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.
1871 Ku Klux Klan trials began in Federal District Court in SC
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 US-born Lady Astor elected 1st female member of 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.
1963 Cape Canaveral is renamed Cape Kennedy.
1964 The U.S. spacecraft Mariner 4 launched—on its way to the first successful mission to Mars.
1971 The Anglican Church ordains the first two women as priests.
1980 Operation Morvarid (Iran-Iraq War); Iranian Navy destroys over 70% of Iraqi Navy.
1990 Margaret Thatcher formally tenders her resignation to the Queen and leaves Downing Street for the last time.
2002 Suicide bombers blow up an Israeli-owned hotel in Mombasa, Kenya.
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