Pietro Sforza, Italian theologist: Istoria del Concilio di Trento
1628 - John Bunyan, England, cleric/author (Pilgrim's Progress)
1632 - Jean-Baptiste Lully, Florence Italy, composer
1640 - Willem de Vlamingh, Flemish sea captain (c. 1648)
1650 - John Palfijn, Flemish physician/inventor (forceps) [or Nov 25]
1661 - Edward Hyde, 3rd Earl of Clarendon, British Governor of New York and New Jersey (d. 1723)
1681 - Jean Cavalier, French Protestant rebel leader (d. 1740)
1700 - Nathaniel Bliss, Astronomer Royal (d. 1764)
1700 - Sophia Magdalen of Brandenburg-Kulmbach, queen of Denmark and Norway (d. 1770)
1704 - Jacob Mossel, governor-general (Dutch East Indies)
1757 - William Blake, London, poet/painter (Songs of Innocence & Experience), (d. 1827)
1763 - Matthaus Fischer, composer
1770 - F Louise W, daughter of viceroy Willem V & Wilhelmina of Prussia
1772 - Luke Howard, British meteorologist (d. 1864)
1777 - Georg A Kestner, German art collector/diplomat
Poet/Artist William Blake (1757) 1784 - Ferdinand Reis, composer
1785 - Achille-Charles, duc de Broglie, French PM (1835-36)
1792 - Victor Cousin, French philosopher/minister of Education
1793 - Carl Jonas Love Almquist, Swedish composer (Tornrosens Buck)
1795 - Adolf Bernhard Marx, composer
1805 - John Stephens, US archaeologist; founded study of Central America
1810 - William Froude, England, engineer/naval architect
1811 - Maximilian II Jozef, king of Bayern (1848-64)
1812 - Ludwig Mathias Lindeman, composer
1820 - Friedrich Engels, Germany, social philosopher; Marx's collaborator
1820 - Lawrence O'Bryan Branch, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1862
1829 - Anton Rubinstein, Vykhvatinetz Podolia, composer (Omitri Doskoy) [NS]
1837 - John Wesley Hyatt, inventor (celluloid)
1841 - E M Grace, cricketer (brother of W G)
1843 - Manuel Gregorio Tavarez, composer
1853 - Helen Magill White, first American woman to earn a Ph.D. (d. 1944)
1854 - Gottlieb J Haberlandt, Hungarians/German botanist
1856 - Alexandr Dmitriyevich Kastal'sky, composer
1857 - Alfonso XII, king of Spain (1874-85)
1864 - Carel A Lion Cachet, lithographer/wood carver
1864 - James Allen English writer (d. 1912)
1864 - Lindley M. Garrison, American Secretary of War (d. 1932)
1866 - Arthur Frederick Augustus "Dick" Lilley, cricket keeper (England)
1866 - Henry Bacon, architect (Lincoln Memorial)
1866 - Johannes F "Johan" Bakker Sr, Dutch actor/husband of Truus Soete
1868 - Frantisek Alois Drdla, composer
1876 - Bert Vogler, cricketer (early South African googly bowler)
1878 - Jozef van Mierlo, Belgian Jesuit/literary (Hadewych)
1880 - Alexander A Block, Russian poet (Dvenatsat) [OS=11/16]
1880 - Marinus van Meel, 1st Dutch aviator
1881 - Stefan Zweig, Vienna Austria, poet/essayist/dramatist (Beware of Pity)
1883 - Paul Hastings Allen, composer
1887 - Bobby Watson, [Knucher], Springfield IL, comedian
1887 - Ernst Rohm, German staff member/Bolivian leader/SA
1887 - Jacobo Palm, Curacaos pianist/organist
1891 - Gregorio Perfecto, Filipino jurist & politician (d. 1949)
1892 - Thomas Wood, composer
1894 - Brooks Atkinson, drama critic (Broadway theater namesake)
1895 - José Iturbi, Spanish pianist (d. 1980)
1896 - Lilia Skala, Vienna, actress (House of Games, Flashdance, Charly)
1896 - Dawn Powell, American writer (d. 1965)
1897 - Uno Choyo, writer
1898 - Yuri N Libedinski, Ukrainian writer (Birth of Hero) [OS]
1900 - Lester Vail, actor (Dance Fools Dance, Consolation Marriage)
1902 - Victor Jory, Dawson City Canada, actor (Kings Row, Manhunt)
1904 - James O Eastland, (Sen-D-Miss)
1904 - Nancy Mitford, English author (Love in a cold climate)
1907 - Alberto Moravia, [Pincherle], Italian author (Indifferent Ones)
1908 - Arturo Frondizi, president Argentina (1958-62)
1908 - Roberto Lupi, composer
1908 - Claude Lévi-Strauss, French anthropologist
1909 - Aleksandar Rankovic, Yugoslavic partisan/vice-premier
1911 - Václav Renč, Czech poet (d. 1973)
1912 - Heinz Galinski, President (Central council for Jews in Germany)
1912 - Morris Louis, US painter (post abstract)
1913 - Hugo Pos, Suriname/Neth WW II prosecutor of minor war crimes Tokyo
1915 - Pamela Harrison, composer
1915 - Evald Okas, Estonian painter
1916 - Lilian Baels, English 2nd wife of Belgian king Leopold III
1917 - Kees Schilperoort, Dutch radio/TV host
1919 - Keith Miller, cricketer (one of Australia's best ever all-rounders)
1920 - Cecilia Colledge, England, figure skater (Olympic-silver-1936)
1922 - Helen Kinney Copley, newspaper publisher
1923 - Helen Delich Bentley, (Rep-R-MD, 1985- )
1923 - Phyllis Jenkins, literary & theatrical agent community activist
1923 - Ted Stevens, (Sen-R-AK, 1968- )
1923 - Gloria Grahame, American actress (d. 1981)
1924 - Kees [Gerrit C] Otten, Dutch flutist
1925 - Aurelio de la Vega, composer
1925 - Gloria Grahame, LA California, actress (Sue-Rich Man Poor Man)
1925 - Virginia Hewitt, Shreveport La, actress (Carol-Space Patrol)
1925 - József Bozsik, Hungarian footballer (d. 1978)
1927 - Chuck Mitchell, American actor (d. 1992)
1928 - Edward LeBone Molotlegi, chief of the Bafokeng
1928 - Arthur Melvin Okun, American economist (d.1980)
Record Company Owner Berry Gordy Jr (1929) 1929 - Berry Gordy Jr, Detroit, record company owner (Motown)
1931 - Dervla Murphy, travel author (Full Tilt, In Ethiopia with a Mule)
1931 - Hope Lange, Redding Ridge Ct, actress (Ghost & Mrs Muir)
1931 - Ian Skipper, English businessman/multi-millionaire (Heritage Projects)
1931 - Rinus Ferdinandusse, editor/author (Nude on Fence)
1931 - Thomas Enders, diplomat

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Famous Weddings

Weddings 1 - 5 of 5

1582 - Playwright & poet William Shakespeare marries Anne Hathaway
1962 - Artist and peace activist Yoko Ono (30) weds film producer Anthony Cox
1986 - NBC's Ahmad Rashad marriage proposal is accepted by Phylicia Ayers-Allen during halftime of Det Lions-NY Jets football game
1998 - "The Truman Show" actor Noah Emmerich (33) weds "The West Wing" actress Melissa Fitzgerald (30) in a tent outside Philadelphia's Memorial Hall
1998 - Actor and martial arts expert Chuck Norris (58) weds former model Gena O'Kelley (30) at The North Church in Carrolton, Texas

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 100 of 128

741 - Syrian Catholic Pope Saint Gregory III
1058 - Kazimierz I Restaurator, duke of Poland (1034-58), dies
1170 - Owain Gwynedd, King of Gwynedd (c. 1100)
1262 - Shinran, founder of Japan's True Pure Land Buddhist sect, dies
1290 - Eleanor of Castile, wife of Edward I of England (b. 1241)
1499 - Edward Plantagenet, 18th Count of Warwick, beheaded
1514 - Hartmann Skull, German physician/historian (Skull's Liederbuch), dies
1545 - Jacob van Liesveld, printer/"heretic" (Refeyen), beheaded
1559 - Erasmus Sarcerius, German luthers theologist, dies at about 58
1574 - Georg Major, German Protestant theologian (b. 1502)
1585 - Hernando Franco, Spanish composer (b. 1532)
1590 - Pierre de Loyseleur de Villiers, S Neth theologist, dies at about 60
1641 - Robert Dowland, English luitist/son of John Dowland, dies at about 50
1667 - Jean de Thévenot, French traveller and scientist (b. 1633)
1675 - Leonard Hoar, American President of Harvard University (b. 1630)
1675 - Basil Feilding, 2nd Earl of Denbigh, English Civil War soldier (c. 1608)
1680 - Giovanni Bernini, Italian sculptor/painter, dies at 81
1695 - Giovanni Paulo Colonna, composer, dies at 58
1695 - Anthony Wood, English antiquarian (b. 1632)
Baroque Sculptor Giovanni Bernini (1680) 1698 - Louis de Buade de Frontenac, Governor of New France (b. 1622)
1785 - William Whipple, merchant/judge/signer (US Declaration of Independence), dies at 55
1788 - Charles C of Nassau-Weilburg, governor of Maastricht, dies at about 53
1794 - Friedrich WLGA von Steuben, Prussian/US inspector-general of Washingtons army, dies at 64
1801 - Déodat Gratet de Dolomieu, French geologist (b. 1750)
1815 - Johann Peter Salomon, composer, dies at 70
1827 - Dov Baer Schneersohn, Lubavitch leader/author (Imirei Binah), dies
1852 - Ludger Duvernay, French printer and newspaper publisher (b. 1799)
1859 - Washington Irving, US author (Geoffrey Crayon, gent), dies
1860 - Heinrich FL Rellstab, German music theorist, dies
1861 - Robert Fuhrer, composer, dies at 54
1870 - Frédéric Bazille, French painter (b. 1841)
1872 - Mary Fairfax Somerville, British scientific writer (b. 1780)
1876 - Karl Earnest Ritter von Baer, Estonian/German embryologist, dies at 84
1878 - Marco Aurelio Zani de Ferranti, composer, dies at 78
1878 - Orson Hyde, American religious leader (b. 1805)
1880 - Aires de Ornelas e Vasconcelos, (Portuguese) Archbishop of Goa (b. 1837)
1898 - C F Meyer, writer, dies at 73
1899 - Adrian the la Rey, son of South African general, dies in battle at 19
1907 - Ricardo Castro Herrera, composer, dies at 43
1907 - Stanisław Wyspiański, Polish dramatist, poet, painter, and architect (b. 1869)
1912 - Heinz Galinski, chairman (Central Council for Jews in Germany), dies
1912 - Walter Benona Sharp, American oil tycoon (b. 1870)
1915 - Luigi Capuana, Sicilian author/critic (C'era una Volta), dies at 76
1915 - Mubarak Al-Sabah "The Great", Emir of Kuwait (b. 1896)
1916 - Marthinus T Steyn, pres of Orange-Free state (1896-1902), dies at 59
1918 - Alexis Contant, composer, dies at 60
1921 - `Abdu'l-Bahá, Persian leader of the Bahá'í Faith (b. 1844)
1927 - Arthur Wichmann, German/Dutch geologist (New-Guinea), dies
1935 - Erich von Hornbostel, Austrian musicologist (b. 1877)
Inventor James Naismith (1939) 1939 - James Naismith, creator of basketball, dies at 78
1940 - Nicolae Iorga, author/president of Romania, murdered by fascist
1944 - Bijnen, Dutch opposition leader (LKP), shot to death in Apeldoorn
1944 - Camille Looten, Belgian priest/literature historian, dies
1944 - Joop Brouwer de Koning, youngest Dutch radio operator, executed at 25
1944 - Lode Zielens, Flemish author/journalist, dies at 43
1945 - Dwight Davis, donator of tennis' Davis cup, dies
1947 - Jacques-Philippe Leclerc, WW II hero (liberator of Paris), dies at 44
1954 - Enrico Fermi, Italian/US physicist (Nobel 1938), dies at 53
1959 - Lester Vail, actor (Dance Fools Dance), dies on 59th birthday
1960 - Richard N Wright, US author (Native son), dies at 52 in Paris France
1962 - Wilhelmina HPM, queen of the Netherlands (1898-1948), dies at 82
1963 - Fred Uttal, TV host (QED), dies at 55
1963 - Karyn Kupcinet, actress (Carol-Gertrude Berg Show), murdered at 23
1964 - Charles Meredith, actor (Court of Last Resort), dies at 70
1964 - Jan Fabricius, Dutch/English playwright (Dolle Hans), dies at 93
1966 - Vittorio Giannini, composer, dies at 63
1967 - Leon Mba, 1st president of Gabon (1960-67), dies
1967 - Leon M'ba, Gabonese politician (b. 1902)
1968 - Enid Mary Blyton, author (Before I Go To Sleep), dies at 70
1969 - Roy Barcroft, actor (Eyes of Texas, Son of Zorro), dies at 67
1970 - Fritz v Unruh, writer, dies at 85
1970 - Jan Drda, Czech author (Nema Barikada), dies at 55
1971 - Wasfi Tal, Jordan's PM, assassinated by Black Sept in Cairo
1972 - Gustave Frederic Soderlund, composer, dies at 91
1972 - Havergal Brian, composer, dies at 96
1973 - Marthe Bibesco, Romanian writer (b. 1886)
1976 - Robert Fleming, composer, dies at 55
1976 - Rosalind Russell, actress (Mame), dies of cancer at 68
1977 - Trevor Bardette, actor (Clanton-Legend of Wyatt Earp), dies at 75
1978 - Andre Morell, actor (Hound of the Baskervilles), dies at 69
1978 - Antonio Vespucio Liberti, Argentine football executive (b. 1902)
1983 - Christopher George, actor (Chisum, Heist), dies of heart attack at 54
1984 - Hans Speidel, German gen/NATO-supreme commander (1957-64), dies at 87
1985 - Fernand Braudel, French historian, dies at 83
1986 - Herb Vigran, actor (Ernest-Ed Wynn Show), dies at 76
1986 - Louis van Lint, Belgian painter, dies at 76
1987 - Choh Hao Li, bio-chemist prof (isolated growth hormones), dies at 74
1987 - Paul Arma, composer, dies at 83
1989 - Jo[hanne M Bos-]Vincent, Dutch soprano (Songs for Life), dies at 91
1990 - Tamara De Treaux, actress (ET), dies at 31
1992 - Bill Kearns, US actor (Playtime), dies of lung cancer at 69
1992 - June Joyce Lewis Fraser, entertainer, dies at 75
1992 - Ronald Smeenk, Dutch cabaret performer, dies
1992 - Sidney Nolan, Australian painter (b. 1917)
1993 - Abu Rish, Palestinian PLO-leader, dies at 23
1993 - Garry Moore, TV host (I've Got A Secret), dies of emphysema at 78
1993 - Kenneth Connor, English comic/actor (Carry on Sergeant), dies at 75
1993 - Khaled Moustapha Zir, Palestinian Hamas leader, shot to death at 25
1993 - Jerry Edmonton, Canadian drummer (Steppenwolf) (b. 1946)
1994 - Al Levitt, US/French jazz drummer, dies at 63