TODAY IN HISTORY

On Nov. 29, 1864, a Colorado militia killed at least 150 peaceful Cheyenne Indians in the Sand Creek Massacre.

In 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.

In 1961, Enos the chimp was launched from Cape Canaveral aboard the Mercury-Atlas 5 spacecraft.

film star Natalie Wood drowned in a boating

In 1981,

accident off Santa Catalina Island, California.

In 1986, actor Cary Grant died in Iowa at age 82.

Mayor Bill de Blasio announced that New York City would reopen its school system to in-person learning and increase the number of days a week many children attend class, even as the pandemic intensified.