NOVEMBER 29 IN HISTORY

· 1947 U.N. votes for partition of Palestine

·  American Revolution

·  1775 Congress creates Committee of Secret Correspondence

·  Automotive

·  1996 Last day at VW for Jose Ignacio Lopez

·  Civil War

·  1864 Sand Creek mass

acre

·  Cold War

·  1952 Eisenhower goes to Korea

·  Crime

·  2011 Dr. Conrad Murray receives four-year sentence in Michael Jackson’s death

·  Disaster

·  1991 Dust storm causes massive pileup in California

·  General Interest

·  1929 Byrd flies over South Pole

·  1950 Chinese overwhelm Allies in North Korea

·  1963 Johnson establishes Warren Commission

·  Hollywood

·  1981 Actress Natalie Wood drowns

·  Literary

·  1943 Sue Miller is born

·  Music

·  1975 Silver Convention “earn” a #1 pop hit with “Fly, Robin, Fly”

·  Old West

·  1864 Colorado militia massacre Cheyenne at Sand Creek

·  Presidential

·  1963 LBJ forms commission to investigate Kennedy assassination

·  Sports

·  1997 The legendary Eddie Robinson coaches his last game

·  Vietnam War

·  1967 McNamara resigns as Secretary of Defense

·  1968 Communists vow to smash Phoenix program

·  1971 Americal Division stands down and departs

·  World War I

·  1918 American nurse Maude Fisher writes to mother of war casualty

·  World War II

·  1942 Coffee rationing begins