Today
in History ~ November 29
Events
0799 - Pope Leo III, aided by Charlemagne,
returns to Rome
1349 - Jews of Augsburg Germany massacred
1745 - Bonnie Prince Charlie's army moves into Manchester &
occupies Carlisle
1760 - French commandant Belotre surrenders Detroit to Maj Robert
Rogers and his Rangers
1775 - Sir James Jay invents invisible ink
1812 - Napoleon's Grand Army crosses Berezina River in retreat
from Russia
1825 - 1st Italian opera in US, "Barber of Seville"
premieres (NYC) and is welcomed by the legendary librettist for
Mozart (and friend of Casanova), Lorenzo DaPonte, who was
Professor of Italian at King's (later Columbia) College
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)
1864 - Colorado militia kills 150 peaceful Cheyenne Indians [H]
1870 - Compulsory education proclaimed in England
1877 - Thomas Edison demonstrates hand-cranked phonograph that recorded sound on
grooved metal
cylinders. Edison shouted verses of "Mary Had a Little Lamb" into the
machine, which played back his voice.
1887 - US receives rights to Pearl Harbor, on Oahu, Hawaii
1890 - The first Army-Navy football game was played. The Navy Middies won, 24-0.
1895 - America's first race featuring gasoline-powered automobiles was held in
Chicago, Illinois.
1916 - Erwin Rommel marries Lucie "Lu" Mollin
1916 - US declares martial law in Dominican Republic
1918 - Serbia annexes Montenegro
1926 - W Somerset Maugham's "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 Porter's musical "Gay Divorcee," premieres
in NYC
1933 - Japan begins persecution of communists
1941 - Passenger ship Lurline sends radio signal of sighting
Japanese war
fleet steaming east across the northern Pacific
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
1944 - Johns Hopkins hospital performs 1st open heart surgery
1947 - Despite strong Arab opposition, the United Nations Gen Assembly voted for
the partition of Palestine and the creation of an independent Jewish state.
1948 - "Kukla, Fran, & Ollie" debuts on NBC
1948 - 1st opera to be televised, "Otello," broadcast
from the Met (NYC)
(featuring Ramon Vinay, Licia Albenese, and Leonard Warren;
conducted by
Fritz Busch)
1949 - Nationalist regime of China leaves for Taiwan/Formosa
1949 - Uranium mine explosions in East Germany kills 3,700
1951 - Winston Churchill re-elected British premier
1952 - Pres-elect Eisenhower visits Korea to assess war
1953 - American Airlines begins 1st regular coml NY-LA air
service
1956 - "Bells Are Ringing" opens at Shubert Theater NYC
for 925 performances
1961 - Freedom Riders attacked by white mob at bus station in
Miss
1962 - Great-Britain & France decide to jointly build
Concorde
1963 - President Johnson appointed the Warren Commission to investigate the
assassination of President Kennedy. [H]
1964 - Catholic Church in US replaces Latin with English (Deo Gratias)
1967 - Robert McNamara elected president of World bank
1970 - Charles Ives' "Yale-Princeton," premieres
1975 - President Ford requires states to provide free education
for
handicapped
1987 - Joe Montana of 49ers completes NFL record 22 consecutive
passes
1988 - Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev told a landmark Supreme Soviet session
that the country's system of government needed radical change.
1989 - Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi resigned after his Congress (I) Party
lost its majority in national parliamentary elections.
1989 - Romanian Olympic gymnastic hero Nadia Comaneci fled to Hungary. She
eventually came to the United States.
1990 - The U.N. Security Council passed a resolution authorizing "all
necessary means," including military force, against Iraq if it does not
withdraw from Kuwait by Jan. 15, 1991. It was the first such resolution since
U.N. sponsorship of the Korean War in 1950.
1991 - Dust storm in Coalinga, California, triggered a massive
pile-up by
more than 250 vehicles on Interstate 5...killing 15 people and
injuring more
than 100.
1992 - Blacks killed four whites and wounded 17 more in an unusual attack at a
South African golf club. The attack was thought to be the first by blacks
against white civilians since the 1990 legalization of anti-apartheid groups.
1994 - Seoul, Korea, celebrated the 600th anniversary of its
founding
1994 - Voters in Norway rejected a proposal to join the European Union.
1995 - CNN/fn, the financial network by Turner Enterprises,
launched
1996 - Astronomers announced that an asteroid would pass within 3.3 million
miles of Earth -- a "near miss" in galactic terms.
1997 - Some 28,000 couples gathered in Washington, D.C.'s RFK Stadium for a
"wedding" performed by the Rev. Sun Myung Moon of the Unification
Church.
Birthdays
Today
1797 - Domenico Gaetano Maria Donizetti, composer (Lucia di Lamermoor,
l'Elisir d'Amore)
1799 - Amos Bronson Alcott, US educator/poet (Concord Days)
1803 - Christian Doppler, Austrian physicist (Doppler effect)
1811 - Wendell Phillips, women's suffrage/antislavery/prison
reformer
1832 - Louisa May Alcott, Germantown Pa, author (Little Women)
1849 - Ambrose Fleming, inventor (diode)
1874 - Antonio Egas Moniz, Portugal, lobotomist (Nobel 1949)
1895 - Busby Berkeley, Los Angeles CA, choreographer/director
1898 - C.S. (Clive Staples) Lewis (science fiction author: Out of
the Silent
Planet)
1908 - Adam Clayton Powell Jr, (Rep-D-NY)/minister
1911 - Klaus EJ Fuchs, German/British atomic physicist/spy
1922 - Minnie (Orestes) Minoso (baseball)
1927 - Vin[ce] Scully, sportscaster (NBC Baseball Game of the
Week)
1929 - Don January (golf: 1967 PGA champion)
1932 - Diane Ladd (Ladnier) (actress: Alice Doesn't Live Here
Anymore)
1932 - Ed Bickert (musician: guitar)
1932 - John Gary (Strader) (singer)
1933 - Fuzzy (Frederick) Thurston (football)
1933 - James Rosenquist (artist)
1933 - John Mayall (songwriter: The Bluesbreakers)
1939 - Dick McAuliffe (baseball)
1940 - Chuck Mangione (Grammy Award-winning composer: Bellavia
[1976];
musician: Feels So Good)
1940 - Michelle Gilliam (actress)
1941 - Bill Freehan (baseball)
1941 - Jody Miller (singer: There's a Party Goin' On, He's So
Fine, Baby I'm
Yours, Queen of the House, Darling, You Can Always Come Back
Home)
1943 - Dave Bing (basketball)
1944 - Felix Cavaliere (singer, group: The (Young) Rascals: Groovin', Good
Lovin', Beautiful Morning)
1947 - Joe Inman (golf)
1949 - Bob Picard (football)
1949 - Garry Shandling (comedian, actor: The Larry Sanders Show,
It's Garry
Shandling's Show)
1949 - Petra Kelly, German peace activist/MP (Green)
1951 - Brian Job (swimmer)
1960 - Cathy Moriarty (actress: Raging Bull, The Mambo Kings)
Famous
deaths
1314 - Philippe IV, the Handsome, King of France (1285-1314),
dies
1530 - Thomas Wolsey, Cardinal/adviser to England's King Henry
VIII, Lord
Chancellor, (1514-29), dies at 56 (of natural causes)
1643 - Claudio Giovanni Monteverdi, Italian composer (L'Arianna),
dies at 76
1780 - Maria Theresa Hapsburg, Queen of Austria, dies at 63
1813 - Giambattista Bodoni, Italian stamp cutter/publisher/type
font
designer (bodoni), dies at 73
1872 - Horace Greeley, US founder/publisher (NY Tribune), dies at
61
1924 - Giacomo Puccini, Italian composer, dies in Brussels at 65
1957 - Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Austria/US composer (Kathrin,
sound tracks
for Captain Blood, Don Juan), dies at 60
1974 - Haroldson L Hunt, US multi-millionaire, dies at 85
1981 - Natalie Wood, actress (West Side Story), drowns at 43
1986 - Cary Grant, actor (Charades), dies in Davenport Iowa at 82
1991 - Ralph Bellamy, actor (Rosemary's Baby, His Girl Friday),
dies at 87
1992 - Emilio Pucci, Italian fashion designer (Jackie Kennedy),
dies at 78
1994 - Sviatoslav S Stravinsky, French/US composer/son of Igor S,
dies at 84
2001, George Harrison, lead guitarist and spiritual anchor of the Beatles, died
of cancer. He was 58.
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