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Frank Duryea, winner of the Chicago Times-Herald race
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| Blurb | Reason |
|---|---|
| Independence Day in Albania (1912), Mauritania (1960) and Panama (1821) | Albania: refimprove section; Mauritania: refimprove; Panama: refimprove sections, outdated |
| Navy Day in Iran (1980) | refimprove |
| Holodomor Remembrance Day in Ukraine (2020) | CN tags |
| 936 – Shi Jingtang was enthroned as the first emperor of the Later Jin by Emperor Taizong of Liao. | Almost the entire article is cited to the near contemporary Old History of the Five Dynasties (974) and the slightly later Zizhi Tongjian (1084). Modern scholarship must be used. |
| 1520 – Three ships under the command of Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan became the first Europeans to sail from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific via the now-eponymous Strait of Magellan. | Magellan: refimprove section; Strait: lots of CN tags (8) |
| 1785 – The United States signed the first Treaty of Hopewell with the Cherokee, laying out a western boundary for white settlement. | unreferenced section |
| 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. | unreferenced section |
| 1919 – Nancy Astor, the first woman to serve as a member of Parliament in the British House of Commons, was elected in a by-election. | refimprove section |
| 1920 – Thirty-six local Irish Republican Army volunteers killed seventeen members of the Auxiliary Division of the Royal Irish Constabulary, marking a turning point in the Irish War of Independence. | Too much uncited |
| 1942 – A fire in Boston's Cocoanut Grove nightclub killed over 490 people and injured hundreds of others. | Too much uncited |
| 1943 – World War II: U.S. president Franklin D. Roosevelt, British prime minister Winston Churchill, and Soviet premier Joseph Stalin (all three pictured) met at the Tehran Conference to discuss war strategy against the Axis powers. | Orange citation needed banner |
| 1971 – Prime minister of Jordan Wasfi Tal was assassinated by the Black September unit of the Palestine Liberation Organization in Cairo. | refimprove section |
| 1990 – After being elected as leader of the British Conservative Party one day earlier, John Major officially succeeded Margaret Thatcher as prime minister of the United Kingdom. | refimprove section, date not cited |
| 1998 – The current Constitution of Albania, sanctioning a parliamentary republic, people's sovereignty, fundamental rights of the citizens, and other important points, was ratified via a voter-approved referendum. | refimprove section |
| 2000 – Ukrainian president Leonid Kuchma was publicly accused of being involved in the abduction of journalist Georgiy Gongadze. | cleanup required, date not cited |
| 2002 – Suicide bombers blew up an Israeli-owned hotel in Mombasa, Kenya, but their colleagues failed in their attempt to bring down an Arkia Israel Airlines charter flight with surface-to-air-missiles. | Date not cited |
| William Blake |b|1757 | original research |
| Nao Hibino |b|1994 | unreferenced sections (even though it's a GA) |
Eligible
- 1470 – Đại Việt emperor Lê Thánh Tông launched a military expedition against Champa, beginning the Champa–Đại Việt War.
- 1660 – Robert Boyle, John Wilkins, Christopher Wren and other leading scientists met at Gresham College in London to found a learned society, now known as the Royal Society.
- 1912 – At the All-Albanian Congress, the Assembly of Vlorë was constituted, which declared the independence of the Albanian Vilayet from the Ottoman Empire.
- 1925 – Grand Ole Opry, the longest-running radio broadcast in the United States, first aired on WSM in Nashville, Tennessee.
- 1967 – Jocelyn Bell Burnell noticed a "bit of scruff" in data from a radio telescope, which turned out to be from PSR B1919+21, the first discovered pulsar.
- 1975 – East Timor declared independence from Portugal.
- 1979 – Air New Zealand Flight 901 crashed into Antarctica's Mount Erebus, killing all 257 people on board.
- 1987 – South African Airways Flight 295 suffered a catastrophic in-flight fire and crashed into the Indian Ocean east of Mauritius, killing all 159 people on board.
- Born/died this day: | Abraham Brueghel |baptised|1631| Betty Parris |b|1682| Matsuo Bashō |d|1694| Isaac Martin Rebow |b|1731| Esther Wheelwright |d|1780| Johann Peter Salomon |d|1815| Adina Emilia de Zavala |b|1861| Gregorio Perfecto |b|1891| Nancy Mitford |b|1904| Keith Miller |b|1919| ʻAbdu'l-Bahá |d|1921| Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque |d|1947| Whitney Engen |b|1987
November 28: Thanksgiving in the United States (2024); Bukovina Day in Romania
Skanderbeg
- 1443 – Having deserted the Ottoman army, Skanderbeg (pictured) arrived in the Albanian city of Krujë and, using a forged letter from Sultan Murad II to the governor of Krujë, became lord of the city.
- 1895 – The Chicago Times-Herald race, the first automobile race in the U.S., was held in Chicago.
- 1903 – SS Petriana struck a reef near Point Nepean, leading to Australia's first major oil spill and a debate over the White Australia policy.
- 1966 – In a military coup, Michel Micombero abolished the Burundian monarchy and declared the country a republic with himself as president.
- 2016 – LaMia Flight 2933 crashed near Medellín, Colombia, killing 71 people, many of whom were players from Chapecoense Football Club.
- Manuel I Komnenos (b. 1118)
- Magnus Olsen (b. 1878)
- Wilhelmina of the Netherlands (d. 1962)
- Helen of Greece and Denmark (d. 1982)
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