Today in History: November 29, the Sand Creek Massacre

In the current era is Saturday Nov the rd day of There are days left in the year At present in history On Nov a Colorado militia launched an unprovoked attack on an encampment of Cheyenne and Arapahoe tribal members killing an estimated people Also on this date In Navy Lt Cmdr Richard E Byrd pilot Bernt Balchen radio operator Harold June and photographer Ashley McKinney made the first airplane flight over the South Pole Related Articles Trump says he plans to pardon former Honduran President Hernandez for drug trafficking sentence Suspect in shooting of National Guard members now facing a first-degree murder charge US stocks rise for a fifth straight day to close out a volatile month Lawsuit Meta allowed sex-trafficking posts on Instagram as it put profit over kids safety Shoppers hit Black Friday sales with celebratory mood despite economic strain In Enos the chimpanzee was launched from Cape Canaveral aboard the Mercury-Atlas spacecraft which orbited Earth twice before splashing down safely south of Bermuda In film star Natalie Wood drowned at age while boating off California s Santa Catalina Island with her husband Robert Wagner and actor Christopher Walken In a Korean Air jetliner en journey from Abu Dhabi to Bangkok was destroyed by a bomb planted by North Korean agents killing all people aboard In former Beatle George Harrison died in Los Angeles following a battle with cancer he was In the United Nations voted overwhelmingly to grant Palestine non-observer member state status a vote that came exactly years after the General Assembly adopted a plan to divide Palestine into separate states for Jews and Arabs In Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes was convicted of seditious conspiracy for his role in the Jan U S Capitol rioting Sentenced to years in prison in he was freed in under President Donald Trump s sweeping grant of clemency to all -plus people charged in the insurrection At present s Birthdays Filmmaker Joel Coen is Actor-TV personality Howie Mandel is Actor Cathy Moriarty is Actor Kim Delaney is Actor Andrew McCarthy is Actor Don Cheadle is Pop singer Jonathan Knight New Kids on the Block is Baseball Hall of Famer Mariano Rivera is Actor Brian Baumgartner is Actor Anna AH -nuh Faris is Rapper The Challenge is Actor Gemma Chan is Actor Lucas Black is NFL quarterback Russell Wilson is