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Old 11-29-2016, 01:57 PM   #437
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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
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