Today In History

Today is Thursday, Nov. 29, the 333rd day of 2018. There are 32 days left in the year.

TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT

› 1890: The first Army-Navy football game was played at West Point, New York; Navy defeated Army, 24-0.

ON THIS DATE

› 1910: British explorer Robert F. Scott’s ship Terra Nova set sail from New Zealand, carrying Scott’s expedition on its ultimately futile — as well as fatal — race to reach the South Pole first.

› 1929: Navy Lt. Cmdr. Richard E. Byrd, pilot Bernt Balchen, radio operator Harold June and photographer Ashley McKinney made the first airplane flight over the South Pole.

› 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.)

› 1961: Enos the chimp was launched from Cape Canaveral aboard the Mercury-Atlas 5 spacecraft, which orbited earth twice before returning.

› 1972: The coin-operated video arcade game Pong, created by Atari, made its debut at Andy Capp’s Tavern in Sunnyvale, Calif.

TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS

Hall of Fame sportscaster Vin Scully is 91. Former French President Jacques Chirac is 86. Blues singer-musician John Mayall is 85. Country singer Jody Miller is

77. Pop singer-musician Felix Cavaliere (The Rascals) is 76. Former Olympic skier Suzy Chaffee is

72. Actor Jeff Fahey is 66. Movie director Joel Coen is 64. Actor-comedian-celebrity judge Howie Mandel is 63. Actress Kim Delaney is 57. Actor Tom Sizemore is 57. Actor Andrew McCarthy is

56. Actor Don Cheadle is 54. Musician Wallis Buchanan is 53. Pop singer Jonathan Knight (New Kids on the Block) is 50. Rock musician Martin Carr (Boo Radleys) is

50. Actress Jennifer Elise Actress Paola Turbay is

48. Contemporary Christian singer Crowder is 47. Actress Gena Lee Nolin is

47. Actor Brian Baumgartner is 46. Actor Julian Ovenden is 43. Actor Chadwick Boseman is

42. Rock musician Ringo Garza is 37. Actor-comedian John Milhiser is 37. Actor Lucas Black is 36. Actor Diego Boneta is

28. Actress Lovie Simone (TV: “Greenleaf”) is 20.