What happened on 28 November?

9 events from the Ever-When timeline, ranked by how much they mattered.

1. 1660 Founding of the Royal Society of London World's oldest scientific society in continuous existence.
2. 1820 Born: Friedrich Engels German industrialist and socialist; co-author of the Communist Manifesto.
3. 1990 John Major's premiership Black Wednesday, Maastricht, the Northern Ireland peace process and a party at war with itself over Europe.
4. 1943 Tehran Conference First Big Three summit (Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin); agreed on Overlord and post-war shape.
5. 1520 The Pacific crossing No European has any idea how wide the new ocean is: the fleet sails 98 days without fresh food, eating sawdust, leather and rats as scurvy kills a score of men. When they finally r
6. 1908 Born: Claude Lévi-Strauss Anthropologist; founded structural anthropology.
7. 1876 The Porfiriato For thirty-five years Porfirio Díaz gives Mexico railways, foreign investment and order — and rigged elections, debt peonage and land stripped from villages into vast haciendas. 'P
8. 1443 Skanderbeg's revolt The Albanian lord George Kastrioti defies the Ottomans for 25 years, becoming a lasting symbol of resistance.
9. 2010 WikiLeaks Cablegate WikiLeaks publishes a quarter-million secret US diplomatic cables, a landmark in mass leaking and digital-age transparency.