Today in History.....November 28

On this day in …

* 1520, Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan reached the Pacific Ocean after passing through the South American strait that now bears his name

* 1925, the Grand Ole Opry, Nashville's famed home of country music, made its radio debut on station WSM

* 1943, President Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet leader Josef Stalin met in Tehran during World War II

* 1964, the United States launched the space probe Mariner IV on a course to Mars

* 1985, the Irish Senate approved the Anglo-Irish accord concerning Northern Ireland

* 1995, President Clinton continued to press his case for sending 20,000 U.S. ground troops to Bosnia; signed a $6 billion road bill that ended the federal 55 mph speed limit

* 2000, George W. Bush's lawyers asked the U.S. Supreme Court to bring "legal finality" to the presidential election by ending any further ballot recounts; Al Gore's team countered that the nation's highest court should not interfere in Florida's recount dispute