DAY IN HISTORY

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Today is the 333rd day of 2022 and the 69th day of autumn.

TODAY’S HISTORY: In 1929, Richard Byrd, Brent Balchen, Harold June and Ashley Mckinley became the first men to fly over the South Pole.

In 1947, the United Nations approved the partition of Palestine between Arabs and Jews.

In 1963, President Lyndon B. Johnson formed the Warren Commission to investigate the assassination of John F. Kennedy.

In 1972, the first commercially successful video game, Pong, was released in California.

TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS:

Louisa May Alcott (18321888), author; C.S. Lewis (1898-1963), scholar/ author; Vin Scully (19272022), sportscaster; Garry Shandling (1949-2016), actor/comedian; Joel Coen (1954- ), filmmaker; Howie Mandel (1955- ), actor/tv personality; Don Cheadle (1964- ), actor; Chadwick Boseman (19762020), actor.

TODAY’S FACT: One of the first video games was created in 1958 by William Higinbotham, a physicist at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven lab. The game, Tennis for Two, was very similar to Pong.

TODAY’S SPORTS: In 1997, legendary Grambling State University Tigers football coach Eddie Robinson coached his last game, a 30-7 loss to the Southern University Jaguars. Robinson had coached the Tigers for 55 seasons.

TODAY’S QUOTE: “We have produced a world of contented bodies and discontented minds.” — Adam Clayton Powell Jr.

TODAY’S NUMBER: 8,327 — feet below sea level at the lowest point in Antarctica’s Bentley Subglacial Trench, the world’s lowest elevation not covered by ocean.

TODAY’S MOON: Between new moon (Nov. 23) and first quarter moon (Nov. 30).