Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/November 28
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This is a list of selected November 28 anniversaries that appears on the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition may be controversial, or on a day that is or soon will be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
To report an error when this appears on the Main Page, see Main Page errors.November 28: Independence Day in Albania (1912) and Mauritania (1960)
- 1443 – Rebelling against the Ottoman Empire, Skanderbeg and his forces liberated Kruja in Middle Albania and raised the Albanian flag.
- 1919 – Nancy Astor (pictured), the first woman to serve as a Member of Parliament in the British House of Commons, was elected in a by-election.
- 1920 – Kilmichael Ambush: Thirty-six local Irish Republican Army volunteers killed seventeen members of the Auxiliary Division of the Royal Irish Constabulary, marking a turning point in the Irish War of Independence.
- 1979 – Air New Zealand Flight 901 crashed into Antarctica's Mount Erebus, killing all 257 people on board.
- 2000 – The Cassette Scandal: Ukrainian politician Oleksandr Moroz publicly accused President Leonid Kuchma of being involved in the abduction of journalist Georgiy R. Gongadze and numerous other crimes.
More events: November 27 – November 28 – November 29
