Today is Wednesday, Nov. 29, the 333rd day of 2017. There are 32 days left in the year.

Birthdays: Hall of Fame sportscaster Vin Scully is 90. Former French president Jacques Chirac is 85. Blues singer John Mayall is 84. Actress Diane Ladd is 82. Flugelhorn player Chuck Mangione is 77. Former Olympic skier Suzy Chaffee is 71. Writer-director Joel Coen is 63. Actor-comedian Howie Mandel is 62. Former Homeland Security director Janet Napolitano is 60. Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel is 58. Actress Cathy Moriarty is 57. Actress Kim Delaney is 56. Actor Tom Sizemore is 56. Actor Don Cheadle is 53. New Kids on the Block singer Jonathan Knight is 49.

In 1890, the first Army-Navy football game was played at West Point, N.Y.; Navy defeated Army, 24-0.

In 1947, the UN General Assembly passed a resolution calling for the partitioning of Palestine between Arabs and Jews. (The plan, rejected by the Arabs, was never implemented.)

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

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

In 1981, actress Natalie Wood drowned in a boating accident off Santa Catalina Island, Calif., at age 43.

In 1987, a Korean Air 707 jetliner from Abu Dhabi to Bangkok was destroyed by a bomb planted by North Korean agents. All 115 people aboard died.

In 1991, 17 people were killed in a 164-vehicle pileup during a dust storm on Interstate 5 near Coalinga, Calif.

In 2001, George Harrison, the ‘‘quiet Beatle,’’ died in Los Angeles following a battle with cancer; he was 58.

In 2012, President Obama had lunch with defeated Republican nominee Mitt Romney at the White House. Officials said they discussed America’s leadership in the world.

Last year, president-elect Donald Trump continued to fill out his Cabinet, choosing former Goldman Sachs executive Steven Mnuchin as Treasury secretary, Georgia Representative Tom Price to oversee the nation’s health care system, and Elaine Chao, a former labor secretary, to lead the Department of Transportation.