Right this moment is Saturday, Nov. 29, the 333rd day of 2025. There are 32 days left within the 12 months.
Right this moment in historical past:
On Nov. 29, 1864, a Colorado militia launched an unprovoked assault on an encampment of Cheyenne and Arapahoe tribal members, killing an estimated 230 individuals.
Additionally on this date:
In 1929, Navy Lt. Cmdr. Richard E. Byrd, pilot Bernt Balchen, radio operator Harold June and photographer Ashley McKinney made the primary airplane flight over the South Pole.
In 1961, Enos the chimpanzee was launched from Cape Canaveral aboard the Mercury-Atlas 5 spacecraft, which orbited Earth twice earlier than splashing down safely south of Bermuda.
In 1981, movie star Natalie Wooden drowned at age 43 whereas boating off California’s Santa Catalina Island together with her husband Robert Wagner and actor Christopher Walken.
In 1987, a Korean Air 707 jetliner en route from Abu Dhabi to Bangkok was destroyed by a bomb planted by North Korean brokers, killing all 115 individuals aboard.
In 2001, former Beatle George Harrison died in Los Angeles following a battle with most cancers; he was 58.
In 2012, the United Nations voted overwhelmingly to grant Palestine non-observer member state standing, a vote that got here precisely 65 years after the Common Meeting adopted a plan to divide Palestine into separate states for Jews and Arabs.
In 2022, Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes was convicted of seditious conspiracy for his position within the Jan. 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol rioting. (Sentenced to 18 years in jail in 2023, he was freed in 2025 below President Donald Trump’s sweeping grant of clemency to all 1,500-plus individuals charged within the riot.)
Right this moment’s Birthdays:
- Filmmaker Joel Coen is 71.
- Actor-TV character Howie Mandel is 70.
- Actor Cathy Moriarty is 65.
- Actor Kim Delaney is 64.
- Actor Andrew McCarthy is 63.
- Actor Don Cheadle is 61.
- Pop singer Jonathan Knight (New Youngsters on the Block) is 57.
- Baseball Corridor of Famer Mariano Rivera is 56.
- Actor Brian Baumgartner is 53.
- Actor Anna (AH’-nuh) Faris is 49.
- Rapper The Sport is 46.
- Actor Gemma Chan is 43.
- Actor Lucas Black is 43.
- NFL quarterback Russell Wilson is 37.