Portal:History of science/Selected anniversaries/November 28

November 28:

 * 1520 – After navigating through the South American strait, three ships under the command of Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan reach the Pacific Ocean, becoming the first Europeans to sail from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific


 * 1667 – Death of Jean de Thévenot, French traveller and scientist (b. 1633)


 * 1801 – Death of Déodat Gratet de Dolomieu, French geologist (b. 1750)


 * 1814 – The Times in London is for the first time printed by automatic, steam powered presses built by the German inventors Friedrich Koenig and Andreas Friedrich Bauer, signaling the beginning of the availability of newspapers to a mass audience


 * 1950 – Birth of Russell Alan Hulse, American physicist, Nobel laureate


 * 1954 – Death of Enrico Fermi, Italian physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1901)


 * 1987 – Death of Choh Hao Li, Chinese biochemist (b. 1913)