November 28 holidays, events, history
🌏 World Compassion Day.
🔹 NATIONAL HOLIDAYS:
🇷🇴 Romania – Bukovina Day.
🇺🇦 Ukraine – Financial Monitoring System Employees Day.
🇨🇬 Congo – Republic Day.
🇮🇷 Iran – Navy Day.
🇹🇩 Chad – Republic Day.
🇧🇮 Burundi – Republic Day.
🇵🇦 Panama – Independence Day.
🇲🇷 Mauritania – Independence Day (1960).
🇹🇱 East Timor – Independence Day (1975).
🇦🇱 Albania – Independence Day (1912); also Flag Day.
👉 EVENTS:
– 936 – The Jin Dynasty began to rule in China.
– 1520 – Ferdinand Magellan first crossed the Strait of Magellan.
– 1627 – Polish-Swedish War: Battle of Oliva. Ended with the victory of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.
– 1660 – The Royal Society of London is founded.
– 1812 – Battle of Berezina.
-1812 – The Times newspaper is first printed on a steam-powered printing press.
-1821 – Panama gains independence from Spain.
-1843 – The independence of the Kingdom of Hawaii is recognized by Britain and France.
-1912 – Albania secedes from the Ottoman Empire.
-1917 – The 4th Extraordinary Congress of Turkestan Muslims concludes its work in Kokand.
-1919 – For the first time in history, a woman is elected to the British Parliament.
– 1943 – The Tehran Conference begins.
– 1950 – The Colombo Plan international organization is established.
– 1958 – Chad, Congo and Gabon gain autonomy from France.
– 1960 – Mauritania gains independence from France.
– 1964 – IL-14 crash near Surami (Georgian SSR). 7 people died.
– 1964 – American Mariner-4 automatic station launched to Mars.
– 1975 – FRETILIN declares independence of the Democratic Republic of East Timor from Indonesia.
– 1979 – DC-10 crash in Antarctica, 257 people died.
– 1987 – Boeing 747 crash near Mauritius, 159 people died.
– 1989 – Velvet Revolution: The dictatorship of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia was ended.
– 1992 – Uzbekistan joined the Economic Cooperation Organization with Pakistan, Iran and Turkey.
– 2000 – “Cassette scandal” in Ukraine.
– 2014 – 120 people were killed in a bombing at the central mosque in Kano, Nigeria.
– 2016 – Most of the Brazilian football team Chapecoense died in a plane crash.