On this day in history - Today, November, 28

Today in History

• 1991 South Ossetia declares independence

  The disputed region of the country of Georgia calls itself the Republic of South Ossetia. The declar

• 1975 East Timor independence

  East Timor declared its independence from Portugal

• 1967 First pulsar observed

  Graduate student Jocelyn Bell and her advisor Antony Hewish at Cambridge University were the first p

• 1964 NASA launches Mariner 4

  The first spacecraft to make a flyby of Mars, the spacecraft was the first one to send images of a p

• 1943 Tehran Conference begins

  The Tehran Conference between the US, the UK and the Soviet Union began at the Soviet Embassy in Teh