On this day: 28 November
Events, births and deaths on 28 November. Every date is checked against Wikidata.
Years ago today
1 year ago2025
Nothing recorded for that year.
10 years ago2016
- Events · LaMia Flight 2933
100 years ago1926
Within 10 years of that
- 1921 · Deaths · ʻAbdu'l-Bahá
- 1923 · Births · Gloria Grahame
- 1918 · Events · Estonian War of Independence
1000 years ago1026
Within 100 years of that
- 1118 · Births · Manuel I Komnenos
- 1122 · Deaths · Ottokar II of Styria
- 1039 · Deaths · Adalbero, Duke of Carinthia
Events · 24
- 587(Julian date)Treaty of Andelot — 587 agreement between Guntram of Burgundy and Brunhilda of Austrasia
- 1627Battle of Oliwa — 1627 naval battle during the Polish-Swedish War
- 1666Battle of Rullion Green — 1666 battle of the Scottish Covenanter Wars
- 1785Treaty of Hopewell — three treaties between the U.S. and Native Americans signed at the South Carolina plantation
- 1862Battle of Cane Hill — 1862 battle of the American Civil War
- 1870Battle of Beaune-la-Rolande — 1870 battle
- 1885Serbo-Bulgarian War — 1885 war between Serbia and Bulgaria
- 1899Battle of Modder River — 1899 battle
- 1905Sinn Féin — left-wing nationalist political party in Ireland
- 1912Albania — country in southeastern Europe
- 1918Estonian War of Independence — 1918–1920 war between Estonia and Soviet Russia
- 1920Kilmichael Ambush — ambush during the Irish War of Independence, 1920
- 1920FIDAC — The Interallied Federation of War Veterans Organisations
- 1925Grand Ole Opry — regular live country-music radio broadcast from Nashville, Tennessee
- 1942Cocoanut Grove fire — 1942 nightclub fire in Boston, Massachusetts
- 1943Tehran Conference — strategy meeting of the leaders of the USSR, the USA, and the UK in Tehran in 1943 during World War 2
- 1960Mauritania — sovereign state in West Africa and North Africa
- 1975Timor-Leste — sovereign state situated on several islands in Southeast Asia
- 1979Air New Zealand Flight 901 — November 1979 aviation accident in Antarctica
- 1987South African Airways Flight 295 — flight that crashed in the Indian Ocean in 1987
- 20022002 Mombasa attacks — terrorist attacks in Kenya
- 20142014 Kano bombing — 2014 Islamist terror attack in Kano, Nigeria
- 2016LaMia Flight 2933 — commercial airline flight
- 2020Axum massacre — 28/29 Nov 2020 massacre in the Tigray War in Ethiopia
Births · 60
- 1118(Julian date)Manuel I Komnenos — Byzantine Emperor
- 1489(Julian date)Margaret Tudor — Scottish Queen consort (1489-1541)
- 1592Hong Taiji — 1st emperor of the Qing Dynasty (1592-1643)
- 1628John Bunyan — English Christian writer and preacher (1628-1688)
- 1632Jean-Baptiste Lully — Italian-born French composer (1632–1687)
- 1757William Blake — English poet and artist (1757–1827)
- 1792Victor Cousin — French philosopher (1792–1867)
- 1793Carl Jonas Love Almqvist — Swedish romantic poet, early feminist, realist, composer, social critic and traveller (1793-1866)
- 1820Friedrich Engels — German philosopher, sociologist and economist (1820–1895)
- 1829Anton Rubinstein — Russian pianist, composer and conductor (1829–1894)
- 1857Alfonso XII of Spain — king of Spain from 1874 to 1885
- 1880Alexander Blok — Russian poet (1880–1921)
- 1881Stefan Zweig — Austrian writer (1881–1942)
- 1887Ernst Röhm — German Nazi politician, military officer and leader of the Sturmabteilung (1887-1934)
- 1894Henry Hazlitt — American journalist & writer (1894–1993)
- 1904Nancy Mitford — British writer
- 1907Alberto Moravia — Italian writer and journalist (1907-1990)
- 1908Claude Lévi-Strauss — French anthropologist and ethnologist (1908–2009)
- 1923Gloria Grahame — American actress (1923–1981)
- 1925József Bozsik — Hungarian footballer (1925-1978)
- 1927Abdul Halim of Kedah — 5th Yang di-Pertuan Agong and Sultan of Kedah
- 1933Hope Lange — American actress (1933-2003)
- 1941Laura Antonelli — Italian actress (1941-2015)
- 1941Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya — President of Mauritania from 1984 to 2005
- 1943Randy Newman — American singer-songwriter and pianist
Deaths · 60
- 741(Julian date)Gregory III — 90th Pope of the Catholic Church
- 1039(Julian date)Adalbero, Duke of Carinthia — Duke of Carinthia
- 1122Ottokar II of Styria — Margrave of Styria
- 1170(Julian date)Owain Gwynedd — King of Gwynedd
- 1290(Julian date)Eleanor of Castile — Infanta of Castile and queen consort of England
- 1499(Julian date)Edward Plantagenet, 17th Earl of Warwick — English Earl
- 1667Jean de Thévenot — French explorer (1633–1667)
- 1680Gian Lorenzo Bernini — Italian sculptor and architect (1598–1680)
- 1680Athanasius Kircher — German Jesuit scholar (1601 or 1602-1680)
- 1694Matsuo Bashō — Japanese poet (1644–1694)
- 1698Louis de Buade de Frontenac — Governor of New France
- 1794Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben — Prussian officer and US Continental army general (1730-1794)
- 1815Johann Peter Salomon — German violinist, composer, conductor and musical impresario; (1745-1815)
- 1852Emmanuil Xanthos — Greek revolutionary
- 1859Washington Irving — American writer, historian and diplomat (1783-1859)
- 1870Frédéric Bazille — French painter (1841–1870)
- 1873Caterina Scarpellini — Italian astronomer (1808–1873)
- 1890Jyotirao Phule — Indian social reformer (1827-1890)
- 1904Hermann de Pourtalès — Olympic sailor, gold and silver medal winner from Switzerland, military officer in the Prussian army (1847-1904)
- 1907Stanisław Wyspiański — Polish playwright, painter and poet (1869–1907)
- 1921ʻAbdu'l-Bahá — son of Bahá'u'lláh and leader of the Bahá'í Faith
- 1930VI. Konstantinos — Patriarch of Constantinople (1859–1930)
- 1935Erich von Hornbostel — Austrian ethnomusicologist (1877–1935)
- 1939James Naismith — Canadian-American coach; inventor of basketball
- 1945Dwight Filley Davis Sr. — American politician and tennis player (1879–1945)
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