November 28: Independence Day in Albania ( 1912) and Mauritania ( 1960).

• 1443 – Rebelling against the Ottoman Empire, Skanderbeg and his forces liberated Kruja in Middle Albania and raised the Albanian flag.

• 1919 – Nancy Astor (pictured), the first woman to serve as a Member of Parliament in the British House of Commons, was elected in a by-election.

• 1920 – Kilmichael Ambush: Thirty-six local Irish Republican Army volunteers killed seventeen members of the Auxiliary Division of the Royal Irish Constabulary, marking a turning point in the Irish War of Independence.

• 1979 – Air New Zealand Flight 901 crashed into Antarctica's Mount Erebus, killing all 257 people on board.

• 2000 – The Cassette Scandal: Ukrainian politician Oleksandr Moroz publicly accused President Leonid Kuchma of being involved in the abduction of journalist Georgiy R. Gongadze and numerous other crimes.