November 29
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.
1986
Actor Cary Grant died in Davenport, Iowa, at age 82.
2001
Beatle George Harrison died of cancer.
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)
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