Today is Monday, Nov. 29, the 333rd day of 2010. There are 32 days left in the year.
Today’s Highlight in History:
On Nov. 29, 1910, British explorer Robert F. Scott’s ship Terra Nova set sail from New Zealand, carrying Scott’s expedition toward Antarctica on what turned out to be a futile — as well as fatal — race to reach the South Pole first.
On this date:
In 1530, Cardinal Thomas Wolsey, onetime adviser to England’s King Henry VIII, died.
In 1864, a Colorado militia killed at least 150 peaceful Cheyenne Indians in the Sand Creek Massacre.
In 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.
In 1947, the U.N. General Assembly passed a resolution calling for the partitioning of Palestine between Arabs and Jews.
In 1967, Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara announced he was leaving the Johnson administration to become president of the World Bank.
In 1986, actor Cary Grant died in Davenport, Iowa, at age 82.
In 1990, the U.N. Security Council voted to authorize military action to free Kuwait if Iraq did not withdraw its occupying troops and release all foreign hostages by Jan. 15, 1991.
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Today’s Birthdays:
Hall-of-Fame sportscaster Vin Scully is 83. Comedian Garry Shandling is 61. Movie director Joel Coen is 56. Actor-comedian-game show host Howie Mandel is 55. Homeland Security Director Janet Napolitano is 53. Actor Don Cheadle is 46. Actress Anna Faris is 34. Actor Lucas Black is 28.
Thought for Today:
“Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.” — Edmund Burke, British statesman (1729-1797).
Today in History (29 November 2010)
