On this day in 1924: Italian composer Giacomo Puccini died in Brussels before he could complete his opera “Turandot.” (It was finished by Franco Alfano.)
Puccini
Giacomo Puccini, Italian composer of operas, is shown at Oberammergau, Germany, on Sept. 29, 1922. (AP Photo)
Rault Tower Fire
FILE - In a Nov. 29, 1972 file photo, spectators look up in disbelief as they watch four people leap to their death in downtown New Orleans. Fire broke out on the top floor of a 16-story Rault Tower building. (AP Photo, File)
Priest Molest 1995
Accused child molester, Rev. Ted Llanos, left, faces a judge, Nov. 29, 1995 at the Long Beach Municipal Courts Building in Long Beach, Calif., with his attorney Don Steiner. The Catholic priest, who faces 38 counts of child molestation, turned himself in to authorities today. His arraignment was delayed to February 5. (AP Photo/John Hayes)
Switzerland Gruyere Hornblower
A gruyere herdsman blows his horn, and it needs a lot of wind to make the mountains of Canton Fribourg, Switzerland, echo the notes of this huge horn, on Nov. 29, 1936, which is used by the herdsmen of Gruyere to call in their goats and cattle. (AP Photo)
Joan Kennedy family
Mrs. Joan Kennedy smiles jubilantly as she participates in the opening of the Massachusetts headquarters of her husband, presidential hopeful Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Massachusetts, Thursday, Nov. 29, 1979 in Boston. Looking over her shoulder is Caroline Kennedy, daughter of the late President John F. Kennedy. Joan told supporters she wants to see a repeat of his 1964 margin of victory. (AP Photo/ R Walter Green)
Lauper
Pop singer Cyndi Lauper is shown on Nov. 29, 1984. (AP Photo)
Hjalmar Schacht, Franz von Papen
Hjalmar Schacht, left, and Franz von Papen, right, Nazis on trial for war crimes at Nuremberg, lunch from American Army mess kits in the Palace of Justice, Nuremberg, Germany, Nov. 29, 1945. (AP Photo/B.I. Sanders)
FDR Speaks In Atlanta 1935
This is a general view showing part of the crowd, estimated at about 50,000, that came to hear President Franklin D. Roosevelt's address at Grant Field in Atlanta, Ga., Nov. 29, 1935. The chief executive assured the nation of a decreasing deficit. (AP Photo)
1951 Nash Motors Auto
Nash-Healy Sports Car being exhibited at the International Motor Show in Washington, D.C., Nov. 29, 1951. The car is priced at $4,137.00. (AP Photo/William J. Smith)
ITALY MUSSOLINI WITH DE BERNARDI
Italian dictator and Prime Minister Benito Mussolini, centre with arms crossed, stands with Major Mario de Bernardi, second left, the winner of the Schneider Trophy and the rest of the Italian team on their return from America, at a reception in Rome, Italy, Nov.29,1926. (AP Photo)
Red Scare Martin Dies 1940
Taking it easy at his desk, Rep. Martin Dies (D-Tex.), chairman of the House Committee on Un-American Activities in Washington, told reporters the president would have "fullest cooperation" of his group in combating subversive elements, Nov. 29, 1940. Dies and Justice Department officials with whom he has been in conflict on methods of procedure will confer with the president at the White House in Washington. (AP Photo)
Somalia Civil War 1992 People Refugees
A group of Somalis are crowded onto a broken-down truck, while one man checks under the hood, at the Mandera refugee camp in Kenya on Nov. 29, 1992. Billows of smoke from the exhaust surround the truck. (AP Photo/David Brauchli)
Japan Riots
Helmeted Japanese riot police break up demonstration by pro-Communist Zengakuren students outside the foreign ministry in Tokyo, Nov. 29, 1963. The noisy demonstrators opposed the Japan-Korean normalization talks and protested the planned visit of U.S. nuclear submarines in Japan. It was the first such demonstration. (AP Photo/Mitsunori Chigita)
Ancient Sumerian clay tablets
Here is a close-up view of one of the ancient Sumerian clay tablets upon which cuneiform writings were made more than 3,800 years ago shown Nov. 29, 1952. They were unearthed near Nippur, Iraq, by Donald E. McCown of the University of Chicago during a 1951-52 expedition. This tablet is known as the “Book of Proverbs.” (AP Photo/Edward Kitch)
King
Coretta Scott King, widow of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., walks a picket line with others to protest apartheid in South Africa, Nov. 29, 1984, at the South African Embassy in Washington. (AP Photo/Charles Tasnadi)
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On this day in 1987: A Korean Air 707 jetliner en route from Abu Dhabi to Bangkok was destroyed by a bomb planted by North Korean agents with the loss of all 115 people aboard.