November 28: Independence Day in Albania (1912) and Mauritania (1960)
- 1660 - At London's Gresham College, Robert Boyle (pictured), John Wilkins, Christopher Wren and other leading scientists founded a learned society now known as the Royal Society.
- 1905 - Irish nationalist Arthur Griffith first presented his Sinn Féin Policy, declaring that the 1800 Act of Union of Great Britain and Ireland was illegal.
- 1925 - The country music radio program Grand Ole Opry was first broadcast on WSM radio in Nashville, USA.
- 1979 - Air New Zealand Flight 901 crashed into Antarctica's Mount Erebus, killing all 257 people on board.
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