It happened on this day, November 28
Events:
1520 – Portuguese sailor Fernando Magellan reached the Pacific Ocean from the Atlantic Ocean through a strait separating South America from Antarctica, later called the Strait of Magellan.
1660 – Gresham College witnesses a meeting of twelve men – including Christopher Wren, Robert Boyle, John Wilkins and Sir Robert Murray – which resulted in the founding of a scientific body later known as the Royal Society.
1893 – New Zealand becomes the first country in the world where women vote in general elections.
1912 – Albania declares its independence from the Ottoman Empire.
1914 – The New York Stock Exchange reopens for bond trading after an emergency shutdown due to World War I.
1915 – Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Sabah takes power in Kuwait, succeeding his father, Sheikh Mubarak Al-Sabah.
1918 – Bukovina votes in favor of merging with the Kingdom of Romania.
1919 – Lady Astor is elected to the United Kingdom Parliament, becoming the first woman to attend sessions of the House of Commons.
1943 – The first session of the Tehran Conference brought together the three leaders, Joseph Stalin, Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill, during World War II to determine common goals for confronting the Axis powers. .
1960 – Mauritania officially gains independence from French colonialism and Mokhtar Ould Daddah is installed as head of state.
1971 – Assassination of Jordanian Prime Minister Wasfi al-Tall by the Black September organization in Cairo.
1972 – Signing of the “Tripoli Declaration for Yemeni Unity” between the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen and the Yemen Arab Republic.
1974 – Start of the Ethiopian Civil War.
1988 – Iraqi President Saddam Hussein makes his first visit to Egypt since becoming president.
1990 – The UN Security Council issues “Resolution No. 677” condemning Iraq's attempts to change the demographic composition of Kuwait's population and destroy civil records maintained by the legitimate government from Kuwait.
🌟John Major becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
1994 – A general referendum was held in Norway to vote on whether to join the European Union, and the result was a refusal to join.
2003 – Businessman Ayman Al-Suwaidi shot his wife, singer Zikra, and her business manager, killing them, then committed suicide.
2004 – King Abdullah II bin Al-Hussein of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan relieves his brother, Prince Hamzah bin Al-Hussein, of crown prince.
2010 – Elections to the Egyptian People's Assembly took place, in which around five thousand candidates participated.
2011 – The first round of elections for the Egyptian People's Assembly takes place, marking the first legislative election Egypt has seen after the January 25 Revolution.
2013 – Comet ISON melts after coming only about a million miles from the sun and was a candidate to become the closest comet to pass Earth in decades.
2018 – Norwegian player Magnus Carlsen retains his title as world chess champion after beating his rival Fabiano Caruana.
2019 – Sudan's Sovereign Council approves a bill dismantling the regime of former President Omar al-Bashir and removing power from the National Congress Party, which ruled the country for 30 years.
💥 The Nassiriyah massacre, in which 45 protesters were killed and more than 150 others injured, occurred during the 2019-20 Iraqi protests.
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Births:
1632 – Jean-Baptiste Lully, French musician.
1757 – William Blake, English poet.
1786 – Ahmed Irfan, one of the leaders of Islamic reform in India.
1820 – Friedrich Engels, German philosopher.
1829 – Anton Rubinstein, Russian musician.
1853 – Helen Magill White, first woman to earn a doctorate in the United States of America.
1891 – Amin Saeed, Syrian journalist and historian.
1894 – Farrokh Al-Khorasani, Iranian poet.
1939 – Makram Gad Al Karim, Egyptian photographer.
1956 – Maha Abu Auf, Egyptian actress.
** Suleiman Al-Jubailan, a Saudi religious scholar.
1961 – Nasser Al-Qasabi, Saudi actor.
1970 – Mona Fatto, Moroccan actress.
** Assi El-Helani, Lebanese singer.
1978 – Mehdi Al-Nafti, Tunisian footballer.
** Haitham Tumbel, Sudanese footballer.
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Death:
1680 – Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Italian artist.
1694 – Matsuo Basho, Japanese poet.
1822 – Suleiman bin Muhammad, Moroccan sultan.
1915 – Sheikh Mubarak Al-Sabah, seventh ruler of Kuwait.
1921 – Abdu'l-Baha Abbas, founder of the Bahá'í Faith.
1939 – James Naismith, Canadian-American doctor who invented basketball.
1954 – Enrico Fermi, Italian physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics in 1938.
1962 – Queen Wilhamina, Queen of the Netherlands.
1971 – Wasfi Al-Tall, Prime Minister of Jordan.
2003 – Dhikra, Tunisian singer.
** Ayman Al-Suwaidi, Egyptian businessman.
** Talal Al-Rasheed, Saudi poet.
2014 – Saeed Akl, Lebanese poet.
2017 – Shadia, Egyptian actress and singer.
2019 – Abdul Razzaq Khalaf, Kuwaiti actor.
2020 – Omar Asaad Al-Balawi, Palestinian politician and diplomat.
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Holidays and Occasions:
⏪ Independence Day in Mauritania.
