Today Tuesday, 28th of November of 2017 is the 332nd day of the year....
There is a town in Argentina called, 28 de Noviembre, written out as Veintiocho de Noviembre, is a town in southwestern Santa Cruz Province, Argentina. It has roughly 5,300 inhabitants, most of whom are of Argentinian and Italian origin, and is located 270 km (168 mi) west of Río Gallegos and 13 km (8 mi) south of Río Turbio. The town is near the border with Chile, not far from Puerto Natales. Its main economic activity is coal mining.
The town was officially founded on November 28, 1959, on the second anniversary of the adoption of the provincial constitution, when a decree merged several settlements into one town which was named after the date of foundation.
28 de Noviembre is the nearest town to Río Turbio Airport.
343 days until mid-term elections Tuesday November 6, 2018
(11 months and 9 days from today)
1071 days until presidential elections Tuesday November 3, 2020
(2 years 11 months and 6 days from today)
The sun will rise at 7:05 am
and the sun will set at 4:51 pm.
Today we will have 9 hours and 46 minutes of daylight.
Solar noon will be at 11:58 am.
The first low tide was at 12:04am
and the next low tide will be at 1:24 pm.
The first high tide will be at 7:09 am
and the next high tide at 7:15 pm.
The Moon is currently 68.6% illuminated; A Waxing Gibbous Moon
Moon Direction: ↑ 306.80° NW
Moon Altitude:-43.21°
Moon Distance: 237867 mi
Next Full Moon: Sunday December 3, 2017 at 7:46 am
Next New Moon: Sunday December 17, 2017 at 10:30 pm
Next Moonrise: Today at 2:01 pm
Today is…
It's Letter Writing Day
Make Your Own Head Day
National French Toast Day
Red Planet Day
Turkey Leftover Day
Today is also…
Albanian Flag Day, celebrate the independence of Albania from Turkey in 1912, the first Albanian flag raise by Skanderbeg in 1443, and for the new parliamentary constitution in 1998.
Bedfordshire day is celebrated in the county of Bedfordshire to celebrate the birth of John Bunyan
Heroes' Day in Sri Lanka
Independence Day Mauritania, from France in 1960.
Independence Day in Panama, from Spain in 1821.
Navy Day in Iran
Republic Day in Burundi
Republic Day in Chad)
If today is your birthday, Happy Birthday To You! You Share this day with…
1475 – Anne Shelton, elder sister of Thomas Boleyn (d. 1555)
1631 – Abraham Brueghel, Flemish Baroque painter (d. 1690)
1632 – Jean-Baptiste Lully, Italian-French composer and manager (d. 1687)
1757 – William Blake, English poet and painter (d. 1827)
1820 – Friedrich Engels, German-English philosopher, economist, and journalist (d. 1895)
1908 – Claude Lévi-Strauss, Belgian-French anthropologist and ethnologist (d. 2009)
1929 – Berry Gordy, Jr., American songwriter and producer, founded Motown Records
1932 – Gato Barbieri, Argentinian saxophonist and composer (d. 2016)
1941 – Laura Antonelli, Italian actress (d. 2015)
1943 – Randy Newman, American singer-songwriter, composer, and pianist
1944 – Rita Mae Brown, American novelist, poet, and screenwriter
1962 – Jon Stewart, American comedian, actor, and television host
…and on this day in history…
1520 – An expedition under the command of Ferdinand Magellan passes through the Strait of Magellan.
1811 – Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 5 in E-flat major, Op. 73, premieres at the Gewandhaus in Leipzig.
1814 – The Times of London becomes the first newspaper to be produced on a steam-powered printing press, built by the German team of Koenig & Bauer.
1821 – Panama Independence Day: Panama separates from Spain and joins Gran Colombia.
1843 – Ka Lā Hui (Hawaiian Independence Day): The Kingdom of Hawaii is officially recognized by the United Kingdom and France as an independent nation.
1893 – Women's suffrage in New Zealand concludes with the New Zealand general election, 1893.
1895 – The first American automobile race takes place over the 54 miles from Chicago's Jackson Park to Evanston, Illinois. Frank Duryea wins in approximately 10 hours.
1919 – Lady Astor is elected as a Member of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. She is the first woman to sit in the House of Commons. (Countess Markievicz, the first to be elected, refused to sit.)
1925 – The Grand Ole Opry begins broadcasting in Nashville, Tennessee, as the WSM Barn Dance.
1943 – World War II: Tehran Conference: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin meet in Tehran, Iran, to discuss war strategy.
1964 – Mariner program: NASA launches the Mariner 4 probe toward Mars.
1967 – The first pulsar known as PSR B1919+21 in the constellation of Vulpecula was discovered by two astronomers Jocelyn Bell Burnell and Antony Hewish.
1975 – East Timor declares its independence from Portugal.
1989 – Cold War: Velvet Revolution: In the face of protests, the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia announces it will give up its monopoly on political power.
1990 – British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher resigns as leader of the Conservative Party and the prime ministry, and is succeeded as both by John Major.
1991 – South Ossetia declares independence from Georgia.