November 28: Independence Day in Albania (1912); Navy Day in Iran (1980); Holodomor Remembrance Day in Ukraine (2015)
John Major
- 936 – Shi Jingtang was enthroned as the first emperor of the Later Jin by Emperor Taizong of Liao, following a revolt against Emperor Fei of Later Tang.
- 1660 – At London's Gresham College, Robert Boyle, John Wilkins, Christopher Wren and other leading scientists founded a learned society now known as the Royal Society.
- 1905 – Irish nationalist Arthur Griffith first presented his Sinn Féin policy, declaring that the 1800 Act of Union of Great Britain and Ireland was illegal.
- 1925 – The country music radio program Grand Ole Opry was first broadcast on WSM radio in Nashville, Tennessee.
- 1990 – After being elected as leader of the British Conservative Party one day earlier, John Major (pictured) officially succeeded Margaret Thatcher as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
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