|
Notable anniversaries in history for today: November 28
- 70th: 1954 - In Sylacauga, Alabama, USA a woman is struck by a 4kg meteorite that crashed through the roof of a house.
- 60th: 1964 - Birth of Cornelia Guest, debutante (Debutante's Guide to Life).
- 60th: 1964 - Charles Meredith, actor (Court of Last Resort), dies at age 70.
- 60th: 1964 - Mariner 4 launched; first probe to fly by Mars.
- 50th: 1974 - Birth of apl.de.ap; hip-hop musician (Black Eyed Peas).
- 50th: 1974 - Major League Baseball commissioner Bowie Kuhn suspends New York Yankees' owner George Steinbrenner for two years for his conviction of making illegal contributions to the Re-elect Nixon campaign.
- 40th: 1984 - Over 250 years after their deaths, William Penn and his wife Hannah Callowhill Penn are made Honorary Citizens of the United States.
- 30th: 1994 - Death of Jeffrey Dahmer, American serial killer (murdered in prison) (born 1960).
- 30th: 1994 - Death of Buster Edwards, Great train robber (suicide) (born 1932).
- 25th: 1999 - A man wielding a samurai sword enters St. Andrew's Catholic Church in Thornton Heath and injures 11.
- 25th: 1999 - Jorge Batlle, of the Colorado Party, is elected president of Uruguay.
- 25th: 1999 - The Hamilton Tiger-Cats defeat the Calgary Stampeders 32-21 to win the 87th Grey Cup at B.C. Place Stadium in Vancouver.
- 25th: 1999 - Death of Bethel Leslie at age 70 of cancer; actress (The Richard Boone Show, As the World Turns, One Life to Live, All My Children, Another World, The Doctors).
- 25th: 1999 - Death of Hazel Frederick at age 91; actress (Mary Tyler Moore Show opening credits).
- 20th: 2004 - An explosion occurs in a coal mine in China.
- 20th: 2004 - Ricardo Lagos, President of Chile, promises economic compensation to 28,000 torture victims of Augusto Pinochet's military dictatorship.
- 20th: 2004 - A male Po'o-uli dies of avian malaria at the Maui Bird Conservation Center in Olinda before it can breed, making the species in all probability extinct.
|
vvv advertisement vvv
^^^ advertisement ^^^
You can pick a particular day to view that day's events in history.
Bookmark this URL: http://kpolsson.com/thisday/anniv/ and revisit each day.
(this URL will automatically re-direct to the file containing the current day's events)
|