Summary of the Day ✨ 28 November (28/11)
On this day, tragedy struck multiple locations as Ethiopian and Eritrean forces massacred over 700 civilians in Aksum while gunmen killed at least 120 people in a Nigerian mosque bombing, and a plane crash near Medellín claimed 71 lives including Brazilian football players. Simultaneously, suicide bombers attacked an Israeli hotel in Kenya and attempted to shoot down an Israeli airliner, while South Ossetia declared independence from Georgia.
Historical Events 📜
- 2020: Over seven hundred civilians are massacred by the Ethiopian National Defense Force and Eritrean Army in Aksum, Ethiopia.
- 2016: LaMia Flight 2933 crashes near Medellín, Colombia, killing 71 of 77 people on board, including members of the Brazilian football club Chapecoense
- 2014: Gunmen set off three bombs at the central mosque in the northern Nigerian city of Kano killing at least 120 people.
- 2002: Suicide bombers blow up an Israeli-owned hotel in Mombasa, Kenya; their colleagues fail in their attempt to bring down Arkia Israel Airlines Flight 582 with surface-to-air missiles.
- 1991: South Ossetia declares independence from Georgia.
- 1990: British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher resigns as leader of the Conservative Party and, therefore, as Prime Minister. She is succeeded in both positions by John Major.
- 1989: Cold War: Velvet Revolution: In the face of protests, the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia announces it will give up its monopoly on political power.
- 1987: South African Airways Flight 295 crashes into the Indian Ocean, killing all 159 people on board.
- 1983: Space Shuttle Columbia is launched on STS-9, the first mission to carry the European Space Agency’s Spacelab module.
- 1980: Iran–Iraq War: Operation Morvarid: The bulk of the Iraqi Navy is destroyed by the Iranian Navy in the Persian Gulf. (Commemorated in Iran as Navy Day.)
- 1979: Air New Zealand Flight 901, a DC-10 sightseeing flight over Antarctica, crashes into Mount Erebus, killing all 257 people on board.
- 1975: Timor-Leste declares its independence from Portugal.
- 1972: Last executions in Paris: Claude Buffet and Roger Bontems are guillotined at La Santé Prison.
- 1971: Fred Quilt, a leader of the Tsilhqot’in First Nation suffers severe abdominal injuries allegedly caused by Royal Canadian Mounted Police officers; he dies two days later.
- 1971: Wasfi al-Tal, Prime Minister of Jordan, is assassinated by the Black September unit of the Palestine Liberation Organization.
Famous Births 👶
- 2000: Jackson Yee, Chinese singer, dancer and actor
- 1999: Trey Jemison, American basketball player
- 1997: Mostafa Mohamed, Egyptian footballer
- 1995: Chase Elliott, American race car driver
- 1994: Nao Hibino, Japanese tennis player
- 1993: Bryshere Y. Gray, American actor and rapper
- 1993: David Nofoaluma, Australian-Samoan rugby league player
- 1992: Adam Hicks, American actor
- 1992: Jarvis Landry, American football player
- 1992: Jake Miller, American singer-songwriter
- 1990: Dedryck Boyata, Belgian footballer
- 1990: Bradley Smith, English motorcycle racer
- 1989: Laura Alleway, Australian footballer
- 1989: Jamie Buhrer, Australian rugby league player
- 1989: Jesús Montero, Venezuelan baseball player (died 2025)
Notable Deaths 🕊️
- 2024: Prince Johnson, Liberian politician (born 1952)
- 2024: Ananda Krishnan, Malaysian businessman (born 1938)
- 2024: Silvia Pinal, Mexican actress (born 1931)
- 2024: Kioumars Pourhashemi, Iranian military general
- 2023: Charlie Munger, American businessman and vice chairman of Berkshire Hathaway (born 1924)
- 2021: Virgil Abloh, American fashion designer and entrepreneur (born 1980)
- 2021: Frank Williams, British founder of Williams Grand Prix Engineering (born 1942)
- 2020: David Prowse, English weight-lifting champion, actor and Green Cross Man (born 1935)
- 2018: Harry Leslie Smith, British writer and political commentator (born 1923)
- 2015: Wayne Bickerton, Welsh songwriter and producer (born 1941)
- 2015: Luc Bondy, Swiss director and producer (born 1948)
- 2015: Gerry Byrne, English-Welsh footballer (born 1938)
- 2015: Marjorie Lord, American actress (born 1918)
- 2015: Olene Walker, American lawyer and politician, 15th Governor of Utah (born 1930)
- 2014: Chespirito, Mexican actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1929)
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 - Christian feast day:
Kamehameha and Emma (Episcopal Church (USA)) - Christian feast day:
Our Lady of Kibeho - Christian feast day:
Pope Gregory III - Christian feast day:
Rufus (no. 8) - Christian feast day:
Stephen the Younger - Christian feast day:
November 28 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) - Heroes’ Day (Sri Lanka)