Sunday, November 28, 2010

November 28

Track Year Event Artist Song Album
1. 1582 In Stratford-upon-AvonWilliam Shakespeare and Anne Hathaway pay a £40 bond for their marriage licence. The Dixie Cups Chapel of Love Chapel of Love
2. 1814  The Times in London is for the first time printed by automatic, steam powered presses built by the German inventorsFriedrich Koenig and Andreas Friedrich Bauer, signaling the beginning of the availability of newspapers to a mass audience. Red House Painters Make Like Paper Songs for a Blue Guitar
3. 1895 The first American automobile race takes place over the 54 miles from Chicago's Jackson Park to Evanston, Illinois.Frank Duryea wins in approximately 10 hours. The Beach Boys Don't Worry Baby Don't Worry Baby
4. 1907 In Haverhill, Massachusetts, scrap-metal dealer Louis B. Mayer opens his first movie theater. Belle & Sebastian It Could Have Been a Brilliant Career Boy with the Arab Strap
5. 1929 Ernie Nevers of the then Chicago Cardinals scores all of the Cardinals' points in this game as the Cardinals defeat theChicago Bears 40-6. Sick of It All Clobberin' Time / Pay the Price Blood, Sweat, and No Tears
6. 1975 As the World Turns and The Edge of Night, the final two American soap operas that had resisted going to pre-taped broadcasts, air their last live episodes. Doves Last Broadcast Last Broadcast
7. 1994 In Portage, Wisconsin, convicted serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer is clubbed to death by an inmate in the Columbia Correctional Institution gymnasium Cro-Mags Street Justice In an Age of Quarrel

(Historical facts about November 28 are from Wikipedia.)

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