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Today is Saturday, Nov. 29, the 333rd day of 2014. There are 32 days left in the year.

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Today's Highlight in History:

On Nov. 29, 1964, the U.S. Roman Catholic Church instituted sweeping changes in the liturgy, including the partial use of English instead of Latin.

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On this

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In 1314, King Philip IV of France died; he was succeeded by his eldest son, Louis X.

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In 1530, Cardinal Thomas Wolsey (WOOL'-zee), onetime adviser to England's King Henry VIII, died.

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In 1864, a Colorado militia killed at least 150 peaceful Cheyenne Indians in the Sand Creek Massacre

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1924, Italian composer Giacomo Puccini died in Brussels before he could complete his opera "Turandot." (It was finished by Franco Alfano.)

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1947, the U.N. General Assembly passed a resolution calling for the partitioning of Palestine between Arabs and Jews.

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In 1952, President-elect Dwight D. Eisenhower secretly left on a trip to Korea, keeping his campaign promise to assess the ongoing conflict first-hand.

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1961, Enos the chimp was launched from Cape Canaveral aboard the Mercury-Atlas 5 spacecraft, which orbited earth twice before returning.

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1972, the coin-operated video arcade game Pong, created by Atari, made its debut at Andy Capp's Tavern in Sunnyvale, California.

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In 1981, actress Natalie Wood drowned in a boating accident off Santa Catalina Island, California, at

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In 1986, actor Cary Grant died in Davenport, Iowa, at age 82.