This Day In European History

28th November

Events
1520: Ferdinand Magellan, Portuguese explorer, crosses from the Atlantic to Pacific Oceans during his round the world voyage.
1660 England's Royal Society founded.
1919: Nancy Astor becomes the first woman to sit in the British Parliament.
1943: Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin meet at Teheran.
1990: John Major becomes Prime Minister of Britain, succeeding Margaret Thatcher.

Births
1628: John Bunyan, English writer and author of Pilgrim's Progress.
1632: Jean-Baptiste Lully, Franco-Italian composer.
1681: Jean Cavalier, French Camisard.
1700: Nathaniel Bliss, English astronomer royal.
1757: William Blake, British poet and artist.
1820: Friedrich Engels, co-inventor of theoretical Communism.

Deaths
1058: Duke Casimir 'the Restorer' of Poland.
1680: Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Italian sculptor.
1698: Louis de Baude, French colonial governor.
1794: Friedrich von Steuben, Prussian general.
1876: Karl von Baer, Estonian embryologist.
1968: Enid Blyton, British children's author.

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