This Day in History

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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)