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Nov 29, 1947: U.N. votes for partition of Palestine
Despite strong Arab opposition, the United Nations votes for the partition of Palestine and the creation of an independent Jewish state.
The modern conflict between Jews and Arabs in Palestine dates back to the 1910s, when both groups laid claim to the British-controlled territory. The Jews were Zionists, recent emigrants from Europe and Russia who came to the ancient homeland of the Jews to establish a Jewish national state. The native Palestinian Arabs sought to stem Jewish immigration and set up a secular Palestinian state.
Beginning in 1929, Arabs and Jews openly fought in Palestine, and Britain attempted to limit Jewish immigration as a means of appeasing the Arabs. As a result of the Holocaust in Europe, many Jews illegally entered Palestine during World War II. Radical Jewish groups employed terrorism against British forces in Palestine, which they thought had betrayed the Zionist cause. At the end of World War II, in 1945, the United States took up the Zionist cause. Britain, unable to find a practical solution, referred the problem to the United Nations, which on November 29, 1947, voted to partition Palestine.
The Jews were to possess more than half of Palestine, though they made up less than half of Palestine's population. The Palestinian Arabs, aided by volunteers from other countries, fought the Zionist forces, but the Jews secured full control of their U.N.-allocated share of Palestine and also some Arab territory. On May 14, 1948, Britain withdrew with the expiration of its mandate, and the State of Israel was proclaimed by Jewish Agency Chairman David Ben-Gurion. The next day, forces from Egypt, Transjordan, Syria, Lebanon, and Iraq invaded.
The Israelis, though less well equipped, managed to fight off the Arabs and then seize key territories, such as Galilee, the Palestinian coast, and a strip of territory connecting the coastal region to the western section of Jerusalem. In 1949, U.N.-brokered cease-fires left the State of Israel in permanent control of those conquered areas. The departure of hundreds of thousands of Palestinian Arabs from Israel during the war left the country with a substantial Jewish majority.
Nov 29, 1918: American nurse Maude Fisher writes to mother of war casualty
On November 29, 1918, Maude Fisher, a nurse in the American Red Cross during World War I, writes a heartfelt letter to the mother of a young soldier named Richard Hogan to inform her of her son's death in an army hospital.
"My dear Mrs. Hogan," Fisher began, "If I could talk to you I could tell you so much better about your son's last sickness, and all the little things that mean so much to a mother far away from her boy." Richard Hogan, who survived his front-line service in the war unscathed, had been brought to the hospital with influenza on November 13, 1918--just two days after the armistice was declared. The influenza soon developed into pneumonia. Hogan was "brave and cheerful," Fisher assured Mrs. Hogan, "and made a good fight with the disease....He did not want you to worry about his being sick, but I told him I thought we ought to let you know, and he said all right."
Before two weeks had passed, however, Hogan was dead. Knowing the woman would only receive an official governmental notification of her son's death, Fisher gave a more personal account of his last days, including his joking with the hospital orderly and the other nurses' affection for him. According to Fisher, Hogan was buried in the cemetery at Commercy, in northeastern France, alongside other fallen American soldiers of the Great War.
"A big hill overshadows the place and the sun was setting behind it just as the Chaplain said the last prayer over your boy," Fisher wrote. "He prayed that the people at home might have great strength now for the battle that is before them, and we do ask that for you now. The country will always honor your boy, because he gave his life for it, and it will also love and honor you for the gift of your boy, but be assured, that the sacrifice is not in vain, and the world is better today for it."
Nov 29, 1963: Johnson establishes Warren Commission
One week after President John F. Kennedy was fatally shot while riding in a motorcade in Dallas, Texas, President Lyndon Johnson establishes a special commission, headed by Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren, to investigate the assassination.
After 10 months of gathering evidence and questioning witnesses in public hearings, the Warren Commission report was released, concluding that there was no conspiracy, either domestic or international, in the assassination and that Lee Harvey Oswald, the alleged assassin, acted alone. The presidential commission also found that Jack Ruby, the nightclub owner who murdered Oswald on live national television, had no prior contact with Oswald.
According to the report, the bullets that killed President Kennedy and injured Texas Governor John Connally were fired by Oswald in three shots from a rifle pointed out of a sixth-floor window in the Texas School Book Depository. Oswald's life, including his visit to the Soviet Union, was described in detail, but the report made no attempt to analyze his motives. Despite its seemingly firm conclusions, the report failed to silence conspiracy theories surrounding the event, and in 1978 the House Select Committee on Assassinations concluded in a preliminary report that Kennedy was "probably assassinated as a result of a conspiracy" that may have involved multiple shooters and organized crime. The committee's findings, as with the findings of the Warren Commission, continue to be widely disputed.
Nov 29, 1864: Native Americans are massacred at Sand Creek, Colorado
On this day in 1864, peaceful Southern Cheyenne and Arapahoe Indians are massacred by a band of Colonel John Chivington's Colorado volunteers at Sand Creek, Colorado.
The causes of the Sand Creek massacre were rooted in the long conflict for control of the Great Plains of eastern Colorado. The Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 guaranteed ownership of the area north of the Arkansas River to the Nebraska border to the Cheyenne and Arapahoe. However, by the end of the decade, waves of Euro-American miners flooded across the region in search of gold in Colorado's Rocky Mountains, placing extreme pressure on the resources of the arid plains. By 1861, tensions between new settlers and Native Americans were rising. On February 8 of that year, a Cheyenne delegation, headed by Chief Black Kettle, along with some Arapahoe leaders, accepted a new settlement with the Federal government. The Native Americans ceded most of their land but secured a 600-square mile reservation and annuity payments. The delegation reasoned that continued hostilities would jeopardize their bargaining power. In the decentralized political world of the tribes, Black Kettle and his fellow delegates represented only part of the Cheyenne and Arapahoe tribes. Many did not accept this new agreement, called the Treaty of Fort Wise.
The new reservation and Federal payments proved unable to sustain the tribes. During the Civil War, tensions again rose and sporadic violence broke out between Anglos and Native Americans. In June 1864, John Evans, governor of the territory of Colorado, attempted to isolate recalcitrant Native Americans by inviting "friendly Indians" to camp near military forts and receive provisions and protection. He also called for volunteers to fill the military void left when most of the regular army troops in Colorado were sent to other areas during the Civil War. In August 1864, Evans met with Black Kettle and several other chiefs to forge a new peace, and all parties left satisfied. Black Kettle moved his band to Fort Lyon, Colorado, where the commanding officer encouraged him to hunt near Sand Creek. In what can only be considered an act of treachery, Chivington moved his troops to the plains, and on November 29, they attacked the unsuspecting Native Americans, scattering men, women, and children and hunting them down. The casualties reflect the one-sided nature of the fight. Nine of Chivington's men were killed; 148 of Black Kettle's followers were slaughtered, more than half of them women and children. The Colorado volunteers returned and killed the wounded, mutilated the bodies, and set fire to the village.
The atrocities committed by the soldiers were initially praised, but then condemned as the circumstances of the massacre emerged. Chivington resigned from the military and aborted his budding political career. Black Kettle survived and continued his peace efforts. In 1865, his followers accepted a new reservation in Indian Territory.
Here's a more detailed look at events that transpired on this date throughout history:
526 - Antioch in modern day Syria struck by Earthquake,
about 250,000 die
799 - Pope Leo III, aided by Charles the Great, returns to
Rome
1349 - Jews of Augsburg Germany massacred
1516 - Treaty of Freiburg] French/Swiss "eternal"
peace treaty
1561 - Lofland subjects himself on Sigismund August II of
Poland
1573 - Don Luis de Requesensy Zuniga succeeds duke of Alva
as land guardian of Netherlands
1581 - Doornik (Tournai) surrenders to Duke of Parma
1596 - King Philip II devalues Spanish currency
1745 - Bonnie Prince Charlie's army moves into Manchester
& occupies Carlisle
1760 - French commandant Beletre surrenders Detroit to Maj R
Rogers
1775 - Sir James Jay invents invisible ink
1781 - The crew of the slave ship Zong murders 133 Africans
by dumping them into the sea in order to claim insurance.
1803 - Dessalines & Christophe declare St Domingue
(Haiti) independent
1812 - Napoleon's Grand Army crosses Berezina River in
retreat from Russia
1813 - Elias Canneman (Lib) becomes minister of Finance
1825 - 1st Italian opera in US, "Barber of
Seville" premieres (NYC)
1830 - November Uprising: An armed rebellion against
Russia's rule in Poland begins.
1845 - The Sonderbund is defeated by the joint forces of
other Swiss cantons under General Guillaume-Henri Dufour.
1847 - Indians kill Washington state pioneers Marcus &
Narcissa Whitman, and 12 others in Walla Walla Ore
1850 - The treaty, Punctation of Olmütz, signed in Olomouc
means diplomatic capitulation of Prussia to Austrian Empire, which took over
the leadership of German Confederation.
1863 - Battle of Ft Sanders, TN (Ft Loudon), 8-900
casualities
1864 - 4th & last day of skirmishes at Waynesboro,
Georgia
1864 - Battle of Spring Hill, TN (Thomason's Station)
1864 - Sand Creek Massacre, Colorado militia kills about 150
peaceful Cheyenne and Arapaho Indians including Cheyenne chief One-Eye
1870 - Compulsory education proclaimed in England
1872 - Indian Wars: The Modoc War begins with the Battle of
Lost River.
Inventor Thomas EdisonInventor Thomas Edison 1877 - Thomas
Edison demonstrates hand-cranked phonograph
1887 - US receives rights to Pearl Harbor, on Oahu, Hawaii
1890 - 1st Army-Navy football game, Score: Navy 24, Army 0
at West Point
1893 - Ziqiang Institute, today known as Wuhan University,
is founded by Zhang Zhidong, governor of Hubei and Hunan Provinces in late Qing
Dynasty of China after his memorial to the throne is approved by the Qing
Government.
1897 - 1st motorcycle race (Surrey England)
1900 - Lord Kitchener succeeds lord Roberts up as supreme
commander in S Afr
1901 - East 182nd Street in Bronx is paved & opened
1902 - Gerhart Hauptmann's "Der arme Heinrich"
premieres in Vienna
1910 - The first US patent for inventing the traffic lights system
is issued to Ernest Sirrine.
1913 - 5th CFL Grey Cup: Hamilton Tigers defeats Toronto
Parkdale, 44-2
1915 - Fire destroys most of the buildings on Santa Catalina
Island, California.
1916 - US declares martial law in Dominican Republic
1918 - Serbia annexes Montenegro
1921 - Coldest day in Nov in Netherlands -14.0°C
1921 - Z Parenteau & Schuyler Green's musical
"Kiki" premieres in NYC
Author and Nobel Laureate Gerhart HauptmannAuthor and Nobel
Laureate Gerhart Hauptmann 1924 - 12th CFL Grey Cup: Queen's University defeat
Toronto Balmy Beach, 11-3
1924 - NHL's Montreal Forum opens
1926 - Tris Speaker resigns as Indians manager
1926 - W Somerset Maughams "Constant Wife"
premieres in NYC
1929 - Lt Cmdr Richard E Byrd sends "My calculations
indicate that we have reached vicinity of South Pole" (He was wrong)
1932 - Cole Porters musical "Gay Divorcee"
premieres in NYC
1932 - France signs non-agression pact with Soviet Union
1932 - USSR & France sign no attack treaty
1933 - 1st state liquor stores authorized (Pennsylvania)
1933 - Japan begins persecution of communists
1934 - Chic Bears beat Detroit (19-16) in 1st NFL game
broadcast nationally
1935 - Michael Savage becomes 1st Labour premier of NZ
1937 - Prince Bernhard injured in auto accident in
Netherlands
1938 - Mayor Oud of Rotterdam forbids soccer match between
Neth-Germany
1939 - Cor Klint swims world record 200 m backstroke
(2:38.8)
1939 - USSR drops diplomatic relations with Finland
1941 - 29th CFL Grey Cup: Winn Blue Bombers defeat Ottawa
Rough Riders, 18-16
1941 - Passenger ship Lurline sends radio signal of sighting
Jap war fleet
1942 - US rations coffee
1943 - Partisan Tito forms temporary government in Jajce
Bosnia
1943 - U-86 sinks in Atlantic Ocean
1943 - US aircraft carrier Hornet launched
1944 - Albania liberated from Nazi control (Natl Day)
1944 - John Hopkins hospital performs 1st open heart surgery
1944 - The first surgery (on a human) to correct blue baby
syndrome is performed by Alfred Blalock and Vivien Thomas.
1945 - Yugoslavian Socialist Republic proclaimed
1946 - Minister Drees begins emergency rule of old age
facilities
1947 - 35th CFL Grey Cup: Toronto Argonauts defeats Calgary
Stampeders, 10-9
1947 - UN Gen Assembly partitions Palestine between Arabs
& Jews
1948 - "Kukla, Fran, & Ollie" debuted on NBC
1948 - 1st opera to be televised, "Othello,"
broadcast from the Met (NYC)
1948 - KOB TV channel 4 in Albuquerque, NM (NBC) begins
broadcasting
1949 - Nationalist regime of China leaves for Taiwan/Formosa
1949 - Uranium mine explosions in East Germany kills 3,700
1950 - National Council of Church of Christ in US forms
1951 - 1st underground atomic explosion, Frenchman Flat
Nevada
1952 - 40th CFL Grey Cup: Toronto Argonauts defeats Edmonton
Eskimos, 21-11
1952 - Pres-elect Eisenhower visits Korea to assess war
1953 - American Airlines begins 1st regular coml NY-LA air
service
1953 - WSIX TV channel 8 in Nashville, TN (ABC) begins
broadcasting
1955 - Turkish government of Menderes resigns
1956 - "Bells Are Ringing" opens at Shubert Theater
NYC for 925 performances
1957 - NY Mayor Robert Wagner forms a committee to replace
Dodgers & Giants
1958 - 46th CFL Grey Cup: Winn Blue Bombers defeat Hamilton
Tiger-Cats, 35-28
1960 - 26th Heisman Trophy Award: Joe Bellino, Navy (HB)
1961 - Freedom Riders attacked by white mob at bus station
in Miss
1961 - John A McCone replaces Allen W Dulles as 6th director
of CIA
1961 - Mercury-Atlas 5 carries a chimp (Enos) to orbit
1962 - Baseball decides to revert back to 1 all star game
per year
1962 - Great-Britain & France decide to jointly build
Concorde
1963 - Beatles release "I Want to Hold Your Hand"
36th US President Lyndon B. Johnson36th US President Lyndon
B. Johnson 1963 - LBJ sets up Warren Comm to investigate assassination of JFK
1963 - Trans-Canada Airlines Flight 831: A Douglas DC-8
carrying 118, crashes after taking-off from Dorval Airport near Montreal,
Canada
1964 - Roman Catholic Church in US replaces Latin with
English
1965 - "Anya" opens at Ziegfeld Theater NYC for 16
performances
1965 - Dale Cummings does 14,118 consecutive sit-ups
1966 - SS Daniel J Morrell sinks in a storm on Lake Huron,
28 die, 1 survivor.
1966 - 1st NBA game at Oakland Coliseum Arena - Warriors
beat Bulls 108-101
1967 - British troops withdraw from Aden and South Yemen
1967 - Robert McNamara elected president of World bank
1968 - John & Yoko release their 1st album "Two
Virgins" in UK
1969 - The Beatles' "Come Together/Something"
reaches #1
1970 - Charles Ives' "Yale-Princeton," premieres
1970 - Colin Cowdrey becomes Test Crickets' leading run
scorer (7,250)
1971 - 1st pro golf championship at Walt Disney World
1971 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern
Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1972 - Nolan Bushnell (co-founder of Atari) releases Pong
(the first commercially successful video game) in Andy Capp's Tavern in
Sunnyvale, California.
1975 - Kilauea Volcano erupts in Hawaii
1975 - Pres Ford requires states to provide free education
for handicapped
1976 - Free agent Reggie Jackson signs 5 year pact with NY
Yankees
1976 - NY Yankees sign free agent Reggie Jackson to 5-year
contract
1978 - UN observes "international day of solidarity
with Palestinian people," boycotted by US & about 20 other countries
1978 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern
Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1979 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1981 - "My Fair Lady" closes at Uris Theater NYC
after 119 performances
1981 - Greg Chappell scores 201 v Pakistan at The Gabba
(Brisbane)
1982 - USSR performs underground nuclear test
1983 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern
Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1984 - Javed Miandad completes twin Test Cricket tons, v NZ,
Hyderabad
1987 - "Dreamgirls" closes at Ambassador Theater
NYC after 177 performances
1987 - 75th CFL Grey Cup: Edmonton Eskimos defeats Toronto
Argonauts, 38-36
1987 - France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
1987 - Joe Montana of 49ers completes NFL record 22
consecutive passes
1987 - New Orleans Saints win, assuring their 1st winning
NFL season
1987 - Ranger's Bob Frosse becomes 2nd goalie to score a
goal (vs Isles) It is later ruled that he should not be credited with goal
1987 - A Korean Air Boeing 707 explodes over the
Thai-Burmese border, killing 115
1989 - 8th Largest wrestling crowd (60,000-Tokyo Dome)
1989 - India president Rajiv Gandhi, resigns
1990 - "Shogun - The Musical" opens at Marquis
Theater NYC for 72 perfs
1990 - Expos pres Claude Brochu agrees to buy club from
Charles Bronfman
1990 - UN Security Council sets Jan 15th military deadline
against Iraq
1991 - TV show "Roc" has a gay wedding episode -
Can't Help Loving that Man
1991 - Test Cricket debut of Javagal Srinath, v Australia at
the Gabba
1992 - "Sea Gull" opens at Lyceum Theater NYC for
48 performances
1992 - "Solitary Confinement" closes at Nederlander
NYC after 25 perfs
1992 - 80th CFL Grey Cup: Calgary Stampeders defeats Winn
Blue Bombers, 24-10
1993 - "Abe Lincoln in Illinois" opens at Beaumont
Theater NYC for 40 perfs
1994 - Seoul, Korea, celebrated the 600th anniversary of its
founding
1995 - "Garden District" closes at Circle in the
Sq Theater NYC
1995 - CNN/fn, the financial network by Turner Enterprises,
launched
1997 - USAir Arena closes, hosting Wash Wizards
2005 - The new Croatian Communist Party (KPH) is founded in
Vukovar.
2007 - The Armed Forces of the Philippines lay siege to The
Peninsula Manila after soldiers led by Senator Antonio Trillanes stage a
mutiny.
2007 - A 7.4 magnitude earthquake occurs off the northern
coast of Martinique. This affected the Eastern Caribbean as far north as Puerto
Rico and as south as Trinidad.
2012 - 30 people are killed and 100 are wounded by bombs in
Hillah and Karbala, Iraq
2012 - The UN votes to approve Palestine’s status change
from an observer to an observer state
2012 - Luiz Felipe Scolari takes over as Brazilian Football
coach
1530 - Cardinal Thomas Wolsey, former adviser to England's King Henry VIII, died. 1864 - The Sand Creek Massacre occurred in Colorado when a militia led by Colonel John Chivington, killed at least 400 peaceful Cheyenne and Arapaho Indians who had surrendered and had been given permission to camp. 1890 - Navy defeated Army by a score of 24-0 in the first Army-Navy football game. The game was played at West Point, NY. 1929 - The first airplane flight over the South Pole was made by U.S. Navy Lt. Comdr. Richard E. Byrd. 1939 - The USSR broke off diplomatic relations with Finland prior to a Soviet attack. 1945 - The monarchy was abolished in Yugoslavia and a republic proclaimed. 1947 - The U.N. General Assembly passed a resolution that called for the division of Palestine between Arabs and Jews. 1961 - The Mercury-Atlas 5 spacecraft was launched by the U.S. with Enos the chimp on board. The craft orbited the earth twice before landing off Puerto Rico. 1963 - A Trans-Canada Airlines DC-8F with 111 passengers and 7 crew members crashed in woods north of Montreal 4 minutes after takeoff from Dorval Airport. All aboard were killed. The crash was the worst in Canada's history. 1963 - U.S. President Johnson named a commission headed by Earl Warren to investigate the assassination of President Kennedy. 1967 - U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara announced that he was leaving the Johnson administration to become president of the World Bank. 1971 - The Professional Golf Championship was held at Walt Disney World for the first time. Disney movies, music and books 1974 - In Britain, a bill that outlawed the Irish Republican Army became effective. 1975 - Bill Gates adopted the name Microsoft for the company he and Paul Allen had formed to write the BASIC computer language for the Altair. 1981 - Actress Natalie Wood drowned in a boating accident off Santa Catalina Island, CA, at the age 43. 1982 - The U.N. General Assembly voted that the Soviet Union should withdraw its troops from Afghanistan. 1986- Actor Cary Grant died at the age of 82. 1987 - A Korean jetliner disappeared off Burma, with 115 people aboard. 1987 - Cuban detainees released 26 hostages they'd been holding for more than a week at the Federal Detention Center in Oakdale, LA. 1988 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the rights of criminal defendants are not violated when police unintentionally fail to preserve potentially vital evidence. 1989 - In Czechoslovakia, the Communist-run parliament ended the party's 40-year monopoly on power. 1990 - The U.N. Security Council voted to authorize military action if Iraq did not withdraw its troops from Kuwait and release all foreign hostages by January 15, 1991. 1991 - 17 people were killed in a 164-vehicle wreck during a dust storm near Coalinga, CA, on Interstate 5. 1992 - Dennis Byrd (New York Jets) was paralyzed after a neck injury in a game against the Kansas City Chiefs. 1994 - The U.S. House passed the revised General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade. 1994 - Fighter jets attacked the capital of Chechnya and its airport only hours after Russian President Boris Yeltsin demanded the breakaway republic end its civil war. 1996 - A U.N. court sentenced Bosnian Serb army soldier Drazen Erdemovic to 10 years in prison for his role in the massacre of 1,200 Muslims. The sentence was the first international war crimes sentence since World War II. 1998 - Swiss voters overwhelmingly rejected legalizing heroin and other narcotics. 2004 - The French government announced plans to build the Louvre II in northern France. The 236,808 square foot museum was the planned home for 500-600 works from the Louvre's reserves. 2004 - Godzilla received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
1924 Italian composer Giacomo Puccini died in Brussels before he could complete his opera "Turandot.'" 1929 Commander Richard E. Byrd and a crew of three became the first to fly over the South Pole. 1947 The United Nations voted to grant the Jewish people a homeland to be established in Palestine. 1963 The Beatles released I Want to Hold Your Hand in Great Britain. 1963 President Johnson named a commission headed by Earl Warren to investigate the assassination of President Kennedy. 1986 Actor Cary Grant died in Davenport, Iowa, at age 82. 2001 Beatle George Harrison died of cancer.
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