On this day in 1760, French Commandant Beletre surrendered Detroit to Major R Rogers. On this day in 1803, Dessalines & Christophe declared St Domingue (present day Haiti) an independent country. In 1812 on this day, Napoleon's Grand Army crossed the Berezina River during their retreat from Russia. Native Americans were massacred at Sand Creek, Colorado, on this day in 1864. In 1918 on this day not long after World War I ended, American nurse Maude Fisher wrote a memorable letter to a mother of a war casualty. On this day in 1918, Serbia annexed Montenegro. In 1947 on this day, the U.N. voted for the partition of Palestine. On this day in 1963, American President Lyndon Johnson established the Warren Commission to investigate the then recent assassination of John F. Kennedy, who has been killed only one week earlier in Dallas, Texas. In 2001 on this day, former Beatle George Harrison died of cancer.
Here's a more detailed look at events that transpired on this date throughout history:
On this day in 1760, French Commandant Beletre surrendered Detroit to Major R Rogers.
1530 - Cardinal Thomas Wolsey, former adviser to England's King Henry VIII, died. 1864 - The Sand Creek Massacre occurred in Colorado when a militia led by Colonel John Chivington, killed at least 400 peaceful Cheyenne and Arapaho Indians who had surrendered and had been given permission to camp. 1890 - Navy defeated Army by a score of 24-0 in the first Army-Navy football game. The game was played at West Point, NY. 1929 - The first airplane flight over the South Pole was made by U.S. Navy Lt. Comdr. Richard E. Byrd. 1939 - The USSR broke off diplomatic relations with Finland prior to a Soviet attack. 1945 - The monarchy was abolished in Yugoslavia and a republic proclaimed. 1947 - The U.N. General Assembly passed a resolution that called for the division of Palestine between Arabs and Jews. 1961 - The Mercury-Atlas 5 spacecraft was launched by the U.S. with Enos the chimp on board. The craft orbited the earth twice before landing off Puerto Rico. 1963 - A Trans-Canada Airlines DC-8F with 111 passengers and 7 crew members crashed in woods north of Montreal 4 minutes after takeoff from Dorval Airport. All aboard were killed. The crash was the worst in Canada's history. 1963 - U.S. President Johnson named a commission headed by Earl Warren to investigate the assassination of President Kennedy. 1967 - U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara announced that he was leaving the Johnson administration to become president of the World Bank. 1971 - The Professional Golf Championship was held at Walt Disney World for the first time. Disney movies, music and books 1974 - In Britain, a bill that outlawed the Irish Republican Army became effective. 1975 - Bill Gates adopted the name Microsoft for the company he and Paul Allen had formed to write the BASIC computer language for the Altair. 1981 - Actress Natalie Wood drowned in a boating accident off Santa Catalina Island, CA, at the age 43. 1982 - The U.N. General Assembly voted that the Soviet Union should withdraw its troops from Afghanistan. 1986- Actor Cary Grant died at the age of 82. 1987 - A Korean jetliner disappeared off Burma, with 115 people aboard. 1987 - Cuban detainees released 26 hostages they'd been holding for more than a week at the Federal Detention Center in Oakdale, LA. 1988 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the rights of criminal defendants are not violated when police unintentionally fail to preserve potentially vital evidence. 1989 - In Czechoslovakia, the Communist-run parliament ended the party's 40-year monopoly on power. 1990 - The U.N. Security Council voted to authorize military action if Iraq did not withdraw its troops from Kuwait and release all foreign hostages by January 15, 1991. 1991 - 17 people were killed in a 164-vehicle wreck during a dust storm near Coalinga, CA, on Interstate 5. 1992 - Dennis Byrd (New York Jets) was paralyzed after a neck injury in a game against the Kansas City Chiefs. 1994 - The U.S. House passed the revised General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade. 1994 - Fighter jets attacked the capital of Chechnya and its airport only hours after Russian President Boris Yeltsin demanded the breakaway republic end its civil war. 1996 - A U.N. court sentenced Bosnian Serb army soldier Drazen Erdemovic to 10 years in prison for his role in the massacre of 1,200 Muslims. The sentence was the first international war crimes sentence since World War II. 1998 - Swiss voters overwhelmingly rejected legalizing heroin and other narcotics. 2004 - The French government announced plans to build the Louvre II in northern France. The 236,808 square foot museum was the planned home for 500-600 works from the Louvre's reserves. 2004 - Godzilla received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
1924 Italian composer Giacomo Puccini died in Brussels before he could complete his opera "Turandot.'" 1929 Commander Richard E. Byrd and a crew of three became the first to fly over the South Pole. 1947 The United Nations voted to grant the Jewish people a homeland to be established in Palestine. 1963 The Beatles released I Want to Hold Your Hand in Great Britain. 1963 President Johnson named a commission headed by Earl Warren to investigate the assassination of President Kennedy. 1986 Actor Cary Grant died in Davenport, Iowa, at age 82. 2001 Beatle George Harrison died of cancer.
The following links are to web sites that were used to complete this blog entry:
http://www.historyorb.com/today/events.php
http://on-this-day.com/onthisday/thedays/alldays/nov29.htm
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history
http://www.infoplease.com/dayinhistory
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