On This Day in History for November 28

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• 587 Treaty of Andelot: King Guntram of Burgundy names cousin Childebert II as heir
• 1291 Eleanor of Castile, wife of King Edward I of England, dies in Northamptonshire. Crosses are erected where her body rests on the way to London.
• 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
• 1660 The Royal Society forms in London
• 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
• 1893 Women vote in a national election for the first time, in the New Zealand general election
• 1899 Battle of Mud River (Boer general Cronjé beats British gen Methuen)
• 1904 Germany defeats Hottentotten in Warmbad SW-Africa
• 1905 Arthur Griffith forms Sinn Fein in Dublin
• 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
• 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 Romberg's revue "Over the Top" premieres in NYC

• 1918 Bucovina voted for the union with the Kingdom of Romania
• 1919 US-born Lady Astor elected first female member of British House of Commons
• 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

• 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
• 1946 French Fouth Republic government led by Georges Bidault resigns
• 1946 Dutch Nazi Anton Mussert sentenced to death
• 1948 "Hopalong Cassidy" premieres on TV
• 1951 John Van Druten's "I am a Camera" premieres in NYC
• 1951 Military coup under Col Adib el-Shishakli in Syria
• 1954 1st pro football game in The Netherlands
• 1956 Photography begins on "... & God Created Women"
• 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 US reports 1st full-range firing of an Intercontinental ballistic missile

• 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 Crusher beats Verne Gagne in St Paul, to become NWA champ
• 1964 France performs underground nuclear test at Ecker Algeria
• 1964 Mariner 4 launched; 1st probe to fly by Mars
• 1965 Browns' Leroy Kelly sets club record for most punt return yds (109)
• 1966 Coup in Burundi overthrows monarchy; a republic is declared
• 1966 Dominican Republic adopts constitution
• 1967 1st radio pulsars detected by British postgraduate Jocelyn Burnell and her supervisor Antony Hewish at Cambridge University

• 1969 Ted Sizemore becomes 7th Dodger to win NL Rookie of Year
• 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 Balt Oriole Al Bumbry wins AL Rookie of Year

• 1975 Democratic Republic of East-Timor proclaimed
• 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

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

• 1985 6th Belgium government of Martens forms

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• 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)
• 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)

• 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
• 1785 Achille-Charles, duc de Broglie, French PM (1835-36)
• 1792 Victor Cousin, French philosopher/minister of Education
• 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)
• 1820 Freidrich Engels, German social philosopher (Communism), born in Barmen, Germany (d. 1895)
• 1820 Friedrich Engels, German social philosopher; Marx's collaborator
• 1820 Lawrence O'Bryan Branch, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), (d. 1862)
• 1837 John Wesley Hyatt, American inventor who simplified the production of celluloid, born in Starkey, New York (d. 1920)
• 1853 Helen Magill White, first American woman to earn a Ph.D. (d. 1944)
• 1854 Gottlieb J Haberlandt, Hungarians/German botanist
• 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)

• 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, Austrian poet, essayist and dramatist (Beware of Pity), born in Vienna, Austria (d. 1942)
• 1887 Ernst Rohm, German staff member/Bolivian leader/SA
• 1891 Gregorio Perfecto, Filipino jurist & politician (d. 1949)
• 1894 Brooks Atkinson, drama critic (Broadway theater namesake)
• 1896 Dawn Powell, American writer (d. 1965)
• 1897 Uno Chiyo, Japanese writer (Confessions of Love), born in Iwakuni (d. 1996)
• 1904 James O Eastland, (Sen-D-Miss)
• 1904 Nancy Mitford, English author (Love in a Cold Climate), one of the Mitford sisters, born in London (d. 1973)
• 1907 Alberto Moravia, [Pincherle], Italian author (Indifferent Ones)
• 1908 Arturo Frondizi, president Argentina (1958-62)
• 1908 Claude Lévi-Strauss, French social anthropologist and ethnologist (structuralism), born in Brussels, Belgium (d. 2009)
• 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 Evald Okas, Estonian painter
• 1916 Lilian Baels, English 2nd wife of Belgian king Leopold III
• 1922 Helen Kinney Copley, newspaper publisher
• 1923 Helen Delich Bentley, American politician (Rep-R-MD, 1985-95 ), born in Ruth, Nevada (d. 2016)
• 1923 Phyllis Jenkins, literary & theatrical agent community activist
• 1923 Ted Stevens, (Sen-R-AK, 1968- )
• 1928 Edward LeBone Molotlegi, chief of the Bafokeng
• 1928 Arthur Melvin Okun, American economist (d. 1980)

• 1931 Dervla Murphy, travel author (Full Tilt, In Ethiopia with a Mule)
• 1931 Ian Skipper, English businessman/multi-millionaire (Heritage Projects)
• 1931 Rinus Ferdinandusse, editor/author (Nude on Fence)
• 1931 Thomas Enders, diplomat
• 1933 Joe Knollenberg, (Rep-R-Michigan)
• 1935 Randolph Stow, author/poet (Suburbs of Hell)
• 1935 Prince Hitachi, Japanese royalty
• 1936 Gary Hart, (Sen-D-Co, 1975-86)
• 1942 Manolo Blahnik, Santa Cruz de La Palma Spain, shoe designer
• 1944 Timothy Krajcir, American serial killer
• 1946 Joe Dante, director (Matinee, Twilight Zone, Police Squad, Gremlins)
• 1946 Susan Spencer, American correspondent (48 Hours) [1946 approx], born in Memphis Tennessee
• 1949 Victor Ostrovsky, Canadian/Israel, Mossad agent (By Way of Deception)
• 1955 Adem Jashari, Albanian freedom fighter
• 1958 Georges Rutaganda, Rwandan war criminal
• 1959 R Glynn Holt, Plainveiw Texas, PhD/astronaut (STS 73 alt)
• 1959 Stephen Roche, bicylist
• 1960 John Galliano, Gibraltar, British fashion designer
• 1964 Cornelia Guest, debutante (Debutante's Guide to Life)
• 1965 Erwin Mortier, Belgian author
• 1975 Eka Kurniawan, Indonesian writer
• 1978 Ryan Leslie, American producer
• 1981 Sharon Needles [Aaron Coady], American drag queen, recording artist and TV performer (RuPaul's Drag Race season 4 winner), born in Newton, Iowa

• 741 Syrian Catholic Pope Saint Gregory III
• 1058 Kazimierz I Restaurator, duke of Poland (1034-58), dies
• 1058 Casimir I the Restorer, Duke of Poland, dies at 42
• 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, English, 17th Count of Warwick, last Plantagenet heir, beheaded for treason at 24
• 1514 Hartmann Skull, German physician/historian (Skull's Liederbuch), dies
• 1545 Jacob van Liesveld, printer/"heretic" (Refeyen), beheaded
• 1559 Erasmus Sarcerius, German Lutheran theologian and reformer, dies at about 58
• 1574 Georg Major, German Protestant theologian, dies at 72
• 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)

• 1695 Anthony Wood, English antiquarian (b. 1632)
• 1698 Louis de Buade de Frontenac, Governor of New France (b. 1622)
• 1716 Gisbert Cuper, Dutch classicist and historian, dies at 72
• 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)
• 1827 Dov Baer Schneersohn, Lubavitch leader/author (Imirei Binah), dies
• 1852 Ludger Duvernay, French printer and newspaper publisher (b. 1799)

• 1867 John Drake Sloat, 1st Military Governor of California (Union Navy), dies at 86
• 1870 Frédéric Bazille, French painter, dies at 28
• 1872 Mary Fairfax Somerville, British scientific writer (b. 1780)
• 1876 Karl Earnest Ritter von Baer, Estonian/German embryologist, dies at 84
• 1878 Orson Hyde, American religious leader (b. 1805)
• 1880 Aires de Ornelas e Vasconcelos, Portuguese Roman Catholic Archbishop of Goa, dies at 43
• 1898 Conrad Ferdinand Meyer, Swiss writer, dies at 73
• 1899 Adrian the la Rey, son of South African general, dies in battle at 19
• 1899 Robert Brank Vance, American politician, U.S. House of Representatives from North Carolina (1873-85), dies at 71
• 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 and critic (C'era una Volta), dies at 76
• 1915 Mubarak Al-Sabah "The Great", Emir of Kuwait (b. 1896)
• 1916 Marthinus Theunis Steyn, South African politician and President of Orange-Free state (1896-1902), dies at 59
• 1921 `Abdu'l-Bahá, Persian leader of the Bahá'í Faith (b. 1844)
• 1927 Arthur Wichmann, German/Dutch geologist (New-Guinea), dies
• 1927 C. E. A. Wichmann, German-Dutch geologist, dies at 76
• 1928 Frank Friday Fletcher, American Naval Admiral (Medal of Order for Battle of Veracruz), dies at 73
• 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 F. Davis, American politician (49th United States Secretary of War) and founder of the Davis Cup, dies at 66
• 1947 Jacques-Philippe Leclerc, WW II hero (liberator of Paris), dies at 44

• 1960 Richard Wright, American author (Native Son, Uncle Tom's Children), dies at 52
• 1962 Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands (1890-1948), dies at 82
• 1964 Jan Fabricius, Dutch/English playwright (Dolle Hans), dies at 93
• 1967 Léon M'ba, Gabonese politician and 1st president of Gabon (1961-67), dies at 65
• 1968 Enid Mary Blyton, author (Before I Go To Sleep), dies at 70
• 1970 Fritz von Unruh, German writer, dies at 85
• 1970 Jan Drda, Czech writer (Nema Barikada, Mestecko Na Dlani), dies at 55
• 1971 Wasfi Tal, Jordan's PM, assassinated by Black Sept in Cairo
• 1973 Marthe Bibesco, Romanian writer (b. 1886)
• 1978 Antonio Vespucio Liberti, Argentine football executive (b. 1902)
• 1982 Helen of Greece and Denmark, Queen Mother of Romania, dies at 86
• 1984 Hans Speidel, German gen/NATO-supreme commander (1957-64), dies at 87
• 1985 Fernand Braudel, French historian (Civilization & Capitalism), dies at 83
• 1986 Louis van Lint, Belgian painter, dies at 76
• 1987 Choh Hao Li, bio-chemist prof (isolated growth hormones), dies at 74
• 1992 June Joyce Lewis Fraser, entertainer, dies at 75
• 1992 Roland Smeenk, Dutch cabaret performer, dies in a car accident at 35
• 1992 Sidney Nolan, Australian painter (b. 1917)
• 1993 Abu Rish, Palestinian PLO-leader, dies at 23
• 1993 Khaled Moustapha Zir, Palestinian Hamas leader, shot to death at 25
• 1994 Franfo Fortini [Franco Lattes], Italian poet, dies at 77

• 1994 Jerry Rubin, US anti-war activist (Youth Party) and businessman, dies at 56
• 1994 Vicente Enrique y Tarancon, Spanish cardinal, dies at 87
• 1994 Ian Serraillier, English children's books author (The Silver Sword), dies at 82
• 1998 Kerry Wendell Thornley, co-founder of Discordianism (b. 1938)
• 1999 Bethel Leslie, American entertainer (Capt Newman MD, Rabbit Trap), dies at 70
• 2000 Henry B. González, American politician, U.S. House of Representatives from Texas (1961-99), dies at 84
• 2001 William Kienzle, American author (b. 1928)
• 2001 William Reid, British aviator awarded the Victoria Cross (b. 1921)
• 2003 Antonia Forest, British children's author (b. 1915)
• 2006 Robert Volpe, Artist, Art Theft Detective (b.1942)
• 2007 Gudrun Wagner, co-director of the Bayreuth Festival (b. 1944)
• 2007 Boeli van Leeuwen, Antillian writer (Vreemdeling Op Aarde), dies at 85
• 2009 Takeo Kajiwara, Japanese Go player (b. 1923)
• 2010 Samuel T. Cohen, American physicist (b. 1921)
• 2011 Ante Markovic, last Premier of Yugoslavia, dies at 87
• 2013 Mitja Ribičič, Yugoslavian Prime Minister, dies at 94
• 2015 Olene Walker, American politician (R), 1st female Governor of Utah (2003-2005), dies at 85
• 2016 William A. Christenberry, American photographer and artist, dies at 80

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