History for November 28

History for November 28 - On-This-Day.com:
John Bunyan 1628, William Stanley, Jr. 1858 - Physicist, Berry Gordy, Jr. 1929 - Founder of Mowtown Records 


Gary Hart (Hartpence) 1936, Randy Newman 1943 - Singer, songwriter, Anna Nicole Smith 1967 - Model, actress 


1520 - Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan reached the Pacific Ocean after passing through the South American strait. The strait was named after him. He was the first European to sail the Pacific from the east.


1942 - In Boston, MA, 491 people died in a fire that destroyed the Coconut Grove.


1943 - U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet Leader Joseph Stalin met in Tehran to map out strategy concerning World War II.


1953 - New York City began 11 days without newspapers due to a strike of photoengravers.

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.






1979 - An Air New Zealand DC-10 flying to the South Pole crashed in Antarctica killing all 257 people aboard.


1995 - U.S. President Clinton signed a $6 billion road bill that ended the federal 55 mph speed limit.