F Magellan

1520

Ferdinand Magellan reaches the Pacific

Born on This Day

Mercedes-Benz Presents the 17th Carousel of Hope Ball - Arrivals

Berry Gordy

1929 -

Legendary founder of Motown Records who launched R&B such as the Supremes, the Temptations, and the Jackson Five.

Clooney Foundation For Justice's The Albies

Jon Stewart

1962 -

American comedian and longtime host of "The Daily Show" that blurred the line between news reporting and satire.

1993 Video Software Dealers Association (VSDA) Convention

Anna Nicole Smith

1967 - 2007

Buxom Playboy model whose marriage to 89-year-old billionaire J. Howard Marshall led to a lengthy battle over his estate.

1929

NOV

28

A month after the stock market crashes, footballer Ernie Nevers lights up the gridiron, scoring a record 40 points in one game. Playing for the Chicago Cardinals versus the Chicago Bears, he ran for six touchdowns and kicked four extra points.

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1582

William Shakespeare marries Anne Hathaway

On November 28, 1582, William Shakespeare, 18, and Anne Hathaway, 26, pay a 40-pound bond for their marriage license in Stratford-upon-Avon. Six months later, Anne gives birth to their daughter, Susanna, and two years later, to twins. Little is known about Shakespeare’s early life. His father was a tradesman who became an alderman and bailiff, […]

1895

Duryea Motor Wagon wins first car race in U.S.

On this Thanksgiving Day in 1895, piloting a gas-powered “horseless carriage” of his and his brother’s own design, the mechanic, inventor and now racecar driver Frank Duryea wins the first motor-car race in the United States. The race, sponsored by the Chicago Times-Herald, was intended to drum up publicity for the nascent American car industry. […]

1914

New York Stock Exchange resumes bond trading

On November 28, 1914, the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) reopens for bond trading after nearly four months, the longest stoppage in the exchange’s history. The outbreak of World War I in Europe forced the NYSE to shut its doors on July 31, 1914, after large numbers of foreign investors began selling their holdings in […]

1919

Lady Astor becomes MP

On November 27, 1919, American-born Nancy Astor, the first woman ever to sit in the House of Commons, is elected to Parliament with a substantial majority. Lady Astor took the Unionist seat of her husband, Waldorf Astor, who was moving up to an inherited seat in the House of Lords. Born in Danville, Virginia, in […]

1925

The Grand Ole Opry begins broadcasting

The Grand Ole Opry, one of the longest-lived and most popular showcases for western music, begins broadcasting live from Nashville, Tennessee on November 28, 1925. The showcase was originally named the Barn Dance, after a Chicago radio program called the National Barn Dance that had begun broadcasting the previous year. Impressed by the popularity of the […]

Hank Williams at the Grand Ole Opry

1943

FDR attends Tehran Conference

On November 28, 1943, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt joins British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet leader Joseph Stalin at a conference in Iran to discuss strategies for winning World War II and potential terms for a peace settlement. Tehran, Iran, was chosen as the site for the talks largely due to its strategic importance […]

1973

Arab American autoworkers lead walkout at Chrysler’s Dodge Main plant

On November 28, 1973, approximately 2,000 Detroit auto workers, led by Arab Americans, walk off their jobs at Chrysler’s Dodge Main plant, demanding that the leadership of their union, the United Auto Workers (UAW), divest from Israel. The strike, which was organized by the union’s recently formed Arab Workers Caucus, was centered around an event […]

1979

Plane crashes over Antarctica

A New Zealand sightseeing plane traveling over Antarctica crashes, killing all 257 people on board, on November 28, 1979. It was the worst airplane accident in New Zealand’s history. During the 1970s, air travel to Antarctica became more popular, as tourists sought to view the isolated and mysterious continent at the bottom of the world […]

1987

Tawana Brawley found with slurs scrawled on her body

Tawana Brawley, a young Black woman, is found covered with feces and wrapped in garbage bags outside the Pavilion Condominiums in Wappingers Falls, New York. Brawley appeared to have undergone an extremely traumatic experience: Parts of her hair were cut off, her pants were slightly burned, and there were racial slurs scrawled on her body. […]

1994

Jeffrey Dahmer murdered in prison

Serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer, serving 15 consecutive life sentences for the brutal murders of 15 men, is beaten to death by a fellow inmate while performing cleaning duty in a bathroom at the Columbia Correctional Institute gymnasium in Portage, Wisconsin. During a 13-year period, Dahmer, who lived primarily in the Midwest, murdered at least 17 […]

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