TODAY IN HISTORY
TODAY IS WEDNESDAY, NOV. 29, the 333rd day of 2017. There are 32 days left in the year. TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT IN HISTORY: On this date in 1947, the U.N. General Assembly passed a resolution calling for the partitioning of Palestine between Arabs and Jews; 33 members, including the United States, voted in favor of the resolution, 13 voted against while 10 abstained. (The plan, rejected by the Arabs, was never implemented.)
In 1890, the first Army-Navy football game was played at West Point, New York; Navy defeated Army, 24-0.
In 1924, Italian composer Giacomo Puccini died in Brussels before he could complete his opera “Turandot.” (It was finished by Franco Alfano.)
In 1961, Enos the chimp was launched from Cape Canaveral aboard the Mercury-Atlas 5 spacecraft, which orbited earth twice before returning.
In 1972, the coin-operated video arcade game Pong, created by Atari, made its debut at Andy Capp’s Tavern in Sunnyvale, California.
In 1981, actress Natalie Wood drowned in a boating accident off Santa Catalina Island, California, at age 43.
In 1986, actor Cary Grant died in Davenport, Iowa, at age 82.
In 1987, a Korean Air 707 jetliner en route from Abu Dhabi to Bangkok was destroyed by a bomb planted by North Korean agents with the loss of all 115 people aboard.
In 1991, 17 people were killed in a 164-vehicle pileup during a dust storm on Interstate 5 near Coalinga, California.
In 2001, George Harrison, the “quiet Beatle,” died in Los Angeles following a battle with cancer; he was 58.
TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS: Hall of Fame sportscaster Vin Scully is 90. Blues singer-musician John Mayall is 84. Actress Diane Ladd is 82. Country singer Jody Miller is 76. Pop singermusician Felix Cavaliere (The Rascals) is 75. Former Olympic skier Suzy Chaffee is 71. Actor Jeff Fahey is 65. Movie director Joel Coen is 63. Actorcomedian-celebrity judge Howie Mandel is 62. Actress Cathy Moriarty is 57. Actress Kim Delaney and actor Tom Sizemore are 56. Actor Andrew McCarthy is 55. Actor Don Cheadle is 53. Pop singer Jonathan Knight (New Kids on the Block) and rock musician Martin Carr (Boo Radleys) are 49. Actor Larry Joe Campbell, rock musician Frank Delgado (Deftones) and actress Paola Turbay are 47. Actor Brian Baumgartner is 45. Actor Julian Ovenden is 42. Actress Anna Faris is 41. Gospel singer James Fortune is 40. Rock musician Ringo Garza and actor-comedian John Milhiser are 36. Actor Lucas Black is 35. Actress Lovie Simone (TV: “Greenleaf”) is 19.