Sunday, November 29th
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Today's Highlights in History
On Nov. 29, 1947, the U.N. General Assembly passed a resolution calling for Palestine to be partitioned between Arabs and Jews. (Go to article.)
On Nov. 29, 1832, Louisa May Alcott, the American author of the classic "Little Women", was born. Following her death on March 6, 1888, her obituary appeared in The Times. (Go to obit. | Other Birthdays)
Editorial Cartoon of the Day
On November 29, 1862, Harper's Weekly featured a cartoon about former president James Buchanan's defense of his presidential policies on the eve of the Civil War. (See the cartoon and read an explanation.)
On this date in:
1890 The first Army-Navy football game was played, with Navy winning 24-0 at West Point, N.Y.
1924 Italian composer Giacomo Puccini died in Brussels.
1929 Navy Lt. Cmdr. Richard E. Byrd radioed that he'd made the first airplane flight over the South Pole.
1952 President-elect Dwight D. Eisenhower kept his campaign promise to visit Korea to assess the ongoing conflict.
1961 Enos the chimp was launched from Cape Canaveral aboard the Mercury-Atlas 5 spacecraft, which orbited Earth twice before returning.
1963 President Lyndon B. Johnson named a commission headed by Chief Justice Earl Warren to investigate the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
1967 Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara announced he was leaving the Johnson administration to become president of the World Bank.
1981 Actress Natalie Wood drowned in a boating accident at age 43.
1986 Actor Cary Grant died at age 82.
1989 In response to a growing pro-democracy movement in Czechoslovakia, the Communist-run parliament ended the party's 40-year monopoly on power.
1990 The U.N. Security Council voted 12-2 to authorize military action if Iraq did not withdraw its troops from Kuwait and release all foreign hostages by Jan. 15, 1991.
1996 A U.N. court sentenced Bosnian Serb army soldier Drazen Erdemovic to 10 years in prison for his role in the massacre of 1,200 Muslims - the first international war crimes sentence since World War II.
1999 Protestant and Catholic adversaries formed a Northern Ireland government.
2001 Rock musician George Harrison of the Beatles died at age 58 following a battle with cancer.
Current Birthdays
Mariano Rivera turns 40 years old today.
AP Photo/Henny Ray Abrams New York Yankees pitcher Mariano Rivera turns 40 years old today.
82 Vin Scully
Sportscaster
77 Jacques Chirac
Former president of France
76 John Mayall
Blues singer, musician
74 Diane Ladd
Actress
69 Chuck Mangione
Musician, composer
68 Jody Miller
Country singer
67 Felix Cavaliere
Pop singer, musician (The Rascals)
63 Suzy Chaffee
Skier
60 Garry Shandling
Actor, comedian ("The Larry Sanders Show")
57 Jeff Fahey
Actor
55 Joel Coen
Director ("Fargo")
52 Janet Napolitano
Secretary of homeland security
50 Rahm Emanuel
White House chief of staff
49 Cathy Moriarty
Actress
48 Kim Delaney
Actress ("NYPD Blue")
48 Tom Sizemore
Actor
47 Andrew McCarthy
Actor
45 Don Cheadle
Actor ("Hotel Rwanda")
44 Neill Barry
Actor, producer
44 Wallis Buchanan
Musician (Jamiroquai)
41 Martin Carr
Rock musician (Boo Radleys)
41 Jonathan Knight
Singer (New Kids on the Block)
40 Jennifer Elise Cox
Actress
39 Larry Joe Campbell
Actor ("According to Jim")
38 Gena Lee Nolin
Actress
37 Brian Baumgartner
Actor ("The Office")
33 Anna Faris
Actress
33 Julian Ovenden
Actor
30 The Game
Rapper
28 Ringo Garza
Rock musician (Los Lonely Boys)
27 Lucas Black
Actor
Historic Birthdays
Louisa May Alcott
11/29/1832 - 3/6/1888
American writer
(Go to obit.)
70 Pierre-Andre Latreille
11/29/1762 - 2/6/1833
French zoologist
50 Gaetano Donizetti
11/29/1797 - 4/8/1848
Italian opera composer
49 Christian Doppler
11/29/1803 - 3/17/1853
Austrian physicist and discoverer of the Doppler effect
71 Morrison Waite
11/29/1816 - 3/23/1888
Seventh chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1874-88)
80 Busby Berkeley
11/29/1895 - 3/14/1976
American film director and choreographer
75 William Tubman
11/29/1895 - 7/23/1971
Liberian statesman and president for 27 years
64 C.S. Lewis
11/29/1898 - 11/22/1963
English writer and scholar
87 Mildred Gillars
11/29/1900 - 6/25/1988
American Nazi radio propagandist
85 Marcel Lefebvre
11/29/1905 - 3/25/1991
French Roman Catholic archbishop
63 Adam Clayton Powell Jr.
11/29/1908 - 4/4/1971
American minister and civil-rights leader; congressman from New York (1945-70)
51 Billy Strayhorn
11/29/1915 - 5/31/1967
American pianist and composer
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