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