Good morning, it’s Saturday, Nov. 29, the 334th day of 2008. There are 32 days left in the year. The forecast calls for clouds and a slight chance of light rain this afternoon with highs in the lower 60s. Light rain is possible tonight, too, with lows in the mid 40s.

Forty-seven years ago today, on November 28, 1961, a chimp named Enos was launched into space aboard the Mercury-Atlas 5 spacecraft, which orbited Earth twice before returning. Once chimp and capsule were recovered, observers said Enos jumped for joy and dashed around the deck of the recovery ship, shaking the hands of his rescuers. The flight was a dress rehearsal for the first flight by a human. Lt. Col. John Glenn became the first American to orbit the Earth on Feb. 20, 1962.

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Today's Highlight in History:
On Nov. 29, 1963, President Johnson named a commission headed by Earl Warren to investigate the assassination of President Kennedy.

On This Date:
In 1530, Cardinal Thomas Wolsey, onetime adviser to England's King Henry VIII, died.
In 1864, a Colorado militia killed at least 150 peaceful Cheyenne Indians in the Sand Creek Massacre.
In 1908, New York Congressman Adam Clayton Powell Jr. was born in New Haven, Connecticut.
In 1924, Italian composer Giacomo Puccini died in Brussels before he could complete his opera "Turandot." (It was finished by Franco Alfano.)
In 1947, the U.N. General Assembly passed a resolution calling for the partitioning of Palestine between Arabs and Jews.
In 1961, Enos the chimp was launched from Cape Canaveral aboard the Mercury-Atlas 5 spacecraft, which orbited earth twice before returning.
In 1967, Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara announced he was leaving the Johnson administration to become president of the World Bank.
In 1981, actress Natalie Wood drowned in a boating accident off Santa Catalina Island, California, at age 43.
In 1986, actor Cary Grant died in Davenport, Iowa, at age 82.
In 2001, George Harrison, the "quiet Beatle," died in Los Angeles following a battle with cancer; he was 58.

Ten years ago:
Swiss voters overwhelmingly rejected legalizing heroin and other narcotics.

Five years ago:
Gunmen in Iraq ambushed and killed two Japanese diplomats; seven members of Spain's military intelligence agency were killed in Mahmudiyah. Thirty-three people were killed in the crash of a military plane in Congo.

One year ago:
A court in Sudan convicted British teacher Gillian Gibbons of insulting Islam for letting her students name a teddy bear "Muhammad" and sentenced her to 15 days in prison. (Gibbons was pardoned after spending more than a week in custody; she then left the country.) Pakistan's president, Pervez Musharraf, embarked on a new, five-year term as a civilian president, a day after ceding the powerful post of army chief. Former Illinois Congressman Henry Hyde died in Chicago at age 83. Former General Motors chief executive Roger B. Smith died in Detroit at age 82.

Today's Birthdays:
Hall-of-Fame sportscaster Vin Scully is 81. Blues singer-musician John Mayall is 75. Actress Diane Ladd is 73. Composer-musician Chuck Mangione is 68. Country singer Jody Miller is 67. Pop singer-musician Felix Cavaliere (The Rascals) is 64. Olympic skier Suzy Chaffee is 62. Comedian Garry Shandling is 59. Actor Jeff Fahey is 56. Movie director Joel Coen is 54.
Actor-comedian-game show host Howie Mandel is 53. Actress Cathy Moriarty is 48. Actress Kim Delaney is 47. Actor Tom Sizemore is 47. Actor Andrew McCarthy is 46. Actor Don Cheadle is 44. Actor-producer Neill Barry is 43. Musician Wallis Buchanan (Jamiroquai) is 43. Pop singer Jonathan Knight (New Kids on the Block) is 40. Rock musician Martin Carr (Boo Radleys) is 40. Actor Larry Joe Campbell is 38. Rock musician Frank Delgado (Deftones) is 38. Actress Gena Lee Nolin is 37. Actor Brian Baumgartner is 36. Actress Anna Faris is 32. Actor Julian Ovenden is 32. Rapper The Game is 29. Rock musician Ringo Garza is 27. Actor Lucas Black is 26.

Thought for Today:
"Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are more pliable." -- Mark Twain (1835-1910).

(Source: Associated Press)

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