A Korean Air flight was destroyed by a bomb hidden in a radio, killing all 115 people aboard
Two North Korean agents planted the bomb on Flight 858, which exploded over the Andaman Sea. One agent was captured after attempting suicide and confe...
November 29 in History
Significant events that happened on this day.
Historical Events
1987
1972
Atari released Pong, the first commercially successful video game
MajorThis simple tennis simulation became an instant hit in bars and arcades, launching the video game industry. The prototype was so popular that the mach...
1961
NASA launched a chimpanzee named Enos into space, and he successfully orbited Earth twice
Enos became the first chimpanzee to orbit the Earth, paving the way for John Glenn's historic flight two months later. Despite equipment malfunctions...
1947
The United Nations voted to partition Palestine into separate Jewish and Arabic states
MajorUN Resolution 181 proposed the creation of independent Arab and Jewish states and an internationalized Jerusalem. This controversial decision laid the...
1929
Admiral Richard Byrd became the first person to fly over the South Pole
Along with three crew members, Byrd piloted a Ford Trimotor airplane named 'Floyd Bennett' on a 19-hour round-trip flight from their base. The feat re...
1899
The first professional American football team to field an entirely salaried roster played its first game
The Morgan Athletic Club of Chicago fielded the first fully professional team, marking the birth of pro football as we know it. Players earned between...
1890
The first Army-Navy football game was played, with Navy winning 24-0
This inaugural matchup at West Point kicked off what would become one of America's greatest sports rivalries. The game was such a fierce contest that...
1877
Thomas Edison demonstrated his phonograph for the first time by recording 'Mary Had a Little Lamb'
Edison recited the nursery rhyme into his tinfoil cylinder device, then played it back to the astonishment of his assistants. He initially thought the...