Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/November 28

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 * 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: Bukovina Day in Romania (1918)


 * 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.