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November 28 November 28: Holodomor Remembrance Day in Ukraine (2009); Independence Day in Albania (1912) and Mauritania (1960) 1443 – Rebelling against the Ottoman Empire, Skanderbeg (pictured) and his forces liberated Kruja in Middle Albania and raised the Albanian flag. 1520 – Three ships under the command of Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan reached the Pacific Ocean from the now-eponymous Strait of Magellan, becoming the ...
November 23 November 23: Labour Thanksgiving Day in Japan; St George's Day in Georgia 1644 – In opposition to licensing and censorship during the English Civil War, John Milton's Areopagitica was published, arguing for the right to free expression. 1890 – William III of the Netherlands died without a living male heir, allowing his ten-year-old daughter Wilhelmina (pictured) to succeed him to the Dutch ...
June 19 June 19: Juneteenth in some parts of the United States 1846 – The first officially recorded baseball game using modern rules was played in Hoboken, New Jersey, US, with the New York Nine defeating the New York Knickerbockers, 23–1. 1850 – Louise of the Netherlands married Crown Prince Karl of Sweden-Norway. 1953 – Americans Julius and Ethel Rosenberg (pictured) were executed as spies ...
November 29 November 29: Liberation Day in Albania 1781 – The crew of the overcrowded British slave ship Zong murdered 133 African slaves by dumping them into the sea in order to claim insurance. 1854 – The Eureka Flag was flown for the first time during the Eureka Stockade rebellion in Australia. 1864 – American Indian Wars: A 700-man Colorado Territory militia attacked a village ...
November 18 November 18: Independence Day in Latvia (1918); National Day in Oman (1940) 1302 – Pope Boniface VIII issued the Papal bull Unam sanctam, proclaiming "there is one holy Catholic and Apostolic Church, outside of which there is neither salvation nor remission of sins". 1905 – Prince Carl of Denmark became Haakon VII, the first King of Norway after the personal union between ...