Thursday November 28, 2024
A date scroll with Latin text from “The Extremes of Good and Evil” by Cicero, written in 45 BC.

November 28: Day of the Week

November 28, 2024 is the 333rd day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 33 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week is Thursday.

If you are trying to learn French then this day of the week in French is jeudi.

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Here’s the November calendar. You can also browse the full year monthly calendar.

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Zodiac & Birthstone

Sagittarius is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Topaz is the modern birthstone for this month. Pearl is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.

November 28 Historical Event(s)

1443
Skanderbeg and his forces liberate Kruja in Middle Albania and raise the Albanian flag.
1520
After navigating through a strait at the southern end of South America, 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.
1729
Natchez Indians massacre 138 Frenchmen, 35 French women, and 56 children at Fort Rosalie, near the site of modern-day Natchez, Mississippi.
1893
Women vote in a national election for the first time: the New Zealand general election.
1907
In Haverhill, Massachusetts, scrap-metal dealer Louis B. Mayer opens his first movie theater.
1964
Mariner program: NASA launches the Mariner 4 probe toward Mars.
1964
Vietnam War: National Security Council members agree to recommend that U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson adopt a plan for a two-stage escalation of bombing in North Vietnam.
1972
Last executions in Paris, of the Clairvaux Mutineers, Roger Bontems and Claude Buffet, guillotined at La Sante Prison. (Bontems had been found innocent of murder by the court, but as Buffet’s accomplice is condemned to death anyway.) The chief executioner is Andre Obrecht.
1979
Air New Zealand Flight 901, a DC-10 operated sightseeing flight over Antarctica, crashes into Mount Erebus, killing all 257 people on board.
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.

Who were born on November 28?

1681
Jean Cavalier, French Protestant rebel leader (d. 1740)
1810
William Froude, British naval architect (d. 1879)
1923
Gloria Grahame, American actress (d. 1981)
1944
Timothy Krajcir, American serial killer
1958
Kriss Akabusi, British athlete and television presenter
1961
Jane Sibbett, American actress
1965
Erwin Mortier, Belgian author
1967
Anna Nicole Smith, American television personality (d. 2007)
1971
Fenriz, Norwegian musician (Darkthrone)
1991
Jessica Robinson, English singer and actress

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