📜 This Day in History

November 28

• 1443Having deserted the Ottoman army, Skanderbeg 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.
• 1729Natchez Indians revolted against French colonists near modern-day Natchez, Mississippi, killing approximately 230 people.
• 1895The Chicago Times-Herald race, the first automobile race in the U.S., was held in Chicago.
• 1925Grand Ole Opry, the longest-running radio broadcast in the United States, first aired on WSM in Nashville, Tennessee.
• 1967Jocelyn 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.
• 2016LaMia Flight 2933 crashed near Medellín, Colombia, killing 71 people, many of whom were players from Chapecoense Football Club.

Born on this day

• 1757William Blake, English poet and painter (died 1827)
• 1820Friedrich Engels, German-English philosopher, economist, and journalist (died 1895)
• 1880Alexander Blok, Russian poet and playwright (died 1921)
• 1881Stefan Zweig, Austrian author, playwright, and journalist (died 1942)