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Updated November 28, 2012, 1:28 pm
On Nov. 29, 1947, the U.N. General Assembly passed a resolution calling for Palestine to be partitioned between Arabs and Jews.
On Nov. 29, 1832, Louisa May Alcott, the American author of the classic “Little Women”, was born. Following her death on March 6, 1888, her obituary appeared in The Times.
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1890 Navy won the first Army-Navy football game 24-0 at West Point, N.Y. 1924 Italian composer Giacomo Puccini died in Brussels. 1947 The U.N. General Assembly passed a resolution calling for Palestine to be partitioned between Arabs and Jews. 1952 President-elect Dwight D. Eisenhower kept his campaign promise to visit Korea to assess the conflict. 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 Chief Justice Earl Warren to investigate the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. 1989 In response to a growing pro-democracy movement in Czechoslovakia, the Communist-run parliament ended the party’s 40-year monopoly on power. 1990 The U.N. Security Council voted 12-2 to authorize military action if Iraq did not withdraw its troops from Kuwait and release all foreign hostages by Jan. 15, 1991. 1996 A U.N. court sentenced Bosnian Serb army soldier Drazen Erdemovic to 10 years in prison for his role in the massacre of 1,200 Muslims – the first international war crimes sentence since World War II. 1999 Protestant and Catholic adversaries formed a Northern Ireland government. 2001 Rock musician George Harrison of the Beatles died at age 58 following a battle with cancer. Current Birthdays
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New York Yankees pitcher Mariano Rivera turns 43 years old today.
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Actor Andrew McCarthy turns 50 years old today.
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1927 Vin Scully, Sportscaster, turns 85 1932 Jacques Chirac, Former president of France, turns 80 1933 John Mayall, Blues singer, musician, turns 79 1935 Diane Ladd, Actress, turns 77 1940 Chuck Mangione, Musician, composer, turns 72 1946 Suzy Chaffee, Skier, turns 66 1949 Garry Shandling, Actor, comedian (“The Larry Sanders Show”), turns 63 1954 Joel Coen, Director (“Fargo”), turns 58 1955 Howie Mandel, Comedian, game show host (“Deal or No Deal”), turns 57 1957 Janet Napolitano, Secretary of homeland security, turns 55 1959 Rahm Emanuel, Mayor of Chicago, turns 53 1961 Kim Delaney, Actress (“NYPD Blue”), turns 51 1961 Tom Sizemore, Actor, turns 51 1964 Don Cheadle, Actor (“Hotel Rwanda”), turns 48 1968 Jonathan Knight, Singer (New Kids on the Block), turns 44 1970 Larry Joe Campbell, Actor (“According to Jim”), turns 42 1976 Anna Faris, Actress, turns 36 1982 Lucas Black, Actor, turns 30 Historic Birthdays
Louisa May Alcott 11/29/1832 – 3/6/1888 American writerGo to obituary »
70 Pierre-Andre Latreille 11/29/1762 – 2/6/1833
French zoologist50 Gaetano Donizetti 11/29/1797 – 4/8/1848
Italian opera composer49 Christian Doppler 11/29/1803 – 3/17/1853
Austrian physicist and discoverer of the Doppler effect71 Morrison Waite 11/29/1816 – 3/23/1888
Seventh chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1874-88)80 Busby Berkeley 11/29/1895 – 3/14/1976
American film director and choreographer75 William Tubman 11/29/1895 – 7/23/1971
Liberian statesman and president for 27 years64 C.S. Lewis 11/29/1898 – 11/22/1963
English writer and scholar87 Mildred Gillars 11/29/1900 – 6/25/1988
American Nazi radio propagandist85 Marcel Lefebvre 11/29/1905 – 3/25/1991
French Roman Catholic archbishop63 Adam Clayton Powell Jr. 11/29/1908 – 4/4/1971
American minister and civil-rights leader; congressman from New York (1945-70)51 Billy Strayhorn 11/29/1915 – 5/31/1967
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