| On this date in: |
| 1890 |
Navy won the first Army-Navy football game 24-0 at West Point, N.Y. |
| 1924 |
Italian composer Giacomo Puccini died in Brussels. |
| 1947 |
The U.N. General Assembly passed a resolution calling for Palestine to be partitioned between Arabs and Jews. |
| 1952 |
President-elect Dwight D. Eisenhower kept his campaign promise to visit Korea to assess the conflict. |
| 1961 |
Enos the chimp was launched from Cape Canaveral aboard the Mercury-Atlas 5 spacecraft, which orbited Earth twice before returning. |
| 1963 |
President Lyndon B. Johnson named a commission headed by Chief Justice Earl Warren to investigate the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. |
| 1989 |
In response to a growing pro-democracy movement in Czechoslovakia, the Communist-run parliament ended the party’s 40-year monopoly on power. |
| 1990 |
The U.N. Security Council voted 12-2 to authorize military action if Iraq did not withdraw its troops from Kuwait and release all foreign hostages by Jan. 15, 1991. |
| 1996 |
A U.N. court sentenced Bosnian Serb army soldier Drazen Erdemovic to 10 years in prison for his role in the massacre of 1,200 Muslims – the first international war crimes sentence since World War II. |
| 1999 |
Protestant and Catholic adversaries formed a Northern Ireland government. |
| 2001 |
Rock musician George Harrison of the Beatles died at age 58 following a battle with cancer. |
