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Events on November 28

• 1520 Four weeks after its discovery, Ferdinand Magellan succeeds in navigating through the strait at the southern tip of South America, which was later named after him. He reaches the Pacific with three ships.
• 1848 Bern wins the vote in the Federal Assembly on the question of Switzerland's capital city over Zurich and Lucerne, thereby becoming the federal capital.
• 1918 During the November Revolution, Kaiser Wilhelm II signs his abdication as German Emperor and King of Prussia at Amerongen Castle in his Dutch exile.
• 1925 In Dortmund, the first Westfalenhalle, built in timber in seven months and one of the largest in Europe, is opened.
• 1943 The Tehran Conference of the three principal Allied powers in the Second World War—Britain, the USA and the Soviet Union—begins. Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Josef Stalin deliberate on the further course of the Second World War and the reorganization of Europe following its conclusion.
• 1946 With the Constitution of Württemberg-Baden, the first state constitution in Germany after the Second World War enters into force.
• 1964 The National Democratic Party of Germany (NPD) is founded in Hanover.
• 1969 The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty is signed by the German SPD/FDP Federal Government under Federal Chancellor Willy Brandt.
• 1973 In the Federal Republic of Germany, a reform of the criminal law concerning sexual offenses comes into force (including, among other things, a significant restriction on criminal liability for procuring).
• 1983 As the first (West) German, Ulf Merbold launches into space aboard the US space shuttle Columbia. Also aboard is the European space laboratory Spacelab, under the overall command of John Young, the first person to undertake a sixth spaceflight.
• 1989 During the Peaceful Revolution in the GDR, the appeal "For Our Country" is published by 31 well-known intellectuals at a press conference and receives approximately 1.17 million approvals.
• 2012 The beta version of the German Digital Library is released to the general public.

Born on November 28

• 1881 Stefan Zweig, Austrian writer
• 1912 Heinz Galinski, German concentration camp survivor and President of the Central Council of Jews in Germany
• 1922 Pinchas Lapide, German theologian and religious scholar
• 1923 Gloria Grahame, American actress
• 1931 Tomi Ungerer, French draughtsman
• 1950 Ed Harris, American actor, screenwriter and director
• 1960 John Galliano, Spanish-English fashion designer
• 1961 Alfonso Cuarón, Mexican film director and producer
• 1990 Dedryck Boyata, Belgian footballer
• 1991 Tuğçe Albayrak, German student and murder victim

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Source of events and birthdays: German Wikipedia article „28. November“, licence CC BY-SA 4.0, selected, shortened and translated by Birthday Paper.

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