November 28
Today is the 333rd day of the year, there are
33 days remaining in 2016.
There are
26 days until Christmas.
Events
1443 – Having deserted the army of the Ottoman Empire,
Skanderbeg went to
Krujë in Middle Albania and using a forged letter from
Sultan Murad II to the Governor of Krujë, became lord of the city.
1520 – An expedition under the command of
Ferdinand Magellan passes through the
Strait of Magellan.
1582 – In Stratford-upon-Avon,
William Shakespeare and
Anne Hathaway pay a £40 bond for their marriage license.
1811 –
Beethoven's
Piano Concerto No. 5 in E-flat major, Op. 73, premieres at the Gewandhaus in Leipzig.
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.
1905 – Irish nationalist
Arthur Griffith founds
Sinn Féin as a political party with the main aim of establishing a dual monarchy in Ireland.
1909 –
Sergei Rachmaninoff makes the debut performance of his
Piano Concerto No. 3, considered to be one of the most technically challenging piano concertos in the standard classical repertoire.
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.)
1925 –
The Grand Ole Opry begins broadcasting in Nashville, Tennessee, as the WSM Barn Dance.
1942 – In Boston, Massachusetts, a fire in the
Cocoanut Grove nightclub kills 492 people.
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.
1967 – The first
pulsar, known as
PSR B1919+21, was discovered in the constellation of
Vulpecula by two astronomers,
Jocelyn Bell Burnell, and
Antony Hewish.
1970 -
Dave Edmunds was at No.1 on the UK singles chart with his version of the 1955 Smiley Lewis hit '
I Hear You Knocking.'.
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.
1972 – Last executions in Paris:
Claude Buffet and Roger Bontems are guillotined at La Santé Prison.
1979 –
Air New Zealand Flight 901, a
DC-10 sightseeing flight over Antarctica, crashes into
Mount Erebus, killing all 257 people on board.
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.)
Births
1757 – William Blake
; 1792 – Victor Cousin (invented the
cousin); 1866 – Henry Bacon (designed the Lincoln Memorial); 1887 – Ernst Röhm; 1923 – Gloria Grahame; 1927 – Chuck Mitchell ('Porky' in
Porky's, &
Porky's Revenge); 1929 – Berry Gordy, Jr.♪ ♫; 1933 – Hope Lange (
Peyton Place, The Ghost & Mrs. Muir); 1936 – Gary Hart; 1940 – Bruce Channel♪ ♫(wrote/sang "
Hey Baby!"); 1943 – Randy Newman
; 1949 – Alexander Godunov (
Die Hard); 1949 – Paul Shaffer
(CBS Orchestra); 1950 – Ed Harris; 1952 – S. Epatha Merkerson; 1959 – Judd Nelson; 1961 – Martin Clunes (
Doc Martin); 1962 – Matt Cameron
(Soundgarden, Pearl Jam); 1962 – Jon Stewart; 1967 – Anna Nicole Smith
; 1987 – Karen Gillan (
Dr. Who); 1995 – Chase Elliott
(NASCAR driver, son of "Awesome Bill From Dawsonville" Bill Elliott)
Deaths
1859 – Washington Irving ("
Rip Van Winkle", "
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"); 1872 – Mary Somerville; 1939 – James Naismith (created basketball); 1953 –
Frank Olson(<--Interesting read.); 1954 – Enrico Fermi; 1968 – Enid Blyton; 1972 - Claude Buffet
; 1972 - Roger Bontems
; 1976 – Rosalind Russell (
Auntie Mame, His Girl Friday); 1983 – Christopher George (
The Rat Patrol); 1993 – Jerry Edmonton
(Steppenwolf); 1993 – Garry Moore; 1994 – Jeffrey Dahmer; 1994 – Buster Edwards (helped commit
The Great Train Robbery of 1963); 1994 – Jerry Rubin; 2001 – Kal Mann♪ ♫(wrote the lyrics to "
Teddy Bear", "
Butterfly", and "
Let's Twist Again"); 2005 –
Marc Lawrence; 2010 – Leslie Nielsen (
Airplane!, Naked Gun); 2012 – Zig Ziglar; 2015 – Marjorie Lord (
Make Room For Daddy)