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