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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 - Death of Maria Theresa at age 63; leader of Austria.
- 1781 - Birth of Andres Bello in Venezuela; poet/diplomat/scholar (Silvas Americanas).
- 1803 - Birth of Christian Doppler; discovered Doppler Effect (color shift).
- 1812 - Napoleon's Grand Army crosses Berezina River in retreat from Russia.
- 1818 - Birth of George Brown; Canadian 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 in Germantown, Pennsylvania, USA; author (Little Women).
- 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 Davis Tayloe AKA Nellie Tayloe Ross in Saint Joseph, Missouri, USA; governor (Wyoming, 1925-1926), U.S. Mint director (1933-1952).
- 1879 - King Alfonso of Spain marries Maria Christina of Austria.
- 1881 - Death of Tracy Robinson Edson in New York City, New York USA; engraver of bank notes, president of American Bank Note Company 1960-63, owned patent to green ink of greenbacks.
- 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").
- 1913 - The stolen Mona Lisa painting is found in a hotel room in Florence, Italy.
- 1916 - US forcesoccupies and 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 - Death of Albert Henry Harris in England; philatelic publisher (Harris Publishing, HILATELIC Magazine, Philatelic Trader, Who's Who in Philately, Stamp Collectors' Annual).
- 1945 - Monarchy abolished as Yugoslavia proclaims its republic.
- 1946 - Birth of Suzy Chaffee; American skier (Olympics-1968).
- 1947 - The United Nations General Assembly approves a resolution recommending the partition of Palestine and the creation of the independent state of Israel.
- 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).
- 1959 - NBC airs the 2nd Annual Grammy Awards, based on private dinner ceremonies held in Los Angeles and New York. Some winners:
- Record of the Year: Bobby Darin for "Mack The Knife";
- Best Vocal Performance, Female: Ella Fitzgerald for "But Not For Me";
- Best Vocal Performance, Male: Frank Sinatra for "Come Dance With Me";
- Best Country and Western Performance: Johnny Horton for "The Battle Of New Orleans";
- Best Performance by a "Top 40" Artist: Nat "King" Cole for "Midnight Flyer".
- 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 - 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.
- 1966 - United Kingdom Home Secretary Roy Jenkins announces the end of flogging in English and Welsh jails.
- 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.
- 1976 - Death of Godfrey Cambridge at age 43 from a heart attack; comedian/actor (Ed Sullivan, Dean Martin, Hollywood Palace, Laugh In, Naked City, Police Story, Night Gallery, Disneyland).
- 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.
- 1979 - Birth of Jayceon Taylor, American rapper (The Game).
- 1980 - Death of Dorothy Day, author (Stump the Authors), social progressive and founder of the Catholic Worker, at age 83 (born 1897).
- 1981 - Death of Natalie Wood AKA Natasha Gurdin at age 43 of accidental drowning of Santa Catalina, California, USA; actress (From Here To Eternity TV mini-series, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof TV show).
- 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.
- 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.
- 1991 - Death of Ralph Bellamy of a lung ailment at age 87; actor (Man Against Crime TV show, host - Frontier Justice, Franklin Roosevelt - The Winds of War and War and Remembrance TV mini-series, Wheels, The Moneychangers, Once an Eagle, Testimony of Two Men).
- 1994 - Russian aircraft bomb Chechen capital of Grozny.
- 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).
- 2001 - Death of George Harrison, English musician (The Beatles, Travelling Wilburies), of cancer (born 1943).
- 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 Company sells the unique American 1787 Brasher doubloon pattern coin with "EB" punch on breast for US$7,395,000 to an unnamed buyer in a private transaction.
- 2012 - The UN General Assembly approves a motion granting Palestine non-member observer state status.
- 2021 - Co-founder Jack Dorsey steps down as CEO of Twitter, replaced by chief technology officer Parag Agrawal.
- 2021 - Death of Kinza Clodumar, 7th President of Nauru (born 1945).
- 2022 - Death of Brad William Henke at age 56 in his sleep; football player (NFL), actor (Orange is the New Black TV show).
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