Once again, it should be reiterated, that this does not pretend to be a very extensive history of what happened on this day (nor is it the most original - the links can be found down below). If you know something that I am missing, by all means, shoot me an email or leave a comment, and let me know!
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:
• 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 Charlie's army moves into Manchester & occupies Carlisle
• 1760 - French commandant Beletre surrenders Detroit to Maj R Rogers
• On this day in 1760 during the French and Indian War (also known as the Seven Years War), French Commandant Beletre surrendered Detroit to Major 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.
• On this day in 1803 during the Haitian Revolution, Dessalines & Christophe declared St Domingue (present day Haiti) an independent country.
French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte
• In 1812 on this day, Napoleon's Grand Army crossed the Berezina River during their 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)
• Native Americans were massacred at Sand Creek, Colorado, on this day in 1864 the Sand Creek Massacre took place, as an unprovoked Colorado militia led by Colonel John Chivington killed between 150 - 600 peaceful Cheyenne and Arapaho natives, including Cheyenne Chief One-Eye. The Cheyenne and Arapaho natives had surrendered and had been given permission to camp.
• 1870 - Compulsory education proclaimed in England
• 1872 - Indian Wars: The Modoc War begins with the Battle of Lost River.
Monuments to Thomas Edison at Menlo Park in Edison, NJ
• 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)
The Voortrekker Monument in Pretoria, South Africa.
• In 1900 on this day during the Anglo-Boer War, Lord Kitchener succeeded Lord Roberts as Supreme Commander of British forces in present day South Africa.
1901 - East 182nd Street in Bronx is paved & opened
1902 - Gerhart Hauptmann's "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
• 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.
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 HauptmannAuthor 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)
The flag of the USSR (Soviet Union)
• The USSR (Soviet Union) broke off diplomatic relations with Finland on this day in 1939, early during World War II, just prior to a Soviet attack of that country.
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
Flag of the United Nations
• In 1947 on this day, the U.N. General Assembly voted for the partition of Palestine between Arabs and Jews.
1948 - "Kukla, Fran, & Ollie" debuted on NBC
• In 1948 on this day, the first opera ever to be televised, William Shakespeare's "Othello," broadcast from the Met in New York City.
1948 - KOB TV channel 4 in Albuquerque, NM (NBC) begins broadcasting
1949 - Nationalist regime of China leaves for Taiwan/Formosa
Flag of East Germany
• 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
Bust of American President Lyndon B. Johnson
• 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.
• 1963 - Beatles release "I Want to Hold Your Hand"
• 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 Capp's Tavern in Sunnyvale, California.
1975 - Kilauea Volcano erupts in Hawaii
• 1975 - Pres Ford requires states to provide free education for handicapped
• 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 - Ranger's 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 - In Czechoslovakia, the Communist-run parliament ended the party's 40-year monopoly on power.
The flag of India
• 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 - Can't 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
• In 2001 on this day, former Beatle George Harrison died of cancer.
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
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. 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. 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
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