29 November History


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  • 1760    -    Major Roger Rogers takes possession of Detroit on behalf of Britain.
  • 1787    -    Louis XVI promulgates an edict of tolerance, granting civil status to Protestants.
  • 1812    -    The last elements of Napoleon Bonaparte's Grand Armee retreats across the Beresina River in Russia.
  • 1863    -    The Battle of Fort Sanders, Knoxville, Tenn., ends with a Confederate withdrawal.
  • 1864    -    Colonel John M. Chivington's 3rd Colorado Volunteers massacre Black Kettles' camp of Cheyenne and Arapahoe Indians at Sand Creek, Colo.
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  • 1903    -    An Inquiry into the U.S. Postal Service demonstrates the government has lost millions in fraud.
  • 1923    -    An international commission headed by American banker Charles Dawes is set up to investigate the German economy.
  • 1929    -    Commander Richard Byrd makes the first flight over the South Pole.
  • 1931    -    The Spanish government seizes large estates for land redistribution.
  • 1939    -    Soviet planes bomb an airfield at Helsinki, Finland.
  • 1948    -    The Metropolitan Opera is televised for the first time as the season opens with "Othello."
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  • 1948    -    The popular children's television show, Kukla, Fran and Ollie, premieres.
  • 1949    -    The United States announces it will conduct atomic tests at Eniwetok Atoll in the Pacific.
  • 1961    -    NASA launches a chimpanzee named Enos into Earth orbit.
  • 1962    -    Algeria bans the Communist Party.
  • 1963    -    President Lyndon B. Johnson appoints Chief Justice Earl Warren head of a commission to investigate the assassination of John F. Kennedy.

  • 29 November Birthdays

  • 1803    -    Christian Doppler, best known for his explanation of perceived frequency variation of sound and light waves, known as the Doppler effect.
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  • 1832    -    Louisa May Alcott, novelist (Little Women).
  • 1895    -    Busby Berkeley, director (42nd Street).
  • 1898    -    C.S. Lewis, Christian writer.
  • 1900    -    Mildred Elizabeth Sisk, aka Axis Sally, Nazi propagandist.
  • 1908    -    Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., politician and Civil Rights leader.
  • 1911    -    Konrad Fuchs, German atomic physicist.
  • 1918    -    Madeleine L'Engle, writer (A Wrinkle in Time).