^B{^#!16!28 November^N! Feast day of St Stephen the Younger, St Catherine LabourΘ, St Simeon Metaphrastes, St James of the March, and St Joseph Pignatelli.
^B{1520^B} Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan sailed through the Straits at the tip of South America and reached an ocean which he named the Pacific. ^B{1660^B} The Royal Society was chartered in London, UK. ^B{1905^B} The Irish political party Sinn Fein was founded by Arthur Griffith in Dublin. ^B{1909^B} In France, a law was passed allowing women eight weeks' maternity leave. ^B{1948^B} Edwin Land's first polaroid cameras went on sale in Boston. ^B{1960^B} Mauritania gained independence. ^B{1978^B} Amid growing fundamentalist opposition, the Iranian government banned religious rallies. ^B{1993^B} The Northern Ireland peace process and Prime Minister John Major's credibility were dealt a blow when secret government contacts with the IRA were publicly disclosed.
^B{^I{^#!14!Born ^N}Jean Baptiste Lully, Italian/French composer, ^B{1632^B}; William Blake, English poet and artist, ^B{1757^B}; Friedrich Engels, German Socialist, ^B{1820^B}; Alberto Moravia, Italian writer, ^B{1907^B}; Claude LΘvi-Strauss, French anthropologist, ^B{1908^B}; Randy Newman, US singer and songwriter, ^B{1943^B}.
^B{^I{^#!14!Died ^N}Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini, Italian sculptor, ^B{1680^B}; Washington Irving, US author, ^B{1859^B}; Enrico Fermi, Italian physicist, ^B{1954^B}; Enid Blyton, English children's book author, ^B{1968^B}; Kenneth Connor, English actor, ^B{1993^B}.
