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Birthday November 28, 1628 John Bunyan, English cleric, author (Pilgrim's Progress) |
Birthday November 28, 1632 Jean Baptiste Lully, French composer, musician |
Birthday November 28, 1757 William Blake, poet (Songs of Innocence and Experience) |
Birthday November 28, 1820 Friedrich Engels, Marx's collaborator |
Birthday November 28, 1881 Stefan Zweig, Austrian poet, essayist, dramatist, translator |
Birthday November 28, 1908 Claude Levi-Strauss, Belgian social anthropologist |
Birthday November 28, 1929 Gloria Grahame |
Birthday November 28, 1933 Hope Lange, in London |
Birthday November 28, 1937 Gary Hart, (D-Sen-Colo) |
Birthday November 28, 1942 Paul Warfield, NFL, WFL wide receiver (Cleveland, Miami, Memphis) |
Birthday November 28, 1943 Randy Newman, singer (Raindrops) |
Birthday November 28, 1949 Alexander Godunov, composer |
Birthday November 28, 1962 Talk-show host and comedian Jon Stewart born |
History November 28, 1520 Magellan begins crossing Pacific Ocean |
History November 28, 1582 William Shakespeare marries Anne Hathaway |
History November 28, 1777 John Adams replaces Silas Deane |
History November 28, 1853 Olympia established as capital of Washington Territory |
History November 28, 1862 Battle of Cane Hill, Arkansas |
History November 28, 1895 America's auto race starts; 6 cars 55 miles winner avg 7 MPH |
History November 28, 1895 Frank Duryea wins first U.S. horseless-carriage race |
History November 28, 1895 Duryea Motor Wagon wins first car race in U.S. |
History November 28, 1912 Albania declares independence from Turkey |
History November 28, 1914 New York Stock Exchange resumes bond trading |
History November 28, 1919 Lady Astor becomes MP |
History November 28, 1925 The Grand Ole Opry begins broadcasting |
History November 28, 1929 Adm RE Byrd makes 1st South Pole flight |
History November 28, 1929 Ernie Nevers scores 40 points for Cardinals vs Bears (NFL record) |
History November 28, 1943 FDR attends Tehran Conference |
History November 28, 1943 Roosevelt Churchill & Stalin met at Tehran |
History November 28, 1954 Enrico Fermi, architect of the nuclear age, dies |
History November 28, 1960 Mauritania gains independence from France (Natl Day) |
History November 28, 1964 Johnson advised to bomb North Vietnam |
History November 28, 1964 Mariner 4 launched; 1st probe to fly by Mars |
History November 28, 1964 The Shangri-Las score a #1 hit with Leader Of The Pack |
History November 28, 1965 The Philippines agrees to send troops to South Vietnam |
History November 28, 1974 Bowie Kuhn suspends George Steinbrenner for 2 years |
History November 28, 1976 Rosalind Russell dies at age 68 |
History November 28, 1979 Plane crashes over Antarctica |
History November 28, 1983 9th Space Shuttle Mission - Columbia 6 is launched |
History November 28, 1986 Reagan adm exceeds SALT II arms limitations for 1st time |
History November 28, 1987 A media controversy ignites over the case of Tawana Brawley |
History November 28, 1989 Czechoslovakian Communist Party gives up monopoly on political power |
History November 28, 1994 Jeffrey Dahmer murdered in prison |