November 28
1520 - Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan passed through the strait which bears his name to the Pacific Ocean.
1919 - American-born Lady Astor became the first woman to take a seat on the British Parliament.
1925 - The Grand Ole Opry (known then as the WSM Barn Dance) debuted on radio station WSM in Nashville, Tennessee; it continues today as the longest-running radio broadcast in U.S. history.
1942 - Almost 500 people died in the Coconut Grove nightclub fire in Boston.
1943 - President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet leader Josef Stalin met in Tehran, Iran to strategize during World War II.
1964 - The U.S. spacecraft Mariner 4 was launched, and would become the first successful mission to Mars.
1990 - Margaret Thatcher resigned as prime minister of Great Britain; John Major then succeeded her.
2001 - Enron Corp., once the world’s largest energy trader, collapsed after would-be rescuer Dynegy Inc. backed out of an $8.4 billion takeover deal. (Enron filed for bankruptcy protection four days later.)
2022 - Payton Gendron, a white gunman who massacred 10 Black people at a Buffalo supermarket, pleaded guilty to murder and hate-motivated terrorism charges in an agreement that gave him life in prison without parole.
Birthdays
22 - Gela Walter (model)
23 - Stella Quaresma (actress)
31 - Bryshere Gray (actor)
37 - Karen Gillan (actress)
40 - Mary Elizabeth Winstead (actress)
41 - Summer Rae (professional wrestler/model)
42 - Alan Ritchson (actor)
46 - Aimee Garcia (actress)
55 - Colman Domingo (actor)
62 - Jon Stewart (comedian/TV host)
65 - Judd Nelson (actor)
74 - Ed Harris (actor)
75 - Paul Shaffer (band leader)
82 - Paul Warfield (football player)
95 - Berry Gordy Jr. (music executive)
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Today in Sports History - November 28
1929 - Ernie Nevers (Chicago Cardinals) set an NFL record when he scored 40 points in a game. He scored six touchdowns and kicked four extra points.
1938 - TCU quarterback Davey O'Brien wins the Heisman Trophy.
1961 - Running back Ernie Davis of Syracuse became the first Black college football player to win the Heisman Trophy.
1967 - UCLA quarterback Gary Beban wins the Heisman Trophy.
1969 - The New York Knicks set an NBA record when they won their 18th consecutive game.
1978 - Oklahoma running back Billy Sims wins the Heisman Trophy.
1979 - Billy Smith (New York Islanders) became the first goalie in NHL history to get credit for a goal. Smith was the last Islander to touch the puck before Rob Ramage (Colorado Rockies) put it into his own net.
1981 - Alabama football coach Paul "Bear" Bryant wins his 315th game to pass Amos Alonzo Stagg as college football's winningest coach.
1982 - Ron Sutter began his NHL career as a Philadelphia Flyer. With his start a record was set when 5 brothers all played in the NHL. His brothers were Brian (St. Louis), Darryl (Chicago), Brent (Islanders) and Duane (Islanders). Ron's twin Rich signed with Pittsburgh a year later to make it six Sutters brothers in the league at one time.
1989 - Rickey Henderson signs a contract with the Oakland Athletics that pays him a record $3 million per year.
2002 - Michael Jordan (Washington Wizards) announced that he would retire for the third and final time at the end of the NBA season.
2015 - British boxer Tyson Fury defeats Ukrainian Vladimir Klitschko by unanimous decision to win the WBA, WBO, IBF, IBO, The Ring Magazine and lineal heavyweight titles; it ends Klitschko's nine-year reign as champion.
