About November 28
November 28, 2025 is the 332nd day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 33 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday.
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Sagittarius is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Topaz is the modern birthstone for this month. Pearl is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 81 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On November 28
- 1520 –After navigating through a strait at the southern end of South America, three ships under the command of Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan reach the Pacific Ocean, becoming the first Europeans to sail from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific.
- 1627 –The Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth Navy has its greatest and last victory in the Battle of Oliva.
- 1660 –At Gresham College, 12 men, including Christopher Wren, Robert Boyle, John Wilkins, and Sir Robert Moray decide to found what is later known as the Royal Society.
- 1814 –The Times in London is for the first time printed by automatic, steam powered presses built by the German inventors Friedrich Koenig and Andreas Friedrich Bauer, signaling the beginning of the availability of newspapers to a mass audience.
- 1821 –Panama Independence Day: Panama separates from Spain and joins Gran Colombia.
- 1885 –Bulgarian victory in the Serbo-Bulgarian War preserves the Unification of Bulgaria.
- 1907 –In Haverhill, Massachusetts, scrap-metal dealer Louis B. Mayer opens his first movie theater.
- 1910 –Eleftherios Venizelos, leader of the Liberal Party, wins the Greek elections again.
- 1912 –Albania declares its independence from the Ottoman Empire.
- 1917 –The Estonian Provincial Assembly declares itself the sovereign power of Estonia.
- 1918 –Bukovina votes for the union with the Kingdom of Romania.
- 1920 –Irish War of Independence: Kilmichael Ambush - The Irish Republican Army ambush a convoy of British Auxiliaries and kill seventeen.
- 1958 –Chad, the Republic of the Congo, and Gabon become autonomous republics within the French Community.
- 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.
- 1971 –Fred Quilt, a leader of the Tsilhqot'in First Nation is severely beaten by Royal Canadian Mounted Police officers; he dies two days later.
- 1971 –Wasfi al-Tal, Prime Minister of Jordan, is assassinated by the Black September unit of the Palestine Liberation Organization.
- 1972 –Last executions in Paris, of the Clairvaux Mutineers, Roger Bontems and Claude Buffet, guillotined at La Sante Prison. (Bontems had been found innocent of murder by the court, but as Buffet’s accomplice is condemned to death anyway.) The chief executioner is Andre Obrecht.
- 1979 –Air New Zealand Flight 901, a DC-10 operated sightseeing flight over Antarctica, crashes into Mount Erebus, killing all 257 people on board.
- 1980 –Iran–Iraq War: Operation Morvarid – Over 70% of Iraqi Navy was destroyed by Iranian Navy in The Persian Gulf. The Iranian Navy’s Day.
- 1987 –South African Airways Flight 295 crashes into the Indian Ocean, killing all 159 people on-board.
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