Today is Saturday, November 28, the 332nd day of 2009. There are 33 days left in the year.
741 _ St. Gregory III ends his reign as Catholic Pope
1520 _ Ferdinand Magellan begins crossing Pacific Ocean
1871 _ Ku Klux Klan trials began in Federal District Court in S.C.
1929 _ Adm. Richard E Byrd makes first South Pole flight
1942 _ Nearly 500 die in a fire that destroyed Coconut Grove nightclub in Boston, Mass.
1943 _ FDR, Churchill and Stalin met at Tehran to map out strategy
1963 _ First million copy record prior to release ``I Want to Hold Your Hand"
1986 _ Reagan administration exceeds SALT II arms limitations for first time
1987 _ South African Airways Boeing 747 crashes into Indian Ocean, 159 die
1988 _ Picasso's ``Acrobat & Harlequin" sells for $38.46 million