CNN Interactive - Almanac - November 29, 1998

The annual Hollywood Christmas Parade is scheduled to take place in New York.
Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat is scheduled to meet with Commerce Secretary Daley, World Bank President Wolfensohn and address the Arab American Institute Foundation in Washington.

On Monday, November 30, a hearing for three boys charged on November 18 with conspiracy to commit first-degree intentional homicide at Burlington High School is scheduled in Racine, Washington. Prosecutors have asked for psychological evaluations of the boys.
On Tuesday, December 1, The House Judiciary Committee has scheduled a hearing in Washington on 'The Consequences of Perjury and Related Crimes.' Testimony is expected from judges and convicted perjurers.
On Wednesday, December 2, the 66th annual Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree Lighting Ceremony takes place in New York.
On Thursday, December 3, the target launch of the space shuttle Endeavour on an eleven-day International Space Station mission is scheduled at Cape Canaveral. The 'Endeavour' is tentatively scheduled to rendezvous with the Space Station on December 6.
On Friday, December 4, The American Epilepsy Society holds annual meeting in San Diego.

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In 1864, at Sand Creek, Colorado, an army force led by Colonel John Chivington attacked and massacred at least 400 Cheyenne and Arapahoe Indians who had surrendered and been given permission to camp.
In 1872, U.S. editor Horace Greeley died; he founded the daily New York Tribune in 1841.
In 1890, the first Imperial Diet was opened in Japan. It consisted of a House of Peers and a House of Representatives.
In 1929, U.S. explorer Richard Byrd and Bernt Balchen completed the first flight over the South Pole.
In 1939, the USSR broke off diplomatic relations with Finland prior to the Soviet attack on the country.
In 1945, the newly elected Constituent Assembly in Yugoslavia proclaimed a federal republic.
In 1947, the U.N. General Assembly voted to partition Palestine into Jewish and Arab land, leading to the establishment of a Jewish state the following year.
In 1966, King Ntare IV was overthrown in Burundi and a republic was proclaimed.
In 1974, a bill to outlaw the Irish Republican Army became law in Britain.
In 1990, Bulgarian Prime Minister Lukanov and his government resigned following a general strike