On November 28, 1893, women voted in a national election for the first time … in New Zealand. On the same date in 1917, the Estonian Provincial Assembly declared itself the sovereign power of Estonia. November 28 also marks the independence of Mauritania from France (1960), and East Timor from Portugal.
In 1894, on November 28, economics journalist Henry Hazlitt was born. Halitt went on to write “Economics in One Lesson,” “Time Will Run Back,” and several books criticizing Keynesianism. He was the main proponent of the work of Ludwig von Mises and F.A. Hayek in America during the 1940s and 1950s.