November 28<\/p>\n
1520 \u2013 After 38 days, the naval expedition under the command of Ferdinand Magellan completes the first passage through the Strait of Magellan and enters the Pacific Ocean.<\/p>\n
1785 \u2013 The first Treaty of Hopewell<\/em> is signed, where the U.S. acknowledges Cherokee lands in what is now eastern Tennessee.<\/p>\n 1794 \u2013 Former Continental Army Inspector Major General, Baron Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben dies, age 64 at his estate in Oneida County – later Steuben – New York.<\/p>\n 1798 \u2013 Trade between the United States and modern day Uruguay begins when John Leamy’s frigate John<\/em> arrives in Montevideo.<\/p>\n 1811 \u2013 Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 5 in E-flat major, Op. 73, premieres at the Gewandhaus in Leipzig.<\/p>\n 1821 \u2013 The nation of Panama separates from Spain and joins Gran Colombia.<\/p>\n 1843 \u2013 The Kingdom of Hawaii is officially recognized by the United Kingdom and France as an independent nation.<\/p>\n 1895 \u2013 The first American automobile road race takes place over the 54 miles from Chicago to Evanston, Illinois. Frank Duryea wins in approximately 10 hours.<\/p>\n 1908 \u2013 An explosion in the Pittsburg Buffalo Company’s mine in Marianna, Pennsylvania, kills 154 men, leaving only 1 survivor.<\/p>\n 1912 \u2013 Taking advantage of the turmoil caused by the First Balkan War, Albania, which was not one of the belligerents, declares its independence from the Ottoman Empire.<\/p>\n 1914 \u2013 Closed in July due to the outbreak of war in Europe, the New York Stock Exchange reopens for bond trading.<\/p>\n 1925 \u2013 The Grand Ole Opry begins broadcasting in Nashville, Tennessee on clear channel radio station WSM.<\/p>\n 1942 \u2013 In Boston, Massachusetts, a fire in the Cocoanut Grove nightclub kills 492 people<\/p>\n 1943 \u2013 During World War II, President Roosevelt, Prime Minister Churchill and Premier Stalin meet in Tehran, Iran, to discuss war strategy.<\/p>\n 1958 \u2013 The U.S. makes the first successful flight of the SM-65 Atlas<\/em>, the first operational intercontinental U.S. ballistic missile.<\/p>\n 1964 \u2013National Security Council members agree to recommend that President Johnson adopt a plan for a two stage escalation of bombing in North Vietnam.<\/p>\n 1965 \u2013 In response to President Johnson’s call for “more flags” in Vietnam, Philippine President-elect Ferdinand Marcos announces he will send troops to help fight in South Vietnam.<\/p>\n 1967 \u2013 The first pulsar, PSR B1919+21, is discovered in the constellation of Vulpecula by astronomers Jocelyn Burnell and Antony Hewish at the \u00a0Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory in Cambridge, England.<\/p>\n 1971 \u2013 Wasfi al-Tal, Prime Minister of Jordan, is assassinated by the Black September unit of the Palestine Liberation Organization.<\/p>\n 1994 \u2013 Jeffrey Dahmer completes his life imprisonment term for multiple murders by being murdered himself by another inmate.<\/p>\n 2016 \u2013 A chartered Avro RJ85 plane carrying 77 people, including the Chapecoense football team, crashes near Medell\u00edn, Colombia.<\/p>\n 2020 \u2013 David Prowse, English weight-lifting champion, and the actor who portrayed Darth Vader in the original trilogy, dies, age 85, in London.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" November 28 1520 \u2013 After 38 days, the naval expedition under the command of Ferdinand Magellan completes the first passage through the Strait of Magellan and enters the Pacific Ocean. 1785 \u2013 The first Treaty of Hopewell is signed, where the U.S. acknowledges Cherokee lands in what is now eastern Tennessee. 1794 \u2013 Former Continental … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62194"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98068,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62194\/revisions\/98068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}