THIS DAY IN HISTORY ― NOVEMBER 28

November 28 is the 332nd day of the year (333rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 33 days remaining until the end of the year. This date is slightly more likely to fall on a Monday, Wednesday or Saturday (58 in 400 years each) than on Thursday or Friday (57), and slightly less likely to occur on a Tuesday or Sunday (56). 

NATIONAL FRENCH TOAST DAY 

1520 – An expedition under the command of Ferdinand Magellan passes through the Strait of Magellan.

1582 – In Stratford-upon-Avon, William Shakespeare and Anne Hathaway pay a £40 bond for their marriage licence.

1660 – At Gresham College, twelve men, including Christopher Wren, Robert Boyle, John Wilkins, and Sir Robert Moray decide to found what is later known as the Royal Society.

1666 – At least 3,000 men of the Royal Scots Army led by Tam Dalyell of the Binns defeat about 900 Covenanter rebels in the Battle of Rullion Green.

1814 – The Times of London becomes the first newspaper to be produced on a steam-powered printing press, built by the German team of Koenig & Bauer.

1862 – American Civil War: In the Battle of Cane Hill, Union troops under General James G. Blunt defeat General John Marmaduke's Confederates.

1899 – The Second Boer War: a British column is engaged by Boer forces at the Battle of Modder River; although the Boers withdraw, the British suffer heavy casualties.

1908 – A mine explosion in Marianna, Pennsylvania, kills 154 men, leaving only one survivor. —  From GenDisasters.com

1909 – Russian composer Sergei Rachmaninoff makes the debut performance of his Piano Concerto No. 3, considered to be one of the most technically challenging piano concertos in the standard classical repertoire.

1925 – The Grand Ole Opry begins broadcasting in Nashville, Tennessee, as the WSM Barn Dance.

1942 – In Boston, Massachusetts, a fire in the Cocoanut Grove nightclub kills 492 people

1943 – World War II: The Tehran Conference — U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin meet in Tehran, Iran, to discuss war strategy.

1964 – Mariner program: NASA launches the Mariner 4 probe toward Mars.

1967 – The first pulsar known as PSR B1919+21 in the constellation of Vulpecula was discovered by two astronomers Jocelyn Bell Burnell and Antony Hewish.

1980 – Iran–Iraq War: Operation Morvarid —  The bulk of the Iraqi Navy is destroyed by the Iranian Navy in the Persian Gulf. (Commemorated in Iran as Navy Day.)

1989 – Cold War: The Velvet Revolution — In the face of protests, the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia announces it will give up its monopoly on political power.

1997 – Kosovo Liberation Army emerged for the first time publicly.

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.

2014 – Gunmen set off three bombs at the central mosque in the northern city of Kano killing at least 120 people.

TODAY'S BIRTHS

1757 – William Blake, English poet and painter (d. 1827)

1820 – Friedrich Engels, German-English philosopher, economist, and journalist (d. 1895)

1866 – Henry Bacon, American architect, designed the Lincoln Memorial (d. 1924)

1929 – Berry Gordy, Jr., American songwriter and producer, founded Motown Records

From Wikipedia and Google, except as noted.