On this day: November 28

POSTED: 10:52 PM PST November 27, 2012    UPDATED: 11:00 PM PST November 27, 2012 
Explorer Ferdinand Magellan portrait

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.