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 Nov. 29, 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.)
On this date
1530 — Cardinal Thomas Wolsey, onetime adviser to England’s King Henry VIII, died. 1890 — The first Army-Navy football game was played at West Point, New York; Navy defeated Army, 24-0. The Imperial Diet, forerunner of Japan’s current national legislature, opened its first session. 1924 — Italian composer Giacomo Puccini died in Brussels before he could complete his opera “Turandot.” (It was finished by Franco Alfano.) 1956 — The musical comedy “Bells Are Ringing,” starring Judy Holliday, opened on Broadway. 1961 — Enos the chimp was launched from Cape Canaveral aboard the Mercury-Atlas 5 spacecraft, which orbited earth twice before returning. 1967 — U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara announced he was leaving the Johnson administration to become president of the World Bank. 1972 — The coin-operated video arcade game Pong, created by Atari, made its debut at Andy Capp’s Tavern in Sunnyvale, California. 1981 — Actress Natalie Wood drowned in a boating accident off Santa Catalina Island, California, at age 43. 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. 1991 — Seventeen people were killed in a 164-vehicle pileup during a dust storm on Interstate 5 near Coalinga, California. 2012 — Federal agents and Rome Police Department officials executed a search warrant on Children’s Dentistry of Rome, 20 Redmond Road, following complaints of improper use of restraints and improper or unnecessary performance of dental work on children.
Today’s Birthdays
Hall of Fame sportscaster Vin Scully is 90. Former French President Jacques Chirac is 85. Blues singer-musician John Mayall is 84. Actress Diane Ladd is 82. Songwriter Mark James is 77. Pop singer-musician Felix Cavaliere (The Rascals) is 75. Movie director Joel Coen is 63. Actor-comedian-celebrity judge Howie Mandel is 62. Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel is 58. Actor Tom Sizemore is 56. Actor Andrew McCarthy is 55. Actor Don Cheadle is 53. Pop singer Jonathan Knight (New Kids on the Block) is 49. Rock musician Frank Delgado (Deftones) is 47. Actor Brian Baumgartner is 45. Actress Anna Faris is 41. Rapper The Game is 38. Actor Lucas Black is 35. Actor Diego Boneta is 27. Actress Lovie Simone (TV: “Greenleaf”) is 19. Anna K. Davie student Jameria Williams, daughter of Jermaine and Jackie Williams of Rome, is 11.