On This Day in History for 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 and captures a French merchant slave ship, which he renames as his flagship 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 win them stays of execution

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

1905 Arthur Griffith forms Sinn Féin in Dublin

1918 Kaiser Wilhelm II of Prussia & Germany abdicates

1919 US-born Lady Nancy Astor elected as the 1st female member of the British House of Commons

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

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

1959 Pope John XXIII publishes encyclical Princeps Pastorum

1967 1st radio pulsars detected by British postgraduate Jocelyn Bell Burnell and her supervisor Antony Hewish at Cambridge University

1974 Bowie Kuhn suspends George Steinbrenner for 2 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

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

1757 William Blake, English poet and artist (Songs of Innocence & Experience), born in London, England (d. 1827)

1866 Henry Bacon, American architect (Lincoln Memorial), born in Watseka, Illinois (d. 1924)

1929 Berry Gordy, record company owner (Motown), born in Detroit, Michigan

1582 Playwright and poet William Shakespeare (18) marries Anne Hathaway (26) (date of the marriage license)

1936 Paleoanthropologist Raymond Arthur Dart (43) weds librarian Marjorie Gordon Frew

1938 Chinese politician Mao Zedong (44) weds Jiang Qing (24) in a small private ceremony

1680 Gian Lorenzo [Giovanni] Bernini, Italian baroque sculptor, painter and architect (St. Peter's Baldachin), dies at 81

1794 Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben, Prussian-American military officer (major general of the Continental Army), dies at 64

1859 Washington Irving, American author (Legend of Sleepy Hollow), dies of a heart attack at 76

1954 Enrico Fermi, Italian-American nuclear physicist (Nobel 1938), dies of stomach cancer at 53

1968 Enid Blyton, English children's author (Noddy, Famous Five), dies at 71

1994 Jeffrey Dahmer, American serial killer (Milwaukee Cannibal), killed in prison at 34