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Today in History
Today in History
November 28 | ||
1520 | Spanish explorer Ferdinand Magellan, having discovered a strait at the tip of South America, enters the Pacific. | |
1729 | Natchez Indians massacre most of the 300 French settlers and soldiers at Fort Rosalie, Louisiana. | |
1861 | The Confederate Congress admits Missouri to the Confederacy, although Missouri has not yet seceded from the Union. | |
1868 | Mt. Etna in Sicily violently erupts. | |
1872 | The Modoc War of 1872-73 begins in northern California when fighting breaks out between Modoc Chief Captain Jack and a cavalry detail led by Captain James Jackson. | |
1899 | The British are victorious over the Boers at Modder River. | |
1919 | Lady Astor is elected the first woman in Parliament. | |
1925 | The forerunner of the Grand Ole Opry, called the WSM Barn Dance, opens in Nashville, Tennessee. | |
1935 | The German Reich declares all men ages 18 to 45 as army reservists. | |
1937 | Spanish leader Francisco Franco blockades the Spanish coast. | |
1939 | The Soviet Union scraps its nonaggression pact with Finland. | |
1941 | The aircraft carrier USS Enterprise departs from Pearl Harbor to deliver F4F Wildcat fighters to Wake Island. This mission saves the carrier from destruction when the Japanese attack. | |
1943 | Sir Winston Churchill, Joseph Stalin and Franklin D. Roosevelt meet at Tehran, Iran, to hammer out war aims. | |
1944 | The first shipment of supplies reach Antwerp by convoy, a new route for the Allies. | |
1948 | Dr. Edwin Land’s first Polaroid cameras go on sale in Boston. | |
1950 | In Korea, 200,000 Communist troops launch attack on UN forces. | |
1961 | Ernie Davis becomes the first African American to win the Heisman Trophy. | |
1963 | Cape Canaveral is renamed Cape Kennedy. | |
1971 | The Anglican Church ordains the first two women as priests. | |
1975 | East Timor declares independence from Portugal. | |
1980 | Operation Morvarid (Iran-Iraq War); Iranian Navy destroys over 70% of Iraqi Navy. | |
1984 | Republican Robert Dole is elected Senate majority leader. | |
1989 | Communist Party of Czechoslovakia announces it will give up its monopoly on political power. | |
1991 | South Ossetia declares independence from Georgia. | |
2002 | Suicide bombers blow up an Israeli-owned hotel in Mombasa, Kenya. | |
Born on November 28 | ||
1628 | John Bunyan, English preacher and writer who wrote Pilgrim’s Progress. | |
1757 | William Blake, English poet. | |
1907 | Alberto Moravia, Italian novelist (The Conformist, Conjugal Love). | |
1908 | Claude Levi-Strauss, French anthropologist. | |
1916 | Vyes Theriault, French-Canadian author. | |
1929 | Berry Gordy, Jr., recording executive. | |
1944 | Rita Mae Brown, novelist. | |
1962 | Jon Stewart, satirist, writer, director, author, television host, comedian; host of The Daily Show on Comedy Central. |
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