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
- 1095 –On the last day of the Council of Clermont, Pope Urban II appoints Bishop Adhemar of Le Puy and Count Raymond IV of Toulouse to lead the First Crusade to the Holy Land.
- 1443 –Skanderbeg and his forces liberate Kruja in Middle Albania and raise the Albanian flag.
- 1582 –In Stratford-upon-Avon, William Shakespeare and Anne Hathaway pay a £40 bond for their marriage license.
- 1666 –At least 3000 men of the Scottish Royal Army led by Tam Dalyell of the Binns defeat about 900 Covenanter rebels in the Battle of Rullion Green.
- 1729 –Natchez Indians massacre 138 Frenchmen, 35 French women, and 56 children at Fort Rosalie, near the site of modern-day Natchez, Mississippi.
- 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.
- 1843 –Ka Lā Hui: Hawaiian Independence Day – The Kingdom of Hawaii is officially recognized by the United Kingdom and France as an independent nation.
- 1893 –Women vote in a national election for the first time: the New Zealand general election.
- 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.
- 1910 –Eleftherios Venizelos, leader of the Liberal Party, wins the Greek elections again.
- 1917 –The Estonian Provincial Assembly declares itself the sovereign power of Estonia.
- 1942 –In Boston, Massachusetts, a fire in the Cocoanut Grove nightclub kills 491 people.
- 1943 –World War II: Tehran Conference – U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet leader Joseph Stalin meet in Tehran, Iran to discuss war strategy.
- 1958 –Chad, the Republic of the Congo, and Gabon become autonomous republics within the French Community.
- 1960 –Mauritania becomes independent of France.
- 1975 –East Timor declares its independence from Portugal.
- 1981 –Our Lady of Kibeho: Schoolchildren in Kibeho, Rwanda, experience the first of a series of Marian apparitions.
- 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.
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