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Events on the 29th of November in history

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29 Nov 0561 King Chlothar I dies at Compiègne. The Merovingian dynasty is continued by his four sons — Charibert I, Guntram, Sigebert I and Chilperic I — who divide the Frankish Kingdom.
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29 Nov 0799 Pope Leo III, aided by Charles the Great, returns to Rome
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29 Nov 0800 Charlemagne arrives at Rome to investigate the alleged crimes of Pope Leo III.
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29 Nov 1349 Jews of Augsburg Germany massacred
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29 Nov 1394 The Korean king Yi Seong-gye, founder of the Joseon dynasty, moves the capital from Kaesŏng to Hanyang, today known as Seoul.
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29 Nov 1516 Treaty of Freiburg: French / Swiss "eternal" peace treaty
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29 Nov 1549 The papal conclave of 1549–50 begins.
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29 Nov 1581 Doornik surrenders to Duke of Parma
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29 Nov 1596 King Philip II devalues Spanish currency
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29 Nov 1612 The Battle of Swally takes place, which loosens the Portuguese Empire's hold on India.
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29 Nov 1729 Natchez Indians massacre 138 Frenchmen, 35 French women, and 56 children at Fort Rosalie, near the site of modern-day Natchez, Mississippi.
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29 Nov 1745 Bonnie Prince Charlies army moves into Manchester and occupy Carlisle
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29 Nov 1775 Sir James Jay invents invisible ink
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29 Nov 1776 American Revolutionary War: The Battle of Fort Cumberland, Nova Scotia, comes to an end with the arrival of British reinforcements.
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29 Nov 1777 San Jose, California, is founded as Pueblo de San José de Guadalupe. It is the first civilian settlement, or pueblo, in Alta California.
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29 Nov 1781 The crew of the British slave ship Zong murders 133 Africans by dumping them into the sea to claim insurance.
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29 Nov 1783 A 5.3 magnitude earthquake strikes New Jersey.
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29 Nov 1803 Dessalines and Christophe declare St. Domingue (Haiti) independent
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29 Nov 1807 Transfer of the Portuguese Court to Brazil: John VI of Portugal flees Lisbon from advancing Napoleonic forces during the Peninsular War, transferring the Portuguese court to Brazil.
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29 Nov 1812 Napoleon's Grand Army crosses Berezina River in retreat from Russia
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29 Nov 1813 Elias Canneman (Lib) becomes Minister of Finance
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29 Nov 1825 1st Italian opera in US, "Barber of Seville" premieres (NYC)
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29 Nov 1825 1st Italian opera, Barber of Seville, produced in US (NYC)
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29 Nov 1830 November Uprising: An armed rebellion against Russia's rule in Poland begins.
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29 Nov 1847 The Sonderbund is defeated by the joint forces of other Swiss cantons under General Guillaume-Henri Dufour.
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29 Nov 1847 Whitman massacre: Missionaries Dr. Marcus Whitman, his wife Narcissa, and 15 others are killed by Cayuse and Umatilla Indians, causing the Cayuse War.
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29 Nov 1847 Indians kill Marcus & Narcissa Whitman, 11 settle in Walla Walla Ore
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29 Nov 1850 The treaty, Punctation of Olmütz, is signed in Olomouc. Prussia capitulates to Austria, which will take over the leadership of the German Confederation.
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29 Nov 1863 Battle of Ft Sanders, TN (Ft Loudon), 8-900 casualities
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29 Nov 1864 4th and last day of skirmishes at Waynesboro, Georgia
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29 Nov 1864 American Indian Wars: Sand Creek massacre – Colorado volunteers led by Colonel John Chivington massacre at least 150 Cheyenne and Arapaho noncombatants inside Colorado Territory.
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29 Nov 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.
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29 Nov 1864 Colorado militia kills 150 peaceful Cheyenne Indians
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29 Nov 1870 Compulsory education proclaimed in England
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29 Nov 1872 American Indian Wars: The Modoc War begins with the Battle of Lost River.
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29 Nov 1877 Thomas Edison demonstrates his phonograph for the first time.
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29 Nov 1877 Thomas Edison demonstrates the hand-cranked phonograph
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29 Nov 1885 End of Third Anglo-Burmese War, and end of Burmese monarchy
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29 Nov 1887 US receives rights to Pearl Harbor, on Oahu, Hawaii
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29 Nov 1890 The Meiji Constitution goes into effect in Japan, and the first Diet convenes.
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29 Nov 1890 1st Army-Navy football game, Score: Navy 24, Army 0 at West Point
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29 Nov 1893 The Ziqiang Institute, today known as Wuhan University, is founded by Zhang Zhidong, governor of Hubei and Hunan Provinces in late Qing dynasty China, after his memorial to the throne is approved by the Qing Government.
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29 Nov 1897 1st motorcycle race (Surrey England)
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29 Nov 1899 FC Barcelona Association football club is founded.
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29 Nov 1900 Lord Kitchener succeeds lord Roberts up as Supreme Commander in South Africa
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29 Nov 1901 East 182nd Street in the Bronx is paved & opened
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29 Nov 1902 The Pittsburgh Stars defeated the Philadelphia Athletics, 11–0, at the Pittsburgh Coliseum, to win the first championship associated with an American national professional football league.
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29 Nov 1913 5th CFL Grey Cup: Hamilton Tigers defeats Toronto Parkdale, 44-2
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29 Nov 1916 Erwin Rommel marries Lucie "Lu" Mollin
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29 Nov 1916 US declares martial law in Dominican Republic
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29 Nov 1918 Serbia annexes Montenegro
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29 Nov 1924 NHL's Montreal Forum opens
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29 Nov 1926 Tris Speaker resigns as Indians manager
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29 Nov 1926 W Somerset Maughams "Constant Wife, " premieres in New York City
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29 Nov 1929 Lieutenant Commander Richard E Byrd sends "My calculations indicate that we have reached vicinity of South Pole" (He was wrong)
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29 Nov 1929 U.S. Admiral Richard E. Byrd leads the first expedition to fly over the South Pole.
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29 Nov 1932 Cole Porters musical "Gay Divorcee, " premieres in New York City
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29 Nov 1932 France signs non-agression pact with Soviet Union
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29 Nov 1932 USSR and France sign no attack treaty
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29 Nov 1933 Japan begins persecution of communists
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29 Nov 1933 1st state liquor stores authorized (Pennsylvania)
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29 Nov 1934 Chicago Bears beat Detroit (19-16) in 1st NFL game broadcast nationally
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29 Nov 1934 English King George V weds Princess Marina of Greece / Denmark
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29 Nov 1935 Michael Savage becomes 1st Labour Premier of New Zealand
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29 Nov 1937 Prince Bernhard injured in auto accident in the Netherlands
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29 Nov 1938 Mayor Oud of Rotterdam forbids soccer match between Neth-Germany
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29 Nov 1939 Cor Klint swims world record 200 m backstroke (2:38.8)
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29 Nov 1939 USSR drops diplomatic relations with Finland
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29 Nov 1941 29th CFL Grey Cup: Winn Blue Bombers defeat Ottawa Rough Riders, 18-16
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29 Nov 1941 Passenger ship Lurline sends radio signal of sighting Japanese war fleet
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29 Nov 1942 US rations coffee
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29 Nov 1943 Partisan Tito forms temporary government in Jajce Bosnia
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29 Nov 1943 U-86 sinks in Atlantic Ocean
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29 Nov 1943 US aircraft carrier Hornet launched
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29 Nov 1943 World War II: The 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 in what is now Bosnia and Herzegovina.
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29 Nov 1944 The first surgery (on a human) to correct blue baby syndrome is performed by Alfred Blalock and Vivien Thomas.
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29 Nov 1944 World War II: Albania is liberated by partisan forces.
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29 Nov 1944 Albania liberated from Nazi control (National Day)
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29 Nov 1944 John Hopkins hospital performs 1st open heart surgery
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29 Nov 1945 Yugoslavian Socialist Republic proclaimed
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29 Nov 1945 The Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia is declared.
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29 Nov 1945 Monarchy abolished as Yugoslavia proclaims it's republic
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29 Nov 1946 Minister Drees begins emergency rule of old age facilities
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29 Nov 1946 The All Indonesia Centre of Labour Organizations (SOBSI) is founded in Jakarta.
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29 Nov 1947 35th CFL Grey Cup: Toronto Argonauts defeats Calgary Stampeders, 10-9
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29 Nov 1947 UN General Assembly partitions Palestine between Arabs and Jews
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29 Nov 1947 Partition Plan: The United Nations General Assembly approves a plan for the partition of Palestine.
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29 Nov 1947 First Indochina War: French forces carry out a massacre at Mỹ Trạch, Vietnam.
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29 Nov 1948 "Kukla, Fran, and Ollie" debuted on NBC
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29 Nov 1948 1st opera to be televised, "Othello, " broadcast from the Met (NYC)
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29 Nov 1948 KOB TV channel 4 in Albuquerque, NM (NBC) begins broadcasting
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29 Nov 1949 Nationalist regime of China leaves for Taiwan / Formosa
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29 Nov 1949 Uranium mine explosions in East Germany kills 3,700
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29 Nov 1950 National Council of Church of Christ in US forms
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29 Nov 1950 Korean War: North Korean and Chinese troops force United Nations forces to retreat from North Korea.
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29 Nov 1950 National Council of the Church of Christ in US established
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29 Nov 1951 Winston Churchill re-elected British Premier
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29 Nov 1951 1st underground atomic explosion, Frenchman Flat, Nevada
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29 Nov 1952 40th CFL Grey Cup: Toronto Argonauts defeats Edmonton Eskimos, 21-11
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29 Nov 1952 Korean War: U.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.
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29 Nov 1952 President-elect Eisenhower visits Korea to assess the war
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29 Nov 1953 American Airlines begins 1st regular coml NY-LA air service
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29 Nov 1953 WSIX TV channel 8 in Nashville, TN (ABC) begins broadcasting
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29 Nov 1955 Turkish government of Menderes resigns
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29 Nov 1956 "Bells Are Ringing" opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 925 performances
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29 Nov 1957 New York Mayor Robert Wagner forms a committee to replace Dodgers and Giants
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29 Nov 1958 46th CFL Grey Cup: Winn Blue Bombers defeat Hamilton Tiger-Cats, 35-28
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29 Nov 1960 26th Heisman Trophy Award: Joe Bellino, Navy (HB)
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29 Nov 1961 Freedom Riders attacked by white mob at bus station in Mississippi
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29 Nov 1961 John A McCone replaces Allen W Dulles as 6th Director of CIA
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29 Nov 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.
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29 Nov 1961 Mercury-Atlas 5 carries a chimp (Enos) to orbit
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29 Nov 1962 Great-Britain and France decide to jointly build Concorde
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29 Nov 1962 Baseball decides to revert back to 1 all star game per year
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29 Nov 1963 Beatles release "I Want to Hold Your Hand"
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29 Nov 1963 U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson establishes the Warren Commission to investigate the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
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29 Nov 1963 Trans-Canada Air Lines Flight 831 crashes shortly after takeoff from Montreal-Dorval International Airport, killing all 118 people on board.
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29 Nov 1963 LBJ sets up Warren Comm to investigate assassination of JFK
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29 Nov 1964 Roman Catholic Church in US replaces Latin with English
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29 Nov 1965 "Anya" opens at Ziegfeld Theater NYC for 16 performances
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29 Nov 1965 The Canadian Space Agency launches the satellite Alouette 2.
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29 Nov 1965 Dale Cummings does 14,118 consecutive sit-ups
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29 Nov 1966 1st NBA game at Oakland Coliseum Arena - Warriors beat Bulls 108-101
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29 Nov 1967 British troops withdraw from Aden and South Yemen
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29 Nov 1967 Robert McNamara elected President of World bank
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29 Nov 1967 Vietnam War: U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara announces his resignation.
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29 Nov 1967 British troops withdraw from Aden
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29 Nov 1967 US Secretary of Defense McNamara becomes President of the World Bank
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29 Nov 1968 John andYoko release their 1st album "Two Virgins" in the UK
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29 Nov 1968 John & Yoko release their 1st album "Two Virgins" in UK
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29 Nov 1969 Beatles' "Come Together," single goes #1
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29 Nov 1971 1st pro golf championship at Walt Disney World
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29 Nov 1972 Atari announces the release of Pong, the first commercially successful video game.
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29 Nov 1975 President Ford requires states to provide free education for handicapped
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29 Nov 1975 Graham Hill and Tony Brise, along with three other members of the Embassy Hill F1 team, were killed when their plane crashed at Arkley golf course, England, in thick fog.
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29 Nov 1975 Kilauea Volcano erupts in Hawaii
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29 Nov 1976 Free agent Reggie Jackson signs 5 year pact with New York Yankees
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29 Nov 1976 New York Yankees sign free agent Reggie Jackson to 5-year contract
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29 Nov 1978 UN observes "international day of solidarity with Palestinian people, " boycotted by US and about 20 other countries
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29 Nov 1981 "My Fair Lady" closes at Uris Theater NYC after 119 performances
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29 Nov 1981 Greg Chappell scores 201 vs. Pakistan at Gabba
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29 Nov 1987 "Dreamgirls" closes at Ambassador Theater NYC after 177 performances
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29 Nov 1987 75th CFL Grey Cup: Edmonton Eskimos defeats Toronto Argonauts, 38-36
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29 Nov 1987 Joe Montana of 49ers completes NFL record 22 consecutive passes
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29 Nov 1987 Korean Air jetliner disappears off Burma, all 115 lost
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29 Nov 1987 New Orleans Saints win, assuring their 1st winning NFL season
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29 Nov 1987 Korean Air Flight 858 explodes over the Thai–Burmese border, killing 115.
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29 Nov 1987 Korean Air Boeing 707 disappears off Burma, on route to Seoul. All 115 lost
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29 Nov 1987 Ranger's Bob Frosse becomes 2nd goalie to score a goal (vs Isles). It was later ruled that he should not be credited with the goal
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29 Nov 1989 India President Rajiv Gandhi, resigns
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29 Nov 1990 "Shogun - The Musical" opens at Marquis Theater NYC for 72 performances
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29 Nov 1990 Expos President Claude Brochu agrees to buy club from Charles Bronfman
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29 Nov 1990 Gulf War: The United Nations Security Council passes two resolutions to restore international peace and security if Iraq does not withdraw its forces from Kuwait and free all foreign hostages by January 15, 1991.
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29 Nov 1990 UN Security Council sets Jan 15th military deadline against Iraq
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29 Nov 1992 "Sea Gull" opens at Lyceum Theater NYC for 48 performances
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29 Nov 1992 "Solitary Confinement" closes at Nederlander NYC after 25 performances
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29 Nov 1992 80th CFL Grey Cup: Calgary Stampeders defeats Winn Blue Bombers, 24-10
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29 Nov 1993 "Abe Lincoln in Illinois" opens at Beaumont Theater NYC for 40 performances
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29 Nov 1994 Seoul, Korea, celebrated the 600th anniversary of its founding
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29 Nov 1994 Russian aircraft bomb Chechen capital of Grozney
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29 Nov 1995 "Garden District" closes at Circle in the Square Theater, New York City
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29 Nov 1995 CNN / fn, the financial network by Turner Enterprises, launched
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29 Nov 1997 USAir Arena closes, hosting Washington Wizards
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29 Nov 2007 The Armed Forces of the Philippines lay siege to the Peninsula Manila after soldiers led by Senator Antonio Trillanes stage a mutiny.
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29 Nov 2007 A 7.4 magnitude earthquake occurs off the northern coast of Martinique. This affects the Eastern Caribbean as far north as Puerto Rico and as far south as Trinidad.
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29 Nov 2009 Maurice Clemmons shoots and kills four police officers inside a coffee shop in Lakewood, Washington.
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29 Nov 2013 LAM Mozambique Airlines Flight 470 crashes in Namibia, killing 33 people.
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