On this day...

741 St. Gregory III ends his reign as Catholic Pope
1520 Ferdinand Magellan begins crossing Pacific Ocean
1795 US pays $800,000 & a frigate as tribute to Algiers & Tunis
1853 Olympia established as capital of Washington Territory
1861 Confederate congress officially admits Missouri to the CSA
1871 Ku Klux Klan trials begin in Federal District Court in SC
1895 America's First auto race starts; 6 cars, 55 miles, winner averages 7 MPH
1908 154 men die in coal mine explosion at Marianna, Pennsylvania
1919 US-born Lady Astor elected First female member of British Parliament
1922 Capt Cyril Turner (RAF) gave First skywriting exhibition (NYC).  Turner spelled out "Hello USA. Call Vanderbilt 7200." 47,000 called
1929 Adm Richard E Byrd makes First South Pole flight
1929 Ernie Nevers scores all 40 pts for Chic Cards vs Bears (NFL record)
1942 602 die in a fire that destroyed Cocoanut Grove nightclub in Boston
1943 FDR, Churchill & Stalin met at Tehran to map out strategy
1948 "Hopalong Cassidy" premiers on TV
1958 Chad becomes an autonomous republic within the French community
1958 Congo & Mauritania become autonomous members of French Community
1958 George "Punch" Imlach becomes coach of NHL's Toronto Maple Leafs
1960 Mauritania gains independence from France (Natl Day)
1964 Mariner 4 launched; First probe to fly by Mars
1966 Coup in Burundi overthrows monarchy; a republic is declared
1974 Bowie Kuhn suspends George Steinbrenner for 2 years
1979 Air New Zealand DC-10 crashes in Antarctica killing 257
1981 Bear Bryant wins his 315th game to become college football's winningest coach
1986 Reagan administration exceeds SALT II arms limitations for First time
1987 South African Airways Boeing 747 crashes into Indian Ocean, 159 die
1988 Picasso's "Acrobat & Harlequin" sells for $38.46 million
1989 Rickey Henderson signs record $3,000,000 per year Oakland A's contract

Birthdays which occurred on November 28th:

1628 John Bunyan, England, cleric/author (Pilgrim's Progress)
1632 Jean-Baptiste Lully, Florence Italy, composer (Bell‚rophen)
1757 William Blake, English poet/painter (Songs of Innocence & Experience)
1785 Achille-Charles, duc de Broglie, French PM (1835-36)
1805 John Stephens, US archeologist; founded study of Central America
1810 William Froude, England, engineer, naval architect
1820 Friedrich Engels, Germany, social philosopher; Marx's collaborator
1821 Nikolai Nekrasov, Russia, poet/journalist (Who Can be Happy in Russia?)
1829 Anton Rubinstein, Vykhvatinetz Podolia, composer (Omitri Doskoy)
1866 Henry Bacon, architect (Lincoln Memorial)
1881 Stefan Zweig, Vienna Austria, poet/essayist/dramatist (Beware of Pity)
1894 Brooks Atkinson, drama critic (Broadway theater namesake)
1902 Victor Jory, Dawson City Canada, actor (Kings Row, Manhunt)
1907 Alberto Moravia, Italian writer (Indifferent Ones)
1908 Claude L‚vi-Strauss, Belgium, social anthropologist (Structure Anthro)
1925 Gloria Grahame, Los Angeles, actress (Sue-Rich Man Poor Man)
1925 Virginia Hewitt, Shreveport LA, actress (Carol-Space Patrol)
1929 Berry Gordy, Jr., Detroit, record company owner (Motown)
1931 Hope Lange, Redding Ridge Ct, actress (Ghost & Mrs Muir)
1936 Gary Hart, (Sen-D-Colo)
1941 Laura Antonelli, Pola Yugoslavia, actress (Wifemistress, Divine Nymph)
1942 Paul Warfield, NFL/WFL wide receiver (Cleveland, Miami, Memphis)
1943 Randy Newman, singer (Short People, I Love LA, Raindrops)
1949 Alexander Godunov, Russia, composer/dancer (Bolshoi) defected 1979
1949 Paul Shaffer, Canada, band leader (SNL, David Letterman)
1950 Ed Harris, Tenafly NJ, actor (Right Stuff, Swing Shift, Walker, Coma)
1958 David Van Day, rocker (Dollar-Loves Gotta Hold on Me)
1959 Judd Nelson, actor (Breakfast Club)
1961 Jane Sibbett,actress (Teddy Z)
1967 Vickie Smith, Houston, playmate (May, 1992)

Deaths which occurred on November 28th:

1262 Shinran, founder of Japan's True Pure Land Buddhist sect
1827 Dov Baer Schneersohn, Lubavitch leader/author (Imirei Binah)
1939 James A Naismith, creator of basketball, dies at 78
1945 Dwight Davis, donator of the Davis cup
1960 Richard Wright, dies at 52 in Paris France
1962 Queen Mother Wilhelmina, of Netherlands, dies at 82
1963 Fred Uttal, TV host (QED), dies at 55
1963 Karyn Kupcinet, actress (Carol-Gertrude Berg Show), murdered at 23
1964 Charles Meredith, actor (Court of Last Resort), dies at 70
1971 Wasfi Tal, Jordan's PM, assassinated in Cairo
1977 Trevor Bardette, actor (Clanton-Legend of Wyatt Earp), dies at 75
1983 Christopher George, actor, dies at 54 of a heart attack
1986 Herb Vigran, actor (Ernest-Ed Wynn Show), dies at 76
1987 Choh Hao Li, bio-chemist professor (isolated growth hormones), dies at 74