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What happened in history on this day: November 29?
On November 29 in ...
- 1530 - Cardinal Thomas Wolsey adviser to England's King Henry VIII, dies.
- 1578 - Captain Francis Drake reaches La Mocha Island off Chile, begins collecting treasure from land and from ships to take back to England.
- 1596 - King Philip II of Spain devalues currency.
- 1779 - The Continental Congress authorizes the first issue of Continental Currency.
- 1780 - Maria Theresa leader of Austria, dies at age 63.
- 1781 - Birth of Andres Bello Venezuela poet/diplomat/scholar (Silvas Americanas).
- 1803 - Birth of Christian Doppler discovered Doppler Effect (color shift).
- 1811 - Birth of Wendell Phillips women's suffrage/antislavery/prison reformer.
- 1812 - Napoleon's Grand Army crosses Berezina River in retreat from Russia.
- 1818 - Birth of George Brown Canada, publisher (Toronto Globe), Prime Minister (Liberal) (1858).
- 1825 - First Italian opera, Barber of Seville, produced in US (New York City).
- 1832 - Birth of Louisa May Alcott Germantown Pennsylvania, author (Little Women).
- 1847 - Indians kill Marcus and Narcissa Whitman, 11 settle in Walla Walla Ore.
- 1849 - Birth of Ambrose Fleming inventor (diode).
- 1864 - Colorado militia kills 150 peaceful Cheyenne Indians.
- 1874 - Birth of Antonio Egas Moniz in Portugal; lobotomist (Nobel Prize 1949).
- 1876 - Birth of Nellie Tayloe Ross; US Mint Director.
- 1887 - US receives rights to Pearl Harbor, on Oahu, Hawaii.
- 1890 - First Army-Navy football game; score: Navy 24, Army 0 at West Point.
- 1895 - Birth of William V.S. Tubman; 17th Liberian President (Whig, 1943-70).
- 1896 - Birth of Philip L Carret in Lynn, Massachusetts, USA; CEO (Pioneer Fund).
- 1898 - Birth of CS Lewis; English writer/scholar (Le Roman de la Rosa).
- 1902 - Birth of Carlo Levi in Italy; painter/novelist (Of Fear and Freedom).
- 1906 - Birth of Luis Van Rooten in Mexico City, Mexico; actor (One Man's Family).
- 1907 - Birth of Merle Travis; country singer ("16 Tons").
- 1916 - US declares martial law in Dominican Republic.
- 1918 - Birth of Herb Shriner in Toledo, Ohio, USA; host/humorist (Herb Shriner Show).
- 1923 - Birth of Frank Reynolds in East Chicago, Indiana, USA; news anchor (ABC Evening News).
- 1926 - Birth of Dagmar Huntington in West Virginia, USA; actress (Broadway's Open House).
- 1927 - Birth of Rupert Crosse in New York City, New York, USA; actor (Detective Robinson - The Partners).
- 1927 - Birth of Vin Scully; sportscaster (NBC Baseball Game of the Week).
- 1928 - Birth of Paul Simon; American politician (Senator-Democrat-Illinois), presidential candidate.
- 1929 - Birth of Don January; pro golfer (1976 Vardon Trophy).
- 1932 - Birth of Diane Ladd in Meridian, Mississippi, USA; actress (Wild Angels, Wild at Heart).
- 1932 - France and the Soviet Union sign a Pact of Non-Aggression.
- 1933 - First state liquor stores authorized (Pennsylvania).
- 1933 - Birth of Dr David Reuben; writer (Everything You Wanted to Know about Sex).
- 1933 - Birth of John Mayall; blues singer ("Crusade", "Looking Back").
- 1934 - Chicago Bears beat Detroit Lions in first NFL game broadcast nationally.
- 1938 - Flora Disney (Walt Disney's mother) dies of inhaling poison gas fumes from a defective water heater.
- 1939 - Birth of Gennadiy Volnov in USSR; basketball player (Olympic-gold-1972).
- 1940 - Birth of Chuck Mangione; jazz composer/horn blower ("Chasing the Clouds Away").
- 1941 - Soviet forces begin major counterattacks in the Moscow area.
- 1941 - The Soviet Red Army recaptures Rostov.
- 1944 - Albania liberated from German control.
- 1944 - Birth of Felix Cavaliere in Pelham, New York, USA; rocker (Rascals - "Lonely too Long").
- 1944 - John Hopkins Hospital performs first open heart surgery.
- 1945 - Monarchy abolished as Yugoslavia proclaims its republic.
- 1946 - Birth of Suzy Chaffee; American skier (Olympics-1968).
- 1947 - The United Nations votes for the partition of Palestine and the creation of an independent Jewish state.
- 1948 - The American Midwest TV network begins airing the Kukla, Fran, and Ollie puppet children's TV show.
- 1949 - Birth of Garry Shandling; comedian (The Garry Shandling Show).
- 1949 - Birth of Kenneth D Cameron in Cleveland, Ohio, USA; Lieutenant Colonel US Marine Corp/astronaut (Sked:STS-37).
- 1950 - National Council of the Church of Christ in US established.
- 1951 - First underground atomic explosion, Frenchman Flat, Nevada.
- 1952 - US President-elect Dwight Eisenhower visits Korea to assess the war.
- 1955 - Birth of Howie Mandel in Toronto, Ontario, Canada; comedian (Dr Wayne Fiscus - St Elsewhere).
- 1959 - Birth of Charles Grant Winston in Salem, North Carolina, USA; actor (Another World).
- 1960 - Birth of Cathy Moriarty; actress (Neighbors, Raging Bull).
- 1961 - Birth of Kim Delaney in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA; actress (All My Children, Tour of Duty).
- 1961 - Freedom Riders attacked by white mob at bus station in Mississippi, USA.
- 1961 - Mercury-Atlas 5 carries a chimp (Enos) to orbit.
- 1962 - American baseball decides to revert back to one all-star game per year.
- 1962 - Rav Aaron Kotler, Orthodox Talmudic scholar, dies in Lakewood, New Jersey.
- 1963 - Beatles release "I Want to Hold Your Hand".
- 1963 - Birth of Andrew McCarthy; actor (Saint Elmo's Fire).
- 1963 - US President Lyndon Johnson sets up Warren Commission to investigate assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
- 1964 - Birth of Kris Kamm in Evanston, Illinois, USA; actor (Stuart Rosebrock - Coach).
- 1964 - Roman Catholic Church in US replaces Latin with English.
- 1965 - Birth of Neill Barry in New York City, New York, USA; actor (Old Enough, Heat).
- 1965 - Dale Cummings does 14,118 consecutive sit-ups.
- 1967 - British troops withdraw from Aden.
- 1967 - US Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara becomes President of the World Bank.
- 1968 - Birth of Jonathan Raleigh Knight in Worcester, Massachusetts, USA; rocker (New Kids - "Hangin' Tough").
- 1968 - John Lennon and Yoko Ono release their first album "Two Virgins" in United Kingdom.
- 1969 - The Beatles' "Come Together," single goes #1.
- 1971 - First pro golf championship at Walt Disney World, Florida.
- 1972 - Atari releases the Pong coin-operated arcade video game system. Nolan Bushnell and Al Alcorn developed the game at Atari, partly based on the Magnavox Odyssey system.
- 1975 - In Kalapana, Hawaii, a magnitude 7.2 earthquake occurs.
- 1975 - Kilauea Volcano erupts in Hawaii.
- 1976 - The New York Yankees sign free-agent Reggie Jackson to five-year, US$3.5 million contract.
- 1977 - George Hamilton Combs, TV host (Through the Curtain), dies at age 78.
- 1978 - United Nations observes "international day of solidarity with the Palestinian people," boycotted by US and about 20 other countries.
- 1978 - In Oaxaca, Mexico, a magnitude 7.9 earthquake occurs.
- 1980 - Death of Dorothy Day, author (Stump the Authors), social progressive and founder of the Catholic Worker, at age 83 (born 1897).
- 1981 - Natalie Wood, American actress, drowns off Santa Catalina, California, at age 43 (born 1938).
- 1982 - Birth of Ashley Force; American race car driver.
- 1982 - Death of Percy Williams, Canadian athlete (born 1908).
- 1982 - The United Nations General Assembly passes United Nations Resolution 37, stating that the Soviet Union should withdraw from Afghanistan.
- 1984 - Band Aid release the song "Do They Know It's Christmas".
- 1984 - Birth of Sitti Navarro; Philippine bossa nova artist.
- 1985 - Gerard Hoarau, exiled political leader from the Seychelles, is assassinated in London, England.
- 1986 - Cary Grant, British-born American actor, dies in Davenport, Iowa, at age 82 (born 1904).
- 1987 - Howard Pyle, American politician (Governor-Republican-Arizona, 1951-55), dies at age 81.
- 1987 - Korean Air Boeing 707 Flight 858 disappears over the Andaman Sea off Myanmar, on route to Seoul. All 115 crew and passengers killed.
- 1987 - New York Rangers' Bob Frosse becomes second goalie to score a goal (vs New York Islanders). It is later ruled that he should not be credited with the goal.
- 1989 - Death of Gubby Allen, English cricket player (born 1902).
- 1990 - The United Nations Security Council passes UN Security Council Resolution 678, authorizing military intervention in Iraq if that nation does not withdraw its forces from Kuwait and free all foreign hostages by Tuesday, January 15, 1991.
- 1994 - Russian aircraft bomb Chechen capital of Grozny.
- 1995 - Charlie Smith, American baseball player, dies at age 57.
- 1998 - In the Ceram Sea, a magnitude 7.7 earthquake occurs.
- 1998 - Death of Martin Ruane, British wrestler best known as Giant Haystacks and later, The Loch Ness Monster (born 1947).
- 1999 - Death of Gene Rayburn, American television personality (born 1917).
- 2001 - Death of George Harrison, English musician (The Beatles), of cancer (born 1943).
- 2001 - Death of John Knowles, American author (born 1926).
- 2004 - Death of John Drew Barrymore, American actor (born 1932).
- 2004 - Death of Bernard Robinson, English football player (born 1911).
- 2005 - E. Cardon Walker dies at age 89; president of Walt Disney Productions (1971-80), CEO (1976-83), and chairman (1980-83).
- 2007 - The Armed Forces of the Philippines lays siege to The Peninsula Manila after soldiers led by Senator Antonio Trillanes stage a mutiny.
- 2007 - The German government mandates a minimum wage for postal workers, the first minimum wage in the country.
- 2007 - Death of Henry Hyde, American politician (born 1924).
- 2008 - Jorn Utzon, Danish architect of the iconic Sydney Opera House, dies at age 90, after suffering a heart attack.
- 2009 - The Commonwealth of Nations admits Rwanda as its 54th member.
- 2009 - Somali pirates capture the Greek-owned Maran Centaurus supertanker carrying oil from Saudi Arabia to the US.
- 2009 - The Montreal Alouettes defeat the Saskatchewan Roughriders 28 to 27 in Canada's Grey Cup football championship game.
- 2010 - The European Union agrees to an 85 billion euro rescue deal for Ireland from the European Financial Stability Facility, the International Monetary Fund and bilateral loans from the United Kingdom, Denmark and Sweden.
- 2010 - The 2010 United Nations Climate Change Conference is held in Cancún, Mexico. Also referred to as the 16th Conference of the Parties of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP 16), it is also the 6th meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol (CMP 6).
- 2011 - Blanchard and Co. sells the unique American 1787 Brasher doubloon pattern coin with "EB" punch on breast sells for US$7,395,000 from Blanchard & Company to an unnamed buyer in a private transaction.
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