Today in History in 1582 William Shakespeare and Anne Hathaway marry; and in 1925 The Grand Ole Opry begins broadcasting in Nashville, Tennessee.

The On This Day In History archives at “Simple English Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia” contains over 200,000 events, birthdays and deaths from 6,000 years of history. Here is a roundup of a few of them:

November 28 is the 332nd day of the year (333rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 33 days remaining until the end of the year.

EVENTS

587 - Treaty of Andelot: King Guntram of Burgundy recognizes Childebert II as his heir.

936 - Shi Singtang is enthroned as the first Emperor of the Later Jin Dynasty by Emperor Taizong of Liao in China.

1443 – Skanderbeg and his forces liberate Kruja, Albania and raise Albania's flag.

1520 – Ferdinand Magellan sails through the Magellan Strait.

1582 – William Shakespeare and Anne Hathaway marry.

1627 - The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth Navy has its greatest and last victory in the Battle of Oliwa.

1660 - At Gresham College, twelve men, including Christopher Wren, Robert Boyle, John Williams and Robert Moray, decide to found what later becomes the Royal Society.

1666 - At least 3,000 men of the Scottish Royal Army led by Tom Dalyell of the Binns defeat about 900 Covenanter rebels.

1814 - The Times of London is for the first time printed by automatic steam-powered presses built by the German inventors Friedrich Koenig and Andreas Friedrich Bauer, signaling the beginning of the availability of newspapers to a mass audience.

1821 – Panama unites with Greater Colombia, declaring independence from Spain.

1843 – The Kingdom of Hawaii is recognised as an independent state by the United Kingdom and France.

1862 - American Civil War: In the Battle of Cane Hill, Union troops under General James G. Blunt defeat General John Marmaduke's Confederates.

1885 - Bulgarian victory in the Serbo-Bulgarian War preserves the Unification of Bulgaria.

1893 - New Zealand becomes the first country in which women can vote in a general election.

1895 - The first American automobile race takes place over the 54 miles from Chicago's Jackson Park to Evanston, Illinois. Frank Duryea wins in around 10 hours.

1905 – In Dublin, Arthur Griffith founds the Sinn Féin political party.

1907 - in Haverhill, Massachusetts, scrap metal dealer Louis B. Mayer opens his first movie theater.

1909 - Sergei Rachmaninoff makes the first performance of his Piano Concerto No. 3.

1912 – Albania declares independence from the Ottoman Empire.

1914 - World War I: Following a war-induced closure in July, the New York Stock Exchange re-opens for bond trading.

1917 - The Estonian Provincial Assembly declares itself the sovereign power of Estonia.

1918 - Bukovina votes for a Union with the Kingdom of Romania.

1919 – Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor becomes the United Kingdom's first female Member of Parliament.

1925 - The Grand Ole Opry begins broadcasting in Nashville, Tennessee.

1942 - In Boston, Massachusetts, a fire in the Coconaut Grove nightclub killing 491 people.

1943 – World War II: The Allied Conference in Tehran takes place.

1958 – Chad, the Republic of the Congo and Gabon become autonomous Republics within the French community.

1960 – Mauritania becomes independent from France.

1964 – NASA launches the Mariner 4 probe towards Mars.

1966 - Michel Micombero overthrows the monarchy of Burundi and makes himself the country's first President.

1971 - Prime Minister of Jordan Wasfi al-Tal is assassinated by the Black September unit of the Palestinian Liberation Organization.

1975 – East Timor declares independence from Portugal.

1979 – A plane crash on Mount Erebus in Antarctica kills 257 people.

1980 - Iran-Iraq War: Operation Morvarid - The bulk of Iraq's Navy is destroyed by Iran in the Persian Gulf.

1987 – A South African Airways plane crashes into the Indian Ocean near Mauritius, killing all 160 people on board.

1989 – Czechoslovakia's Communist Party announces that it will give up its hold on power.

1990 – Margaret Thatcher officially resigns as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, and is replaced by John Major.

1994 – Voters in Norway reject EU membership in a referendum.

2002 – Suicide bombers blow up an Israeli-owned hotel in Mombasa, Kenya.

2004 – A mine explosion in Shaanxi province, China, kills 166 people.

2010 – WikiLeaks releases 200,000 diplomatic cables, including 100,000 marked as secret or confidential.

2014 - A terrorist attack on the main mosque in Kano, Northern Nigeria, kills dozens of people.

2016 - LaMia Airlines Flight 2933 crashes near Medellin, Colombia, killing 76 people (leaving 5 survivors), including many members of Brazilian football club Chapecoense.

BIRTHS

1489 – Margaret Tudor, wife of James IV of Scotland (d. 1541)

1598 - Hans Nansen, Danish politician (d. 1667)

1628 – John Bunyan, English cleric and writer (d. 1688)

1866 - Henry Bacon, American architect (d. 1924)

1927 - Chuck Mitchell, American actor (d. 1992)

1929 – Berry Gordy, American record company owner

1933 - Hope Lange, American actress (d. 2003)

1943 – Randy Newman, American musician

1949 - Paul Shaffer, Canadian-American musician, actor, comedian and composer

1950 – Ed Harris, American actor

1959 - Judd Nelson, American actor

1961 – Martin Clunes, British Actor

DEATHS

1859 – Washington Irving, American writer (b. 1783)

1939 – James Naismith, Canadian inventor of basketball (b. 1861)

1962 – Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands (b. 1880)

1976 - Rosalind Russell, American actress (b. 1907)

1993 - Garry Moore, American comedian and game show host (b. 1915)

1994 – Jeffrey Dahmer, American serial killer (b. 1960)

2010 – Leslie Nielsen, Canadian-American actor (b. 1926)

2018 - Richard Fulton, American politician (b. 1927)

2018 - Robert Morris, American sculptor (b. 1931)