THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 2012

Today is Thursday, November 29, the 334

th

day of 2012. There are 32 days left in the year.

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

1825 ― First Italian opera, Barber of Seville, produced in U.S. (NYC)

1864 ― Colorado militia kills 150 peaceful Cheyenne Indians

1877 ― Thomas Edison demonstrates the hand-cranked phonograph

1944 ― John Hopkins hospital performs first open heart surgery

1947 ― U.N. Gen 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"

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