Historical Events on 29th November 526 - Antioch in modern day Syria struck by Earthquake, about 250,000 die 799 - Pope Leo III, aided by Charles the Great, returns to Rome 1349 - Jews of Augsburg Germany massacred 1516 - Treaty of Freiburg] French/Swiss eternal peace treaty 1561 - Lofland subjects himself on Sigismund August II of Poland 1573 - Don Luis de Requesensy Zuniga succeeds duke of Alva as land guardian of Netherlands 1581 - Doornik (Tournai) surrenders to Duke of Parma 1596 - King Philip II devalues Spanish currency 1745 - Bonnie Prince Charlies army moves into Manchester & occupies Carlisle 1760 - French commandant Beletre surrenders Detroit to Maj R Rogers 1775 - Sir James Jay invents invisible ink 1781 - The crew of the slave ship Zong murders 133 Africans by dumping them into the sea in order to claim insurance. 1803 - Dessalines & Christophe declare St Domingue (Haiti) independent 1812 - Napoleons Grand Army crosses Berezina River in retreat from Russia 1813 - Elias Canneman (Lib) becomes minister of Finance 1825 - 1st Italian opera in US, Barber of Seville premieres (NYC) 1830 - November Uprising: An armed rebellion against Russias 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 Washington state pioneers Marcus & Narcissa Whitman, and 12 others in Walla Walla Ore 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 Ft Sanders, TN (Ft Loudon), 8-900 casualities 1864 - 4th & last day of skirmishes at Waynesboro, Georgia 1864 - Battle of Spring Hill, TN (Thomasons Station) 1864 - Sand Creek Massacre, Colorado militia kills about 150 peaceful Cheyenne and Arapaho Indians including Cheyenne chief One-Eye 1870 - Compulsory education proclaimed in England 1872 - Indian Wars: The Modoc War begins with the Battle of Lost River. 1877 - Thomas Edison demonstrates hand-cranked phonograph 1887 - US receives rights to Pearl Harbor, on Oahu, Hawaii 1890 - 1st Army-Navy football game, Score: Navy 24, Army 0 at West Point 1893 - Ziqiang Institute, today known as Wuhan University, is founded by Zhang Zhidong, governor of Hubei and Hunan Provinces in late Qing Dynasty of China after his memorial to the throne is approved by the Qing Government. 1897 - 1st motorcycle race (Surrey England) 1900 - Lord Kitchener succeeds lord Roberts up as supreme commander in S Afr 1901 - East 182nd Street in Bronx is paved & opened 1902 - Gerhart Hauptmanns Der arme Heinrich premieres in Vienna 1910 - The first US patent for inventing the traffic lights system is issued to Ernest Sirrine. 1913 - 5th CFL Grey Cup: Hamilton Tigers defeats Toronto Parkdale, 44-2 1915 - Fire destroys most of the buildings on Santa Catalina Island, California. 1916 - US declares martial law in Dominican Republic 1918 - Serbia annexes Montenegro 1921 - Coldest day in Nov in Netherlands -14.0°C 1921 - Z Parenteau & Schuyler Greens musical Kiki premieres in NYC 1924 - 12th CFL Grey Cup: Queens University defeat Toronto Balmy Beach, 11-3 1924 - NHLs Montreal Forum opens 1926 - Tris Speaker resigns as Indians manager 1926 - W Somerset Maughams Constant Wife premieres in NYC 1929 - Lt Cmdr Richard E Byrd sends My calculations indicate that we have reached vicinity of South Pole (He was wrong) 1932 - Cole Porters musical Gay Divorcee premieres in NYC 1932 - France signs non-agression pact with Soviet Union 1932 - USSR & France sign no attack treaty 1933 - 1st state liquor stores authorized (Pennsylvania) 1933 - Japan begins persecution of communists 1934 - Chic Bears beat Detroit (19-16) in 1st NFL game broadcast nationally 1935 - Michael Savage becomes 1st Labour premier of NZ 1937 - Prince Bernhard injured in auto accident in Netherlands 1938 - Mayor Oud of Rotterdam forbids soccer match between Neth-Germany 1939 - Cor Klint swims world record 200 m backstroke (2:38.8) 1939 - USSR drops diplomatic relations with Finland 1941 - 29th CFL Grey Cup: Winn Blue Bombers defeat Ottawa Rough Riders, 18-16 1941 - Passenger ship Lurline sends radio signal of sighting Jap war fleet 1942 - US rations coffee 1943 - Partisan Tito forms temporary government in Jajce Bosnia 1943 - U-86 sinks in Atlantic Ocean 1943 - US aircraft carrier Hornet launched 1944 - Albania liberated from Nazi control (Natl Day) 1944 - John Hopkins hospital performs 1st open heart surgery 1944 - The first surgery (on a human) to correct blue baby syndrome is performed by Alfred Blalock and Vivien Thomas. 1945 - Yugoslavian Socialist Republic proclaimed 1946 - Minister Drees begins emergency rule of old age facilities 1947 - 35th CFL Grey Cup: Toronto Argonauts defeats Calgary Stampeders, 10-9 1947 - UN Gen Assembly partitions Palestine between Arabs & Jews 1948 - Kukla, Fran, & Ollie debuted on NBC 1948 - 1st opera to be televised, Othello, broadcast from the Met (NYC) 1948 - KOB TV channel 4 in Albuquerque, NM (NBC) begins broadcasting 1949 - Nationalist regime of China leaves for Taiwan/Formosa 1949 - Uranium mine explosions in East Germany kills 3,700 1950 - National Council of Church of Christ in US forms 1951 - 1st underground atomic explosion, Frenchman Flat Nevada 1952 - 40th CFL Grey Cup: Toronto Argonauts defeats Edmonton Eskimos, 21-11 1952 - Pres-elect Eisenhower visits Korea to assess war 1953 - American Airlines begins 1st regular coml NY-LA air service 1953 - WSIX TV channel 8 in Nashville, TN (ABC) begins broadcasting 1955 - Turkish government of Menderes resigns 1956 - Bells Are Ringing opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 925 performances 1957 - NY Mayor Robert Wagner forms a committee to replace Dodgers & Giants 1958 - 46th CFL Grey Cup: Winn Blue Bombers defeat Hamilton Tiger-Cats, 35-28 1960 - 26th Heisman Trophy Award: Joe Bellino, Navy (HB) 1961 - Freedom Riders attacked by white mob at bus station in Miss 1961 - John A McCone replaces Allen W Dulles as 6th director of CIA 1961 - Mercury-Atlas 5 carries a chimp (Enos) to orbit 1962 - Baseball decides to revert back to 1 all star game per year 1962 - Great-Britain & France decide to jointly build Concorde 1963 - Beatles release I Want to Hold Your Hand 1963 - LBJ sets up Warren Comm 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, Canada 1964 - Roman Catholic Church in US replaces Latin with English 1965 - Anya opens at Ziegfeld Theater NYC for 16 performances 1965 - Dale Cummings does 14,118 consecutive sit-ups 1966 - SS Daniel J Morrell sinks in a storm on Lake Huron, 28 die, 1 survivor. 1966 - 1st NBA game at Oakland Coliseum Arena - Warriors beat Bulls 108-101 1967 - British troops withdraw from Aden and South Yemen 1967 - Robert McNamara elected president of World bank 1968 - John & Yoko release their 1st album Two Virgins in UK 1969 - The Beatles Come Together/Something reaches #1 1970 - Charles Ives Yale-Princeton, premieres 1970 - Colin Cowdrey becomes Test Crickets leading run scorer (7,250) 1971 - 1st pro golf championship at Walt Disney World 1971 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR 1972 - Nolan Bushnell (co-founder of Atari) releases Pong (the first commercially successful video game) in Andy Capps Tavern in Sunnyvale, California. 1975 - Kilauea Volcano erupts in Hawaii 1975 - Pres Ford requires states to provide free education for handicapped 1976 - Free agent Reggie Jackson signs 5 year pact with NY Yankees 1976 - NY Yankees sign free agent Reggie Jackson to 5-year contract 1978 - UN observes international day of solidarity with Palestinian people, boycotted by US & about 20 other countries 1978 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR 1979 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 1981 - My Fair Lady closes at Uris Theater NYC after 119 performances 1981 - Greg Chappell scores 201 v Pakistan at The Gabba (Brisbane) 1982 - USSR performs underground nuclear test 1983 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR 1984 - Javed Miandad completes twin Test Cricket tons, v NZ, Hyderabad 1987 - Dreamgirls closes at Ambassador Theater NYC after 177 performances 1987 - 75th CFL Grey Cup: Edmonton Eskimos defeats Toronto Argonauts, 38-36 1987 - France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island 1987 - Joe Montana of 49ers completes NFL record 22 consecutive passes 1987 - New Orleans Saints win, assuring their 1st winning NFL season 1987 - Rangers Bob Frosse becomes 2nd goalie to score a goal (vs Isles) It is later ruled that he should not be credited with goal 1987 - A Korean Air Boeing 707 explodes over the Thai-Burmese border, killing 115 1989 - 8th Largest wrestling crowd (60,000-Tokyo Dome) 1989 - India president Rajiv Gandhi, resigns 1990 - Shogun - The Musical opens at Marquis Theater NYC for 72 perfs 1990 - Expos pres Claude Brochu agrees to buy club from Charles Bronfman 1990 - UN Security Council sets Jan 15th military deadline against Iraq 1991 - TV show Roc has a gay wedding episode - Cant Help Loving that Man 1991 - Test Cricket debut of Javagal Srinath, v Australia at the Gabba 1992 - Sea Gull opens at Lyceum Theater NYC for 48 performances 1992 - Solitary Confinement closes at Nederlander NYC after 25 perfs 1992 - 80th CFL Grey Cup: Calgary Stampeders defeats Winn Blue Bombers, 24-10 1993 - Abe Lincoln in Illinois opens at Beaumont Theater NYC for 40 perfs 1994 - Seoul, Korea, celebrated the 600th anniversary of its founding 1995 - Garden District closes at Circle in the Sq Theater NYC 1995 - CNN/fn, the financial network by Turner Enterprises, launched 1997 - USAir Arena closes, hosting Wash Wizards 2005 - The new Croatian Communist Party (KPH) is founded in Vukovar. 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. 2012 - 30 people are killed and 100 are wounded by bombs in Hillah and Karbala, Iraq 2012 - The UN votes to approve Palestine’s status change from an observer to an observer state 2012 - Luiz Felipe Scolari takes over as Brazilian Football coach
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