TODAY’S HISTORY LESSON – NOV 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.
1795 US pays $800,000 & a frigate as tribute to Algiers & Tunis
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.
1895 America’s 1st auto race starts; 6 cars, 55 miles, winner averages 7 MPH
1919 Lady Astor is elected the first woman in Parliament.
1922 Capt. Cyril Turner of the Royal Air Force gave the first public exhibition of skywriting. He spelled out, “Hello USA. Call Vanderbilt 7200” over New York’s Times Square.
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.
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.
1964 Mission to Mars… The U.S. spacecraft Mariner 4 launched—on its way to the first successful mission to Mars.
1980 Operation Morvarid (Iran-Iraq War); Iranian Navy destroys over 70% of Iraqi Navy
1986 Reagan administration exceeds SALT II arms limitations for 1st time
1988 Picasso’s “Acrobat & Harlequin” sells for $38.46 million
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.
2002 Suicide bombers blow up an Israeli-owned hotel in Mombasa, Kenya.
2010 WikiLeaks released to the public more than 250,000 U.S. diplomatic cables. About 100,000 were marked “secret” or “confidential.”
** history.net, onthisday.com, infoplease.com, timeanddate.com, thepeoplehistory.com, on-this-day.com **
