29th
November, on this day
1268 Papacy of
Pope Clement
IV ends
1781 The crew of
the slave ship
Zong murders 133 Africans by dumping them into the sea in order
to claim insurance
1812 Battle
of Berezina ends. French successfully cross river with huge losses,
despite being nearly surrounded by two Russian armies, ending retreat
from Russia. A victory for the Russians
1825 1st Italian opera, Barber
of Seville, produced in US (NYC)
1830 November
Uprising : An armed rebellion against Russia's rule in Poland
begins
1845 The Sonderbund
is defeated by the joint forces of other Swiss cantons under General
Guillaume-Henri
Dufour
1847 Indians kill Marcus and Narcissa
Whitman, 11 settle in Walla Walla Ore causing the Cayuse
War
1850 The treaty, Punctation
of Olmütz, signed in Olomouc means diplomatic capitulation
of Prussia to Austrian Empire, which took over the leadership of German
Confederation
1863 Battle
of Fort Sanders : the decisive engagement of the Knoxville
Campaign
1864 Sand
Creek massacre : US Cavalry troops, commanded by Colonel
Chivington, massacre 150 unarmed Cheyenne and Arapahoe Indians
at Sand Creek in Colorado
1864 Battle
of Spring Hill : Confederate advance into Tennessee misses opportunity
to crush Union army. Gen.
Hood angered, leads to Battle
of Franklin
1870 Battle
of Villiers : the largest of the French sorties from besieged
Paris during the Franco-Prussian
War
1872 Indian
Wars : The
Modoc War begins with the Battle
of Lost River
1877 Thomas
Edison demonstrates the hand-cranked phonograph
1887 US receives rights to Pearl
Harbor, on Oahu, Hawaii
1890 The Meiji
Constitution goes into effect in Japan and the first Diet
convenes
1898 City
of Ainsworth a paddle steamer sternwheeler sunk during a storm
in Kootenay Lake with 9 dead
1907 British nurse Florence
Nightingale, 'the lady of the lamp', is presented with the Order
of Merit by Edward VII of England for her work tending the wounded
during the Crimean War
1910 The first US patent for inventing the traffic lights system is
issued to Ernest Sirrine.
1915 Fire destroys most of the buildings on Santa
Catalina Island, California.
1916 US declares martial law in Dominican Republic
1922 Howard
Carter opens the tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamun
to the public.
1929 Lt Cmdr Richard
E Byrd sends "My calculations indicate that we have reached
the vicinity of the South Pole" (He was wrong)
1932 First performance of Cole
Porter's 'The
Gay Divorcee' is in New York starring Fred
Astaire and featuring the song 'Night and Day'
1933 In US, 1st state liquor stores authorised (Pennsylvania)
1934 In Britain, the first live radio broadcast of a royal wedding
- the marriage of the Duke
of Kent to Princess Marina at Westminister Abbey in London
1944 Albania liberated from Nazi control
1944 Alfred
Blalock and Vivien
Thomas at the John
Hopkins hospital performs the first surgery (on a human) to correct
blue baby
syndrome
1945 In the Balkans, Yugoslavia is proclaimed a Federal
People's Republic under the leadership of Marshal
Tito
1947 United
Nations Partition Plan for Palestine
1950 North Korean and Chinese troops force United Nations forces to
retreat from North Korea.
1951 1st underground atomic explosion, Frenchman
Flat, Nevada
1952 President-elect Eisenhower visits Korea to assess the war
1961 Freedom
Riders attacked by white mob at bus station in Miss
1961 Mercury-Atlas
5 carries a chimp called Enos
to orbit and twice around the Earth
1962 Britain and France announce a joint agreement to design and build
'Concorde'
- the world's first supersonic airliner
1963 Beatles release "I
Want to Hold Your Hand"
1963 LBJ sets up Warren
Commission to investigate assassination of JFK
1963 Trans-Canada
Airlines Flight 831 : A Douglas DC-8 carrying 118, crashes after
taking-off from Dorval Airport near Montreal.
1964 Roman Catholic Church in US replaces Latin with English
1965 In Britain, housewife
Mary Whitehouse begins her 'Clean Up TV Campaign' by setting up
the National
Viewers and Listeners' Association to tackle 'bad taste and irresponsibility'
1965 Canadian
Space Agency launches the satellite Alouette
2
1965 Dale Cummings does 14,118 consecutive sit-ups
1967 British troops withdraw from Aden
1967 US Secretary of Defense Robert
McNamara resigns to become President of the World
Bank
1968 John and Yoko release their 1st album "Two
Virgins" in UK
1969 Beatles' "Come
Together," single goes to number 1
1972 Nolan
Bushnell (co-founder of Atari)
releases Pong
(the first commercially successful video game) in Andy Capp’s
Tavern in Sunnyvale, California.
1975 Kilauea
Volcano erupts in Hawaii
1978 UN observes "international day of solidarity with the Palestinian
people," boycotted by US and about 20 other countries
1983 Soviet
war in Afghanistan : The United Nations General Assembly passes
United
Nations Resolution 37/37, stating that Soviet Union forces should
withdraw from Afghanistan.
1987 Korean Air Boeing 707 disappears off Burma, on route to Seoul.
All 115 lost
1987 Ranger's
Bob Frosse becomes 2nd goalie to score a goal (vs Isles). It was later
ruled that he should not be credited with the goal
1990 The UN Security Council passes United
Nations Security Council Resolution 678, authorizing "use
all necessary means to uphold and implement" United
Nations Security Council Resolution 660 "to restore international
peace and security" if Iraq did not withdraw its forces from
Kuwait and free all foreign hostages by January 15, 1991.
1994 Russian aircraft bomb Chechen
capital of Grozney
1995 On his historic visit to Britain, US President Bill
Clinton praises British Prime Minister John Major and Irish Prime
Minister John
Bruton for their joint efforts to bring peace in Northern Ireland
2007 The Armed Forces of the Philippines lay siege to The
Peninsula Manila after soldiers led by Senator Antonio
Trillanes stage a mutiny.
2007 A 7.4 magnitude earthquake occurs off the northern coast of Martinique.
This affected the Eastern Caribbean as far north as Puerto Rico and
as south as Trinidad.
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Birthdates which
occurred on November 29th :
1781 Andres Bello
Venezuela poet/diplomat/scholar (Silvas Americanas)
1803 Christian Doppler discovered Doppler Effect (color shift)
1811 Wendell Phillips women's suffrage/antislavery/prison reformer
1818 George Brown Canada, publisher (Toronto Globe), PM (L) (1858)
1832 Louisa May Alcott Germantown PA, author (Little Women)
1849 Sir Ambrose Fleming inventor (diode)
1874 Antonio Egas Moniz Portugal, lobotomist (Nobel 1949)
1895 William V.S. Tubman (Whig), 17th Liberian President (1943-70)
1896 Philip L Carret Lynn MA, CEO (Pioneer Fund)
1898 CS Lewis English writer/scholar (Le Roman de la Rosa)
19-- Charles Flohe actor (Edge of Night)
19-- Eddie Earl Hatch actor (John-All My Children)
19-- Fran Ryan Los Angeles CA, actress (Doris Ziffel-Green Acres,
Gunsmoke)
19-- Jane Cameron actress (Another World)
19-- John Calvin Staten Island NY, actor (Howie-The Paul Lynde Show)
19-- Kory Clarke rocker (Warrior Soul-Last Decade of The Century)
19-- Michael Matijevic CT, rock vocalist (Steelheart-She's Gone)
19-- Naomi Stevens Trenton NJ, actress (Vega$, Montefuscos)
19-- Shane rocker (Law & Order-Whiskey Song)
19-- Yvonne Suhor actress (Lou McCloud-The Young Riders)
1902 Carlo Levi Italy, painter/novelist (Of Fear & Freedom)
1906 Luis Van Rooten Mexico City Mexico, actor (One Man's Family)
1907 Merle Travis country singer (16 Tons)
1918 Herb Shriner Toledo Ohio, host/humorist (Herb Shriner Show)
1923 Frank Reynolds E Chicago IN, news anchor (ABC Evening News)
1926 Dagmar Huntington WV, actress (Broadway's Open House)
1927 Rupert Crosse NYC, actor (Det Robinson-The Partners)
1927 Vin Scully sportscaster (NBC Baseball Game of the Week)
1928 Paul Simon (Sen-D-Ill), presidential candidate
1929 Don January pro golfer (1976 Vardon Trophy)
1932 Diane Ladd Meridian Miss, actress (Wild Angels, Wild at Heart)
1933 Dr David Reuben writer (Everything You Wanted to Know about Sex)
1933 John Mayall blues singer (Crusade, Looking Back)
1939 Gennadiy Volnov USSR, basketball player (Olympic-gold-1972)
1940 Chuck Mangione jazz composer/horn blower (Chasing the Clouds
Away)
1944 Felix Cavaliere Pelham NY, rocker (Rascals-Lonely too Long)
1946 Suzy Chaffee US, skier/chapstick user (Olympics-1968)
1949 Garry Shandling comedian (It's Garry Shandling Show)
1949 Kenneth D Cameron Cleveland OH, Lt Col USMC/astronaut (Sked:STS-37)
1955 Howie Mandel Toronto Canada, comedian (Dr Wayne Fiscus-St Elsewhere)
1959 Charles Grant Winston Salem NC, actor (Another World)
1960 Cathy Moriarty actress (Neighbors, Raging Bull)
1961 Kim Delaney Philadelphia PA, actress (All My Children, Tour of
Duty)
1963 Andrew McCarthy actor (St Elmo's Fire)
1964 Kris Kamm Evanston IL, actor (Stuart Rosebrock-Coach)
1965 Neill Barry NYC, actor (Old Enough, Heat)
1968 Jonathan Raleigh Knight Massachusetts, rocker (New Kids-Hangin'
Tough)
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Deaths which occurred
on November 29th:
1530 Cardinal Thomas Wolsey adviser to England's King Henry VIII,
dies
1780 Maria Theresa leader of Austria, dies at 63
1872 Cornelius Krieghoff Canadian, dies
1924 Giacomo Puccini Italian composer, dies in Brussels
1962 Rav Aaron Kotler Orthodox Talmudic scholar, dies in Lakewood
NJ
1977 George Hamilton Combs TV host (Through the Curtain), dies at
78
1980 Dorothy Day author (Stump the Authors), dies at 83
1981 Natalie Wood actress, drowns off Santa Catalina CA, at 43
1986 Cary Grant dies in Davenport, Iowa, at 82
1987 Howard Pyle (Gov-R-AZ, 1951-55), dies at 81
1991 Ralph Bellamy actor, dies
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