November 29

Today in History

2001 - George Harrison of the Beatles dies.

2011 - Dr Conrad Murray sentenced in Michael Jackson death case.

1929 - Explorer Richard Byrd flies over the South Pole.

1967 - Robert McNamara resigns as Secretary of Defense during the Vietnam War.

1963 - One week after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, President Johnson appoints a special commission to investigate his death.

1981 - Actress Natalie Woods drowns.