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.
Reuters
1989: Romanian gymnast Nadia Comaneci, the first person in Olympic Games history to score a perfect 10 in gymnastics, which she did at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, escapes her homeland into Hungary. The five-time Olympic gold medalist would eventually make her way to New York City and settle in the United States, becoming a naturalized American citizen in 2001.
