Today's selected anniversaries: 28th November 2022

Today's selected anniversaries: 28th November 2022

1660:

Robert Boyle, John Wilkins, Christopher Wren and other leading scientists met at Gresham College in London to found a learned society, now known as the Royal Society.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Society

1943:

World War II: U.S. president Franklin D. Roosevelt, British prime minister Winston Churchill, and Soviet premier Joseph Stalin (all three pictured) met at the Tehran Conference to discuss war strategy against the Axis powers.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tehran_Conference

1987:

South African Airways Flight 295 suffered a catastrophic in-flight fire and crashed into the Indian Ocean east of Mauritius, killing all 159 on board.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_African_Airways_Flight_295

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