Today is Tuesday, November 29, the 333rd day of 2011. 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)
1877 ― Thomas Edison demonstrates the hand-cranked phonograph
1944 ― Johns Hopkins hospital performs first open heart surgery
1945 ― Monarchy abolished as Yugoslavia proclaims it's republic
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 ― LBJ sets up Warren Commission to investigate assassination of JFK
1987 ― Korean Air Boeing 707 disappears off Burma, on route to Seoul. All 115 lost