History for November 29

History for November 29 - On-This-Day.com
Louisa May Alcott 1832, Busby Berkeley 1895, C.S. Lewis 1898
 

Chuck Mangione 1940 - Composer, musician, Suzy Chaffee 1946 - Skier, Garry Shandling 1949 - Comedian, actor
    

1530 - Cardinal Thomas Wolsey, former adviser to England's King Henry VIII, died.


1890 - Navy defeated Army by a score of 24-0 in the first Army-Navy football game. The game was played at West Point, NY.


1929 - The first airplane flight over the South Pole was made by U.S. Navy Lt. Comdr. Richard E. Byrd.


1947 - The U.N. General Assembly passed a resolution that called for the division of Palestine between Arabs and Jews.


1961 - The Mercury-Atlas 5 spacecraft was launched by the U.S. with Enos the chimp on board. The craft orbited the earth twice before landing off Puerto Rico.


1975 - Bill Gates adopted the name Microsoft for the company he and Paul Allen had formed to write the BASIC computer language for the Altair.


1981 - Actress Natalie Wood drowned in a boating accident off Santa Catalina Island, CA, at the age 43.


1990 - The U.N. Security Council voted to authorize military action if Iraq did not withdraw its troops from Kuwait and release all foreign hostages by January 15, 1991.