NOVEMBER 29
1961: NASA launches a Mercury-Atlas 5 spacecraft with a very special passenger aboard — Enos, a 5-year-old chimpanzee. Enos would orbit the Earth twice before successfully splashing down near Puerto Rico. The mission is in preparation for astronaut John Glenn's first orbital flight in February 1962.
1929:U.S. Admiral Richard Byrd becomes the first person to fly over the South Pole.
1963: President Lyndon B. Johnson establishes the Warren Commission, chaired by Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren, to investigate the assassination of President John F. Kennedy a week earlier in Dallas, Texas. Nearly a year later, the commission concludes that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone in assassinating the president.
1972: Atari releases the table tennis-inspired video arcade game Pong, created by Al Alcorn. The first coin-operated Pong machine is installed at Andy Capp's Tavern in Sunnyvale, Calif., and quickly would become a huge success.
1947:The U.N. votes to partition Palestine and create and independent Jewish state.
1777:San Jose, California, is founded as el Pueblo de San Jose de Guadalupe.
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