Historical Events on November 28

1291 Eleanor of Castile, wife of King Edward I of England, dies in Northamptonshire. Crosses are erected where her body rests on the way to London.

1520 Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan begins crossing the Pacific Ocean

1660 The Royal Society is formed at Gresham College, London, after a lecture by Christopher Wren, Gresham Professor of Astronomy

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

1754 Jean-Baptiste Le Rond d'Alembert is elected to the French Academy of Sciences

1906 Tommy Burns & Jack O'Brien fight to a draw in 20 for heavyweight boxing title

1918 Kaiser Wilhelm II of Prussia & Germany abdicates

1925 NHL goalie Georges Vezina collapses & dies 4 months later of TB

1929 Richard E. Byrd makes his 1st South Pole flight

1930 Howard Hanson's 2nd Symphony "Romantic" premieres

1931 Bradman scores 226, the 1st Test Cricket century at Gabba, v South Africa

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

1934 Winston Churchill tells British Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin not to under estimate German air power

1939 Hans Frank, Nazi Governor-General of Poland, organizes Judenrat

1943 Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin meet at the Tehran Conference in Iran to map out strategy

1957 "Look Homeward, Angel" play based on the book by Thomas Wolfe adapted by Ketti Frings and starring Anthony Perkins premieres in NYC

1959 Pope John XXIII publishes encyclical Princeps Pastorum

1968 John Lennon is fined £150 for unauthorized drug possession

1974 Bowie Kuhn suspends George Steinbrenner for 2 years

1975 Bobby Orr plays his last game for the Boston Bruins

1978 Reds fire manager Sparky Anderson after 9 years

1979 Pope John Paul II's first papal visit to Turkey, almost 1 1/2 years before Turkish native Mehmet Ali Agca attempts to kill him

1981 New Zealand general election won by ruling National party and Prime Minister Robert Muldoon

1982 Germany's Sylvia Hanika stages remarkable comeback to upset tennis icon Martina Navratilova 1–6, 6–3, 6–4 and win her only WTA Tour Championship in NYC

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

1986 US Reagan administration exceeds SALT II arms limitations for 1st time

1988 Picasso's "Acrobat & Harlequin" sells for $38.46 million

1989 Rickey Henderson signs record $3,000,000 per year Oak A's contract

1989 Queen Latifah releases her debut hip hop album "All Hail the Queen" featuring single "Ladies First"

1990 Singapore's Lee Kuan Yew resigns, ending his term as Singapore's longest-serving Prime Minister

1990 Conservative Party chooses John Major to succeed Margaret Thatcher as leader and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

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

1999 In an all-American final, Pete Sampras beats Andre Agassi 6–1, 7–5, 6–4 to win his 5th and final ATP Tour World Championship tennis title in Hanover, Germany

2010 In a classic matchup, Roger Federer wins his 5th season-ending ATP World Tour Finals tennis title with a 6–3, 3–6, 6–1 victory over Rafael Nadal of Spain in the final in London, England

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