TODAY IN HISTORY

TODAY IS THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 2019

On this day in history:

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.

1582 - William Shakespeare and Anne Hathaway were married. 1829 - Captain Charles Sturt crosses the Murrumbidgee River on his way to solve the mystery of the inland rivers. 1932 - The ‘Dog on the Tuckerbox’ statue at Gundagai is unveiled.

1958 - The African nation of Chad became an autonomous republic within the French community.

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.

1983 - The space shuttle Columbia took off with the STS-9 Spacelab in its cargo bay. 1985 - The Irish Senate approved the Anglo-Irish accord concerning Northern Ireland. 1987 - A South African Airways Boeing 747 crashed into the Indian Ocean. All 159 people aboard were killed.

1989 - Romanian gymnast Nadia Comaneci arrived in New York after escaping her homeland through Hungary. 1990 - Margaret Thatcher resigned as prime minister of Britain.

1992 - In Bosnia-Herzegovina, 137 tons of food and supplies were to be delivered to the isolated town of Srebrenica. 1992 - In King William’s Town, South Africa, black militant gunmen attacked a country club killing four people and injuring 20.

1994 - Norwegian voters rejected European Union membership.

BIRTHDAYS

John Bunyan 1628

Jean Baptiste Lully 1932 Musician

William Blake 1757 William Stanley, Jr. 1858 Physicist

Brooks Atkinson 1894

José Iturbi 1895

Charles Alston 1907

Dick Vance 1915

Merle Travis 1917 - Musician Gloria Grahame (Hallward) 1923