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November 28

November 28 carries 10 recorded events spanning between 1811 and 2016. Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 5 in E-flat major, Op. 73, premieres at the Gewandhaus in Leipzig.

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What happened on November 28?

November 28 is the 332nd day of the year. It marks 10 notable events in history, dated between 1811 and 2016. Famous people born on November 28 include Jean-Baptiste Lully, Yesün Temür (Yuan dynasty) and Mouhamadou Dabo.

The shape of the day

November 28's recorded history is unusually compressed, gathered within recent centuries rather than reaching into antiquity. Its center of gravity is the 20th century, and disaster looms large.

Sagittarius is the sign for November 28 — read more on the Sagittarius page, or see November's birthstone & birth flower.

Released on November 28

Movies, games, albums & shows

2025

  • TV Heated Rivalry

2024

  • Game Enigma of Fear
  • Game Mado Monogatari: Fia and the Wondrous Academy

Release data from TMDB & IGDB.

Events

10 notable moments
  1. 1811

    Ludwig van Beethoven

    Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 5 in E-flat major, Op. 73, premieres at the Gewandhaus in Leipzig.

  2. 1895

    Chicago Times-Herald race

    The first American automobile race takes place over the 54 miles from Chicago's Jackson Park to Evanston, Illinois. Frank Duryea wins in approximately 10 hours.

  3. 1912

    Albania

    Albania declares its independence from the Ottoman Empire.

  4. 1914

    World War I

    World War I: Following a war-induced closure in July, the New York Stock Exchange re-opens for bond trading.

  5. 1925

    Grand Ole Opry

    The Grand Ole Opry begins broadcasting in Nashville, Tennessee, as the WSM Barn Dance.

  6. 1942

    Boston

    In Boston, Massachusetts, a fire in the Cocoanut Grove nightclub kills 492 people.

  7. 1966

    Michel Micombero

    Michel Micombero overthrows the monarchy of Burundi and makes himself the first president.

  8. 1979

    Mount Erebus disaster

    Air New Zealand Flight 901, a DC-10 sightseeing flight over Antarctica, crashes into Mount Erebus, killing all 257 people on board.

  9. 1987

    South African Airways Flight 295

    South African Airways Flight 295 crashes into the Indian Ocean, killing all 159 people on board.

  10. 2016

    LaMia Flight 2933

    LaMia Flight 2933 crashes near Medellín, Colombia, killing 71 of 77 people on board, including members of the Brazilian football club Chapecoense

Famous birthday twins

Born on November 28

Jean-Baptiste Lully

b. 1632

Italian-French composer and manager

Yesün Temür (Yuan dynasty)

b. 1293

Chinese emperor

Mouhamadou Dabo

b. 1986

French footballer

Alfonso Cuarón

b. 1961

Mexican director, producer, and screenwriter

Alfonso XII

b. 1857

of Spain

Friedrich Engels

b. 1820

German-English philosopher, economist, and journalist

William Blake

b. 1757

English poet and painter

Manuel I Komnenos

b. 1118

Byzantine emperor

Deaths

  • 2007Gudrun Wagner
  • 1954Enrico Fermi
  • 1945Dwight F. Davis
  • 1815Johann Peter Salomon
  • 1694Matsuo Bashō
  • 1290Eleanor of Castile

Holidays & observances

  • —Independence Day, celebrating the independence of Albania from Turkey in 1912, the first Albanian flag raise by Skanderbeg in 1443, and for the new parliamentary constitution in 1998.
  • —Bedfordshire day is celebrated in the county of Bedfordshire to celebrate the birth of John Bunyan
  • —Bukovina Day (Romania)
  • —Christian feast day: Acacius, Hirenarchus, and companions, of Sebaste
  • —Christian feast day: Catherine Labouré
  • —Christian feast day: Feast of the Holy Sovereigns (Episcopal Diocese of Hawaii)
  • —Christian feast day: Herman of Alaska, the anniversary of his actual death. Eastern Orthodox
  • —Christian feast day: James of the Marches

Historical facts, event summaries, and biographical lines above are adapted from Wikipedia under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) license. DateLore adds curation, structure, and original editorial commentary. DateLore is not affiliated with the Wikimedia Foundation.

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