November 28th, 1953

Born on November 28th, 1953

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What happened on November 28th?

November 28th, 2016

LaMia Flight 2933 crashed near Medellín, Colombia, killing 71 people, many of whom were players from Chapecoense Football Club.

November 28th, 1987

South African Airways Flight 295 suffered a catastrophic in-flight fire and crashed into the Indian Ocean east of Mauritius, killing all 159 people on board.

November 28th, 1979

Air New Zealand Flight 901 crashed into Antarctica's Mount Erebus, killing all 257 people on board.

November 28th, 1975

East Timor declared independence from Portugal.

November 28th, 1967

Jocelyn Bell Burnell noticed a "bit of scruff" in data from a radio telescope, which turned out to be from PSR B1919+21, the first discovered pulsar.

November 28th, 1966

In a military coup, Michel Micombero abolished the Burundian monarchy and declared the country a republic with himself as president.

November 28th, 1925

Grand Ole Opry, the longest-running radio broadcast in the United States, first aired on WSM in Nashville, Tennessee.

November 28th, 1912

At the All-Albanian Congress, the Assembly of Vlorë was constituted, which declared the independence of the Albanian Vilayet from the Ottoman Empire.

November 28th, 1895

The Chicago Times-Herald race, the first automobile race in the U.S., was held in Chicago.

November 28th, 1660

Robert Boyle, John Wilkins, Christopher Wren and other leading scientists met at Gresham College in London to found a learned society, now known as the Royal Society.

November 28th, 1470

Đại Việt emperor Lê Thánh Tông launched a military expedition against Champa, beginning the Champa–Đại Việt War.

November 28th, 1443

Having deserted the Ottoman army, Skanderbeg (pictured) arrived in the Albanian city of Krujë and, using a forged letter from Sultan Murad II to the governor of Krujë, became lord of the city.

November 28th, 2020

Over seven hundred civilians are massacred by the Ethiopian National Defense Force and Eritrean Army in Aksum, Ethiopia.

November 28th, 2016

LaMia Flight 2933 crashes near Medellin, Colombia, killing 71 of 77 people on board, including members of the Brazilian football club Chapecoense

November 28th, 2014

Gunmen set off three bombs at the central mosque in the northern Nigerian city of Kano killing at least 120 people.

Birthdays
... of famous people, actors, celebrities and stars on November 28th

Born on November 28th, 1953

70

Ewald Lienen

German association football player and manager

*November 28th, 1953, Schloß Holte-Stukenbrock

70

Gordon Marsden

British politician (born 1953)

*November 28th, 1953, Manchester

70

Sixto Lezcano

American baseball player

*November 28th, 1953, Arecibo

70

Michael Chertoff

2nd Secretary of Homeland Security of the United States

*November 28th, 1953, Elizabeth

70

Alistair Darling

British Labour Party politician (1953–2023)

*November 28th, 1953, London †November 30th, 2023, Western General Hospital

70

Ken Matsudaira

Japanese actor, singer, talent (1953-)

*November 28th, 1953, Toyohashi

70

John King

American composer, guitarist and violist

*November 28th, 1953, Minneapolis

70

Pamela Hayden

American actress

*November 28th, 1953, Windham

70

Taeko Ōnuki

Japanese singer-songwriter (1953-)

*November 28th, 1953, Suginami-ku

63

Nadezhda Olizarenko

Soviet-Ukrainian middle-distance runner

*November 28th, 1953, Bryansk †February 18th, 2017, Odesa

70

Don Gorske

American big Mac enthusiast

*November 28th, 1953, Fond du Lac

70

Mick Innes

New Zealand actor

*November 28th, 1953, Christchurch

35

Alan Murphy

British guitarist, session musician (1953-1989)

*November 28th, 1953, England †October 19th, 1989

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71

S. Epatha Merkerson

American actress

*November 28th, 1952, Saginaw

73

Ed Harris

American actor and director (born 1950)

*November 28th, 1950, Englewood

33

Edis

Turkish singer-songwriter

*November 28th, 1990, London

44

Chen Hong

Chinese badminton player

*November 28th, 1979, Changting County

74

Paul Shaffer

Canadian singer, composer, actor, author, comedian, and multi-instrumentalist

*November 28th, 1949, Thunder Bay

34

Andhika Anhar

Badminton player

*November 28th, 1989, Bogor

59

Michael Bennet

United States senator from Colorado

*November 28th, 1964, New Delhi

61

Jane Sibbett

American actress

*November 28th, 1962, Berkeley

73

Russell Alan Hulse

American astronomer

*November 28th, 1950, New York City

47

Ryan Kwanten

Australian actor and comedian (born 1976)

*November 28th, 1976, Sydney

68

Alessandro Altobelli

Italian footballer

*November 28th, 1955, Sonnino

64

Stephen Roche

Irish racing cyclist

*November 28th, 1959, Dundrum

79

Leiva Petersen

German classical philologist and publisher

*November 28th, 1912, Berlin †April 17th, 1992, Weimar

42

Jake Helgren

American film producer, director and screenwriter

*November 28th, 1981, Elgin

62

Alfonso Cuarón

Mexican filmmaker

*November 28th, 1961, Mexico City

73

Laura Antonelli

Italian actress (1941-2015)

*November 28th, 1941, Pula †June 22nd, 2015, Ladispoli

100

Claude Lévi-Strauss

French anthropologist and ethnologist (1908–2009)

*November 28th, 1908, City of Brussels †October 30th, 2009, 16th arrondissement of Paris

69

Wilfried Schmickler

German standup comedian based in Cologne

*November 28th, 1954, Hitdorf

72

Barbara Morgan

Astronaut

*November 28th, 1951, Fresno

47

Aitor Ocio

Spanish footballer

*November 28th, 1976, Vitoria-Gasteiz

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Born in 1953

71

Harald Jähner

German journalist and writer

*March 26th, 1953, Duisburg

71

Peter Stormare

Swedish actor, director and musician

*August 27th, 1953, Kumla

71

Xi Jinping

General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party since 2012, President of China since 2013

*June 15th, 1953, Beijing

70

Jürgen Röber

German association football player and manager

*December 25th, 1953, Gernrode

71

Tony Blair

Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1997 to 2007

*May 6th, 1953, Edinburgh

71

Felix Magath

German association football player and manager

*July 26th, 1953, Aschaffenburg

71

Gernot Rohr

German-French association football player and manager

*June 28th, 1953, Mannheim

71

Michael Wittenborn

German actor

*May 31st, 1953, Bielefeld

71

Barbara Schnitzler

German actress

*February 19th, 1953, East Berlin

70

Matthias Platzeck

German politician (SPD)

*December 29th, 1953, Potsdam

71

Reinhard Bütikofer

German politician

*January 26th, 1953, Mannheim

71

Pierre Franckh

German actor

*May 1st, 1953, Heilbronn

34

Erland van Lidth

American sport wrestler and actor

*June 3rd, 1953, Hilversum †September 23rd, 1987, New York City

71

Richard Stallman

American software freedom activist, short story writer and computer programmer, founder of the GNU project

*March 16th, 1953, Manhattan

71

Kinji Zeniya

Badminton player

*March 13th, 1953, Kaga

71

Lene Køppen

Badminton player

*May 5th, 1953, Copenhagen

70

Dominique de Villepin

95th Prime Minister of France

*November 14th, 1953, Khemisset

71

Isabelle Huppert

French actress

*March 16th, 1953, 16th arrondissement of Paris

64

Stephen Paddock

American mass murderer (1953–2017)

*April 9th, 1953, Clinton †October 1st, 2017, Mandalay Bay

70

Tom Barrett

Mayor of Milwaukee, Wisconsin (1953–)

*December 8th, 1953, Milwaukee

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No: With 365 days 1953 is a normal year and no leap year.

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