November 28

Today in History
• 1717 - Blackbeard captures a French slave ship, renames to the "Queen Anne's Revenge"
• 1729 - Natchez Indians massacre 138 French men, 35 women, and 56 children at Fort Rosalie
• 1775 - Second Continental Congress formally establishes the Continental Navy
• 1821 - Panama declares independence from Spain
• 1853 - Olympia forms as capital of Washington Territory
• 1871 - Ku Klux Klan trials began in Federal District Court in South Carolina
• 1908 - 154 men die in coal mine explosion at Marianna, Pennsylvania
• 1922 - Captain Cyril Turner (RAF) gives 1st skywriting exhibition (NYC)


Holidays - Traditional and Obscure
• Albania Independence Day
• Chatham Islands Anniversary Day
• National Day of Giving
• Mauritania Independence Day
• National Day of Giving
• National French Toast Day
• Make Your Own Head Day
• Red Planet Day

Birthdays
• 1118 - Manuel I Komnenos, Emperor of the Byzantine Empire (1143-80)
• 1628 - John Bunyan, English minister and author (The Pilgrim's Progress)
• 1650 - Jan Palfijn, Flemish physician and inventor (obstetrical forceps)
• 1811 - Maximilian II of Bavaria, King of Bavaria (1848-64)
• 1853 - Helen Magill White, American educator and 1st woman to earn a Ph.D. in the U.S
• 1857 - Alfonso XII, King of Spain (1874-85)
• 1866 - Henry Bacon, American architect (Lincoln Memorial)
• 1908 - Arturo Frondizi, 35th President Argentina (1958-62)