Events on November 28 49
Year 587
Treaty of Andelot: King Guntram of Burgundy recognizes Childebert II as his heir.
Year 936
Shi Jingtang is enthroned as the first emperor of the Later Jin by Emperor Taizong of Liao, following a revolt against Emperor Fei of Later Tang.
Year 1443
Skanderbeg and his forces liberate Kruja in central Albania and raise the Albanian flag.
Year 1470
Champa-Đại Việt War: Emperor Lê Thánh Tông of Đại Việt formally launches his attack against Champa.
Year 1520
An expedition under the command of Ferdinand Magellan passes through the Strait of Magellan.
Year 1582
In Stratford-upon-Avon, William Shakespeare and Anne Hathaway pay a £40 bond for their marriage licence.
Year 1627
The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth Navy has its greatest and last victory in the Battle of Oliwa.
Year 1660
At Gresham College, twelve men, including Christopher Wren, Robert Boyle, John Wilkins, and Sir Robert Moray decide to found what is later known as the Royal Society.
Year 1666
At least 3,000 men of the Royal Scots Army led by Tam Dalyell of the Binns defeat about 900 Covenanter rebels in the Battle of Rullion Green.
Year 1811
Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 5 in E-flat major, Op. 73, premieres at the Gewandhaus in Leipzig.
Year 1814
The Times of London becomes the first newspaper to be produced on a steam-powered printing press, built by the German team of Koenig & Bauer.
Year 1843
Ka Lā Hui (Hawaiian Independence Day): The Kingdom of Hawaii is officially recognized by the United Kingdom and France as an independent nation.
Year 1862
American Civil War: In the Battle of Cane Hill, Union troops under General James G. Blunt defeat General John Marmaduke's Confederates.
Year 1885
Bulgarian victory in the Serbo-Bulgarian War preserves the Unification of Bulgaria.
Year 1893
Women's suffrage in New Zealand concludes with the New Zealand general election, 1893.
Year 1895
The first American automobile race takes place over the 54 miles from Chicago's Jackson Park to Evanston, Illinois. Frank Duryea wins in approximately 10 hours.
Year 1899
The Second Boer War: a British column is engaged by Boer forces at the Battle of Modder River; although the Boers withdraw, the British suffer heavy casualties.
Year 1905
Irish nationalist Arthur Griffith founds Sinn Féin as a political party with the main aim of establishing a dual monarchy in Ireland.
Year 1908
A mine explosion in Marianna, Pennsylvania, kills 154 men, leaving only one survivor.
Year 1914
World War I: Following a war-induced closure in July, the New York Stock Exchange re-opens for bond trading.
Year 1917
The Estonian Provincial Assembly declares itself the sovereign power of Estonia.
Year 1919
Lady Astor is elected as a Member of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. She is the first woman to sit in the House of Commons. (Countess Markievicz, the first to be elected, refused to sit.)
Year 1920
Irish War of Independence: Kilmichael Ambush: The Irish Republican Army ambush a convoy of British Auxiliaries and kill seventeen.
Year 1925
The Grand Ole Opry begins broadcasting in Nashville, Tennessee, as the WSM Barn Dance.
Year 1942
In Boston, Massachusetts, a fire in the Cocoanut Grove nightclub kills 492 people.
Year 1943
World War II: Tehran Conference: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin meet in Tehran, Iran, to discuss war strategy.
Year 1958
Chad, the Republic of the Congo, and Gabon become autonomous republics within the French Community.
Year 1964
Vietnam War: National Security Council members agree to recommend that U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson adopt a plan for a two-stage escalation of bombing in North Vietnam.
Year 1965
Vietnam War: In response to U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson's call for "more flags" in Vietnam, Philippine President-elect Ferdinand Marcos announces he will send troops to help fight in South Vietnam.
Year 1966
Michel Micombero overthrows the monarchy of Burundi and makes himself the first president.
Year 1967
The first pulsar known as PSR B1919+21 in the constellation of Vulpecula was discovered by two astronomers Jocelyn Bell Burnell and Antony Hewish.
Year 1971
Fred Quilt, a leader of the Tsilhqot'in First Nation suffers severe abdominal injuries allegedly caused by Royal Canadian Mounted Police officers; he dies two days later.
Year 1971
Wasfi al-Tal, Prime Minister of Jordan, is assassinated by the Black September unit of the Palestine Liberation Organization.
Year 1972
Last executions in Paris: Claude Buffet and Roger Bontems are guillotined at La Santé Prison.
Year 1979
Air New Zealand Flight 901, a DC-10 sightseeing flight over Antarctica, crashes into Mount Erebus, killing all 257 people on board.
Year 1980
Iran-Iraq War: Operation Morvarid: The bulk of the Iraqi Navy is destroyed by the Iranian Navy in the Persian Gulf. (Commemorated in Iran as Navy Day.)
Year 1987
South African Airways Flight 295 crashes into the Indian Ocean, killing all 159 people on board.
Year 1989
Cold War: Velvet Revolution: In the face of protests, the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia announces it will give up its monopoly on political power.
Year 1990
British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher resigns as leader of the Conservative Party and the prime ministry, and is succeeded as both by John Major.
Year 2002
Suicide bombers blow up an Israeli-owned hotel in Mombasa, Kenya; their colleagues fail in their attempt to bring down Arkia Israel Airlines Flight 582 with surface-to-air missiles.
Year 2014
Gunmen set off three bombs at the central mosque in the northern city of Kano killing at least 120 people.
Year 2016
A chartered Avro RJ85 plane carrying at least 81 people, including the Chapecoense football team, crashes near Medellín, Colombia.