Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/November 28
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November 28: Independence Day in Albania (1912) and Mauritania (1960)
- 1660 - Christopher Wren and other leading scientists met at Gresham College in London, England and founded a learned society now known as the Royal Society.
- 1905 - Irish nationalist Arthur Griffith (pictured) first presented his "Sinn Féin Policy".
- 1925 - The country music radio program Grand Ole Opry was first broadcast on WSM radio in Nashville, USA.
- 1943 - World War II: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin met at the Tehran Conference.
- 1990 - After being elected as leader of the British Conservative Party, John Major succeeded Margaret Thatcher as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
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