Today is Sunday, Nov. 29, the 333rd day of 2015

Today is Sunday, Nov. 29, the 333rd day of 2015. There are 32 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1530: Cardinal Thomas Wolsey, onetime adviser to England’s King Henry VIII, dies.

1864: A Colorado militia kills at least 150 peaceful Cheyenne Indians in the Sand Creek Massacre.

1890: The first Army-Navy football game is played at West Point, N.Y.; Navy defeats Army, 24-0.

1924: Italian composer Giacomo Puccini dies in Brussels before he could complete his opera “Turandot.” (It was finished by Franco Alfano.)

1945: The monarchy is abolished in Yugoslavia and a republic proclaimed.

1947: The U.N. General Assembly passes a resolution calling for the partitioning of Palestine between Arabs and Jews.

1952: President-elect Dwight D. Eisenhower secretly leaves on a trip to Korea, keeping his campaign promise to assess the ongoing conflict first-hand.

1961: Enos the chimp is launched from Cape Canaveral aboard the Mercury-Atlas 5 spacecraft, which orbits Earth twice before returning.

1972: The coin-operated video arcade game Pong, created by Atari, makes its debut at Andy Capp’s Tavern in Sunnyvale, Calif.

1981: Actress Natalie Wood drowns in a boating accident off Santa Catalina Island, Calif., at age 43.

1986: Actor Cary Grant dies in Davenport, Iowa, at age 82.

1990: The U.N. Security Council votes to authorize military action to free Kuwait if Iraq does not withdraw its occupying troops and release all foreign hostages by Jan. 15, 1991.

2001: George Harrison, the “quiet Beatle,” dies in Los Angeles following a battle with cancer; he was 58.

2005: Al-Jazeera broadcasts video of four Western peace activists taken hostage in Iraq by a previously unknown group, the Swords of Righteousness Brigade. (Three of the hostages were later released, but one of them, American Tom Fox, was killed.)

The Vatican issues a document defending a policy designed to keep men with “deep-seated” homosexual tendencies from becoming priests, but said there would be no crackdown on gays who were already ordained.

2010: An Afghan border policeman kills six American servicemen during a training mission in a remote area near the Pakistani border.

2014: An Egyptian judge dismisses murder charges against former President Hosni Mubarak and acquits his security chief over the killings of protesters during Egypt’s 2011 uprising.

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1990: Twenty-one anti-abortion protesters jailed for almost two weeks for blocking doors to the Mahoning Women’s Center have broken their 12-day holdout and are identifying themselves to police, clearing the way for their arraignment and release.

The Pennsylvania Department of Education files suit against the New Castle Board of Education in an attempt to get striking teachers back in the classroom.

Girard Mayor Joseph Christopher is attempting to have MTV (the Music Television Channel) blacked out on TCI Cablevision, which serves the city. The effort has drawn some national attention.

1975: Salvation Army opens its annual Christmas appeal to help the less fortunate.

“Woman Talk,” a statewide program of education on the “pro-life” issue is launched by the Diocese of Youngstown with a day-long session at St. Rose Church in Girard.

Donna Huntley of 787 Crandall Ave., is crowned Miss Cinderella 1975 at the Junior Civic League’s annual Cinderella Ball at the Idora Park ballroom.

1965: A masked gunman and his accomplices loot the Trumbull Country Club and pro shop after surprising and tying up three cleaning men. About $1,000 in cash was taken from a safe and shirts and sweaters were taken from the pro shop.

Suzanne Rowan of Canfield and Virginia Meholin, Steubenville, win district Prince of Peace contests and will complete in finals at Otterbein College.

United Airlines sets a record at the Youngstown Municipal Airport, boarding 442 passengers on the Sunday after Thanksgiving. An unknown number of passengers had to be turned away for lack of seats.

1940: With more snow swirling down on Eastern Ohio and western Pennsylvania, the Youngstown street department kept busy spreading 57 tons of ashes on dangerous roads in a 24 hour period.

Youngstown College faculty members Dr. Clarence Gould, Dr. Max Wolff and Dr. Joseph E. Smith speak to more than 200 students at the high school debate institute in the college auditorium.

Julia Macala, a 20-year-old maid at the home of Dr. and Mrs. C.H. Clark, 255 Crandall Ave., climbs down a ladder to safety from her third-floor room after a fire breaks out. John Clark, the dentist’s son, raised the ladder to Miss Macala’s window while his parents and sister, Margery, fled to the street in their night clothes.