November 28
1520
Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan passed through the strait which bears his name to the Pacific ocean.
1919
American-born Lady Astor became the first woman to take a seat on the British Parliament.
1942
Almost 500 people died in the Coconut Grove nightclub fire in Boston.
1943
Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin met in Tehran for their first meeting during World War II.
1964
The U.S. spacecraft Mariner 4 launched—on its way to the first successful mission to Mars.
1990
Margaret Thatcher resigned as prime minister of Great Britain; John Major took over.
Birthdays
William Blake
1757–1827, English Poet, Artist, born in London.
John Bunyan
author (1628)
Friedrich Engels
socialist (1820)
Anton Rubinstein
pianist, composer (1829)
John Wesley Hyatt
inventor (1837)
Henry Bacon
architect (1866)
Berry Gordy, Jr.
record company founder and executive (1929)
Randy Newman
singer, composer (1943)
Ed Harris
actor (1950)
Jon Stewart
TV personality (1962)
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