Stanley Ann Dunham Born, Rahmbo Born, JFK: The Unspeakable

November 29: On This Progressive Day

North Korean and Chinese troops force United Nations forces to retreat from North Korea (1950)

U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson establishes the Warren Commission to investigate the assassination of President Kennedy (1963)

U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara announces his resignation (1967)

NorK agents bomb Korean Air Flight 858 over the Thai-Burmese border, killing 155 (1987)

The new Croatian Communist Party (KPH) is founded in Vukovar (2005)

President B. Hussein Obama floats a phony two-year pay freeze for federal employees (2010)

President B. Hussein Obama lunches at the White House with the vanquished liberal GOP opponent Mitt Romney (2012)

b: Artur Phleps (1881), Edward Aveling (1849), Stanley Ann Dunham (1942), Rahm Emanuel (1959); d: Stephen Solarz (2010)

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