Historical Events on November 28

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• 587 Treaty of Andelot: King Guntram of Burgundy names cousin Childebert II as heir

• 1443 Albanian George Kastriotis Skanderbeg and his forces liberate Kruja in Middle Albania from the Ottomans and raise the Albanian flag.

• 1569 Duke of Alva forces bishop Nicolaas van Nieuwland of Haarlem to resign

• 1670 Pierre Corneille's "Tite et Berenice" premieres in Paris

• 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 Britain condemns Convention of Kloster-Zeven
• 1775 Second Continental Congress formally establishes US Navy
• 1785 The Treaty of Hopewell is signed between the Confederation Congress of the United States of America and the Cherokee people
• 1795 US pays $800,000 & a frigate as tribute to Algiers & Tunis


• 1813 Cossacks occupy Utrecht
• 1814 The Times of London first printed by automatic, steam powered presses built by German inventors Friedrich Koenig and Andreas Friedrich Bauer - makes newspapers available to a mass audience
• 1821 Panama declares independence from Spain
• 1843 Ka Lahui: Hawaiian Independence Day - The Kingdom of Hawaii is officially recognized by the United Kingdom and France as an independent nation.
• 1847 Bologna: church of 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 Confederacy
• 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 South Carolina
• 1875 British explorer Verney Cameron reaches East Africa
• 1879 Battle at Lydenburg South Africa: Gen Wolseley beats Sekhukhenes Pedi-Zulu

• 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

• 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, Pennsylvania
• 1911 Zapata proclaims Plan of Ayala Mexico
• 1912 Ismail Qemali declares Albania independent from Turkey in Vlorë
• 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.
• 1914 Australasian Championships Men's Tennis, Melbourne: All-Australian final; Arthur O'Hara Wood beats Gerald Patterson 6-4, 6-3, 5-7, 6-1
• 1916 1st German air attack on London
• 1917 Sigmund Romberg's revue "Over the Top" premieres in NYC

• 1918 Bucovina voted for the union with the Kingdom of Romania

• 1920 Kilmichael Ambush, Battle of the Irish War of Independence.
• 1921 Ascension of 'Abdu'l-Baha (Baha'i festival-Qawl 6, 78)
• 1922 6 ex-ministers executed in Greece
• 1922 Captain Cyril Turner (RAF) gives 1st skywriting exhibition (NYC) Turner spelled out "Hello USA. Call Vanderbilt 7200." 47,000 called
• 1924 Pieter Jelle Troelstra leaves Dutch 2nd Chamber
• 1925 7th French government of Briand sworn-in
• 1925 Grand Ole Opry premieres as WSM Barn Dance on WSM radio Nashville, Tennessee

• 1927 J McHugh & D Fields' musical "Delmar's Revels" premieres in NYC

• 1929 Chicago fullback Ernie Nevers sets NFL record for most points scored in a single game with all 40 in the Cardinals' 40–6 rout of Chicago Bears; Nevers has NFL record 6 touchdowns and 4 extra points

• 1938 4th Heisman Trophy Award: Davey O'Brien, Texas Christian (QB)

• 1939 Soviet government revokes Russian-Finnish non-aggression treaty
• 1940 Dutch law professor Rudolph Cleveringa arrested by nazis
• 1941 German troops vacate Rostov
• 1942 492 die in a fire that destroyed Cocoanut Grove nightclub in Boston

• 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 Australian Services draw second Victory Test Cricket v India at Calcutta
• 1946 French Fouth Republic government led by Georges Bidault resigns
• 1946 Dutch Nazi Anton Mussert sentenced to death
• 1948 "Hopalong Cassidy" premieres on TV
• 1949 "Texas, Li'l Darlin'" opens at Mark Hellinger NYC for 293 performances
• 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 performances
• 1953 CFL Grey Cup, Varsity Stadium, Toronto: Hamilton Tiger-Cats defeat Winnipeg Blue Bombers, 12-6
• 1954 1st pro football game in The Netherlands
• 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
• 1955 1956 NFL Draft: Gary Glick from University of Colorado A&M first pick by Pittsburgh Steelers
• 1956 Photography begins on "... & God Created Women"
• 1956 Leonid Spirin leads a Soviet Union 1-2-3 to win the men's 20 kilometre walk gold medal in 1:31:27.4 at the Melbourne Olympics; beats team mates Antanas Mikėnas and Bruno Junk
• 1956 Lee Calhoun leads an American trifecta in the men's 110m hurdles at the Melbourne Olympics; hurdles Olympic record 13.5s to beat team mates Jack Davis and Joel Shankle
• 1956 Soviet runner Vladimir Kuts wraps up the Olympic middle distance double by winning the 5,000m gold medal at the Melbourne Games; runs Olympic records in both 5k and 10,000m events
• 1956 Shirley Strickland de la Hunty of Australia retains her 80m hurdles Olympic title in OR 10.7s beating German Gisela Birkemeyer by just 0.2s at the Melbourne Games

• 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
• 1958 Test Cricket debut for Wes Hall, v India at Bombay
• 1958 US reports 1st full-range firing of an Intercontinental ballistic missile
• 1959 CFL Grey Cup, CNE Stadium, Toronto: Winnipeg Blue Bombers beat Hamilton Tiger-Cats (21-7) for a second straight year
• 1959 KOMC (now KSNK) TV channel 8 in McCook - Oberlin, NB (NBC) begins

• 1960 CBS radio expands hourly news coverage from 5 to 10 minutes
• 1960 Mauritania gains independence from France (National Day)
• 1961 General Meeting of UN debates New-Guinea
• 1961 Martin Walser's "Der Abstecher" premieres in Munich
• 1962 Telegraph between Netherlands & Indonesia restored
• 1963 The Beatles "She Loves You" unusually, returns to #1 in UK record chart and reaches 1 million copies sold
• 1963 Crusher beats Verne Gagne in St Paul, to become NWA champ
• 1963 WHNT TV channel 19 in Huntsville, AL (CBS) begins broadcasting
• 1964 CFL Grey Cup, CNE Stadium, Toronto: BC Lions defeat Hamilton Tiger-Cats, 34-24; BC's Bill Munsey scores 2 touchdowns in the 3rd quarter, one on offence and another on defence
• 1964 France performs underground nuclear test at Ecker Algeria
• 1964 Mariner 4 launched; 1st probe to fly by Mars


• 1964 1965 NFL Draft: Tucker Frederickson from Auburn University first pick by New York Giants
• 1965 Browns' Leroy Kelly sets club record for most punt return yds (109)
• 1965 LPGA Titleholders Championship Women's Golf, Augusta CC: Kathy Whitworth wins by 10 shots from Peggy Wilson for her first major title
• 1966 Coup in Burundi overthrows monarchy; a republic is declared
• 1966 Dominican Republic adopts constitution
• 1967 33rd Heisman Trophy Award: Gary Beban, UCLA (QB)

• 1969 Ted Sizemore becomes 7th Dodger to win NL Rookie of Year
• 1970 CFL Grey Cup, CNE Stadium, Toronto: Montreal Alouettes defeat Calgary Stampeders, 23-10; game marred by woeful field conditions
• 1971 "Me Nobody Knows" closes at Helen Hayes Theater NYC after 587 performances
• 1971 CFL Grey Cup, Empire Stadium, Vancouver: Calgary Stampeders beat Toronto Argonauts, 14-11 on a slick, rain-covered field
• 1972 "Via Galactica" opens at Uris Theater NYC for 7 performances
• 1972 LA Dodgers trade Frank Robinson to California Angels
• 1972 2 members of the IRA are killed in a premature bomb explosion in the Bogside area of Derry
• 1973 Arab League summit in Algiers recognizes Palestine
• 1973 Baltimore Oriole Al Bumbry wins AL Rookie of Year

• 1974 John Lennon's last concert appearance (Elton John concert in Madison Square Garden NYC)
• 1975 Democratic Republic of East-Timor proclaimed
• 1975 Test Cricket debut of Michael Anthony Holding, WI v Australia Brisbane
• 1975 Wings release "Venus & Mars/Rock Show" medley
• 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.

• 1976 CFL Grey Cup, CNE Stadium, Toronto: Ottawa Rough Riders defeat Saskatchewan Roughriders, 23-20 in a thriller; 53,467 Grey Cup record attendance
• 1978 44th Heisman Trophy Award: Billy Sims, Oklahoma (RB)

• 1979 "King of Schnorrers" opens at Playhouse Theater NYC for 63 performances
• 1979 Air New Zealand DC-10 crashes into Mt Erebus on Antarctica, killing 257 people, making it New Zealand's deadliest peacetime disaster
• 1979 LA Dodger Rick Sutcliffe wins NL Rookie of Year

• 1981 "Merrily We Roll Along" closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 16 performances
• 1981 Bear Bryant wins his 315th game to out distance Almos Alonzo Stagg, becomes college football's winningest coach

• 1982 "Pirates of Penzance" closes at Uris Theater NYC after 772 performances
• 1982 CFL Grey Cup, CNE Stadium, Toronto: Edmonton Eskimos' record 5th straight Championship; defeat Toronto Argonauts, 32-16

• 1983 9th Space Shuttle Mission-Columbia 6-is launched

• 1985 6th Belgium government of Martens forms
• 1986 Hilbert van der Duim skates 1 hour world record 39.4928 km

• 1986 OPEC reaches oil production accord
• 1987 South African Airways Boeing 747 crashes into Indian Ocean, 159 die

• 1993 "Gray's Anatomy" opens at Beaumont Theater NYC for 13 performances
• 1993 "Mixed Emotions" closes at John Golden Theater NYC after 48 performances
• 1993 CFL Grey Cup, McMahon Stadium, Calgary: Edmonton Eskimos defeat Winnipeg Blue Bombers, 33-23; Sean Fleming lands record equalling 6 field goals
• 1993 Carlos Reina wins Honduras presidential election
• 1994 Norway votes against joining European Union

• 1995 James Brady, former white house press secretary, suffers a heart attack
• 1997 Final episode of "Beavis & Butt-head" on MTV
• 1997 First public appearance of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA), an ethnic Albanian guerrilla group that fought for the independence of Kosovo from Serbia.
• 1998 The people of Albania vote for their new Constitution in a referendum.
• 1999 CFL Grey Cup, BC Place, Vancouver: Hamilton Tiger-Cats defeat Calgary Stampeders, 32-21; reverse previous year's result

• 2000 Ukrainian politician Oleksander Moroz begins the Cassette Scandal by publicly accusing President Leonid Kuchma of involvement in the murder of journalist Georgiy Gongadze
• 2004 Male Poʻo-uli dies of Avian malaria in the Maui Bird Conservation Center in Olinda, Hawaii before it could breed, making the species in all probability extinct
• 2004 Federation Cup Women's Tennis, Moscow, Russia: Anastasia Myskina & Vera Zvonareva beat French pair Marion Bartoli & Émilie Loit 7-6, 7-5 to clinch Russia's first title, 3-2
• 2005 Ballon d'Or: FC Barcelona's Brazilian midfielder Ronaldinho is named best football player in Europe ahead of Chelsea midfielder Frank Lampard and Liverpool's Steven Gerrard
• 2008 Sweden technically enters the recession after experiencing contraction of 0.1% in the second and third quarter
• 2010 CFL Grey Cup, Commonwealth Stadium, Edmonton: Montreal Alouettes retain Championship with 21-18 win over Saskatchewan Roughriders; Alouettes' quarterback Anthony Calvillo's 3rd title
• 2010 24th Soul Train Music Awards: Ron Isley, Anita Baker win

• 2012 54 people are killed and 120 are injured by two car bombs in Damascus, Syria

• 2015 Jamie Vardy scores for Leicester City in a 1-1 draw against Manchester United at the King Power Stadium; EPL record 11th consecutive game in which Vardy scores
• 2016 Plane carrying Brazilian Chapecoense fooball team crashes near Medellin, Colombia killing 71 players and journalists
• 2016 "Hamilton" sets new record for most money earned in a week on Broadway - $3.3 million
• 2017 Uhuru Kenyatta sworn in for a second term as president of Kenya
• 2017 India's Supreme Court rejects appeal to block global release of controversial film "Padmavati"
• 2018 Australian state Queensland raises its fire warning to "catastrophic" for the first time as 130 fires burn
• 2018 French director Luc Besson accused of sexual harassment by five more women, adding to four already made public
• 2019 Zimbabwe on the brink of man-made starvation according to the UN

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