29 November - Definition and Overview

November 29 is the 333rd (in leap years the 334th) day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 32 days remaining.

Events

1500-1699

• 1530 - death of Cardinal Thomas Wolsey

1700-1899

• 1777 - San Jose, California, is founded as el Pueblo de San José de Guadalupe. It is the first civilian settlement, or pueblo, in Alta California.
• 1781 - The Slave ship the Zong dumps living cargo into the sea in order to claim insurance.
• 1830 - November Uprising breaks out in Poland.
• 1847 - Whitman Massacre Dr. Marcus Whitman, his wif Narcissa and 15 others killed.The Indian Wars start.
• 1864 - Indian Wars: Sand Creek Massacre - Colorado volunteers led by Colonel John Chivington massacre at least 400 Cheyenne and Arapahoe noncombatants at Sand Creek, Colorado.
• 1872 - Indian Wars: Modoc War begins with the Battle of Lost River.
• 1877 - Thomas Edison demonstrates his phonograph for the first time.
• 1890 - The Meiji Constitution goes into effect in Japan and the first Diet convenes.
• 1890 - In West Point, New York, the United States Naval Academy defeats the United States Military Academy 24 to 0 in the first Army-Navy football game.

1900-1999

• 1915 - Fire destroys most of the buildings on Santa Catalina Island in California.
• 1929 - US Admiral Richard Byrd becomes the first person to fly over the South Pole.
• 1943 - Second session of AVNOJ, the Anti-fascist council of national liberation of Yugoslavia, is held in Jajce, Bosnia and Herzegovina, determining the post-war ordering of the country.
• 1944 - World War II: Albania is liberated from German occupation.
• 1944 - The first surgery (on a human) to correct blue baby syndrome is performed by Alfred Blalock and Vivien Thomas.
• 1945 - The Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia is declared (this day was celebrated as Republic Day until 2003).
• 1947 - The United Nations General Assembly votes to partition Palestine between Arabs and Jews.
• 1948 - The children's television program Kukla, Fran and Ollie debuts.
• 1950 - Korean War: North Korean and Chinese troops force a desperate retreat of United Nations forces from North Korea.
• 1952 - Korean War: US president-elect Dwight D. Eisenhower fulfills a campaign promise by traveling to Korea to find out what can be done to end the conflict.
• 1961 - Mercury-Atlas 5 is launched with Enos the chimp aboard (the spacecraft orbited the Earth twice and splashed-down off the coast of Puerto Rico).
• 1963 - US President Lyndon B. Johnson establishes the Warren Commission to investigate the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
• 1963 - A Douglas DC-8 carrying Trans-Canada Airlines Flight 831 crashes after taking-off from Dorval Airport near Montreal.
• 1965 - Canadian Satellite Alouette 2 is launched.
• 1967 - Vietnam War: US Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara announces his resignation.
• 1975 - The name "Micro-soft" (for microcomputer software) is used by Bill Gates in a letter to Paul Allen for the first time.
• 1981 - Off Santa Catalina Island, 43-year old actress Natalie Wood drowns during a boating accident.
• 1982 - Soviet invasion of Afghanistan: The United Nations General Assembly passes United Nations Resolution 37/37, stating that the Soviet Union forces should withdraw from Afghanistan.
• 1987 - A Korean Air Boeing 707 exploded over the Thai-Burmese border killing 155.
• 1990 - Gulf War: The United Nations Security Council passes UN Security Council Resolution 678, authorizing military intervention in Iraq if that nation did not withdraw its forces from Kuwait and free all foreign hostages by January 15, 1991.
• 1992 - Dennis Byrd of the New York Jets is paralyzed by a neck injury during a football game against the Kansas City Chiefs.

Births

1600-1899

• 1690 - Christian Augustus of Anhalt-Zerbst, father of Catherine II of Russia (d. 1747)
• 1752 - Jemima Wilkinson - preacher (d. 1819)
• 1762 - Pierre-Andre Latreille, French zoologist (d. 1833)
• 1797 - Gaetano Donizetti, opera composer (d. 1848)
• 1799 - Amos Bronson Alcott, American writer and educator (d. 1888)
• 1803 - Gottfried Semper, architect (d. 1879)
• 1803 - Christian Doppler, physicist (d. 1853)
• 1813 - Franz von Miklosich, linguist (d. 1891)
• 1816 - Morrison Waite, 7th Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court (d. 1888)
• 1832 - Louisa May Alcott, writer (d. 1888)
• 1849 - Sir John Ambrose Fleming, physicist (d. 1945)
• 1856 - Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg, German Reichskanzler and Prime Minister of Prussia (d. 1921)
• 1876 - Nellie Tayloe Ross, politician (d. 1977)
• 1881 - Julius Raab, politician and Austrian Bundeskanzler (d. 1964)
• 1894 - Lucille Hegamin, U.S. singer and entertainer (d. 1970)
• 1895 - Busby Berkeley, film director, choreographer (d. 1976)
• 1895 - William Tubman, president of Liberia (d. 1971)
• 1896 - Yakima Canutt, actor, stunt man (d. 1986)
• 1898 - C. S. Lewis, writer (d. 1963)

1900-1999

• 1904 - Egon Eiermann, architect (d. 1970)
• 1908 - Adam Clayton Powell Jr., U.S. civil rights leader and politician (d. 1972)
• 1915 - Billy Strayhorn, musician, composer (d. 1967)
• 1917 - Merle Travis, country music singer (d. 1983)
• 1918 - Madeleine L'Engle, author
• 1921 - Dagmar, television personality (d. 2001)
• 1927 - Vin Scully, baseball announcer
• 1932 - Jacques Chirac, French political leader
• 1932 - Diane Ladd, actress
• 1933 - John Mayall, blues musician
• 1938 - Michel Duchaussoy
• 1939 - Peter Bergman, comedian
• 1940 - Chuck Mangione, musician
• 1941 - Bill Freehan, baseball player
• 1942 - Philippe Huttenlocher, Swiss baritone
• 1943 - Sue Miller, author
• 1947 - Petra Kelly, politician (d. 1992)
• 1949 - Garry Shandling, comedian, actor, writer, producer, director
• 1953 - Alex Grey, artist
• 1953 - Christine Pascale, actress (d. 1996)
• 1954 - Joel Coen, director, producer, writer
• 1955 - Howie Mandel, actor
• 1956 - Hinton Battle, dancer
• 1956 - Leo Laporte, television personality
• 1960 - Cathy Moriarty, actress
• 1961 - Kim Delaney, actress
• 1963 - Andrew McCarthy, actor
• 1964 - Don Cheadle, actor
• 1967 - John Layfield, professional wrestler
• 1969 - Mariano Rivera, baseball relief pitcher
• 1971 - Gena Lee Nolin, actress
• 1973 - Ryan Giggs, Welsh footballer
• 1976 - Anna Faris, actress
• 1982 - Ashley Force, NHRA drag racer

Deaths

1200-1899

• 1268 - Pope Clement IV
• 1314 - King Philippe IV of France
• 1530 - Cardinal Thomas Wolsey, adviser to King Henry VIII of England
• 1643 - Claudio Monteverdi, Italian composer
• 1694 - Marcello Malpighi, Italian physician
• 1847 - Marcus and Narcissa Whitman, 15 Washington state pioneers

1900-1999

• 1924 - Giacomo Puccini, composer
• 1947 - Reb Shaul Yedidya Elazar Taub, the Rebbe of Modzitz (b. 1886)
• 1953 - Sam De Grasse, pioneer Hollywood actor
• 1954 - Dink Johnson, jazz musician (b. 1892)
• 1957 - Erich Wolfgang Korngold, composer
• 1975 - Graham Hill, automobile racer
• 1979 - Zeppo Marx, actor, comedian (b. 1901)
• 1981 - Fredric Wertham, psychologist (b. 1895)
• 1981 - Natalie Wood, actress
• 1982 - Percy Williams, Canadian athlete (b. 1908)
• 1986 - Cary Grant, actor
• 1991 - Frank Yerby, author
• 1999 - Gene Rayburn, game show host

2000-2099

• 2001 - George Harrison, musician (The Beatles)
• 2001 - John Knowles, author
• 2004 - John Drew Barrymore, actor (b. 1932)
• 2004 - Harry Danning, MLB All-Star catcher (b. 1911)

Holidays and observances

• Feast day of Saint Saturninus
• International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People
• National Day in Albania
• Republic Day in former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia

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