NOVEMBER 28
1919: American-bon Nancy Astor, wife of Viscount Astor, is the first woman to sit in the British House of Commons. Lady Astor, running on a platform of temperance and the rights of women and children, is elected as a Member of Parliament after her husband inherits a seat in the House of Lords. She would continue to serve in the House of Commons until retiring in 1945.
1960:Mauritania: independence from France
1963: President Lyndon B. Johnson announces that Cape Canaveral, site of NASA's space center and launchpad, would be renamed Cape Kennedy in honor of slain President John F. Kennedy, who had been a strong advocate of space exploration.
1994: Notorious serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer is killed along with another prisoner while serving time at the Columbia Correctional Institution in Portage, Wisc., by a fellow inmate. Dahmer committed 17 grisly murders between 1978 and 1991.
1861:Missouri is admitted by Confederate congress into Confederate States of America.
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