WEDNESDAY, Nov. 29, 2023

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

1887 — U.S. receives rights to Pearl Harbor, on Oahu, Hawaii

1933 — First state liquor stores authorized (Pennsylvania)

1944 — Albania liberated from Nazi control (National Day)

1944 — John Hopkins hospital performs first open heart surgery

1947 — U.N. Gen Assembly partitions Palestine between Arabs & Jews

1951 — First underground atomic explosion, Frenchman Flat, Nevada

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

1978 — U.N. observes "international day of solidarity with the Palestinian people," boycotted by U.S. & about 20 other countries

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

1990 — U.N. Security Council sets Jan 15th military deadline against Iraq