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Today in History

Friday, 28 November 2025

1994

In Portage, Wisconsin, convicted serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer is clubbed to death by an inmate in the Columbia Correctional Institution gymnasium.

1991

South Ossetia declares independence from Georgia.

1989

Cold War: Velvet Revolution

1987

South African Airways flight 295 crashes into the Indian Ocean, killing all 159 people on-board.

1984

Over 250 years after their deaths, William Penn and his wife Hannah Callowhill Penn are made Honorary Citizens of the United States.

1979

Air New Zealand Flight 901, a DC-10 operated sightseeing flight over Antarctica, crashes into Mount Erebus, killing all 257 people on board.

1975

East Timor declares its independence from Portugal.

1972

Last executions in Paris, of the Clairvaux Mutineers, Roger Bontems and Claude Buffet, guillotined at La Sante Prison. (Bontems had been found innocent of murder by the court, but as Buffet's accomplice is condemned to death anyway.) The chief executioner is Andre Obrecht.

1965

Vietnam War: In response to U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson's call for "more flags" in Vietnam, Philippines President Elect Ferdinand Marcos announces he will send troops to help fight in South Vietnam.

1964

Mariner program: NASA launches the Mariner 4 probe toward Mars.

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