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This day in history: 29 November

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385 historical events, births and deaths are listed for 29 November.
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2025: The Government of Jordan officially announces the launch of the Amra City development project during a site visit by the Prime Minister.

Holidays and observances

Brendan of Birr

International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People (United Nations)

Liberation Day or Dita e Çlirimit (Albania)

November 29 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Radboud of Utrecht

Republic Day (Yugoslavia)

Unity Day (Vanuatu)

William Tubman's Birthday (Liberia)

Events

2025The Government of Jordan officially announces the launch of the Amra City development project during a site visit by the Prime Minister.

2013LAM Mozambique Airlines 470 crashes in the Bwabata National Park in a pilot mass murder-suicide, killing all 33 people on board.

2009Maurice Clemmons shoots and kills four police officers inside a coffee shop in Lakewood, Washington.

2007The Armed Forces of the Philippines lay siege to the Peninsula Manila after soldiers led by Senator Antonio Trillanes stage a mutiny.

1987North Korean agents plant a bomb on Korean Air Flight 858, which kills all 115 passengers and crew.

1986The Surinamese military attacks the village of Moiwana during the Suriname Guerrilla War, killing at least 39 civilians, mostly women and children.

1982Michael Jackson releases Thriller, the best-selling music album of all time.

1972Atari releases Pong, the first commercially successful video game.

1967U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara announces his resignation.

1963"I Want to Hold Your Hand", recorded on October 17, 1963, is released by the Beatles in the United Kingdom.

1963Trans-Canada Air Lines Flight 831 crashes shortly after takeoff from Montreal-Dorval International Airport, killing all 118 people on board.

1963U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson establishes the Warren Commission to investigate the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.

1961Enos, a chimpanzee, is launched into space. The spacecraft orbits the Earth twice and splashes down off the coast of Puerto Rico.

1952U.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.

1947French forces carry out a massacre at Mỹ Trạch, Vietnam during the First Indochina War.

1947The United Nations General Assembly approve the United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine.

1945The Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia is declared.

1944Albania is liberated by the Partisans.

1943The second session of the Anti-Fascist Council for the National Liberation of Yugoslavia (AVNOJ), held to determine the post-war ordering of the country, concludes in Jajce (present-day Bosnia and Herzegovina).

1929U.S. Admiral Richard E. Byrd leads the first expedition to fly over the South Pole.

1920The Armenian Revolutionary Committee declares Armenia to be a Soviet Socialist Republic, starting 71 years of Soviet rule in Armenia

1899FC Barcelona is founded by Catalan, Spanish and Englishmen. It later develops into one of Spanish and world football's most iconic and strongest teams.

1890The Meiji Constitution goes into effect in Japan, and the first Diet convenes.

1877Thomas Edison demonstrates his phonograph for the first time.

1872The Modoc War begins with the Battle of Lost River.

1864American Civil War: The Confederate Army of Tennessee misses an opportunity to crush the Union Army of the Ohio in the Battle of Spring Hill during the Franklin–Nashville campaign.

1864Colorado War: Colorado volunteers led by Colonel John Chivington massacre at least 150 Cheyenne and Arapaho noncombatants at Sand Creek inside Colorado Territory.

1863American Civil War: Union forces under General Ambrose Burnside successfully defend Knoxville, Tennessee from an attack by Confederate forces under General James Longstreet in the Battle of Fort Sanders during the Siege of Knoxville.

1850The treaty, Punctation of Olmütz, is signed in Olomouc. Prussia capitulates to Austria, which will take over the leadership of the German Confederation.

1847Missionaries Dr. Marcus Whitman, his wife Narcissa, and 15 others are killed by Cayuse and Umatilla Indians, causing the Cayuse War.

1847The Sonderbund is defeated by the joint forces of other Swiss cantons under General Guillaume-Henri Dufour.

1830An armed rebellion against Russia's rule in Poland begins.

1807John VI of Portugal flees Lisbon from advancing Napoleonic forces during the Peninsular War, transferring the Portuguese court to Brazil.

1783A 5.3 magnitude earthquake strikes New Jersey.

1781The crew of the British slave ship Zong murders 54 Africans by dumping them into the sea to claim insurance, beginning the Zong massacre.

1777San Jose, California, is founded as Pueblo de San José de Guadalupe by José Joaquín Moraga. It is the first civilian settlement, or pueblo, in Alta California.

1776During the American Revolutionary War, the Battle of Fort Cumberland, Nova Scotia, comes to an end with the arrival of British reinforcements.

1732The magnitude 6.6 Irpinia earthquake causes deaths in the former Kingdom of Naples, southern Italy.

1729Natchez Indians massacre 138 Frenchmen, 35 French women, and 56 children at Fort Rosalie, near the site of modern-day Natchez, Mississippi.

1612The Battle of Swally takes place, which loosens the Portuguese Empire's hold on India.

Born on this day

2009Salish Matter, American YouTuber

2002Yunus Musah, American soccer player

1998Lovie Simone, American actress

1998MJ Melendez, American baseball player

1998Ye Qiuyu, Chinese tennis player

1997Nick Richards, Jamaican basketball player

1995Laura Marano, American actress and singer

1995Siobhan-Marie O'Connor, English swimmer

1994Julius Randle, American basketball player

1994Shaun Lane, Australian rugby league player

1993Stefon Diggs, American football player

1992Ben Nugent, English footballer

1991Becky James, Welsh cyclist

1990Andrej Šustr, Czech ice hockey player

1990Diego Boneta, Mexican actor and singer

1990Sheldon Richardson, American football player

1990Yacouba Sylla, French footballer

1989Adam Chapman, Northern Irish footballer

1988Abby Bishop, Australian basketball player

1988Bradley Hudson-Odoi, Ghanaian footballer

1988Damon Harrison, American football player

1988Dana Brooke, American wrestler and bodybuilder

1988Russell Wilson, American football player

1987Wayne Ellington, American basketball player and coach

1986Asa Hall, English footballer

1985Dominic Roma, English footballer

1985Shannon Brown, American basketball player

1984Ji Hyun-woo, South Korean actor and musician

1983Aylin Tezel, German actress

1983Franchesca Ramsey, American comedian

1983Tanisha Wright, American basketball player and coach

1982Gemma Chan, English actress

1982Lucas Black, American actor

1981Fawad Khan, Pakistani actor, model and singer

1981Jon Klassen, Canadian writer and illustrator

1980Dean Howell, English footballer

1980Janina Gavankar, American actress and singer

1979Adam Barrett, English footballer

1979The Game, American rapper

1978Dimitrios Konstantopoulos, Greek footballer

Died on this day

2024Marshall Brickman, Brazilian-American director, producer, and screenwriter

2024Wayne Northrop, American actor

2024Will Cullen Hart, American musician

2023Henry Kissinger, former US secretary of state

2023Taichi Yamada, Japanese screenwriter and novelist

2022Derek Granger, British film and television producer and screenwriter

2022Tapunuu Niko Lee Hang, Samoan politician

2021Arlene Dahl, American actress, businesswoman and writer

2021Kinza Clodumar, Nauruan politician, 7th President of Nauru

2021LaMarr Hoyt, Major League Baseball player, 1983 AL Cy Young Award winner

2020Papa Bouba Diop, Senegalese footballer

2019Yasuhiro Nakasone, Japanese politician, 45th Prime Minister of Japan

2017Slobodan Praljak, Croatian general

2016Luis Alberto Monge, Costa Rican politician, 39th President of Costa Rica

2016Ruta Šaca-Marjaša, Latvian lawyer, writer and politician

2015Christopher Middleton, British poet and translator

2015Joe Marston, Australian footballer and manager

2015Joseph F. Girzone, American Catholic priest and author

2015O'tkir Sultonov, Uzbek lawyer and politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Uzbekistan

2014Dick Bresciani, American businessman

2014Dwayne Alons, American general and politician

2014Mark Strand, Canadian-born American poet, essayist, and translator

2013Brian Torrey Scott, American playwright and screenwriter

2013Colin Eglin, South African soldier and politician

2013Natalya Gorbanevskaya, Russian-Polish poet and activist

2013Oliver Cheatham, American singer-songwriter

2012Joelmir Beting, Brazilian journalist

2012Sherab Palden Beru, Tibetan painter

2011Guillermo O'Donnell, Argentine political scientist

2011Patrice O'Neal, American stand-up comedian

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“When walking, walk. When eating, eat.”

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