On November 29

“The Beatles exist apart from myself. I am not really Beatle George. Beatle George is like a suit or shirt that I once wore on occasion, and until the end of my life, people may see that shirt and mistake it for me.”
George Harrison

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1890 – Navy won the first Army-Navy football game 24-0 at West Point, NY.

1934 – The Detroit Lions played their first Thanksgiving day home game, losing to the Chicago Bears 19-16. It began a tradition that continues today.
The game was the first NFL game to be broadcast nationally as NBC Radio aired the game on 94 stations across the country.
It wasn’t until 1941 that the Thanksgiving date was fixed as the fourth Thursday in November.

1947 – The U.N. General Assembly passed a resolution calling for Palestine to be partitioned between Arabs and Jews.

1963 – President Lyndon B. Johnson established the Warren Commission to investigate the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.

1963 – The Beatles released I Want To Hold Your Hand / This Boy in the UK. The single had advance orders of over one million.

1972 – The first commercially successful video game of all time was released: Pong. The gameplay was simple enough — the user moved a 2D paddle where a square ball would bounce, with either the computer or another player trying to hit it back. The player who got the ball past the opponent the most times was the winner. Just like ping pong.

1981 – Actress Natalie Wood died under mysterious circumstances at the age of 43. She had been on a weekend boat trip to Santa Catalina Island on board her husband Robert Wagner’s 58-foot yacht, Splendour.
Other than the fact that she drowned, many of the circumstances are unknown; for example, it has never been determined how she entered the water.
Wood started acting at age four and was given a co-starring role at age 8 in Miracle On 34th Street. As a teenager, she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in Rebel Without A Cause.
Wood starred in the musical films West Side Story and Gypsy and received nominations for an Academy Award for Best Actress for her performances in Splendor In The Grass and Love With The Proper Stranger.

1986 – Actor Cary Grant died of a stroke at the age of 82.
Between 1932 and 1966, Grant appeared in 75 films, many of them comedies, but he showed his dramatic side in four Alfred Hitchcock films; Notorious, North By Northwest, Suspicion, and To Catch A Thief.
Grant was nominated for Academy Awards for Penny Serenade and None But The Lonely Heart, but he never won a competitive Oscar.
Did You Know? Producers Albert R. Broccoli and Harry Saltzman originally sought Grant for the role of James Bond in Dr. No but discarded the idea when Grant would only commit to one Bond film.

2001 – George Harrison died of metastatic non-small cell lung cancer. He was 58.
George’s memories of The Beatles were often tempered by what he felt was lost in all the madness. “There was never anything, in any of the Beatle experiences really, that good: even the best thrill soon got tiring. There was never any doubt. The Beatles were doomed. Your own space, man, it’s so important. That’s why we were doomed, because we didn’t have any. We were like monkeys in a zoo.”
British High Court documents showed that Harrison left his fortune of $155-million in trust to his widow Olivia and their son Dhani, thereby depriving the ‘Taxman’ of nearly $60 million.

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