text: what occurred on this day in political history? on nov. 29, 1947, the un general assembly passed a resolution calling for palestine to be partitioned between arabs and jews.   http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/1129.html#article  others  1952 president-elect dwight d. eisenhower kept his campaign promise to visit korea to assess the ongoing conflict.  1963 president johnson named a commission headed by chief justice earl warren to investigate the assassination of president john f. kennedy.  1967 secretary of defense robert s. mcnamara announced he was leaving the johnson administration to become president of the world bank.  1989 in response to a growing pro-democracy movement in czechoslovakia, the communist-run parliament ended the party's 40-year monopoly on power.  1990 the un security council voted 12-2 to authorize military action if iraq did not withdraw its troops from kuwait and release all foreign hostages by jan. 15, 1991. busy day, nov. 29 the only thing i see you left out was the historic meeting between iraq's pm and george w. bush in jordan. 11/29/2006. i hope you recognize my cynicism.  ( - = )