November 29
There are
32 days remaining in 2016.
There are
25 days until Christmas.
Events
800 –
Charlemagne arrives at Rome to investigate the alleged crimes of Pope
Leo III.
1729 –
Natchez Indians massacre 138 Frenchmen, 35 French women, and 56 children at
Fort Rosalie, near the site of modern-day Natchez, Mississippi.
1781 – The
crew of the British slave ship Zong murders 133 Africans by dumping them into the sea to claim insurance.
1847 –
Whitman massacre: Missionaries
Dr. Marcus Whitman, his wife Narcissa, and 15 others are killed by
Cayuse and
Umatilla Indians, causing the
Cayuse War.
1864 – American Indian Wars:
Sand Creek massacre: Colorado volunteers led by Colonel
John Chivington massacre at least 150
Cheyenne and
Arapaho noncombatants [mostly women & children] inside
Colorado Territory.
1864 – American Civil War:
Battle of Spring Hill: A Confederate advance into Tennessee misses an opportunity to crush the Union Army. General
John Bell Hood is angered, which leads to the
Battle of Franklin.
1877 –
Thomas Edison demonstrates his
phonograph for the first time.
1929 – U.S. Admiral
Richard E. Byrd leads the first expedition to fly over the
South Pole.
1944 – The first surgery (on a human) to correct
blue baby syndrome is performed by
Alfred Blalock and
Vivien Thomas.
1961 – Project Mercury:
Mercury-Atlas 5 Mission:
Enos, a chimpanzee, is launched into space. The spacecraft orbits the Earth twice and splashes down off the coast of Puerto Rico.
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.
1996 - American singer and ukulele player
Tiny Tim (Herbert Khaury) died from a heart attack on stage while playing his hit ‘
Tiptoe Through the Tulips’ at a club in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
2001 -
Beatles guitarist
George Harrison died in Los Angeles of lung cancer aged 58.
2009 –
Maurice Clemmons shoots and kills four police officers inside a coffee shop in Lakewood, Washington.
Births
1803 – Christian Doppler (described the
Doppler Effect); 1831 – Frederick Townsend Ward; 1832 – Louisa May Alcott; 1876 – Nellie Tayloe Ross; 1895 – Busby Berkeley; 1895 – Yakima Canutt; 1898 – C. S. Lewis; 1908 – Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.; 1917 – Merle Travis

; 1919 – Joe Weider; 1920 – Joseph Shivers (developed Spandex); 1927 – Vin Scully; 1933 – John Mayall♪ ♫(John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers); 1935 – Diane Ladd; 1940 – Denny Doherty♪ ♫(The Mamas & The Papas); 1940 – Chuck Mangione♪ ♫; 1942 – Felix Cavaliere

; 1946 – Suzy Chaffee (Suzy Chapstick in the Chapstick commercials); 1947 – Ronnie Montrose

(Montrose); 1949 – Jerry 'The King' Lawler; 1949 – Dutch Mantel; 1949 – Garry Shandling; 1951 – Barry Goudreau

(Boston); 1952 – Jeff Fahey (
The Lawnmower Man); 1954 – Joel Coen; 1955 – Howie Mandel; 1957 – Janet Napolitano; 1960 – Cathy Moriarty (
Raging Bull); 1961 – Kim Delaney; 1961 – Tom Sizemore; 1962 – Andy LaRocque

(King Diamond); 1962 – Andrew McCarthy; 1964 – Don Cheadle; 1968 – Jonathan Knight♪ ♫(New Kids On The Block); 1970 – Larry Joe Campbell (
According To Jim); 1972 – Brian Baumgartner (
The Office); 1976 – Anna Faris; 1982 – Lucas Black (
Slingblade, NCIS: New Orleans); 1982 – Ashley Force


; 1988 – Russell Wilson
Deaths
1974 – James J. Braddock

; 1981 – Natalie Wood; 1986 – Cary Grant; 1991 – Ralph Bellamy; 1999 – Gene Rayburn; 2001 – George Harrison

(The Beatles, The Traveling Wilburys); 2004 – John Drew Barrymore; 2005 – Wendie Jo Sperber