November 29 - What happened today?

Home What happened today in history? Blamepro's Almanac for November 29
In the headlines today:

2001	George Harrison, former lead guitarist for The Beatles, dies of cancer in Los Angeles at age 58.
1999	Protestants and Catholics work together to form a new government in Northern Ireland.
1986	Actor Cary Grant dies in Davenport, IA, at age 82.
1981	Actress Natalie Wood drowns in a boating accident off Santa Catalina Island, California, at age 43.
1963	Earl Warren heads up a presidential commission to investigate the assassination of US president John F. Kennedy.
1961	The US launches the Mercury-Atlas 5 spacecraft (with Enos the chimp aboard), which makes two Earth orbits before returning.
1959	The Grammy® Awards are televised for the first time.
1948	Verdi's Othello is transmitted over WJZ-TV in New York -- becoming the first opera to be televised.
1947	A United Nations resolution passes to divide Palestine between Arabs and Jews.
1929	Navy Lieutenant Commander Richard E. Byrd radios that he has made the first airplane flight over the South Pole.
1890	The first annual Army-Navy football game is played at West Point, NY.
1890	Japan's Imperial Diet (forerunner to its national legislature), opens its first session.
1825	Rossini's Barber of Seville, the first Italian opera to be presented in the US, opens in New York City.

Born today:

1968 Martin Carr - guitarist (The Boo Radleys)

1968 Jonathan Knight - singer (New Kids on the Block)

1962 Andrew McCarthy - actor

1960 Cathy Moriarty - actress

1955 Howie Mandel - actor, comedian

1951 Barry Goudreau - guitarist (Boston, Orion the Hunter)

1949 Garry Shandling - comedian

1947 Suzy Chaffee - Olympics skier, Chapstick® spokesperson

1944 Felix Cavaliere - singer, keyboardist (The Young Rascals)

1941 Denny Doherty - singer (The Mamas & The Papas)

1940 Chuck Mangione - jazz horn player

1939 Meco Monardo - music producer, arranger (Star Wars Cantina Theme)

1933 David Ruben - author (Everything You Wanted to Know About Sex But Were Afraid to Ask)

1933 John Mayall - blues bandleader (John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers)

1932 Diane Ladd - actress

1927 Vin Scully - sportscaster

1918 Madeleine L'Engle - science fiction author (A Wrinkle in Time)

1917 Merle Travis - country singer, songwriter

1898 C.S. Lewis - science fiction author

1895 Busby Berkeley - film director

1832 Louisa May Alcott - author (Little Women)

1816 Morrison R. Waite - US Supreme Court Chief Justice (1874-88)

Born today? Your sign of the Zodiac is:

Sagittarius

(The Archer)