Right this moment is Friday, Nov. 29, the 334th day of 2024. There are 32 days left within the 12 months.
Right this moment in historical past:
On Nov. 29,1981, movie star Natalie Wooden drowned at age 43 whereas boating off California’s Santa Catalina Island together with her husband Robert Wagner and actor Christopher Walken.
Additionally on this date:
In 1864, a Colorado militia launched an unprovoked assault on an encampment of Cheyenne and Arapahoe tribal members, killing an estimated 230 folks.
In 1961, Enos the chimp was launched from Cape Canaveral aboard the Mercury-Atlas 5 spacecraft, which orbited earth twice earlier than returning.
In 1987, a Korean Air 707 jetliner en route from Abu Dhabi to Bangkok was destroyed by a bomb planted by North Korean brokers, killing all 115 folks aboard.
In 2001, former Beatle George Harrison died in Los Angeles following a battle with most cancers; he was 58.
In 2012, the United Nations voted overwhelmingly to grant Palestine non-observer member state standing, a vote that got here precisely 65 years after the Basic Meeting adopted a plan to divide Palestine into separate states for Jews and Arabs. (The 2012 vote was 138 in favor; 9 members, together with the USA, voted in opposition to and 41 abstained.)
In 2018, in a shock responsible plea, former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen confessed that he lied to Congress a couple of Moscow actual property deal he pursued on Trump’s behalf throughout the 2016 marketing campaign.
In 2022, Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes was convicted of seditious conspiracy for a violent plot to overturn Democrat Joe Biden’s presidential win, handing the Justice Division a serious victory in its huge prosecution of the Jan. 6, 2021 riot on the U.S. Capitol. (Rhodes can be sentenced to 18 years in jail in Could 2023).
Right this moment’s Birthdays:
Actor Diane Ladd is 89.
Musician Chuck Mangione is 84.
Filmmaker Joel Coen is 70.
Actor-TV character Howie Mandel is 69.
Actor Cathy Moriarty is 64.
Actor Kim Delaney is 63.
Actor Andrew McCarthy is 62.
Actor Don Cheadle is 60.
Pop singer Jonathan Knight (New Youngsters on the Block) is 56.
Baseball Corridor of Famer Mariano Rivera is 55.
Actor Brian Baumgartner is 52.
Actor Anna (AH’-nuh) Faris is 48.
Rapper The Recreation is 45.
Actor Gemma Chan is 42.
Actor Lucas Black is 42.
NFL quarterback Russell Wilson is 36.
