On This Day in History for November 28
Events in History
- 587 Treaty of Andelot: King Guntram of Burgundy names cousin Childebert II as heir
- 1240 Batu Khan's Mongol army lays siege to Kyiv and begins assaulting its city walls with catapults, city falls 8 days later
- 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.
- 1520 Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan begins crossing the Pacific Ocean
- 1569 Duke of Alva forces bishop Nicolaas van Nieuwland of Haarlem to resign
- 1600 The Royal Society is founded at Gresham College in London, England, following a lecture by Sir Christopher Wren, Professor of Astronomy
- 1670 Pierre Corneille's "Tite et Berenice" premieres in Paris
- More Events in History
John Bunyan
William Blake
Friedrich Engels
John Wesley Hyatt
Henry Bacon
Brooks AtkinsonWeddings in History
- 1582 Playwright and poet William Shakespeare (18) marries Anne Hathaway (26) (date of the marriage license)
- 1936 Australian paleo-anthropologist Raymond Dart (43) weds South African librarian Marjorie Gordon Frew
- 1938 Chinese politician Mao Zedong (44) weds Jiang Qing (24) in a small private ceremony
More Weddings & Divorces in History
Gian Lorenzo Bernini
Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben
Enrico Fermi
Wilhelmina of the Netherlands
Enid Blyton
Jeffrey DahmerNovember in History
Horatio Nelson: From Frail Boy to National Hero
A 12-year-old boy stepped into a world where many men feared to tread on this day: the harsh and brutal British Navy. He was legend-to-be Horatio Nelson.
November 27, 1770
Portuguese Royal Family Leave for Brazil
Embarkation in Lisbon of the Portuguese Royal Family on their way to Brazil in 1807
November 27, 1807
Wrong Address for Shakespeare Tourist Attraction
Millions of tourists around the world still have souvenirs of the house where William Shakespeare’s mother was born and grew up. Sadly, it’s the wrong house.
November 29, 2000
Pong
The original Atari Pong video game upright cabinet
November 29, 1972