134761 | November 28 | Event | 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. |
134762 | November 28 | Event | 1958 – Chad, the Republic of the Congo, and Gabon become autonomous republics within the French Community. |
134763 | November 28 | Event | 1960 – Mauritania becomes independent of France. |
134764 | November 28 | Event | 1964 – Mariner program: NASA launches the Mariner 4 probe toward Mars. |
134765 | November 28 | Event | 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. |
134766 | November 28 | Event | 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. |
134767 | November 28 | Event | 1966 – Michel Micombero overthrows the monarchy of Burundi and makes himself the first president. |
134768 | November 28 | Event | 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. |
134769 | November 28 | Event | 1971 – Wasfi al-Tal, Prime Minister of Jordan, is assassinated by the Black September unit of the Palestine Liberation Organization. |
134770 | November 28 | Event | 1972 – Last executions in Paris: Claude Buffet and Roger Bontems are guillotined at La Santé Prison. The chief executioner is André Obrecht. (Bontems had been found innocent of murder, but as Buffet's accomplice was condemned to death anyway) |
134771 | November 28 | Event | 1975 – East Timor declares its independence from Portugal. |
134772 | November 28 | Event | 1979 – Air New Zealand Flight 901, a DC-10 sightseeing flight over Antarctica, crashes into Mount Erebus, killing all 257 people on board. |
134773 | November 28 | Event | 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.) |
134774 | November 28 | Event | 1981 – Our Lady of Kibeho: Schoolchildren in Kibeho, Rwanda, experience the first of a series of Marian apparitions. |
134775 | November 28 | Event | 1987 – South African Airways Flight 295 crashes into the Indian Ocean, killing all 159 people on board. |
134776 | November 28 | Event | 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. |
134777 | November 28 | Event | 1991 – South Ossetia declares independence from Georgia. |
134778 | November 28 | Event | 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. |
134779 | November 28 | Event | 2013 – A 5.6 earthquake in Iran kills seven people and injures 45 others. |
134780 | November 28 | Event | 2014 – Gunmen set off three bombs at the central mosque in the northern city of Kano killing at least 120 people. |
134781 | November 28 | Birth | 1118 – Manuel I Komnenos, Byzantine emperor (d. 1180) |
134782 | November 28 | Birth | 1489 – Margaret Tudor, English wife of James IV of Scotland (d. 1541) |
134783 | November 28 | Birth | 1570 – James Whitelocke, English judge and politician, Chief Justice of Chester (d. 1632) |
134784 | November 28 | Birth | 1598 – Hans Nansen, Danish politician (d. 1667) |
134785 | November 28 | Birth | 1628 – John Bunyan, English preacher and author (d. 1688) |
134786 | November 28 | Birth | 1632 – Jean-Baptiste Lully, Italian-French composer and manager (d. 1687) |
134787 | November 28 | Birth | 1640 – Willem de Vlamingh, Flemish captain and explorer (d. 1698) |
134788 | November 28 | Birth | 1661 – Edward Hyde, 3rd Earl of Clarendon, English soldier and politician, 14th Colonial Governor of New York (d. 1723) |
134789 | November 28 | Birth | 1681 – Jean Cavalier, French rebel leader (d. 1740) |
134790 | November 28 | Birth | 1700 – Nathaniel Bliss, English astronomer and mathematician (d. 1764) |