This Day in History for 29th November

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Historical Events

Events 1 - 100 of 147

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 surrenders to duke of Parma
1596 - King Philip II devalues Spanish currency
1745 - Bonnie Prince Charlies army moves into Manchester & occupy 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 - Napoleon's 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 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 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 (Thomason's 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.
Inventor Thomas Edison 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 arnë 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 Green's musical "Kiki," premieres in NYC
Author and Nobel Laureate Gerhart Hauptmann 1924 - 12th CFL Grey Cup: Queen's University defeat Toronto Balmy Beach, 11-3
1924 - NHL's 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 - 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

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Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 100 of 228

1229 - Louis II, the Stern, ruler (upper Baveria)
1338 - Lionel of Antwerp, 1st Duke of Clarence, son of Edward III of England (d. 1368)
1427 - Zhengtong, Emperor of China (d. 1464)
1484 - Joachim Vadian, Swiss humanist (d. 1551)
1627 - John Ray, English naturalist (d. 1705)
1690 - Christian Augustus of Anhalt-Zerbst, father of Catherine II of Russia (d. 1747)
1752 - Jemima Wilkinson, American preacher (d. 1819)
1761 - Fridolin Weber, composer
1762 - Pierre André Latreille, French zoologist (d. 1833)
1770 - Peter Hansel, composer
1781 - Andres Bello, Venezuela poet/diplomat/scholar (Silvas Americanas)
1797 - Domenico Gaetano Maria Donizetti, composer
1798 - Alexander Brullov, Russian painter (d. 1877)
1799 - Amos Bronson Alcott, US educator/poet (Concord Days)
1802 - Wilhelm Hauff, writer
1803 - Christian Doppler, Salzburg, Austria, physicist (Doppler effect), (d. 1853)
1803 - Gottfried Semper, German architect (d. 1879)
1811 - Wendell Phillips, women's suffrage/antislavery/prison reformer
1813 - Franz von Miklosich, Slovenian linguist (d. 1891)
Physicist Christian Doppler (1803) 1815 - Stephen Augustus Hurlbut, Mjr Gen (Union volunteers), died in 1882
1816 - Carl Binder, composer
1816 - Morrison Waite, American jurist (d. 1888)
1818 - George Brown, Canada, publisher (Toronto Globe), PM (L) (1858)
1825 - Jean-Martin Charcot, French neurologist (d. 1893)
1832 - Louisa May Alcott, Germantown Pa, author (Little Women)
1833 - Louis Douglass Watkins, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1868
1834 - Thomas Edward Greenfield Ransom, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
1835 - Empress Dowager Cixi, Chinese ruler (d. 1908)
1838 - Aeneas Mackay, Baron/Dutch minister of interior/Colonies
1839 - Ludwig Anzengruber, Austrian playwright (Der Schandfleck)
1849 - Ambrose Fleming, inventor (diode)
1852 - Paul Joseph Guillaume Hillemacher, composer
1856 - Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg, German Chancellor/premier Prussia
1857 - Theodor Escherich, German pediatrician (d. 1911)
1860 - Hans Haym, composer
1862 - Friedrich Klose, composer
1863 - Spyridon Filiskos Samaras, composer
1866 - Waldemar von Baussnern, composer
1870 - Andre Lichtenberger, French sociologist/writer (Le petit roi)
1870 - Harry Graham, cricketer (107 on Test debut Aust v Eng 1893)
1872 - Anna Bahr-von Mildenburg, Austrian soprano/director
1874 - Antonio Egas Moniz, Portugal, lobotomist (Nobel 1949)
1874 - Francis Dodd, British artist (d. 1949)
1879 - Jacob Gade, Danish composer(d. 1963)
1888 - Joe Slater, Australian Rules footballer (d. 1917)
1891 - Julius Raab, Austrian Chancellor (1953-61)
1891 - Richard Frank Donovan, composer
1894 - Yakima Canutt, [Enos Edward], Colfax WA, actor/dir (Texas Terror)
1894 - Lucille Hegamin, American singer and entertainer (d. 1970)
1895 - Busby Berkeley, Los Angeles CA, choreographer
1895 - Lodovico Rocca, composer
1895 - William V S Tubman, (Whig), 17th Liberian president (1943-70)
1896 - Philip L Carret, Lynn Mass, CEO (Pioneer Fund)
1896 - Rod(erique) La Rocque (La Tour), western actor (Beau Bandit)
1896 - Yakima Canutt, American actor and stuntman (d. 1986)
1897 - Emiel van Hemeldonck, Belgian writer (Little Emperor)
Sci Fi Author C S Lewis (1898) 1898 - C S Lewis [Clive Staples], Belfast, sci-fi author (Silver Chair), (d. 1963)
1898 - Rod La Rocque, Chicago IL, actor (Our Modern Maidens)
1899 - Gustave Reese, composer
1899 - Andrija Artuković, Croatian war criminal (d. 1988)
1901 - Genevieve Tobin, actress (Zaza, Great Gambini, Uncertain Lady)
1901 - Mildred Harris, Cheyenne WY, actress (No No Nannette)
1902 - Carlo Levi, Italy, painter/novelist (Of Fear & Freedom)
1902 - Georges Poulet, French/Belgian critic (Temps Humain)
1904 - Kay Johnson, Mt Vernon NY, actress (Real Glory, Of Human Bondage)
1904 - Piet Ketting, pianist/conductor/composer (Glorify Kokila)
1904 - Egon Eiermann, German architect (d. 1970)
1905 - Mowbray Henry Gordon Howard, 6th Earl of Effingham
1905 - Marcel Lefebvre, French Roman catholic bishop (d. 1991)
1906 - Luis Van Rooten, Mexico City Mexico, actor (One Man's Family)
1907 - Merle Travis, Muhlenberg County KY, country singer (16 Tons)
Actor Ed Harris (1901) 1908 - Adam Clayton Powell Jr, (Rep-D-NY)/minister
1908 - N. S. Krishnan, Tamil film comedian (d. 1957)
1909 - Rupert Davies, methodist Scholar
1910 - Louis Levy Jr, music publisher
1911 - Klaus EJ Fuchs, German/British atomic physicist/spy
1914 - Edith Tilton Penrose, economist
1914 - Taisen Deshimaru, Saga City Japan, found several Zen centers in France
1915 - Earl W Sutherland, US pharmacologist (Nobel 1971)
1915 - Billy Strayhorn, American musician and composer (d. 1967)
1916 - Valentino Bucchi, composer
1916 - Fran Ryan, American actress (d. 2000)
1917 - Merle Travis, American singer (d. 1983)
1918 - Herb Shriner, Toledo Ohio, host/humorist (Herb Shriner Show)
1918 - Madeleine L'Engle, [Franklin], US, sci-fi author (Ilsa, Love Letters)
1919 - Pearl Primus, dancer
1920 - Yegor Ligachev, Soviet politician
1921 - Dagmar, American television personality (d. 2001)
1922 - Benjamin Smit, Curacaos architect (St Elizabeth Hospital)
1922 - Minnie Miñoso, Cuban baseball player
1923 - Frank Reynolds, E Chicago Ind, news anchor (ABC Evening News)
1926 - Dagmar, Huntington WV, actress (Broadway's Open House)
1927 - Rubert Crosse, NYC, actor (Det Robinson-The Partners)
1927 - Vin[ce] Scully, sportscaster (NBC Baseball Game of the Week)
1928 - Tahir Salahov, Azerbaijani painter
1928 - Paul Simon, American politician (d. 2003)
1929 - Don January, pro golfer (1976 Vardon Trophy)
1929 - Jackie Stallone, mother of Sylvester Stallone
1930 - Shirley Porter, English politician
1931 - Frank T Mdlalose, KwaZulu minister of Internal minister

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Famous Weddings

Weddings 1 - 4 of 4

1916 - Erwin Rommel marries Lucie "Lu" Mollin
1934 - Prince George, Duke of Kent weds princess Marina of Greece and Denmark
2003 - Composer and former Oingo Boingo singer Danny Elfman (50) weds actress Bridget Fonda (39) at First Congressional Church in Los Angeles
2008 - "Without a Trace" star Roselyn Sanchez (35) weds actor Eric Winter (32) at Fort San Cristobal in Old San Juan, Puerto Rico

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 100 of 117

561 - Chlotarius I, king of the France (558-61), dies at about 61
917 - Radboud, bishop of Utrecht/Deventer (900-17)/saint, dies
1253 - Otto II Wittelsbach, Duke of Bavaria (b. 1206)
1268 - Clement IV, [Guido Fulcodi], Pope (1265-68), dies
1314 - Philip IV, the Handsome, King of France (1285-1314), (b. 1268)
1330 - Roger de Mortimer, 1st Earl of March, de facto ruler of England (b. 1287)
1342 - Michael of Cesena, Italian Franciscan leader (b. 1270)
1378 - Charles IV, Roman-German King/German emperor (Univ of Prague), dies
1530 - Thomas Wolsey, Cardinal,adviser and Lord Chancellor, (1514-29) to England's King Henry VIII (approx. 60)
1577 - Cuthbert Mayne, English saint (b. 1543)
1590 - Philipp Nikodemus Frischlin, German philologist and poet (b. 1547)
1595 - Alonso de Ercilla y Zúñiga, Basque soldier and poet (b. 1533)
1626 - Ernst, Graf von Mansfield, German soldier (c. 1580)
1632 - Frederick V, Elector Palatine and King of Bohemia, dies at 36
1643 - Claudio Giovanni Monteverdi, Italian composer (L'arianna), dies at 76
1643 - William Cartwright, English dramatist (b. 1611)
1646 - Laurentius Paulinus Gothus, Swedish theologian and astronomer (b. 1565)
1661 - Brian Walton, English clergyman and scholar (b. 1600)
1682 - Rupert, prince of Palts/adm/chemist/engraver/mathematician, dies at 62
1695 - James Dalrymple, 1st Viscount Stair, Scottish lawyer and statesman (b. 1619)
1699 - Patrick Gordon, Scottish general (b. 1635)
1759 - Nicolaus I Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician (b. 1687)
1775 - Lorenzo Somis, composer, dies at 87
1780 - Maria Theresia Hapsburg, Queen of Austria, dies at 63
1797 - Samuel Langdon, American President of Harvard University (b. 1723)
1813 - Giambattista Bodoni, Ital stamp cutter/publisher (bodoni), dies at 73
1843 - Marco Santucci, composer, dies at 81
1865 - Herman van Sonsbeeck, Dutch lawyer/statesman, dies at 69
1872 - Cornelius Kreighoff, Canadian, dies
1872 - Giovanni Tadolini, composer, dies at 83
1872 - Horace Greeley, US founder/publisher (NY Tribune), dies at 61
1895 - Eduard count von Taaffe, Austria premier (1868..93), dies at 62
1918 - Harald Kidde, Danish writer (Helten), dies at 40
1921 - Ivan Caryll, composer (Pink Lady), dies at 60
Composer Giacomo Puccini (1924) 1924 - Giacomo Puccini, Ital composer (Mme Butterfly), dies in Brussels at 65
1925 - Karl Flodin, composer, dies at 67
1927 - George Giffen, cricketer (251 FC games, 11758 runs, 1023 wkts), dies
1939 - Philipp Scheidemann, German MP (SPD)/mayor of Kassel, dies at 74
1952 - Rosa Lewis, English chef/owner (Cavendish Hotel London), dies
1952 - Vladimir N Ipatiev, Russian/US chemist, dies at 85
1953 - Alfons Fryland, Austrian actor (b. 1888)
1953 - Sam De Grasse, American actor (b. 1875)
1953 - Milt Gross, American comic book illustrator and animator (b. 1895)
1954 - Enrico Fermi, Italian/US nuclear physicist, dies
1954 - George Edward Robey, English comic/actor (Henry IV), dies at 85
1954 - Dink Johnson, American musician (b. 1892)
1957 - Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Austria/US composer (Kathrin), dies at 60
1959 - Fritz Brun, composer, dies at 81
1959 - Hans Henny Jahnn, writer, dies at 64
1962 - Rav Aaron Kotler, Orthodox Talmudic scholar, dies in Lakewood NJ
1964 - Anne de Vries, Dutch teacher/author (Bartje), dies at 60
1967 - Theo Marcuse, actor (Mara of Wilderness), dies in auto accident at 47
1970 - Robert Ruthenfranz, composer, dies at 65
1971 - Heinz Tiessen, composer, dies at 84
1972 - Carl Stalling, American composer (b. 1888)
1974 - Haroldson L Hunt, US multi-millionaire, dies at 85
1974 - Ouida Bergere, scriptwriter, dies at 88
1974 - James J. Braddock, American heavyweight boxer (b. 1905)
1976 - Godfrey Cambridge, actor (Watermelon Man), dies at 43
1976 - Judith Lowry, actress (Effect of Gamma Rays ...), dies at 86
1977 - George Hamilton Combs, TV host (Through the Curtain), dies at 78
1978 - Alan Richardson, composer, dies at 74
1980 - Dorothy Day, American journalist, social activist and devout member of the Roman Catholic Church, dies at 83
1981 - Natalie Wood, actress (West Side Story), drowns at 43
1981 - Fredric Wertham, German-born psychologist (b. 1895)
1982 - Percy Williams, Canadian athlete (b. 1908)
1984 - Gotthard Günther, German philosopher (b. 1900)
1985 - Rik Jacobs, Flemish stage manager, dies at 71
1986 - Cary Grant, actor (Charades), dies in Davenport Iowa at 82
1986 - Herb Vigran, actor (Vampire, Mark of Vampire), dies
1987 - Howard Pyle, (Gov-R-Az, 1951-55), dies at 81
1987 - Irene Handl, actress (Riding High, Morgan), dies at 85
1989 - Ann Burton, [Anna Rafalowicz], singer, dies at 56
1989 - George Oswald Browning "Gubby" Allen, cricketer, dies
1991 - Frank Yerby, US writer (Health Card, The Dahomean), dies at 75
1991 - Ralph Bellamy, actor (Rosemary's Baby, His Girl Friday), dies at 87
1992 - Cary Scott Lowenstein, dancer/singer, dies of AIDS at 30
1992 - Emilio Pucci, Italian fashion designer (Jackie Kennedy), dies at 78
1992 - Robert F Simon, US actor (Operation Petticoat, M*A*S*H), dies at 83
1992 - Robert Shayne, US actor (Tora! Tora! Tora!), dies of cancer at 92
1992 - Jean Dieudonné, French mathematician (b. 1906)
1993 - JRD Tata, Indies industrialist (Air-India), dies at 89
1994 - Muhammad Ali Araki, ayatollah of Iran, dies
1994 - Ronald "Buster" Edwards, robber, dies at 63
1994 - Sviatoslav S Stravinsky, French/US composer/son of Igor S, dies at 84
1995 - Irene Elizabeth Beatrice Ighodaro, doctor/social reformer, dies at 79
1995 - Stone Cates, fictional character on General Hospital, dies of AIDS
1996 - Dan Flavin, American artist (b. 1933)
1997 - Coleman Young, 1st black mayor of a major city, dies at 79
1998 - Martin Ruane, English professional wrestler (b. 1947)
1998 - Frank Latimore, American actor (b. 1925)
1999 - Gene Rayburn, American game show host (b. 1917)
2001 - Mic Christopher, Irish singer and songwriter (b. 1969)
2001 - George Harrison, English singer, guitarist and songwriter (b. 1943)
2001 - John Knowles, American author (b. 1926)
2002 - Daniel Gélin, French actor (b. 1921)
2002 - George "Two Ton" Harris, American professional wrestler (b. 1927)
2003 - Moondog Spot, American professional wrestler (b. 1952)
2004 - Anne Samson, oldest-ever nun documented (b. 1891)
2004 - Harry Danning, American baseball player (b. 1911)