TODAY’S HISTORY LESSON – NOV 28
1520 Spanish explorer Ferdinand Magellan, having discovered a strait at the tip of South America, enters the Pacific.
1582 William Shakespeare and Anne Hathaway were married.
1729 Natchez Indians massacre most of the 300 French settlers and soldiers at Fort Rosalie, Louisiana.
1814 The Times of London first printed by automatic, steam powered presses built by German inventors Friedrich Koenig and Andreas Friedrich Bauer – makes newspapers available to a mass audience
1861 The Confederate Congress admits Missouri to the Confederacy, although Missouri has not yet seceded from the Union.
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.
1919 American-born Lady Astor became the first woman to take a seat on the British Parliament.
1935 The German Reich declares all men ages 18 to 45 as army reservists.
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.
1942 Almost 500 people died in the Coconut Grove nightclub fire in Boston.
1943 Sir Winston Churchill, Joseph Stalin and Franklin D. Roosevelt meet at Tehran, Iran, to hammer out war aims.
1948 Dr. Edwin Land’s first Polaroid cameras go on sale in Boston.
1961 Ernie Davis becomes the first African American to win the Heisman Trophy.
1963 U.S. President Johnson announced that Cape Canaveral would be renamed Cape Kennedy in honor of his assassinated predecessor. The name was changed back to Cape Canaveral in 1973 by a vote of residents.
1978 The Iranian government banned religious marches.
1989 Romanian gymnast Nadia Comaneci arrived in New York after escaping her homeland through Hungary.
1992 In King William’s Town, South Africa, black militant gunmen attacked a country club killing four people and injuring 20.
1994 Jeffrey Dahmer, a convicted serial killer, was clubbed to death in a Wisconsin prison by a fellow inmate.
1995 U.S. President Clinton signed a $6 billion road bill that ended the federal 55 mph speed limit.
2002 Suicide bombers blow up an Israeli-owned hotel in Mombasa, Kenya.
** history.net, onthisday.com, infoplease.com, timeanddate.com, thepeoplehistory.com, on-this-day.com **
