WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 2007

Today is Wednesday, November 28, the 332nd day of 2007. There are 33 days left in the year.

741 _ St. Gregory III ends his reign as Catholic pope

1520 _ Ferdinand Magellan begins crossing the Pacific Ocean

1853 _ Olympia established as the capital of Washington Territory

1871 Ku Klux Klan trials began in the Federal District Court in South Carolina

1919 _ U.S.-born Lady Astor elected the first female member of the British Parliament

1942 _ Nearly 500 die in a fire that destroyed Coconut Grove nightclub in Boston

1943 _ FDR, Churchill and Stalin met at Tehran to map out strategy

1958 Chad becomes an autonomous republic within the French community

1958 _ Congo and Mauritania become autonomous members of French Community

1960 _ Mauritania gains independence from France

1986 _ The Reagan administration exceeds SALT II arms limitations for the first time

1987 _ South African Airways Boeing 747 crashes into Indian Ocean, 159 die

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