On this day: November 28

POSTED: 10:52 PM PST Nov 27, 2012    UPDATED: 11:00 PM PST Nov 27, 2012 

Magellan reaches the Pacific, William Shakespeare gets hitched, the Grand Ole Opry debuts, Olympic gymnast Nadia Comaneci defects, and Jeffrey Dahmer is killed in prison, all on this day.

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New York Public Library

1914: Following a World War I-induced closure in July, the New York Stock Exchange partially re-opens for bond trading to help the war effort. It would re-open completely for stock trading in December 1914.

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