28 November

The **28t o November** is the 332t day o the year (333t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 33 days bidin.

## Events

* 1520 - Ferdinand Magellan's expedeetion sails through the nou-named Strait o Magellan in soothren Sooth Americae.
* 1666 - At 2,000 men o the Scots Ryal Airmy led bi Tom Dalyell o the Binns defeat aboot 900 Covenanter rebels.
* 1821 - Panama jyns the Union o Gran Colombie.
* 1843 - The Unitit Kinrick an Fraunce recognise the unthirldom o the Kinrick o Hawaii.
* 1893 - Weemen can vote in New Zealand's general election for the first time.
* 1905 - The Erse poleetical pairty Sinn Fein is foondit.
* 1912 - Albanie declares unthirldom frae the Ottoman Empire.
* 1919 - Nancy Astor, Viscoontess Astor becomes the first woman tae sit in the Hoose o Commons o the Unitit Kinrick.
* 1943 - Winston Churchill, Franklin Delano Roosevelt an Joseph Stalin meet for the Tehran Conference.
* 1958 - Chad, the Republic o the Congo an Gabon become autonomous republics.
* 1960 - Mauritanie gains full unthirldom frae Fraunce.
* 1964 - NASA's Mariner 4 probe is launched. 
* 1975 - East Timor declares unthirldom frae Portugal.
* 1979 - A plane crash on Munt Erebus, Antarcticae, kills 257 fowk.
* 1987 - A Sooth Africae Airways plane crashes intae the Indie Ocean naur Mauritius, killin 160 fowk.
* 1990 - John Major succeeds Margaret Thatcher as Prime Meenister o the Unitit Kinrick.
* 1991 - Sooth Ossetie declares unthirldom frae Georgie.
* 1994 - Voters in Norawa reject membership o the European Union bi a margin o 52% tae 48%.
* 2004 - A mine splosion in Cheenae's Shaanxi province kills 166 fowk.
* 2010 - WikiLeaks releases ower 200,000 diplomatic cables.
* 2014 - An attack on a mosque in Kano, Nigerie, kills dozens o fowk.
* 2016 - A plane crash near Medellin, Colombie, kills at 75 fowk, incluidin maist members o Brazilian fitbaa club Chapecoense.
* 2020 - An attack bi Boko Haram in Jere, Nigerie, kills 43 fowk.

## Births

* 1118 - Manuel I Komnenos, Byzantine Emperor (d. 1180)
* 1489 - Margaret Tudor, Queen Consort o Scots (d. 1541)
* 1628 - John Bunyan, Inglis writer (d. 1688)
* 1632 - Jean-Baptiste Lully, Italian-French componer (d. 1687)
* 1660 - Maria Anna Victoria o Bavarie (d. 1690)
* 1757 - William Blake, Inglis poet an airtist (d. 1827)
* 1811 - Maximilian II o Bavarie (d. 1864)
* 1820 - Friedrich Engels, German philosopher (d. 1895)
* 1829 - Anton Rubinstein, Roushie pianist, conductor an componer (d. 1894)
* 1857 - Alfonso XII o Spain (d. 1885)
* 1880 - Alexander Blok, Roushie poet (d. 1921)
* 1881 - Stefan Zweig, Austrick writer (d. 1942)
* 1907 - Alberto Moravia, Italian novelist an jurnalist (d. 1990)
* 1908 - Claude Lévi-Strauss, French anthropologist (d. 2009)
* 1928 - Bob McIntyre, Scots motorcycle racer (d. 1962)
* 1929 - Berry Gordy, American record producer
* 1938 - Frank Haffey, Scots fiitbawer
* 1950 - Ed Harris, American actor
* 1950 - Russell Alan Hulse, American pheesicist
* 1953 - Alistair Darling, Scots politeecian, umwhile Chancellor o the Exchequer
* 1961 - Martin Clunes, Inglis actor
* 1961 - Alfonso Cuarón, Mexican director, producer an screenwriter
* 1962 - Jon Stewart, American comedian an telly host
* 1963 - Armando Iannucci, Scots writer, director an producer
* 1968 - Astrid Williamson, Scots muisicker, componer an sangwriter
* 1970 - Richard Osman, Inglis telly presenter
* 1970 - Edouard Philippe, French lawer an politeecian, Prime meenister o Fraunce
* 1977 - Gavin Rae, Scots fitbawer
* 1983 - Scott Jamieson, Scots gowfer
* 1984 - Mary Elizabeth Winstead, American actress
* 1987 - Karen Gillan, Scots actress, model an director
* 1991 - Scott Allan, Scots fitbawer
* 1992 - Mark Durnan, Scots fitbawer

## Daiths
* 1680 - Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Italian airtist an airchitect (b. 1598)
* 1859 - Washington Irving, American writer (b. 1783)
* 1870 - Frédéric Bazille, French penter (b. 1841)
* 1954 - Enrico Fermi, Italian pheesicist (b. 1901)
* 1962 - Queen Wilhelmina o the Netherlands (b. 1880)
* 1968 - Enid Blyton, Inglis writer (b. 1897)
* 1994 - Jeffrey Dahmer, American serial killer (b. 1960)
* 2010 - Leslie Nielsen, Canadian-American actor (b. 1926)
* 2014 - Chespirito, Mexican actor an comedian (b. 1929)

## Halidays

* Independence Day (Albanie, Mauritanie)
* Republic Day (Chad, Republic o the Congo, Gabon)

## Ootside airtins
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