Today In History - November 29

1330 Louis van Male
1627 John Ray
1761 Fridolin Weber
1770 Peter Hansel
1781 Andres Bello
1797 Domenico Gaetano Maria Donizetti
1799 Amos Bronson Alcott
1802 Wilhelm Hauff
1803 Christian Doppler
1811 Wendell Phillips
1815 Stephen Augustus Hurlbut
1816 Carl Binder
1818 George Brown
1832 Louisa May Alcott
1833 Louis Douglass Watkins
1834 Thomas Edward Greenfield Ransom
1838 Aeneas Mackay
1839 Ludwig Anzengruber
1849 Ambrose Fleming
1860 Hans Haym
1862 Friedrich Klose
1870 Andre Lichtenberger
1870 Harry Graham
1872 Anna Bahr-von Mildenburg
1874 Antonio Egas Moniz
1891 Julius Raab
1891 Richard Frank Donovan
1894 Yakima Canutt
1895 Busby Berkeley
1895 Lodovico Rocca
1897 Emiel van Hemeldonck
1898 C. S. Lewis
1901 Genevieve Tobin
1901 Mildred Harris
1902 Carlo Levi
1902 Georges Poulet
1904 Kay Johnson
1904 Piet Ketting
1905 Mowbray Henry Gordon Howard
1906 Luis Van Rooten
1907 Merle Travis
1908 Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.
1909 Rupert Davies
1910 Louis Levy, Jr.
1914 Taisen Deshimaru
1915 Billy Strayhorn
1915 Earl W. Sutherland
1916 Valentino Bucchi
1918 Herb Shriner
1918 Madeleine L'Engle
1919 Pearl Primus
1922 Benjamin Smit
1923 Frank Reynolds
1927 Rubert Crosse
1928 Paul Simon
1929 Don January
1931 Frank T. Mdlalose
1932 Antoine Tisne
1932 Diane Ladd
1932 Jacques Chirac
1932 John Gary
1933 David Reuben
1933 John Mayall
1934 Willie Morris
1936 Davide Anzagai
1936 Gerti Tetzner
1937 Johan J. Holst
1939 Gennadiy Volnov
1940 Chuck Mangione
1941 Dennis Doherty
1941 Ronald D. Coleman
1944 Felix Cavaliere
1945 Roger Bambuck
1946 Suzy Chaffee
1949 Garry Shandling
1949 Kenneth D. Cameron
1949 Petra Kelly
1950 Kevin O'Donnell, Jr.
1951 Barry Doudreau
1951 Jonathan Zeitlyn
1952 Christine Pascal
1952 Dusty Hare
1953 Alex Grey
1954 Joel Coen
1955 Howie Mandel
1957 Charles Grant
1957 Janet Napolitano
1958 Pamela Prati
1959 Charles Grant
1959 Neal Broten
1959 Rich Camarillo
1960 Cathy Moriarty
1961 Kim Delaney
1962 Andrew McCarthy
1964 Don Cheadle
1964 Kris Kamm
1964 Perry Parker
1965 Ellen Cleghorne
1965 Neill Barry
1967 Marcus Muler
1967 Sean Carlin
1968 Dee Brown
1968 Jiri Veber
1968 Jonathan Raleigh Knight
1969 Craig Evans
1969 J-Me Carney
1969 John Knight
1969 Mariano Rivera
1969 Pierre van Hooijdonk
1970 David Beinhoff
1970 Guy Hill
1970 Lamar Smith
1970 Tonya Gill
1971 Amy Peterson
1971 Bernadette Przybycien
1971 Brad May
1971 Gena Lee Nolin
1972 Artis Houston
1972 Jamal Mashburn
1972 Larry Williams
1973 Craig Glassock
1973 Dick van Burik
1973 Duane Butler
1974 Pavol Demitra
1982 Lucas Black
1990 Blake Tuomy-Wilhoit (Twin actor)
1990 Dylan Tuomy-Wilhoit (Twin actor)

799 Pope Leo III, aided by Charles the Great, returns to Rome
1349 The Jews of Augsburg Germany are massacred
1516 Treaty of Freiburg
1745 Bonnie Prince Charlie's Army moves into Manchester and occupies Carlisle
1775 Sir James Jay invents invisible ink
1812 Napoleon's Grand Army crosses the Berezina River in retreat from Russia
1813 Elias Canneman becomes the Minister of Finance
1825 The first Italian opera in the U.S., "Barber of Seville," premieres in New York City
1863 Battle of Ft. Sanders, Tennessee
1864 The 4th and last day of skirmishes at Waynesboro, Georgia
1864 Battle of Spring Hill, Tennessee
1864 The Colorado militia kills 150 peaceful Cheyenne Indians
1870 Compulsory education is proclaimed in England
1877 Thomas Edison demonstrates his hand-cranked phonograph
1887 The US receives the rights to Pearl Harbor on Oahu, Hawaii
1890 The first Army-Navy football game: Navy 24, Army 0 (played at West Point)
1897 The first motorcycle race (Surrey England)
1900 Lord Kitchener succeeds Lord Roberts as Supreme Commander in South Africa
1901 East 182nd Street in the Bronx is paved and opened
1916 Erwin Rommel marries Lucie "Lu" Mollin
1916 The US declares martial law in Dominican Republic
1932 France signs a non-aggression pact with Soviet Union
1932 The U.S.S.R. and France sign a no attack treaty
1933 The first state liquor stores are authorized: Pennsylvania
1933 Japan begins persecution of communists
1935 Michael Savage becomes the first Labour Premier of NZ
1939 The U.S.S.R. drops diplomatic relations with Finland
1941 The passenger ship Lurline sends a radio signal of sighting Japanese war fleet
1942 US rations coffee for WWII
1943 The U-86 sinks in Atlantic Ocean
1943 The US aircraft carrier Hornet is launched
1944 Albania is liberated from Nazi control
1944 Johns Hopkins hospital performs the first open heart surgery
1945 Yugoslavian Socialist Republic is proclaimed
1947 The U.N. General Assembly partitions Palestine between the Arabs and Jews
1948 "Kukla, Fran, and Ollie" debuted on NBC
1949 The Nationalist regime of China leaves for Taiwan, Formosa
1949 Uranium mine explosions in East Germany kill 3,700 people
1950 The National Council of Church of Christ in U.S. forms
1951 The first underground atomic explosion: Frenchman Flat Nevada
1951 Winston Churchill is re-elected British Premier
1952 President elect Eisenhower visits Korea to assess the war
1953 American Airlines begins first regular commercial NY-LA air service
1955 The Turkish government of Menderes resigns
1961 Freedom Riders are attacked by white mob at bus station in Mississippi
1961 Mercury-Atlas 5 carries a chimp named Enos into orbit
1962 Great-Britain and France decide to jointly build the Concorde
1963 Beatles release "I Want to Hold Your Hand"
1963 Lyndon Baines Johnson sets up the Warren Commission to investigate the assassination of John F. Kennedy
1964 The Roman Catholic Church in U.S. replaces Latin with English
1967 British troops withdraw from Aden and South Yemen
1967 Robert McNamara is elected president of the World bank
1971 The first professional golf championship at Walt Disney World
1971 The U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk U.S.S.R.
1975 Kilauea Volcano erupts in Hawaii
1975 President Ford requires states to provide free education for the handicapped
1978 The U.N. observes "international day of solidarity with Palestinian people." It is boycotted by the U.S. and about 20 other countries.
1978 The U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk U.S.S.R.
1979 The U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1982 The U.S.S.R. performs an underground nuclear test
1983 The U.S.S.R. performs a nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk U.S.S.R.
1987 France performs a nuclear test at Muruora Island
1987 Korean Air jetliner disappears off Burma, all 115 people are lost
1989 India president, Rajiv Gandhi, resigns
1990 The U.N. Security Council sets a January 15th military deadline against Iraq
1994 Seoul, Korea celebrated the 600th anniversary of its founding
1995 CNN/FN, the financial network of Turner Enterprises, is launched