This day in History - November 28

392 Historic Events for November 28
1820 Birth Friedrich Engels, Germany, social philosopher; Marx's collaborator
1821 Birth Nikolai Nekrasov, Russ, poet/journalist (Who Can be Happy in Russia?)
1821 Event Panama declares independence from Spain
1827 Death Dov Baer Schneersohn, Lubavitch leader/author (Imirei Binah), dies
1829 Birth Anton Rubinstein, Vykhvatinetz Podolia, composer (Omitri Doskoy) [NS]
1833 Event Charles Darwin rides through Las Pietras, returning to Montevideo
1837 Birth John Wesley Hyatt, inventor (celluloid)
1841 Birth E M Grace, cricketer (brother of W G)
1843 Birth Manuel Gregorio Tavarez, composer
1847 Event Bologna: church San Francisco dei Minori Conventuali initiated with premier of Rossini's Tantum ergo
1849 Birth Albert J-BJ Th˜s, Belgian colonial pioneer (Congo)
1853 Event Olympia forms as capital of Washington Territory
1854 Event Dutch army stops Chinese uprising in Borneo
1854 Birth Gottlieb J Haberlandt, Hungarians/German botanist
1856 Birth Alexandr Dmitriyevich Kastal'sky, composer
1857 Birth Alfonso XII, king of Spain (1874-85)
1859 Death Washington Irving, US author (Geoffrey Crayon, gent), dies
1860 Death Heinrich FL Rellstab, German music theorist, dies
1861 Death Robert Fuhrer, composer, dies at 54
1861 Event Confederate congress officially admits Missouri to Confederate Army
1862 Event Battle of Hooly Spring, MS
1862 Event Battle at Cane Hill, Arkansas (475 casualties)
1864 Event 3rd day of Battles at Waynesboro/Jones's Plantation, Georgia
1864 Event Battle of New Creek, WV (Rosser's Raid, Ft Kelly)
1864 Birth Carel A Lion Cachet, lithographer/wood carver