MONDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Today is Monday, November 29, the 333rd day of 2010. There are 32 days left in the year.

1812 ― Napoleon's Grand Army crosses Berezina River in retreat from Russia

1877 ― Thomas Edison demonstrates the hand-cranked phonograph

1944 ― John Hopkins hospital performs first open heart surgery

1947 ― U.N. General Assembly partitions Palestine between Arabs and Jews

1951 ― first underground atomic explosion, Frenchman Flat, Nev.

1952 ― President-elect Eisenhower visits Korea to assess the war

1963 ― Beatles release ``I Want to Hold Your Hand"

1963 ― LBJ sets up Warren Commission to investigate assassination of JFK

1965 ― Dale Cummings does 14,118 consecutive sit-ups

1987 ― Korean Air Boeing 707 disappears off Burma, on route to Seoul. All 115 lost