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Hello, and welcome to This Day in History. Here’s what happened on November 29th. For decades, there has been speculation about what really happened on this day in 1981, when 43-year-old actress Natalie Wood drowned off the coast of California’s Catalina Island. Wood had been boating with her husband, actor Robert Wagner, at the time of her death.
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