November 28......

November 28 is the 332nd day of the year (333rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 33 days remaining in the year on this date.

EVENTS

● 1095 - On the last day of the Council of Clermont, Pope Urban II appoints Bishop Adhemar of Le Puy and Count Raymond IV of Toulouse to lead the First Crusade to the Holy Land.

● 1443 - Skanderbeg and his forces liberate Kruja, in Middle Albania and raise the Albanian flag.

● 1520 - After navigating through the South American strait, three ships under the command of Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan reach the Pacific Ocean, becoming the first Europeans to sail from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific. The strait would later be named after Magellan.

● 1582 - In Stratford-upon-Avon, William Shakespeare and Anne Hathaway pay a £40 bond for their marriage license.

● 1660 - At Gresham College, 12 men, including Christopher Wren, Robert Boyle, John Wilkins, and Sir Robert Moray decide to found what is later known as the Royal Society.

● 1729 - Natchez Indians massacre 138 Frenchmen, 35 French women, and 56 children at Fort Rosalie, near the site of modern-day Natchez.

● 1739 - English revivalist George Whitefield wrote in a letter: 'Follow after, but do not run before the blessed Spirit; if you do, although you may benefit others, and God may overrule everything for your own good, yet you will certainly destroy the peace of your own soul.'

● 1757 - English poet, painter and engraver William Blake was born. Two of his best known works are "Songs of Innocence" and "Songs of Experience."

● 1785 - The Treaty of Hopewell is signed

● 1795 - U.S. bought peace from Algiers and Tunis by paying $800,000, supplying a frigate, and paying an additional yearly tribute of $25,000.

● 1820 - Birth of German radical Friedrich Engels, Karl Marx's comrade.

● 1821 - Panama Independence Day. Panama separates from Spain and joins the Great Colombia.

● 1843 - Ka Lahui: Hawaiian Independence Day - The Kingdom of Hawaii is officially recognized by the United Kingdom and France as an independent nation.

● 1862 - American Civil War: In the Battle of Cane Hill, Union troops under General John Blunt defeat General John Marmaduke's Confederates.

● 1863 - Thanksgiving was first observed as a regular American holiday. Proclaimed by President Lincoln the previous month, it was declared that the event would be observed annually, on the fourth Thursday in November.

● 1868 - Birth of Maiju Lassila, Finland. Author, journalist, revolutionist whose colorful life created a legend around him. Arrested and was shot dead in 1918 while trying to escape imprisonment.

● 1871 - Rossell, Ferre, and Bourgeois, leaders of Paris Commune, executed.

● 1891 - International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) founded.

● 1895 - 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.

● 1904 - Death of Jeremiah E. Rankin, 76, American Congregational clergyman. He authored a number of hymns during his life, including "Tell It To Jesus" and "God Be With You Till We Meet Again."

● 1905 - Irish nationalist Arthur Griffith founds Sinn Féin as a political party whose goal is the independence of Ireland.

● 1907 - In Haverhill, Massachusetts, scrap-metal dealer Louis B. Mayer opens his first movie theater.

● 1908 - Birth of French structural anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss.

● 1910 - A protest strike called in Le Havre, France, over the death sentence given to French anarchist Jules Durand. The strike spread internationally to English and American docks, and further protests led to Durand's release three months later. In the interim, confined to a straitjacket for 40 days, Durand had become insane, and spent the rest of his life in an asylum; a reopening of the case in 1918 cleared his name.

● 1911 - Emiliano Zapata enacts Plan de Ayala for land rights in Mexico.

● 1912 - Albania declares its independence from the Ottoman Empire.

● 1914 - World War I: Following a war-induced closure in July, the New York Stock Exchange re-opens for bond trading.

● 1915 - Emilio Covelli, Italian anarchist organizer, dies.

● 1919 - American-born Lady Astor is elected to be the first female to sit in the Parliament of the United Kingdom. She was not the first to be elected. That was Countess Markievicz.

● 1920 - The Mark of Zorro, starring Douglas Fairbanks opens.

● 1920 - Kilmichael Ambush Battle of the Irish War of Independence

● 1922 - Capt. Cyril Turner of the Royal Air Force gave the first public exhibition of skywriting. He spelled out, "Hello USA. Call Vanderbilt 7200" over New York's Times Square.

● 1925 - Country-variety show Grand Ole Opry makes its radio debut on station WSM.

● 1934 - The U.S. bank robber George "Baby Face" Nelson was killed by FBI agents near Barrington, IL.

● 1939 - James Naismith, the inventor of basketball, died at age 78.

● 1942 - Coconut Grove Fire. 498 killed, 172 injured when Boston nightclub went up in flames after a lighted match was dropped on a gauze-like drapery.

● 1943 - World War II: Tehran Conference - US President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet leader Joseph Stalin meet in Tehran to discuss war strategy.

● 1944 - Albania is liberated by the Albanian partisans.

● 1944 - Birth of San Francisco Digger, author Emmett Grogan.

● 1944 - Four hundred Rotterdammers attack coal warehouse. In reprisal, 40 Dutch men are executed by Nazis.

● 1944 - Last gassings at Auschwitz before retreating Nazis destroy crematoriums.

● 1950 - A constitutional convention (comprised of 14 Protestant, Anglican, and Eastern Orthodox denominations) met in Cleveland, Ohio, and brought into being the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Today, the NCCC serves to administer disaster relief, strengthen family life, provide leadership training, and promote world peace.

● 1953 - New York City began 11 days without newspapers due to a strike of photoengravers.

● 1958 - Chad, the Republic of the Congo, and Gabon become autonomous republics within the French Community.

● 1960 - Mauritania becomes independent of France.

● 1960 - Richard Wright dies in exile, in Paris. Postal worker, novelist and short-story writer, among the first American black writers to protest white treatment of blacks, notably in his novel "Native Son" (1940). First given opportunity to write through the Federal Writer's Project. In 1932 he joined the Communist Party and was executive secretary of the local John Reed Club of leftist writers and authors of Chicago. Moved to New York City; left the Communist Party in 1944 because of personal and political differences and settled in Paris, where he was invited by Gertrude Stein.

● 1963 - U.S. President Johnson announced that Cape Canaveral would be renamed Cape Kennedy in honor of his assassinated predecessor. The name was changed back to Cape Canaveral in 1973 by a vote of residents, disrespectful dummies that they were.

● 1964 - Mariner program: NASA launches the Mariner 4 probe toward Mars.

● 1964 - Vietnam War: National Security Council members agree to recommend that US President Lyndon B. Johnson adopt a plan for a two-stage escalation of bombing in North Vietnam.

● 1965 - Vietnam War: In response to U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson's call for "more flags" in Vietnam, Philippines President Elect Ferdinand Marcos announces he will send troops to help fight in South Vietnam. His wife hopes to go shoe shopping in Vietnam very soon.

● 1967 - Racing is latest victim of foot-and-mouth; All horse racing in Britain is suspended indefinitely to help prevent the spread of foot-and-mouth disease.

● 1969 - The final episode of BBC soap-opera The Newcomers is broadcast.

● 1969 - The Rolling Stones release the album Let It Bleed.

● 1970 - The Black Panther-sponsored Revolutionary People's Constitutional Convention assembles in Washington, D.C.

● 1971 - Farmer cracks 'major smuggling ring'; Police say an English farmer may have uncovered a major immigrant smuggling operation.

● 1975 - President Gerald R. Ford nominated federal Judge John Paul Stevens to the U.S. Supreme Court seat vacated by William O. Douglas.

● 1975 - East Timor declares its independence from Portugal.

● 1975 - As the World Turns and The Edge of Night, the final two American soap operas that had resisted going to pre-taped broadcasts, air their last live episodes.

● 1977 - Larry Bird was introduced as "College Basketball's Secret Weapon" with a cover story in Sports Illustrated. (NBA)

● 1978 - The Iranian government banned religious marches.

● 1979 - The Mount Erebus disaster: an Air New Zealand DC-10 crashes into Mount Erebus on a sightseeing trip, killing all 257 people on board.

● 1979 - Billy Smith becomes the first goalie in NHL history to score a goal in a game.

● 1980 - Mark Morris, choreographer, puts on the Mark Morris Dance Group's first show at the Merce Cunningham Studios.

● 1982 - First meeting of Cat Lovers Against the Bomb, Lincoln, Nebraska.

● 1982 - Representatives from 88 countries gather in Geneva to discuss world trade and ways to work toward aspects of free trade.

● 1984 - Pope John Paul II completed the last of 133 homilies in St. Peter's Square on the theme, "Theology of the Body." It was the first time in public catechesis that a Pope made use of higher criticism of the Old Testament and freely cited a number of Protestant theologians.

● 1984 - Over 250 years after their deaths, William Penn and his wife Hannah Callowhill Penn are made honorary citizens of the United States.

● 1985 - The Irish Senate approved the Anglo-Irish accord concerning Northern Ireland.

● 1987 - South African Airways flight 295 crashes into the Indian Ocean, killing all 159 people on-board.

● 1987 - Tawana Brawley is allegedly raped by six white men, some of them police officers, in Wappingers Falls, New York.

● 1989 - Czechoslovakia announces it will adopt new constitution, and Hungary announces first free election.

● 1989 - Cold War: Velvet Revolution - In the face of protests, the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia announces they will give up their monopoly on political power.

● 1989 - Romanian gymnast Nadia Comaneci arrived in New York after escaping her homeland through Hungary.

● 1990 - Margaret Thatcher resigned as prime minister of Britain during an audience with Queen Elizabeth II, who conferred the premiership on John Major.

● 1990 - After 11 years of terror, the reign of Margaret Thatcher as British Prime Minister ends.

● 1990 - Demonstration in support of "Desert Shield" conscientious objector Ronald Jean Baptiste, McGuire Airbase, New Jersey.

● 1992 - In Bosnia-Herzegovina, 137 tons of food and supplies were to be delivered to the isolated town of Srebrenica.

● 1992 - In King William's Town, South Africa, black militant gunmen attacked a country club killing four people and injuring 20.

● 1993 - Chicago's Shedd Aquarium captures three dolphins near Santa Catalina Island, California. A group of animal-rights activists led by the Malibu-based Whale Rescue Team had tried to prevent the capture, using an aircraft to track the boat.

● 1993 - The play "Mixed Emotions" closed after 48 performances.

● 1994 - Voters in Norway reject European Union membership. Norway for a second time rejected membership of the European Union in a referendum after a closely fought campaign.

● 1994 - In Portage, Wisconsin, convicted serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer is clubbed to death by a fellow inmate in the Columbia Correctional Institute gymnasium.

● 1995 - U.S. President Bill Clinton signs a highway bill that ends the federal 55 mph speed limit.

● 1997 - Kosovo Liberation Army, Albanian guerrilla group fighting for freedom of Kosovo, presents in front of the people of Kosovo.

● 1999 - Hsing-Hsing, a giant panda who arrived at the National Zoo in 1972 as a symbol of U.S.-China detente, was euthanized at age 28 because of his deteriorating health.

● 1999 - Nude swordsman attacks churchgoers; Eleven people are injured in a sword attack at a church in south London after a naked man wielding a Samurai sword bursts in during Sunday Mass.

● 2000 - George W. Bush's lawyers asked the U.S. Supreme Court to bring ''legal finality'' to the presidential election by ending any further ballot recounts; Al Gore's team countered that the nation's highest court should not interfere in Florida's recount dispute.

● 2000 - Ukrainian politician Oleksander Moroz begins the Cassette Scandal by publicly accusing President Leonid Kuchma of involvement in the murder of journalist Georgiy Gongadze.

● 2000 - The eighth tar drop falls in the University of Queensland pitch drop experiment.

● 2001 - Enron Corp., once the world's largest energy trader, collapsed after would-be rescuer Dynegy Inc. backed out of an $8.4 billion deal to take it over.

● 2002 - 13 people are killed in a hotel bombing in Mombasa.

● 2004 - Male Po'o-uli dies of avian malaria in Maui Bird Conservation Center in Olinda before it could breed, making the species most in all probability extinct.

● 2005 - Eight-term Congressman Randy ''Duke'' Cunningham pleaded guilty to graft and tearfully resigned; the California Republican admitted he'd taken $2.4 million in bribes mostly from defense contractors in exchange for government business and other favors.

● 2005 - The Official Opposition (Conservative Party of Canada, New Democratic Party, and Bloc Québécois) bring down the 38th Minority Liberal Government of Canada in a vote of non-confidence forcing immediate campaigning for the 39th Federal Election.

BIRTHS

● 1489 - Margaret Tudor, wife of James IV of Scotland (d. 1541)

● 1570 - James Whitelocke, English judge (d. 1632)

● 1598 - Hans Nansen, Danish statesman (d. 1667)

● 1628 - John Bunyan, English cleric and author (d. 1688)

● 1632 - Jean-Baptiste Lully, Italian-born French composer (d. 1687)

● 1640 - Willem de Vlamingh, Flemish sea captain

● 1661 - Edward Hyde, 3rd Earl of Clarendon, British Governor of New York and New Jersey (d. 1723)

● 1681 - Jean Cavalier, French protestant rebel leader (d. 1740)

● 1700 - Nathaniel Bliss, Astronomer Royal (d. 1764)

● 1757 - William Blake, British poet and artist (d. 1827)

● 1772 - Luke Howard, British meteorologist (d. 1864)

● 1785 - Achille Charles Léon Victor, duc de Broglie, Prime Minister of France (d. 1870)

● 1792 - Victor Cousin, French philosopher (d. 1867)

● 1793 - Carl Jonas Love Almqvist, Swedish romantic poet (d. 1866)

● 1805 - John Stephens, American archeologist (d. 1852)

● 1810 - William Froude, British engineer and naval architect (d. 1879)

● 1820 - Friedrich Engels, German socialist philosopher (d. 1895)

● 1821 - Nikolai Alekseevich Nekrasov, Russian poet (d. 1878)

● 1829 - Anton Rubinstein, Russian composer, pianist, and conductor (d. 1894)

● 1837 - John Wesley Hyatt, American inventor of celluloid (d. 1920)

● 1853 - Helen Magill White, American educator and first American woman to earn a Ph.D. (d. 1944)

● 1864 - James Allen English writer (d. 1912)

● 1864 - Lindley M. Garrison, American lawyer, U.S. Secretary of War from 1913 through 1916 (d. 1932)

● 1866 - Henry Bacon, American architect and designer of the Lincoln Memorial (d. 1924)

● 1866 - David Warfield, American actor (d. 1951)

● 1881 - Stefan Zweig, Austrian writer (d. 1942)

● 1887 - Ernst Röhm, Nazi official (d. 1934)

● 1895 - José Iturbi, Spanish pianist (d. 1980)

● 1896 - Lilia Skala, Austrian actress (d. 1994)

● 1896 - Dawn Powell, American writer (d. 1965)

● 1902 - Victor Jory, Canadian actor (d. 1982)

● 1904 - Nancy Mitford, British essayist and satirist (d. 1973)

● 1904 - James Eastland, American politician

● 1907 - Alberto Moravia, Italian writer (d. 1990)

● 1908 - Claude Lévi-Strauss, French anthropologist

● 1911 – Václav Renč, Czech poet, dramatist and translator (d. 1973)

● 1912 - Morris Louis, American abstract expressionist painter

● 1915 - Evald Okas, Estonian painter

● 1916 - Mary Lilian Baels, Princess of Rethy, Belgium (d. 2002)

● 1923 - Gloria Grahame, American actress (d. 1981)

● 1925 - József Bozsik, Hungarian international footballer (d. 1978)

● 1927 - Chuck Mitchell, American actor (d. 1992)

● 1929 - Berry Gordy Jr., American record company owner and founder of Motown

● 1931 - Hope Lange, American actress (d. 2003)

● 1931 - Tomi Ungerer, French graphic artist, and author

● 1933 - Joe Knollenberg, U.S Congressman from Michigan

● 1935 - Prince Hitachi, second son and sixth born child of the HIM Shōwa Emperor and HIM Empress Kōjun

● 1936 - Gary Hart, Former U.S. senator, D-Colorado

● 1941 - Bruce Channel, Singer-songwriter

● 1941 - Laura Antonelli, Italian actress

● 1942 - Paul Warfield, American football player and Hall of Fame member

● 1943 - Randy Newman, American composer and musician

● 1946 - Joe Dante, Movie director

● 1949 - Alexander Godunov, Russian composer and ballet dancer (d. 1995)

● 1949 - Paul Shaffer, Canadian orchestra leader and musician (''Late Show with David Letterman'')

● 1950 - Ed Harris, American actor

● 1950 - Russell Alan Hulse, American physicist and Nobel Prize laureate

● 1952 - S. Epatha Merkerson, American actress (''Law and Order'')

● 1953 - Michael Chertoff, Secretary of Homeland Insecurity; Be afraid, be very afraid

● 1953 - Sixto Lezcano, baseball player

● 1955 - Adem Jashari, Albanian freedom fighter

● 1955 - Alessandro Altobelli, Italian footballer

● 1956 - Kristine Arnold, Country singer (Sweethearts of the Rodeo)

● 1957 - David Van Day, British singer (Dollar)

● 1958 - Dave Righetti, American baseball player

● 1959 - Judd Nelson, American actor

● 1961 - Martin Clunes, British actor

● 1961 - Alfonso Cuarón, Mexican film director (''Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban'')

● 1961 - Jane Sibbett, American actress

● 1962 - Matt Cameron, Rock musician

● 1962 - Paul Dinello, American comedian and actor

● 1962 - Jon Stewart, American comedian, actor, and television host

● 1963 - Walt Weiss, American baseball player

● 1964 - Cornelia Guest, American debutante

● 1965 - Erwin Mortier, Belgian author

● 1965 - Matt Williams, baseball player

● 1966 - Sam Seder, American comedian

● 1967(66? NYT) - Anna Nicole Smith, American model and television personality

● 1967 - Stephnie Weir, American actress and comedienne

● 1968 - Dawn Robinson, R&B singer (En Vogue)

● 1969 - Robb Nen, American baseball player

● 1969 - Lexington Steele (Clifton Britt), American adult film actor

● 1971 - Rob Conway, American professional wrestler

● 1972 - Paulo Figueiredo, Angolan footballer

● 1973 - Jade Puget, guitarist, (AFI)

● 1974 - András Tölcséres, Hungarian footballer

● 1974 - apl.de.ap, Hip-hop artist (Black Eyed Peas)

● 1974 - Styles P (David Styles), American rapper

● 1977 - DeMya Walker, American basketball player

● 1977 - Fabio Grosso, Italian footballer

● 1978 - Freddie Mitchell, American football player

● 1978 - Aimee Garcia, Actress (''George Lopez'')

● 1978 - Mehdi Nafti, Tunisian footballer

● 1978 - Brent Albright, American professional wrestler

● 1979 - Chamillionaire (Hakeem Seriki), American rapper

● 1979 - Joel Maximo (Kelvin Ramirez), American professional wrestler

● 1979 - Daniel Henney, Korean model-actor

● 1980 - Stuart Taylor, British footballer

● 1981 - Chamillionaire, Rapper

● 1982 - Leandro Barbosa, Brazilian basketball player

● 1984 - Andrew Bogut, Australian basketball player

● 1988 - Scarlett Pomers, American actress (''Reba'')

DEATHS

● 741 - St. Gregory III

● 1170 - Owain Gwynedd, King of Gwynedd

● 1262 - Shinran, Japanese religious leader (b. 1173)

● 1290 - Eleanor of Castile, wife of Edward I of England (b. 1241)

● 1574 - Georg Major, German protestant theologian (b. 1502)

● 1585 - Hernando Franco, Spanish composer (b. 1532)

● 1667 - Jean de Thévenot, French traveller and scientist (b. 1633)

● 1675 - Basil Feilding, 2nd Earl of Denbigh, English Civil War soldier

● 1675 - Leonard Hoar, American President of Harvard University (b. 1630)

● 1680 - Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Italian baroque sculptor (b. 1598)

● 1680 - Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi, Italian architect and painter (b. 1606)

● 1694 - Matsuo Basho, Japanese poet (b. 1644)

● 1695 - Giovanni Paolo Colonna, Italian composer

● 1695 - Anthony Wood, English antiquarian (b. 1632)

● 1698 - Louis de Buade de Frontenac, Governor of New France (b. 1622)

● 1794 - Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben, Prussian army officer (b. 1730)

● 1801 - Déodat Gratet de Dolomieu, French geologist (b. 1750)

● 1815 - Johann Peter Salomon, German violinist, impresario, and composer (d. 1745)

● 1859 - Washington Irving, American writer (b. 1783)

● 1870 - Frédéric Bazille, French painter (b. 1841)

● 1872 - Mary Fairfax Somerville, British scientific writer (b. 1780)

● 1878 - Orson Hyde, American religious leader (b. 1805)

● 1907 - Stanisław Wyspiański, Polish dramatist, poet, painter, and architect (b. 1869)

● 1912 - Walter Benona Sharp, American oil tycoon (b. 1870)

● 1915 - Mubarak Al-Sabah "The Great", Emir of Kuwait (b. 1896)

● 1921 - `Abdu'l-Bahá, Persian leader of the Bahá'í Faith (b. 1844)

● 1935 - Erich von Hornbostel, Austrian musicologist (b. 1877)

● 1939 - James Naismith, Canadian creator of basketball (b. 1861)

● 1945 - Dwight F. Davis, U.S. Secretary of War and donor of the Davis cup (b. 1879)

● 1954 - Enrico Fermi, Italian physicist and Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1901)

● 1960 - Richard Wright, American author (b. 1908)

● 1962 - Queen Mother Wilhelmina of the Netherlands (b. 1880)

● 1963 - Karyn Kupcinet, American actress (b. 1941)

● 1968 - Enid Blyton, British children's author (b. 1897)

● 1972 - Havergal Brian, British composer (b. 1875)

● 1973 - Marthe Bibesco, Romanian writer (b. 1886)

● 1976 - Rosalind Russell, American actress (b. 1907)

● 1977 - Trevor Bardette, American actor (b. 1902)

● 1983 - Christopher George, American actor (b. 1929)

● 1986 - Herb Vigran, American actor (b. 1910)

● 1987 - Choh Hao Li, Chinese biochemist (b. 1913)

● 1992 - Sidney Nolan, Australian painter (b. 1917)

● 1994 - Jeffrey Dahmer, American serial killer (b. 1960)

● 1994 - Jerry Rubin, American activist (b. 1938)

● 2000 - Liane Haid, Austrian actress (b. 1895)

● 2001 - William Kienzle, American author (b. 1928)

● 2002 - Dave "Snaker" Ray, American blues musician (b. 1943)

● 2003 - Antonia Forest, British children's author (b. 1915)

HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES

● Roman Catholic:
● St. Pope Gregory III
● St. Catherine Labour, virgin
● St James of La Marcha (the Marches), confessor
● St. Joseph Pignatelli, Spanish Jesuit
● St. Andrew Trong
● St. Valerian
● St. Fionnchu
● St. Hippolytus
● St. James Thompson
● St. Rufus and Companions
● St. Papinianus

● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for November 15 (Civil Date: November 28):
● Beginning of the Nativity Fast
● Fish, Wine and Oil Allowed, because of St Herman
● Repose of St. Herman, Wonderworker of Alaska
● Holy Martyrs and Confessors Gurias, Samonas and Abibus of Edessa
● Martyrs Elpidius, Marcellus and Eustochius who suffered under Julian the Apostate.
● Martyr Demetrius of Thrace.
● St. Quinctian, Bishop of Seleucia.
● St. Philip, abbot of Rabang (Vologda).
● St. Paisius (Velichkovsky) of Moldavia and Mt. Athos.

● Greek Calendar:
● St. Thomas the new, Patriarch of Constantinople.

● Moslem: Night of the Ascent (Rajab 27, 1418 AH)

● Bahá'í Faith: Holy Day - Ascension of `Abdu'l-Bahá

● Episcopal Diocese of Hawaii: Feast of the Holy Sovereigns, in honor of Kamehameha & Emma, the founders of the Anglican Church of Hawaii

● Albania - Albanian Independence day (from Turkey, 1912); also known as Albanian Flag Day due to other National events that correspond to this day

● Chad, Burundi : Republic Day (1966)

● Mauritania - Independence Day (from France, 1960)

● Panama, Canal Zone : Independence Day

● UAE : Accession of the Ruler of Abu Dhabi

● These Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week":
● Massachusetts : John F Kennedy Day (1963) ( Sunday )
● Bern Switzerland : Onion Market Day-autumn festival ( Monday )
● US : Thanksgiving ( Thursday )


Click on this LINK to see original Wikipedia list with many having links with details.

Additional facts taken from:

On this day in the New York Times

The BBC’s Take on the day

On This Day Website

Geov Parrish's this Day in Radical History, things that happened on this day that you never had to memorize in school.

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