November 29


November 29 is the 333th day (334th on leap years) of the year in the
Gregorian calendar. There are 32 days remaining.

Events:

   * 1864 - United States Cavalry massacre Cheyenne and Arapahoe
     noncombatants at Sand Creek, Colorado
   * 1877 - Thomas Edison demonstrates the phonograph
   * 1887 - United States receives rights to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii
   * 1890 - First Japanese Diet convenes
   * 1916 - United States declares martial law in the Dominican Republic
   * 1929 - Admiral Richard Byrd flies over the South Pole
   * 1943 - Second session of AVNOJ (Antifascist council of national
     liberation of Yugoslavia) is held in Jajce, Bosnia and Herzegovina,
     proclaiming the AVNOJ decrees concerning the post-war ordering of
     Yugoslavia
   * 1944 - Albania liberated
   * 1945 - People's Federal Republic of Yugoslavia is declared. Celebrated
     as Republic day until 1990s
   * 1947 - United Nations votes to partition Palestine
   * 1963 - President Lyndon Johnson establishes the Warren Commission to
     investigate the assassination of President John F. Kennedy
   * 1975 - Bill Gates and Paul Allen call their new company Microsoft

Births:

   * 1797 - Gaetano Donizetti, composer
   * 1803 - Gottfried Semper, architect (+ 1879)
   * 1803 - Christian Doppler, physicist (+ 1853)
   * 1813 - Franz von Miklosich, linguist
   * 1832 - Louisa May Alcott, writer (+ 1888)
   * 1849 - Sir Ambrose Fleming, physicist (+ 1945)
   * 1856 - Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg, German Reichskanzler and Prime
     Minister of Prussia (+ 1921)
   * 1876 - Nellie Tayloe Ross, politician (+ 1977)
   * 1881 - Julius Raab, politician and Austrian Bundeskanzler (+ 1964)
   * 1895 - Busby Berkeley, film director, choreographer (+ 1976)
   * 1896 - Yakima Canutt, actor, stunt man (+ 1986)
   * 1898 - C. S. Lewis, writer (+ 1963)
   * 1904 - Egon Eiermann, architect (+ 1970)
   * 1908 - Adam Clayton Powell Jr., U.S. civil rights leader and politician
     (+ 1972)
   * 1915 - Billy Strayhorn, musician, composer (+ 1967)
   * 1917 - Merle Travis, country music singer (+ 1983)
   * 1921 - Dagmar, television personality (+ 2001)
   * 1927 - Vin Scully, baseball announcer
   * 1932 - Diane Ladd, actress
   * 1932 - Jacques Chirac, French political leader
   * 1933 - John Mayall, blues musician
   * 1938 - Michel Duchaussoy
   * 1940 - Chuck Mangione, musician
   * 1943 - Sue Miller, author
   * 1947 - Petra Kelly, politician (+ 1992)
   * 1949 - Garry Shandling, comedian, actor, writer, producer, director
   * 1953 - Christine Pascale, actress (+ 1996)
   * 1954 - Joel Coen, director, producer, writer
   * 1955 - Howie Mandel, actor
   * 1956 - Hinton Battle, dancer
   * 1960 - Cathy Moriarty, actress
   * 1961 - Kim Delaney, actress
   * 1963 - Andrew McCarthy, actor
   * 1964 - Don Cheadle, actor
   * 1971 - Gena Lee Nolin, actress

Deaths:

   * 1314 - King Philippe IV of France
   * 1847 - Marcus and Narcissa Whitman, Washington state pioneers
   * 1924 - Giacomo Puccini, composer
   * 1953 - Sam De Grasse, pioneer Hollywood actor
   * 1954 - Enrico Fermi, physicist
   * 1975 - Graham Hill, automobile racer
   * 1981 - Natalie Wood, actress
   * 1986 - Cary Grant, actor
   * 1991 - Frank Yerby, author
   * 1999 - Gene Rayburn, game show host
   * 2001 - George Harrison, musician (The Beatles)

Holidays and Observances:

   * International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People
   * National Day in Albania