Year 1520
Ferdinand Magellan began crossing the Pacific Ocean.
NOVEMBER 28
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28 November: What Happened On This Day in History
Curated historical timeline of momentous political pacts, freedom struggle uprisings, constitutional developments, scientific breakthroughs, and prominent birthdays recorded on 28 November.
Year 1660
The Royal Society was formed in London.
Year 1676
French occupation of Puducherry, a fertile region of eastern India and an important port on the coast of Bay of Bengal.
Year 1814
The Times of London became the first newspaper to be produced on a steam-powered Printing Press.
Year 1821
Panama declared its independence from Spain.
Year 1893
Women’s suffrage in New Zealand concluded with the 1893 New Zealand general election.
Year 1912
Albania declared its independence from the Ottoman Empire.
Year 1945
Australia Services draw second Victory Test Cricket vs India at Calcutta.
Year 1956
Chou En- lai, Chinese Prime Minister, came to India.
Year 1960
Mauritania gained independence from France.
Year 1964
NASA’s Mariner-4 spacecraft launched to Mars.
Year 1967
Jocelyn Bell Burnell and Anthony Hewish first proved the existence of pulsar stars.
Year 1975
East Timor gained independence from Portugal.
Year 1987
South African Airways Flight 295 crashes into the Indian Ocean, killing all 159 people on board.
Year 1997
Indian Prime Minister I.K. Gujral resigned from his post.
Born 1757
William Blake, an English poet, painter, and printmaker.
Born 1820
Friedrich Engels, a German philosopher, historian, communist, social scientist, sociologist, journalist, political activist, and businessman.
Born 1862
Henry McMahon, a British Indian Army officer, and diplomat. The famous McMahon line was named after him.
Born 1867
Chandra Kumar Agarwala, an eminent writer, poet, journalist from Assam.
Born 1887
Ernst Röhm, a German military officer and an early member of the Nazi Party.
Born 1938
Malleshappa Madivalappa Kalburgi, an Indian scholar of Vachana Sahitya in the Kannada-language.
Born 1945
Amar Goswami, a senior journalist, and one of the prominent fiction writers of Hindi literature.
Born 1964
Michael Bennet, Indian-American lawyer and politician
Died 1890
Mahatma Jyotirao Phule, an Indian social reformer.
Died 1893
Sir Alexander Cunningham, a British army engineer.
Died 1939
James Naismith, a Canadian-American physical educator, inventor of the Basketball.
Died 1954
Enrico Fermi, Nobel Prize-winning Italian-American physicist.
Died 1962
K. C. Dey, an Indian Singer, music composer, and actor.
Died 1967
Pandurang Mahadev Bapat, popularly known as Senapati Bapat, an Indian freedom fighter.
Died 1968
Enid Blyton, an English children’s writer.
Died 1999
Hanuman Prasad Mishra, a fiddle player of the Banaras family, winner of the Academy Award.
Died 2012
Zig Ziglar, American author.