Today
in History ~ November 28
Events
0587 - Treaty of Andelot: King Guntram takes cousin Childebert II as heir
1340 - Battle of Salado Spain: last Moor invasion driven back
1520 - Ferdinand Magellan, sailing through the dangerous straits below South America that now bear his
name, entered the Pacific Ocean on his way around the world. He was the first European to sail the Pacific from the east.
1660 - London Royal Society forms
1670 - Pierre Corneille's "Tite et Berenice," premieres in Paris
1745 - -29] French troops attack Indians at Saratoga, NY
1775 - 2nd Continental Congress formally establishes US Navy
1795 - US pays $800,000 & a frigate as tribute to Algiers & Tunis
1833 - Charles Darwin rides through Las Pietras, returning to Montevideo
1847 - Bologna: church San Francisco dei Minori Conventuali initiated with premier of Rossini's "Tantum Ergo"
1861 - Confederate congress officially admits Missouri to Confederate Army
1862 - Battle at Cane Hill, Arkansas (475 casualties)
1862 - Battle of Hooly Spring, MS
1864 - 3rd day of Battles at Waynesboro/Jones's Plantation, Georgia
1864 - Battle of New Creek, WV (Rosser's Raid, Ft Kelly)
1871 - Ku Klux Klan trials began in Federal District Court in SC
1901 - Gustav Mahler's 4th Symphony in G, premieres
1905 - Arthur Griffith forms Sinn Fein in Dublin.
1908 - 154 men die in coal mine explosion at Marianna Pa
1911 - Zapata proclaims Plan of Ayala Mexico
1917 - Sigmund Romberg's revue "Over the Top," premieres in NYC
1918 - Kaiser Wilhelm of Prussia & Germany, abdicates
1919 - US-born Lady Astor elected 1st female member of British Parliament
1922 - Capt Cyril Turner (RAF) gives 1st skywriting exhibition (NYC) Turner spelled out "Hello USA. Call Vanderbilt 7200." 47,000 people called
1925 - The Grand Ole Opry, Nashville's famed home of country music, made its radio debut on station WSM.
1929 - Admiral Richard E Byrd makes 1st South Pole flight
1930 - Howard Hanson's 2nd Symphony "Romantic," premieres
1932 - Groucho Marx performed on radio for 1st time
1939 - Nazi Gov-Gen of Poland, Hans Frank organizes Judenrat
1941 - German troops vacate Rostov
1942 - A fire at the Cocoanut Grove nightclub in Boston killed 491 people. Most victims suffocated or were trampled to death.
1943 - President Franklin Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet leader Josef Stalin
met at Tehran to map out strategy to establish a second front in Europe.
1944 - The MGM movie musical "Meet Me in St. Louis," starring Judy Garland, opened in New York.
1948 - "Hopalong Cassidy" premieres on TV
1948 - 1st Polaroid camera sold
1951 - John Van Druten's "I am a Camera," premieres in NYC
1953 - "Wish You Were Here" closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 597 performances
1956 - Photography begins on "... & God Created Women"
1957 - "Look Homeward, Angel" with Anthony Perkins premieres in NYC
1958 - The African nation of Chad became an autonomous republic within the French community.
1958 - The United States fired an intercontinental ballistic missile at full range for the first time.
1960 - CBS radio expands hourly news coverage from 5 to 10 minutes
1963 - Cape Canaveral, the space center in Florida, was renamed Cape Kennedy to honor the assassinated president. Area residents later voted to revert to the original name, but the NASA spaceport remained the John F. Kennedy Space Center.
1964 - The United States launched the space probe Mariner 4 on a course to Mars.
1967 - The 1st pulsating radio source (pulsar) detected
1973 - Arab League summit in Algiers recognizes Palestine
1974 - Bowie Kuhn suspends George Steinbrenner for 2 years
1975 - President Ford nominated Federal Judge John Paul Stevens to the U.S. Supreme Court seat vacated by William O. Douglas.
1979 - Air New Zealand DC-10 crashes into Mt Erebus on Antarctica kills 257
1981 - Bear Bryant wins his 315th game to out distance Alonzo Stagg & become college football's winningest coach
1982 - "Pirates of Penzance" closes at Uris Theater NYC after 772 performances
1985 - The Irish Senate approved the Anglo-Irish accord concerning Northern Ireland.
1988 - Picasso's "Acrobat & Harlequin" sells for $38.46 million
1989 - Romanian gymnast Nadia Comaneci flees to Hungary
1989 - A construction crane snapped in San Francisco. Five people were killed, 21 injured.
1989 - Czechoslovak Premier Adamec agreed to a coalition government. The next day, the Czechoslovak Parliament revoked the Communist Party's monopoly.
1990 - Margaret Thatcher resigned as prime minister of Britain during an audience with Queen Elizabeth II, who conferred the premiership on John Major.
1991 - Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev expressed unhappiness over reports that the United States might move toward diplomatic recognition of Ukraine after the republic's upcoming independence referendum.
1992 - A fire destroyed parts of the Hofburg Palace in Vienna, Austria, threatening the famous Lipizzaner stallions.
1993 - British officials confirmed they have made secret contacts with the outlawed Irish Republican Army in an effort to end the violence in Northern Ireland.
1993 - Carlos Roberto Reina was elected president of Honduras.
1994 - Norway votes against joining European Union
1994 - Serial killer/cannibal Jeffrey Dahmer and a second inmate were beaten to death by another inmate at the Columbia Correctional Center in Portage, Wis.
1995 - James Brady, former white house press secretary, suffers a heart attack
1996 - A stuck hatch on the space shuttle Columbia prevented two astronauts from going on a spacewalk (engineers later discovered a loose screw had jammed the hatch mechanism).
1996 - Defense Secretary William Perry joined U.S. soldiers in the mud and freezing rain of Bosnia-Herzegovina to deliver a Thanksgiving message of discipline and patience for their peacekeeping mission.
2000 - George W. Bush's lawyers asked the U.S. Supreme Court to bring "legal finality" to the presidential election by ending any further ballot recounts; Al Gore's team countered that the nation's highest court should not interfere in Florida's recount dispute.
Birthdays
Today
1628 - John Bunyan,
England, cleric/author (Pilgrim's Progress)
1632 - Jean-Baptiste Lully, Florence Italy, composer (Bell^Ârophen)
1757 - William Blake (poet: Songs of Innocence; engraved his own
poems and drawings on copper plates)
1784 - Ferdinand Reis, composer
1805 - John Stephens, US archaeologist; founded study of Central
America
1812 - Ludwig Mathias Lindeman, composer
1820 - Friedrich Engels, Germany, social philosopher; Marx's
collaborator
1829 - Anton Rubinstein, Vykhvatinetz Podolia, composer (Omitri Doskoy)
1837 - John Wesley Hyatt, inventor (celluloid)
1866 - Henry Bacon, architect (Lincoln Memorial)
1881 - Stefan Zweig, Vienna Austria, poet/essayist/dramatist
(Beware of Pity)
1887 - Ernst Roehm, German staff member/Bolivian leader/SA/early
Nazi
1895 - Jose Iturbi, Valencia Spain, pianist (Pequena danza
Espanola)
1904 - Nancy Mitford, English author (Love in a Cold Climate)
1907 - Alberto Moravia, [Pincherle], Italian author (Indifferent
Ones)
1908 - Claude Levi-Strauss, Belgium, social anthropologist
(Structure Anthro)
1912 - Heinz Galinski, President (Central council for Jews in
Germany)
1915 - Dick Vance (musician)
1922 - Wes Westrum (baseball)
1929 - Berry Gordy Jr. (founder: Motown Records, see "Berry
Gordy" Day [above])
1929 - Gloria Grahame (actress: Oklahoma!, It's a Wonderful Life,
Not as a Stranger)
1932 - Ben[jamin William] Bova, US, sci-fi author (Exiled from
Earth)
1933 - Hope Lange (actress: The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, Bus Stop)
1934 - Ethel Ennis (singer)
1937 - Gary Hart (former U.S. Senator from Colorado, presidential
candidate)
1939 - Gary Troxel (singer: group: The Fleetwoods: Mr. Blue)
1941 - Norm Beaudin (hockey)
1942 - Paul Warfield (football: Miami Dolphins wide receiver:
Super Bowl: VI, VII, VIII)
1943 - Randy Newman (composer: scores for Ragtime, The Natural;
singer: Short People)
1948 - Vern Den Herder (football: Miami Dolphins defensive end:
Super Bowl: VI, VII, VIII, XVII)
1949 - Alexander Godunov (ballet dancer)
1949 - Paul Shaffer (band leader: Late Show with David Letterman,
Late Night with David Letterman)
1949 - Victor Ostrovsky, Canadian/Israel, Mossad agent (By Way of
Deception)
1950 - Ed Harris, Tenafly NJ, actor (Right Stuff, Swing Shift,
Walker, Coma)
1950 - James Fuller (baseball)
1951 - Rick Middleton (football)
Famous
deaths
1058 - Kazimierz I Restaurator,
duke of Poland (1034-58), dies
1499 - Edward Plantagenet, 18th Count of Warwick, beheaded
1680 - Giovanni L Bernini, Italian sculptor/painter, dies
1695 - Giovanni Paulo Colonna, composer, dies at 58
1794 - Friedrich WLGA von Steuben, Prussian/US inspector-general
of Washingtons army, dies at 64
1815 - Johann Peter Salomon, composer, dies at 70
1859 - Washington Irving, US author (Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Rip
van Winkle), dies
1939 - James A Naismith, creator of basketball, dies at 78
1945 - Dwight Davis, donator of tennis' Davis cup, dies
1947 - Jacques-Philippe Leclerc, WW II hero (liberator of Paris),
dies at 44
1954 - Enrico Fermi, Italian/US physicist (Nobel 1938), dies at
53
1960 - Richard N Wright, US author (Native son), dies at 52 in
Paris France
1976 - Rosalind Russell, actress (Mame), dies of cancer at 68
1984 - Hans Speidel, German gen/NATO-supreme commander (1957-64),
dies at 87
1994 - Jeffrey Dahmer, [Butcher of Milwaukee], Serial killer/cannibal,
beaten to death in
prison at 34
1994 - Jerry Rubin, US anti-war activist (Youth Party), dies at
56
1994 - Ronald "Buster" Edwards, Great Train Robber,
commits suicide at 62
2000 - Former Texas Congressman Henry B. Gonzalez, who had served
37 years on Capitol Hill, died in San Antonio at age 84.
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