On Nov. 28, 1520, Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan...

November 28, 1990

On Nov. 28, 1520, Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan reached the Pacific Ocean after passing through the South American strait that now bears his name.

In 1839 Thanksgiving was observed for the first time in Chicago.

In 1895 America`s first organized auto race got under way as six cars began a 55-mile round trip from Chicago`s Jackson Park to Evanston (this sentence as published has been corrected in this text). (J. Frank Duryea won with an average speed of 7 miles an hour.)


In 1919 Lady Nancy Astor, born Nancy Langhorne in Greenwood, Va., became the first woman elected to the British Parliament.

In 1942 a fire destroyed the Cocoanut Grove nightclub in Boston, killing 491 people.

In 1943 President Franklin Roosevelt, Soviet Premier Josef Stalin and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill met in Tehran to plan their World War II strategy.

In 1963 President Lyndon Johnson announced that Cape Canaveral, Fla., would be renamed Cape Kennedy in honor of the late President John F. Kennedy. In 1971 Jordanian Premier Wasfi Tell was assassinated in Egypt after a meeting of the Arab League`s Joint Defense Council.

In 1973 Arab leaders ended a summit meeting in Algeria with agreement for an embargo against oil shipments to Portugal, Rhodesia and South Africa.

In 1977 Rhodesia announced that its raids against black nationalist guerrillas across the border in Mozambique had killed at least 1,200 people.

In 1981 fire engulfed the urban-renewal area of Lynn, Mass., injuring 10 people and forcing 600 to flee their homes.