history at a glance

TODAY is Sunday November 29 the 334th day of the year. There are 32 days left in the year.

Highlights in history on this date:

1947 – Partition Plan: The United Nations General Assembly approves a plan for the partition of Palestine. 1950 – Korean War: North Korean and Chinese troops force United Nations forces to retreat from North

Korea.

1961 – Project Mercury: Mercury-Atlas 5 Mission – Enos, a chimpanzee, is launched into space. The spacecraft orbits the Earth twice and splashes down off the coast of Puerto Rico.

1963 – U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson establishes the Warren Commission to investigate the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.

1967 – Vietnam War: U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara announces his resignation.

1972 – Atari announces the release of Pong, the first commercially successful video game.

1975 – Graham Hill and Tony Brise, along with three other members of the Embassy Hill F1 team, were

killed when their plane crashed at Arkley golf course, England, in thick fog.

1987 – Korean Air Flight 858 explodes over the Thai–Burmese border, killing 115.

1990 – Gulf War: The United Nations Security Council passes two resolutions to restore international peace and security if Iraq does not withdraw its forces from Kuwait and free all foreign hostages by January 15, 1991.

2007 – The Armed Forces of the Philippines lay siege to the Peninsula Manila after soldiers led by Senator

Antonio Trillanes stage a mutiny.

2007 – A 7.4 magnitude earthquake occurs off the northern coast of Martinique. This affects the Eastern

Caribbean as far north as Puerto Rico and as far south as Trinidad.

2012 – United Nations General Assembly approves a resolution to upgrade the Palestinian Authority’s

observer status from “entity” to “non-member state”.