This day in history – November 28

• 1520 Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan begins crossing the Pacific Ocean.

• 1717 Blackbeard attacks a French merchant vessel called “La Concorde”, which he would capture and rename as the “Queen Anne’s Revenge”.

• 1720 Anne Bonny and Mary Read are tried, found guilty of pirating, and sentenced to death in Spanish Town, Jamaica, although their discovered pregnancies won them stays of execution.

• 1814 The Times of London first printed by automatic, steam powered presses built by German inventors Friedrich Koenig and Andreas Friedrich Bauer – makes newspapers available to a mass audience.

• 1821 Panama declares independence from Spain.

• 1833 Charles Darwin rides through Las Pietras, returning to Montevideo.

• 1843 Ka Lahui: Hawaiian Independence Day – The Kingdom of Hawaii is officially recognized by the United Kingdom and France as an independent nation.

• 1875 British explorer Verney Cameron reaches East Africa.

• 1908 154 men die in coal mine explosion at Marianna, Pennsylvania.

• 1922 Captain Cyril Turner (RAF) gives 1st skywriting exhibition (NYC) Turner spelled out “Hello USA. Call Vanderbilt 7200.” 47 000 called.

• 1929 Richard E. Byrd makes his first South Pole flight.

• 1932 Groucho Marx performs on radio for the first time.

• 1933 A Dallas grand jury delivers a murder indictment against Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow for the January 1933 killing of Tarrant County Deputy Malcolm Davis.

• 1942 492 die in a fire that destroyed Cocoanut Grove nightclub in Boston.

• 1944 400 Rotterdammers attack coal warehouse.

• 1958 Chad becomes an autonomous republic within French community.

• 1958 Congo & Mauritania become autonomous members of French community.

• 1960 Mauritania gains independence from France (National Day)

• 1963 The Beatles “She Loves You” unusually, returns to #1 in UK record chart and reaches 1 million copies sold.

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• 1966 Coup in Burundi overthrows monarchy; a republic is declared.

• 1966 Dominican Republic adopts constitution.

• 1968 John Lennon is fined £150 for unauthorized drug possession.

• 1974 John Lennon’s last concert appearance (Elton John concert in Madison Square Garden NYC).

• 1975 Democratic Republic of East-Timor proclaimed

• 1984 Over 250 years after their deaths, William Penn and his wife Hannah Callowhill Penn are made Honorary Citizens of the United States

• 1987 South African Airways Boeing 747 crashes into Indian Ocean, 159 die.

• 1988 Picasso’s “Acrobat & Harlequin” sells for $38.46-million.

• 1989 Romanian gymnast Nadia Comaneci flees to Hungary.

• 1994 Norway votes against joining European Union.

• 1994 In Portage, Wisconsin, convicted serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer is clubbed to death by an inmate in the Columbia Correctional Institution gymnasium.

• 2012 54 people are killed and 120 are injured by two car bombs in Damascus, Syria.

• 2012 “The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey” 1st of the Hobbit film series, directed by Peter Jackson, starring Martin Freeman and Ian McKellen, premieres in Wellington, New Zealand.

• 2016 Plane carrying Brazilian Chapecoense football team crashes near Medellin, Colombia killing 71 players and journalists.

Source: www.onthisday.com