November 29, 1864
Colonel John Chivington and his Colorado volunteers, many of them drunk, massacred a peaceful village of Cheyenne camped near Sand Creek in Colorado Territory, setting off a long series of bloody retaliatory attacks by the Cheyenne, Sioux, and Arapaho.
November 29, 1947
Despite strong Arab opposition, the United Nations voted for the partition of Palestine and the creation of an independent Jewish state.
