TODAY IN HISTORY
On Nov. 28, 1520, Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan reached the Pacific Ocean after passing through his namesake South American strait.
In 1861, the Confederate Congress admitted Missouri as the 12th state of the Confederacy after Missouri’s disputed secession from the Union.
In 1919, American-born Lady Astor was elected the first female member of the British Parliament.
In 1942, fire engulfed the Cocoanut Grove nightclub in Boston, killing 492 people in the deadliest nightclub blaze ever.
In 1943, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet leader Josef Stalin began conferring in Tehran during World War II.
In 1964, the United States launched the space probe Mariner 4 toward Mars.
In 1975, President Gerald Ford nominated federal Judge John Paul Stevens to the U.S. Supreme Court seat vacated by William O.
Douglas.
In 1994, serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer was slain in a Wisconsin prison by a fellow inmate.
In 2001, Enron Corp., once the world’s largest energy trader, collapsed after would-be rescuer Dynegy Inc. backed out of an $8.4 billion takeover deal. (Enron filed for bankruptcy protection four days later.)
In 2014, Pope Francis urged Muslim leaders to condemn the “barbaric violence” being committed in the name of Islam against religious minorities in Iraq and Syria as he arrived in neighboring Turkey for a visit aimed at improving interfaith ties.