Major Events
- 1520 Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan begins crossing the Pacific Ocean
- 1814 The Times of London is first printed by automatic, steam-powered presses built by German inventors Friedrich Koenig and Andreas Friedrich Bauer, making newspapers available to a mass audience
- 1893 New Zealand women vote for the first time in a national election [1]
- 1919 American-born Lady Nancy Astor is elected as the first female member of the British House of Commons (to take her seat)
- 1967 First radio pulsars detected by British postgraduate Jocelyn Bell Burnell and her supervisor Antony Hewish at Cambridge University
Nov 28 in Film & TV
- 1975 “As the World Turns” and “The Edge of Night”, the final two American soap operas that had resisted going to pre-taped broadcasts, air their last live episodes
Nov 28 in Music
- 1925 Grand Ole Opry premieres as WSM Barn Dance on WSM Radio in Nashville, Tennessee
Nov 28 in Sport
- 1895 America’s first auto race is organized by the “Chicago Times-Herald” from Chicago to Evanston and back; six cars participate in the 55-mile race, and Frank Duryea wins, averaging 7 mph
Fun Fact About November 28
RAF Captain Cyril Turner performs the first skywriting exhibition in New York City, spelling out “Hello USA Call Vanderbilt 7200”; 47,000 people call
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