After 38 days, an expedition under the command of Ferdinand Magellan completes the first passage through the Strait of Magellan and enters the Pacific Ocean…
Tag: 28 November
28 November 1960
Mauritania becomes independent of France. Mauritania is a country located in Northwest Africa: Capital and Largest City: The capital city of Mauritania is Nouakchott. Population:…
28 November 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.
28 November 1905
Irish nationalist Arthur Griffith founds Sinn Féin as a political party with the main aim of establishing a dual monarchy in Ireland.
28 November 2014
Gunmen set off three bombs at the central mosque in the northern Nigerian city of Kano killing at least 120 people.
28 November 1979
Air New Zealand Flight 901, a DC-10 sightseeing flight over Antarctica, crashes into Mount Erebus, killing all 257 people on board. [rdp-wiki-embed url=’https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_New_Zealand_Flight_901′]
28 November 1821
Panama separates from Spain and joins Gran Colombia. Independence of Panama from Spain was accomplished through a bloodless revolt between 10 November 1821 and 28…
28 November 1942
A fire in the Cocoanut Grove in Boston nightclub kills 492 people. The Cocoanut Grove Fire was a nightclub fire in the United States. The…
28 November 1912
Albania declares its independence from the Ottoman Empire. On November 28, 1912 Albanian nationalist leader Ismail Qemal, an Ottoman civil servant who rose to the…
28 November 1942
A fire in the Cocoanut Grove nightclub in Boston, Massachusetts kills 492 people.