Shimla, Nov 28. Keekli Bureau
2001
George Harrison, formerly of the Beatles, died of cancer at the age of 58.
1997
In a ceremony that was broadcast around the world by satellite, some 28,000 couples gathered at RFK Stadium in Washington, D.C., for a “wedding” conducted by Sun Myung Moon, leader of the Unification Church.
1981
American film actress Natalie Wood drowned under mysterious circumstances while vacationing on a yacht off Santa Catalina Island, California.
1963
U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson appointed the Warren Commission to investigate the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
1929
American pioneer aviator Richard E. Byrd flew over the South Pole.
1864
Colonel John M. Chivington led a controversial surprise attack, known as the Sand Creek Massacre, on a surrendered, partially disarmed Cheyenne Indian camp in southeastern Colorado Territory; more than 230 Native Americans were killed.
1850
Prussia and Austria signed the Punctation of Olmütz, an agreement regulating the two powers’ relations.
1832
American author Louisa May Alcott, known for her children’s books, especially Little Women, was born.
1830
A Polish secret society of infantry cadets staged an uprising in Warsaw, beginning the November Insurrection.
