Today is Thursday, November 29, the 333rd day of 2007. There are 32 days left in the year.
1812 _ Napoleon's Grand Army crosses Berezina River in retreat from Russia
1825 _ The first Italian opera, Barber of Seville, produced in the U.S. (NYC)
1864 _ Colorado militia kills 150 peaceful Cheyenne Indians
1877 _ Thomas Edison demonstrates the hand-cranked phonograph
1887 _ The U.S. receives rights to Pearl Harbor, on Oahu, Hawaii
1916 _ The U.S. declares martial law in Dominican Republic
1944 _ Albania liberated from Nazi control
1944 _ John Hopkins hospital performs the first open heart surgery
1945 _ Monarchy abolished as Yugoslavia proclaims its republic
1951 _ The first underground atomic explosion in Frenchman Flat, Nevada
1952 _ President-elect Eisenhower visits South Korea to assess the war
1968 _ John and Yoko release their first album ``Two Virgins" in U.K.
1969 _ Beatles' ``Come Together" single goes No. 1
1978 _ The U.N. observes ``international day of solidarity with the Palestinian people," boycotted by the U.S. and about 20 other countries
1987 _ Korean Air Boeing 707 disappears off Myanmar on route to Seoul. All 115 lost
1990 _ The U.N. Security Council sets Jan. 15 military deadline against Iraq
1994 _ Russian aircraft bomb the Chechen capital of Grozney