11-28-2004, 06:12 AM
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November 28th
1520 ~ Three ships under the command of Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan reached the Pacific Ocean, becoming the first to sail from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific.
1632 ~ Birthday of Jean-Baptiste Lully, Composer.
1820 ~ Birthday of Friedrich Engels, social philosopher.
1859 ~ Death of Washington Irving, writer.
1905 ~ Irish nationalist Arthur Griffith founded Sinn Féin as a political party whose goal is the independence for all of Ireland.
1919 ~ Lady Astor was elected to be the first female member of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
1939 ~ Death of James A Naismith, creator of basketball.
1954 ~ Death of Enrico Fermi, Physicist.
1969 ~ The Rolling Stones released the classic album Let It Bleed.
1989 ~ Cold War: Velvet Revolution - The Communist Party of Czechoslovakia announced it would give up its monopoly on political power.
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