On this day in History - Nov. 29

• 0741 - Pope Gregory III dies.
• 1223 - Franciscan Order Recognised.
• 1253 - Otto II Wittelsbach, Duke of Bavaria.
• 1268 - Pope Clement IV dies.
• 1314 - King Philip IV of France dies (b. 1268).
• 1330 - Roger de Mortimer, 1st Earl of March dies (b. 1287). De facto ruler of England.
• 1338 - Lionel of Antwerp, 1st Duke of Clarence was born (d. 1368). Son of Edward III of England.
• 1342 - Michael of Cesena dies (b. 1270). Italian Franciscan leader.
• 1378 - Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor dies (b. 1316).
• 1427 - Zhengtong was born (d. 1464). Emperor of China.
• 1484 - Joachim Vadian was born (d. 1551). Swiss humanist.
• 1530 - Cardinal Thomas Wolsey dies. Adviser to King Henry VIII of England.
• 1577 - Cuthbert Mayne dies (b. 1543). English saint.
• 1590 - Philipp Nikodemus Frischlin dies (b. 1547). German philologist and poet.
• 1595 - Alonso de Ercilla y Zúñiga dies (b. 1533). Basque soldier and poet.
• 1626 - Ernst, Graf von Mansfield dies. German soldier
• 1627 - John Ray was born (d. 1705). English naturalist.
• 1632 - Frederick V, Elector Palatine dies (b. 1596)
• 1643 - William Cartwright dies (b. 1611). English dramatist.
• 1643 - Claudio Monteverdi dies (b. 1567). Italian composer.
• 1646 - Laurentius Paulinus Gothus dies (b. 1565). Swedish theologian and astronomer.
• 1661 - Brian Walton dies (b. 1600). English clergyman and scholar.
• 1690 - Christian Augustus of Anhalt-Zerbst was born (d. 1747). Father of Catherine II of Russia.
• 1694 - Marcello Malpighi dies (b. 1628). Italian physician.
• 1695 - James Dalrymple, 1st Viscount Stair dies (b. 1619). Scottish lawyer and statesman.
• 1699 - Patrick Gordon dies (b. 1635). Scottish general.
• 1752 - Jemima Wilkinson was born (d. 1819). American preacher.
• 1759 - Nicolaus I Bernoulli dies (b. 1687). Swiss mathematician.
• 1762 - Pierre-Andre Latreille was born (d. 1833). French zoologist.
• 1777 - San Jose, California, is founded as el Pueblo de San José de Guadalupe. It is the first civilian settlement, or pueblo, in Alta California.
• 1780 - Empress Maria Theresa of Austria dies (b. 1717).
• 1781 - The crew of the slave ship Zong murders 133 Africans dumping them into the sea in order to claim insurance.
• 1781 - Andrés Bello was born in Caracas (d. 1865). Venezuelan poet, lawmaker, teacher, philosopher and sociologist.
• 1797 - Gaetano Donizetti was born (d. 1848). Italian composer.
• 1797 - Samuel Langdon dies (b. 1723). American President of Harvard University.
• 1799 - Amos Bronson Alcott was born (d. 1888). American writer and educator.
• 1803 - Christian Doppler was born (d.1853). Austrian physicist.
• 1803 - Gottfried Semper was born (d. 1879). German architect.
• 1813 - Franz von Miklosich was born (d. 1891). Slovenian linguist.
• 1816 - Morrison Waite was born (d. 1888). 7th Chief Justice of the United States.
• 1825 - Jean-Martin Charcot was born (d. 1893). French neurologist.
• 1825 - Latino Coelho was born in Lisbon (d. 29 Aug 1891). Portuguese journalist, politician and historian.
• 1830 - November Uprising: An armed rebellion against Russia's rule in Poland begins.
• 1832 - Louisa May Alcott was born (d. 1888). American writer, known for her children's books, especially Little Women.
• 1845 - The Sonderbund is defeated by the joint forces of other Swiss cantons under General Guillaume-Henri Dufour.
• 1847 - Whitman Massacre: Missionaries Dr. Marcus Whitman, his wife Narcissa, and 15 others are killed by Cayuse and Umatilla Indians, causing the Cayuse War.
• 1847 - Marcus Whitman dies (b. 1802). Washington state pioneer.
• 1849 - Sir John Ambrose Fleming was born (d. 1945). American physicist.
• 1850 - Prussia and Austria signed the Punctation of Olmütz, an agreement regulating the two powers' relations.
• 1856 - Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg was born (d. 1921). Chancellor of Germany.
  
• 1864 - Indian Wars: Sand Creek Massacre - Colorado volunteers led by Colonel John Chivington massacre at least 150 Cheyenne and Arapaho noncombatants inside Colorado Territory.
• 1872 - Indian Wars: The Modoc War begins with the Battle of Lost River.
• 1874 - Egas Moniz was born (d. 1955). Portuguese physician, neurologist and Nobel Prize laureate.
• 1874 - Francis Dodd was born (d. 1949). Artist.
• 1876 - Nellie Tayloe Ross was born (d. 1977). American politician.
• 1877 - Thomas Edison demonstrates his phonograph for the first time.
• 1881 - Julius Raab was born (d. 1954). Chancellor of Austria.
  
• 1890 - The Meiji Constitution goes into effect in Japan and the first Diet convenes.
• 1890 - In West Point, New York, the United States Naval Academy defeats the United States Military Academy 24-0 in the first Army-Navy football game.
• 1893 - Ziqiang Institute, today known as Wuhan University, was founded by Zhang Zhidong, governor of Hubei and Hunan Provinces in late Qing Dynasty of China after his memorial to the throne was approved by the Qing Government.
• 1894 - Lucille Hegamin was born (d. 1970). American singer and entertainer.
• 1895 - Busby Berkeley was born (d. 1976). American film director, and choreographer.
• 1895 - William Tubman was born (d. 1971). President of Liberia.
• 1896 - Yakima Canutt was born (d. 1986). American actor and stuntman.
• 1898 - C. S. Lewis was born (d. 1963). Irish writer.
• 1899 - Spanish football club FC Barcelona founded.
• 1899 - Andrija Artuković was born (d. 1988). Croatian war criminal.
• 1901 - Mildred Harris was born (d. 1944). American actress.
• 1904 - Egon Eiermann was born (d. 1970). German architect.
• 1908 - Adam Clayton Powell Jr. was born (d. 1972). American civil rights leader and politician.
• 1910 - The first US patent for inventing the traffic lights system was issued to Ernest Sirrine.
• 1910 - Antanas Škėma was born (d. 1961). Lithuanian writer, stage actor and director.
• 1911 - Mario Lago was born in Rio de Janeiro. Brazilian actor.
• 1915 - Billy Strayhorn was born (d. 1967). American musician and composer.
• 1915 - Fire destroys most of the buildings on Santa Catalina Island in California.
• 1916 - Fran Ryan was born (d. 2000). American actress.
• 1917 - Merle Travis was born (d. 1983). American singer.
• 1918 - Madeleine L'Engle was born. American author.
• 1920 - Yegor Ligachev was born. Soviet politician
• 1921 - Dagmar was born (d. 2001). American television personality.
• 1922 - Minnie Miñoso was born. Baseball player.
• 1922 - Howard Carter opened the tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamun to the public.
• 1924 - Giacomo Puccini dies (b. 1858). Italian composer.
• 1925 - The newspaper "O Povo de Silves" - Silves, Portugal is founded.
• 1927 - George Giffen dies (b. 1859). Australian cricketer.
• 1927 - Vin Scully was born. Baseball announcer.
• 1928 - Paul Simon was born (d. 2003). U.S. Senator.
• 1928 - Tahir Salahov was born. Azerbaijani painter.
• 1929 - U.S. Admiral Richard Byrd becomes the first person to fly over the South Pole.
• 1929 - Laurie Main was born. English actor and host of Welcome to Pooh Corner from 1983-1987.
• 1929 - Jackie Stallone was born. American astrologer and personality.
• 1930 - Shirley Porter was born. Dame Commander of the British Empire.
• 1931 - Shintaro Katsu was born (d. 1997). Japanese actor, star of Zatoichi movies.
• 1932 - Jacques Chirac was born. President of France.
• 1932 - Diane Ladd was born. American actress.
• 1933 - James Rosenquist was born. American artist.
• 1933 - John Mayall was born. British blues musician.
• 1933 - Francisco Cuoco was born. Brazilian actor.
• 1939 - Fernando Pessoa is hospitalized in Lisbon.
  
• 1939 - Peter Bergman was born. American comedian.
• 1939 - Gene Okerlund was born. American wrestling interviewer.
• 1939 - Meco was born. American record producer and musician.
• 1939 - Philipp Scheidemann dies (b. 1865). Chancellor of Germany.
• 1940 - Chuck Mangione was born. American musician.
• 1940 - Denny Doherty was born (d. 2007). Canadian singer (The Mamas and the Papas).
• 1941 - Bill Freehan was born. American baseball player.
• 1942 - Diane Ladd was born. American actress.
• 1942 - Philippe Huttenlocher was born. Swiss baritone.
• 1943 - Sue Miller was born. American author.
• 1943 - The second session of AVNOJ, the Anti-fascist council of national liberation of Yugoslavia, is held in Jajce, Bosnia and Herzegovina, determining the post-war ordering of the country.
• 1944 - The first surgery (on a human) to correct blue baby syndrome is performed by Alfred Blalock and Vivien Thomas.
• 1944 - Felix Cavaliere was born. American musician and producer.
• 1944 - World War II: Albania is liberated from German occupation.
• 1945 - The Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia is declared.
• 1946 - Silvio Rodriguez was born. Cuban poet, singer and songwriter.
• 1947 - The United Nations General Assembly votes to partition Palestine between Arabs and Jews.
• 1947 - Petra Kelly was born († 01 Oct 1992). German politician and founder of the Green party.
• 1949 - Wayne Cowan was born. American professional wrestler.
• 1949 - Jerry Lawler was born. American professional wrestler and commentator.
• 1949 - Garry Shandling was born. American comedian, actor, writer, producer, and director.
• 1949 - Stan Rogers was born (d. 1983). Canadian folk musician and songwriter.
• 1950 - Korean War: North Korean and Chinese troops force United Nations forces to retreat from North Korea.
• 1951 - Barry Goudreau was born. American musician (Boston).
• 1951 - Jean Schmidt was born. U.S. congresswoman.
• 1951 - Roger Troutman was born (d. 1999). Funk musician and master of the talkbox.
• 1952 - Korean War: U.S. President-elect Dwight D. Eisenhower fulfills a campaign promise by traveling to Korea to find out what can be done to end the conflict.
• 1953 - Alex Grey was born. American artist.
• 1953 - Christine Pascal was born. French actress, director and screenwriter.
• 1953 - Sam De Grasse dies (b. 1875). American actor.
• 1953 - Milt Gross dies (b. 1895). American comic book illustrator and animator.
• 1954 - Dink Johnson dies (b. 1892). American musician.
• 1954 - Joel Coen was born. American film director, producer, and writer.
• 1954 - Steve Rogers was born. Australian rugby league player.
• 1955 - Howie Mandel was born. Canadian actor.
• 1956 - Eric Laakso was born. Retired Miami Dolphins NFL Offensive tackle.
• 1956 - Hinton Battle was born. American dancer.
• 1956 - Leo Laporte was born. American television personality.
• 1957 - Erich Wolfgang Korngold dies (b. 1897). Austrian composer.
• 1958 - María Elena Moyano Delgado was born in Lima (d. 1992). Peruvian politician and women right activist ( Founder of “Micaela Bastidas”).
• 1958 - Michael Dempsey was born. American musician (The Cure).
• 1958 - Kim Delaney was born. American actress.
• 1959 - Neal Broten was born. American ice hockey player.
• 1960 - Cathy Moriarty was born. American actress.
• 1960 - Howard Johnson, American baseball player.
• 1961 - Project Mercury: Mercury-Atlas 5 Mission - Enos, a chimpanzee, launched into space (the spacecraft orbited the Earth twice and splashed-down off the coast of Puerto Rico).
• 1961 - Tom Sizemore was born. American actor.
• 1961 - Masayoshi Yamashita was born. Japanese bassist.
• 1962 - Andy LaRocque was born. Swedish guitarist (King Diamond) and record producer.
• 1963 - The Beatles released I Want to Hold Your Hand in Great Britain.
• 1963 - U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson establishes the Warren Commission to investigate the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
• 1963 - Trans-Canada Airlines Flight 831, A Douglas DC-8 carrying 118, crashes after taking-off from Dorval Airport near Montreal.
• 1963 - Andrew McCarthy was born. American actor.
• 1964 - Cork Graham was born. American journalist, actor and author.
• 1964 - Don Cheadle was born. American actor.
• 1964 - Tom Sizemore was born. American actor.
• 1965 - Canadian Space Agency launches the satellite Alouette 2.
• 1965 - José Campos de Figueiredo dies in Coimbra (b. 6 May 1899 in Sernache, Coimbra). Portuguese poet (Navio na Montanha - which won the Antero de Quental Prize -, Obed). He was laureate with the Prize «Ricardo Malheiros» in 1957 by the Academia das Ciencias de Lisboa.
• 1965 - Ellen Cleghorne was born. American comedian.
• 1965 - Yutaka Ozaki was born (d. 1992). Japanese singer, songwriter.
• 1967 - Vietnam War: U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara announces his resignation.
• 1967 - John Layfield was born. American professional wrestler, color commentator, and financial analyst.
• 1968 - Jonathan Knight was born. American singer (New Kids on the Block).
• 1969 - Alves Redol dies in Lisbon (b. 29 Dec 1911). Portuguese writer. Barranco de Cegos (1962) is his masterpiece.
• 1969 - Kasey Keller was born. American soccer player.
• 1969 - Mariano Rivera was born. Panamanian baseball player.
• 1969 - Pierre van Hooijdonk was born. Dutch international footballer.
• 1970 - Mark Pembridge was born. Welsh international footballer.
• 1970 - President Felix Houphouët-Boigny, Côte d'Ivoire, is re-elected for a third term.
• 1970 - Bruno Garcia was born. Brazilian actor.
• 1970 - Maria Paula was born in Brasilia. Brazilian actress and TV personality.
• 1970 - Mark Pembridge was born. Welsh footballer.
• 1971 - Gena Lee Nolin was born. American actress.
• 1971 - Gregory Byrne was born. American college administrator.
• 1972 - Nolan Bushnell (founder of Atari) released Pong (the first commercially successful video game) in Andy Capp’s Tavern in Sunnyvale, California.
• 1972 - Brian Baumgartner was born. American actor.
• 1972 - Jamal Mashburn was born. American basketball player.
• 1972 - Larry Joe Campbell was born. American actor.
• 1972 - Minoru Tanaka was born. Japanese professional wrestler.
• 1972 - Carl Stalling dies (b. 1888). American composer.
• 1973 - Ryan Giggs was born. Welsh international football player.
• 1973 - Sarah Jones was born. American playwright, poet and actress.
• 1974 - Lin Chi-ling was born. Taiwanese model.
• 1974 - Pavol Demitra was born. Slovak ice hockey player.
• 1974 - James J. Braddock dies (b. 1905). American heavyweight boxer.
• 1975 - The name "Micro-soft" (for "microcomputer software") is first used in a letter from Bill Gates to Paul Allen.
• 1975 - Younis Khan was born. Pakistani cricketer.
• 1975 - Graham Hill dies (b. 1929). British motor racing driver and Formula 1 world Champion.
• 1976 - Anna Faris was born. American actress.
• 1976 - Ehren McGhehey was born. American actor and skateboarder.
• 1976 - Michalis Kakiouzis was born. Greek basketball player.
• 1976 - Maja Vučić was born. Croatian singer.
• 1976 - José da Costa Nunes dies (b. 1880). Portuguese cardinal.
• 1977 - Maria Petrova was born. Russian figure skater.
• 1977 - Younis Khan was born. International Cricketer for Pakistan.
• 1978 - Alessandro Fei was born. Italian volleyball player.
• 1978 - Dimitrious Konstantopolous was born. Greek footballer.
• 1978 - Lauren German was born. American actress.
• 1978 - Ludwika Paleta was born. Polish-Mexican actress.
• 1979 - Francis Beltrán was born. Professional baseball player.
• 1979 - The Game (Jayceon Terrell Taylor) was born. American rapper.
• 1979 - Zeppo Marx dies (b. 1901). American actor and comedian.
• 1980 - Dorothy Day dies. American journalist, turned social activist, and devout member of the Roman Catholic Church.
• 1981 - Nicholas Teo was born. Taiwanese singer, actor.
• 1981 - Ringo Garza was born. American drummer (Los Lonely Boys).
• 1981 - Fredric Wertham dies (b. 1895). German-born psychologist.
• 1981 - Actress Natalie Wood (b. 1938) dies drowned during a boating accident off Santa Catalina Island, California.
• 1982 - Soviet invasion of Afghanistan: The United Nations General Assembly passes United Nations Resolution 37/37, stating that Soviet Union forces should withdraw from Afghanistan.
• 1982 - Ashley Force was born. American race car driver.
• 1982 - Krystal Steal was born. American pornographic actress.
• 1982 - Lucas Black was born. American actor.
• 1982 - Percy Williams dies (b. 1908). Canadian athlete.
• 1983 - Tanner Glass was born. Canadian ice hockey player.
• 1984 - Sitti Navarro was born. Philippine bossa nova artist.
• 1984 - Gotthard Günther dies (b. 1900). German philosopher.
• 1985 - Shannon Brown was born. American basketball player.
• 1985 - Taguchi Junnosuke was born. Japanese idol (member of KAT-TUN).
• 1986 - Cary Grant dies (b. 1904). British-born American actor.
• 1987 - A Korean Air Boeing 707 explodes over the Thai-Burmese border, killing 155.
• 1987 - Stephen O'Halloran was born. Irish footballer.
• 1988 - Siza Vieira, Portuguese architect is distinguished with the 1988 European Architecture Prize.
• 1988 - Six Kansas City firefighters are killed in an explosion at a construction site.
• 1988 - Saleh Ahmed was born. Law Lord.
• 1990 - Gulf War: The United Nations Security Council passes UN Security Council Resolution 678, authorizing military intervention in Iraq if that nation did not withdraw its forces from Kuwait and free all foreign hostages by January 15, 1991.
• 1990 - Blake and Dylan Tuomy-Wilhoit was born. American actors.
• 1990 - Diego González was born. Mexican singer and actors.
• 1991 - Frank Yerby dies (b. 1916). American author.
• 1991 - Ralph Bellamy dies (b. 1904). American actor.
• 1992 - Dennis Byrd of the New York Jets is temporarily paralyzed by a neck injury during a football game against the Kansas City Chiefs.
• 1992 - Jean Dieudonné dies (b. 1906). French mathematician.
• 1996 - Dan Flavin dies (b. 1933). American artist.
• 1998 - Frank Latimore dies (b. 1925). American actor.
• 1998 - Martin Ruane dies (b. 1947). English professional wrestler.
• 1999 - Gene Rayburn dies (b. 1917). American game show host.
• 2001 - George Harrison dies (b. 1943). British singer, guitarist and songwriter.
• 2001 - John Knowles dies (b. 1926). American author.
• 2001 - Mic Christopher dies (b. 1969). Irish singer and songwriter.
• 2002 - Daniel Gélin dies (b. 1921). French actor.
• 2003 - Moondog Spot dies (b. 1952). Wrestler.
• 2004 - Anne Samson dies (b. 1891). Oldest-ever nun documented.
• 2004 - John Drew Barrymore dies (b. 1932). American actor.
• 2004 - Harry Danning dies (b. 1911). American baseball player.
• 2005 - New Croatian Communist Party (KPH) is founded in Vukovar.
• 2005 - David di Tommaso dies (b. 1979). French soccer player.
• 2005 - Manuel de Brito dies (b. 1928). Art collector and founder of Galeria 111 in Lisbon, Portugal.
• 2005 - Wendie Jo Sperber dies (b. 1958). American actress.
• 2006 - Allen Carr dies (b. 1934). English anti-smoking campaigner.
• 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.
• 2007 - Henry Hyde dies (b. 1924). American politician.
• 2007 - James Barber dies (b. 1923). Canadian chef and writer.
  
• 2007 - Ralph Beard dies (b. 1927). American basketball player.
  
• 2007 - Roger Bonham Smith dies (b. 1925). American automobile executive.
• 2007 - Tom Terrell dies (b. 1950). American musicologist.
• 2008 - Jørn Utzon dies (b. 1918). Danish architect.
• 2009 - Jorge Lopes dies (b. 1947). Portuguese Tv presenter and journalist.
  
• 2009 - Robert Holdstock dies (b. 1948). English author.
• Feast days of the following saints in the Roman Catholic Church: Saint Saturninus, Saint Cuthbert Mayne, Martyr, Radbod, Brendan of Birr or Brendan the Younger; Denis of the Nativity and Redemptus of the Cross.
• Israel - Kaftet be-November (commemoration of the U.N. decision in 1947 to partition Palestine).
• International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People.
• Liberation Day (Dita e Çlirimit) in Albania.
• Republic Day in former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.