Today in History.....November 29

On this day in …

* 1929, Navy Lt. Cmdr. Richard E. Byrd radioed that he'd made the first airplane flight over the South Pole

* 1933, first state liquor stores authorized (Pennsylvania)

* 1944, John Hopkins hospital performs first open heart surgery

* 1947, the U.N. General Assembly passed a resolution calling for the partitioning of Palestine between Arabs and Jews. The Arabs -- who had yet to discover they were actually "Palestinians" -- refused, saying that either they received the entire area or nothing.

* 1952, President-elect Dwight D. Eisenhower kept his campaign promise to visit Korea to assess the ongoing conflict

* 1961, "Enos" the chimp was launched from Cape Canaveral aboard the Mercury-Atlas 5 spacecraft, which orbited earth twice before returning

* 1962, baseball decides to revert back to one "all star game" per year

* 1963, President Lyndon Johnson named a commission headed by Earl Warren to investigate the assassination of President Kennedy

* 1999, Protestant and Catholic adversaries formed an extraordinary Northern Ireland government designed to bring together every branch of opinion within the bitterly divided society