On Nov. 28, 1520, Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan reached the Pacific Ocean after passing through the South American strait that now bears his name.
In 1895 the nation`s first organized auto race got underway as six cars began a 55-mile trip from Chicago`s Jackson Park to Evanston and back (this sentence as published has been corrected in this text). J. Frank Duryea won with an average speed of 7 miles an hour.
In 1942 a fire destroyed the Cocoanut Grove nightclub in Boston, killing 491 people.
In 1943 President Franklin Roosevelt, Soviet Premier Josef Stalin and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill met in Tehran to plan strategy in World War II.
In 1963 President Lyndon Johnson announced Cape Canaveral, Fla., would be renamed Cape Kennedy to honor the slain president.
