About November 29
November 29, 2024 is the 334th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 32 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday.
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Sagittarius is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Topaz is the modern birthstone for this month. Pearl is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 61 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On November 29
- 800 –Charlemagne arrives at Rome to investigate the alleged crimes of Pope Leo III.
- 1776 –American Revolutionary War: The Battle of Fort Cumberland, Nova Scotia comes to an end with the arrival of British reinforcements.
- 1830 –November Uprising: An armed rebellion against Russia’s rule in Poland begins.
- 1847 –Whitman Massacre: Missionaries Dr. Marcus Whitman, his wife Narcissa, and 15 others are killed by Cayuse and Umatilla Indians, causing the Cayuse War.
- 1850 –The treaty, Punctation of Olmütz, is signed in Olomouc. Prussia capitulates to Austrian Empire, which took over the leadership of German Confederation.
- 1881 –Spokan Falls (today the city of Spokane, Washington) is officially incorporated as a city.
- 1885 –End of Third Anglo-Burmese War, and end of Burmese monarchy
- 1890 –The Meiji Constitution goes into effect in Japan and the first Diet convenes.
- 1944 –The first surgery (on a human) to correct blue baby syndrome is performed by Alfred Blalock and Vivien Thomas.
- 1947 –My Trach Massacre: First Indochina War.
- 1947 –The Partition Plan: the United Nations General Assembly votes to partition Israel.
- 1950 –Korean War: North Korean and Chinese troops force United Nations forces to retreat from North Korea.
- 1961 –Project Mercury: Mercury-Atlas 5 Mission – Enos, a chimpanzee, is launched into space. The spacecraft orbited the Earth twice and splashed-down off the coast of Puerto Rico.
- 1963 –Trans-Canada Airlines Flight 831: A Douglas DC-8 carrying 118, crashes after taking-off from Dorval Airport near Montreal.
- 1963 –U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson establishes the Warren Commission to investigate the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
- 1967 –Vietnam War: U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara announces his resignation.
- 1972 –Atari announces the release of Pong, the first commercially successful video game.
- 1983 –Soviet war in Afghanistan: The United Nations General Assembly passes a resolution stating that Soviet Union forces should withdraw from Afghanistan.
- 1987 –Korean Air Flight 858 explodes over the Thai-Burmese border, killing 155.
- 1990 –Gulf War: The United Nations Security Council passes two resolutions to restore international peace and security if Iraq did not withdraw its forces from Kuwait and free all foreign hostages by January 15, 1991.
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