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<p><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/November_28" title="November 28">November 28</a></b>: <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bukovina_Day" title="Bukovina Day">Bukovina Day</a></b> in Romania (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1918" title="1918">1918</a>)
</p><ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1470" title="1470">1470</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C4%90%E1%BA%A1i_Vi%E1%BB%87t" title="Đại Việt">Đại Việt</a> emperor <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%AA_Th%C3%A1nh_T%C3%B4ng" title="Lê Thánh Tông">Lê Thánh Tông</a> launched a military expedition against <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Champa" title="Champa">Champa</a>, beginning the <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Champa%E2%80%93%C4%90%E1%BA%A1i_Vi%E1%BB%87t_War_(1471)" title="Champa–Đại Việt War (1471)">Champa–Đại Việt War</a></b>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1660" title="1660">1660</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Boyle" title="Robert Boyle">Robert Boyle</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Wilkins" title="John Wilkins">John Wilkins</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Wren" title="Christopher Wren">Christopher Wren</a> and other leading scientists met at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gresham_College" title="Gresham College">Gresham College</a> in London to found a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learned_society" title="Learned society">learned society</a>, now known as the <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Society" title="Royal Society">Royal Society</a></b>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1943" title="1943">1943</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">World War II</a>: U.S. president <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin_D._Roosevelt" title="Franklin D. Roosevelt">Franklin D. Roosevelt</a>, British prime minister <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winston_Churchill" title="Winston Churchill">Winston Churchill</a>, and Soviet premier <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Stalin" title="Joseph Stalin">Joseph Stalin</a> met at the <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tehran_Conference" title="Tehran Conference">Tehran Conference</a></b> to discuss war strategy against the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axis_powers" title="Axis powers">Axis powers</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1987" title="1987">1987</a><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_African_Airways_Flight_295" title="South African Airways Flight 295">South African Airways Flight 295</a></b> suffered a catastrophic in-flight fire and crashed into the Indian Ocean east of Mauritius, killing all 159 people on board.</li></ul>
<p><b>Births and Deaths: </b><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Brueghel" title="Abraham Brueghel">Abraham Brueghel</a></b>  (<abbr title="baptised">bapt.</abbr> 1631); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregorio_Perfecto" title="Gregorio Perfecto">Gregorio Perfecto</a></b>  (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1891); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CA%BBAbdu%27l-Bah%C3%A1" title="ʻAbdu'l-Bahá">ʻAbdu'l-Bahá</a></b>  (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 1921)</p>