November 28 holidays in 2018

Historical Events on November 28

• 1862: General James G. Blunt leads Union forces in a victory over General John Marmaduke and his Confederate force at the Battle of Cane Hill during the American Civil War.
• 1908: Over 150 men are killed when a mine explodes in Marianna, Pennsylvania.
• 1914: The New York Stock Exchange begins operations again after closing in July because of World War I.
• 1943: United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill discuss war strategies at a meeting in Tehran, Iran.
• 1960: Mauritania gains its independence from France.
• 1964: NASA launches the Mariner 4 Probe.
• 1965: National Security Council members all agree to make a recommendation to then United States President Lyndon B. Johnson to adopt a war plan that calls for an escalation of bombing in North Vietnam during the Vietnam War.
• 1967: Astronomers Jocelyn Bell Burnell and Antony Hewish discover the first pulsar known in the Vulpecular Constellation.
• 2002: An Israeli owned hotel in Mombasa, Kenya is blown up by suicide bombers.
• 2014: Gunmen set off 3 bombs at the central mosque in Kano. The bombs kills approximately 120 people.

Famous Birthdays on November 28

• English poet and painter, William Blake is born in 1757.
• English chemist and meteorologist, Luke Howard is born in 1772.
• American architect and designer of the Lincoln Memorial, Henry Bacon is born in 1866.
• American songwriter, producer and founder of Motown Records, Berry Gordy Jr. is born in 1929.
• English author and playwright, Terence Frisby is born in 1932.
• American actress Hope Lange is born in 1933.
• American novelist, poet and screenwriter, Rita Mae Brown is born in 1944.
• American director and producer, Joe Dante is born in 1946.
• American actor and producer, Ed Harris is born in 1950.
• American physicist, astronomer and Nobel Prize laureate, Russell Alan Hulse is born in 1950.