Sunday, November 29, 2009

This will be 333rd day of the year and 32 days will remain in the year.


November 29 Birthdays

Louisa May Alcott
1832–1888, American author.

Ambrose Fleming
inventor of the diode (1849)

 William V. S. Tubman
president of Liberia (1895)

 C.S. Lewis
author (1898)

 Madeleine L'Engle
author (1918)

 Jacques Chirac
political leader (1932)

 Yuan T. Lee
chemist (1936)

 Diane Ladd
actress (1942)

 Joel Coen
filmmaker (1954)

 Don Cheadle
actor (1964)

November 29 in History

1924

Italian composer Giacomo Puccini died in Brussels before he could complete his opera "Turandot.'"

1929

Commander Richard E. Byrd and a crew of three became the first to fly over the South Pole.

1947

The United Nations voted to grant the Jewish people a homeland to be established in Palestine.

1963

The Beatles released I Want to Hold Your Hand in Great Britain.

1963

President Johnson named a commission headed by Earl Warren to investigate the assassination of President Kennedy.

1986

Actor Cary Grant died in Davenport, Iowa, at age 82.

2001

Beatle George Harrison died of cancer.

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