Today's Highlight in History:
On November 29th, 1952, President-elect Dwight D. Eisenhower kept his campaign promise to visit Korea to assess估定，评定 the ongoing conflict.

On this date:
In 1530, Cardinal红衣主教 Thomas Wolsey, onetime adviser to England's King Henry the Eighth, died.

In 1890, the Imperial Diet, forerunner先驱 of Japan's current national legislature, opened its first session, four days after its members were summoned by Emperor Meiji.

In 1924, Italian composer Giacomo Puccini died in Brussels before he could complete his opera "Turandot." (It was finished by Franco Alfano.)

In 1929, Navy Lieutenant中尉，副官 Commander Richard E. Byrd radioed that he'd made the first airplane flight over the South Pole.

In 1947, the UN General Assembly passed a resolution calling for the partitioning划分 of Palestine between Arabs and Jews.

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

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

In 1967, Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara announced he was leaving the Johnson administration to become president of the World Bank.

In 1981, actress Natalie Wood drowned in a boating accident off Santa Catalina Island, California, at age 43.

In 1986, actor Cary Grant died in Davenport, Iowa爱荷华州, at age 82.

Ten years ago: In response to a growing pro-democracy movement in Czechoslovakia捷克, the Communist-run Parliament ended the party's 40-year monopoly垄断，专利 on power.

Five years ago: The House passed the revised General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade by a vote of 288-to-146. Fighter jets attacked the capital of Chechnya and its airport hours after Russian President Boris Yeltsin demanded the breakaway republic end its civil war.

One year ago: Swiss voters overwhelmingly rejected legalizing公认，合法化 heroin and other narcotics麻醉毒品，麻醉剂.