DAILY ALMANAC
Today is Monday, Nov. 29, the 333rd day of 2021. There are 32 days left in the year.
On this date in:
1864: A Colorado militia killed at least 150 peaceful members of the Cheyenne tribe in the Sand Creek Massacre.
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.
1963: President Lyndon B. Johnson named a commission headed by Earl Warren to investigate the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
1972: The coin-operated video arcade game Pong, created by Atari, made its debut at Andy Capp’s Tavern in Sunnyvale, California.
1981: Film star 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.
2001: Former Beatle George Harrison died in Los Angeles following a battle with cancer; he was 58.
2000: Bracing the public for more legal wrangling, Vice President Al Gore said in a series of TV interviews that he was prepared to contest the Florida presidential vote until “the middle of December.”
2008: Indian commandos killed the last remaining gunmen holed up at a luxury Mumbai hotel, ending a 60-hour rampage through India’s financial capital by suspected Pakistani-based militants that killed 166 people.
2017: “Today” host Matt Lauer was fired for what NBC called “inappropriate sexual behavior” with a colleague; a published report accused him of crude and habitual misconduct with women around the office.
Blues musician John Mayall is 88. Actor Diane Ladd is 86. Musician Chuck Mangione is 81. Director Joel Coen is 67. Actor-comedian Howie Mandel is 66. Actor Cathy Moriarty is 61. Actor Kim Delaney
(“NYPD Blue”) is 60. Actor Tom Sizemore is 60. Actor Andrew Mccarthy
is 59. Actor Don Cheadle
is 57. Singer Jonathan Knight of New Kids on the Block is 53. Actor Gena Lee Nolin (“Sheena,” “Baywatch”) is 50. Actor Brian Baumgartner (“The Office”) is 49. Actor Julian Ovenden (“Downton Abbey”) is 46. Actor Anna Faris (“Mom,” “Scary Movie”) is 45. Gospel singer James Fortune is 44. Actor Lauren German (“Lucifer,” “Chicago Fire”) is 43. Rapper The Game is 42.