Today in History: November 29, film star Natalie Wood drowns off Catalina Island

Today is Friday, Nov. 29, the 334th time of 2024. There are 32 days near successful the year.

Today successful history:

On Nov. 29,1981, movie prima Natalie Wood drowned astatine property 43 portion boating disconnected California’s Santa Catalina Island with her hubby Robert Wagner and histrion Christopher Walken.

Also connected this date:

In 1864, a Colorado militia launched an unprovoked onslaught connected an encampment of Cheyenne and Arapahoe tribal members, sidesplitting an estimated 230 people.

In 1929, Navy Lt. Cmdr. Richard E. Byrd, aviator Bernt Balchen, vigor relation Harold June and lensman Ashley McKinney made the archetypal airplane formation implicit the South Pole.

In 1961, Enos the chimp was launched from Cape Canaveral aboard the Mercury-Atlas 5 spacecraft, which orbited world doubly earlier returning.

In 1987, a Korean Air 707 jetliner en way from Abu Dhabi to Bangkok was destroyed by a weaponry planted by North Korean agents, sidesplitting each 115 radical aboard.

In 2001, erstwhile Beatle George Harrison died successful Los Angeles pursuing a conflict with cancer; helium was 58.

In 2012, the United Nations voted overwhelmingly to assistance Palestine non-observer subordinate authorities status, a ballot that came precisely 65 years aft the General Assembly adopted a program to disagreement Palestine into abstracted states for Jews and Arabs. (The 2012 ballot was 138 successful favor; 9 members, including the United States, voted against and 41 abstained.)

In 2018, successful a astonishment blameworthy plea, erstwhile Trump lawyer Michael Cohen confessed that helium lied to Congress astir a Moscow existent property woody helium pursued connected Trump’s behalf during the 2016 campaign.

In 2022, Oath Keepers laminitis Stewart Rhodes was convicted of seditious conspiracy for a convulsive crippled to overturn Democrat Joe Biden’s statesmanlike win, handing the Justice Department a large triumph successful its monolithic prosecution of the Jan. 6, 2021 insurrection astatine the U.S. Capitol. (Rhodes would beryllium sentenced to 18 years successful situation successful May 2023).

Today’s Birthdays:

• Actor Diane Ladd is 89.
• Musician Chuck Mangione is 84.
• Filmmaker Joel Coen is 70.
• Actor-TV property Howie Mandel is 69.
• Actor Cathy Moriarty is 64.
• Actor Kim Delaney is 63.
• Actor Andrew McCarthy is 62.
• Actor Don Cheadle is 60.
• Pop vocalist Jonathan Knight (New Kids connected the Block) is 56.
• Baseball Hall of Famer Mariano Rivera is 55.
• Actor Brian Baumgartner is 52.
• Actor Anna (AH’-nuh) Faris is 48.
• Rapper The Game is 45.
• Actor Gemma Chan is 42.
• Actor Lucas Black is 42.
• NFL backmost Russell Wilson is 36.