November 29

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

Events:

• 1864 - United States Cavalry massacre Cheyenne and Arapahoe noncombatants at Sand Creek, Colorado
• 1877 - Thomas Edison demonstrates the phonograph
• 1887 - United States receives rights to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii
• 1890 - First Japanese Diet convenes
• 1916 - United States declares martial law in the Dominican Republic
• 1929 - Admiral Richard Byrd flies over the South Pole
• 1943 - Second session of AVNOJ (Antifascist council of national liberation of Yugoslavia) is held in Jajce, Bosnia and Herzegovina, proclaiming the AVNOJ decrees concerning the post-war ordering of Yugoslavia
• 1944 - Albania liberated
• 1945 - People's Federal Republic of Yugoslavia is declared. Celebrated as Republic day until 1990s
• 1947 - United Nations votes to partition Palestine
• 1963 - President Lyndon Johnson establishes the Warren Commission to investigate the assassination of President John F. Kennedy
• 1975 - Bill Gates and Paul Allen call their new company Microsoft

Births:

• 1797 - Gaetano Donizetti, composer
• 1803 - Gottfried Semper, architect (+ 1879)
• 1803 - Christian Doppler, physicist (+ 1853)
• 1813 - Franz von Miklosich, linguist
• 1832 - Louisa May Alcott, writer (+ 1888)
• 1849 - Sir Ambrose Fleming, physicist (+ 1945)
• 1856 - Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg, German Reichskanzler and Prime Minister of Prussia (+ 1921)
• 1876 - Nellie Tayloe Ross, politician (+ 1977)
• 1881 - Julius Raab, politician and Austrian Bundeskanzler (+ 1964)
• 1895 - Busby Berkeley, film director, choreographer (+ 1976)
• 1896 - Yakima Canutt, actor, stunt man (+ 1986)
• 1898 - C. S. Lewis, writer (+ 1963)
• 1904 - Egon Eiermann, architect (+ 1970)
• 1908 - Adam Clayton Powell Jr., U.S. civil rights leader and politician (+ 1972)
• 1915 - Billy Strayhorn, musician, composer (+ 1967)
• 1917 - Merle Travis, country music singer (+ 1983)
• 1921 - Dagmar, television personality (+ 2001)
• 1927 - Vin Scully, baseball announcer
• 1932 - Diane Ladd, actress
• 1932 - Jacques Chirac, French political leader
• 1933 - John Mayall, blues musician
• 1938 - Michel Duchaussoy
• 1940 - Chuck Mangione, musician
• 1943 - Sue Miller, author
• 1947 - Petra Kelly, politician (+ 1992)
• 1949 - Garry Shandling, comedian, actor, writer, producer, director
• 1953 - Christine Pascale, actress (+ 1996)
• 1954 - Joel Coen, director, producer, writer
• 1955 - Howie Mandel, actor
• 1956 - Hinton Battle, dancer
• 1960 - Cathy Moriarty, actress
• 1961 - Kim Delaney, actress
• 1963 - Andrew McCarthy, actor
• 1964 - Don Cheadle, actor
• 1971 - Gena Lee Nolin, actress

Deaths:

• 1314 - King Philippe IV of France
• 1847 - Marcus and Narcissa Whitman, Washington state pioneers
• 1924 - Giacomo Puccini, composer
• 1953 - Sam De Grasse, pioneer Hollywood actor
• 1954 - Enrico Fermi, physicist
• 1975 - Graham Hill, automobile racer
• 1981 - Natalie Wood, actress
• 1986 - Cary Grant, actor
• 1991 - Frank Yerby, author
• 1999 - Gene Rayburn, game show host
• 2001 - George Harrison, musician (The Beatles)

Holidays and Observances:

• International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People
• National Day in Albania

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See Also:

November 28 - November 30 - October 29 - December 29 -- listing of all days

January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December