November 29

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November 29 is the 333th day (334th on leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 32 days remaining.

Events

1864 - Indian Wars: Sand Creek Massacre - Colorado volunteers led by Colonel John Chivington massacre at least 400 Cheyenne and Arapahoe noncombatants at Sand Creek, Colorado (where they had been given permission to camp).
1877 - Thomas Edison demonstrates his phonograph for the first time.
1890 - A new constitution goes into effect in Japan and the first Diet convenes.
1890 - In West Point, New York, the United States Navy defeats the United States Army 24 to 0 in the first Army-Navy football game.
1929 - US Admiral Richard Byrd becomes the first person to fly over the South Pole.
1944 - World War II: Albania is liberated from German occupation.
1945 - The People's Federal Republic of Yugoslavia is declared (this day was celebrated as Republic Day until 1990s).
1947 - The United Nations General Assembly votes to partition Palestine between Arabs and Jews.
1948 - The children's television program Kukla, Fran and Ollie debuts.
1950 - Korean War: North Korean and Chinese troops force a desperate retreat of United Nations forces from North Korea.
1952 - Korean War: Newly-elected US President Dwight D. Eisenhower fulfills a campaign promise by traveling to Korea to find out what can be done to end the conflict.
1954 - The main immigration port-of-entry in New York Harbor at Ellis Island closes (the facility processed more than 20 million immigrants from 1892 to this day).
1961 - Mercury program: Mercury-Atlas 5 is launched with Enos the chimp aboard (the spacecraft orbited the Earth twice and splashed-down off the coast of Puerto Rico).
1963 - John F. Kennedy assassination: US President Lyndon B. Johnson establishes the Warren Commission to investigate the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
1963 - A Douglas DC-8 carrying Trans-Canada Airlines Flight 831 crashes into a wooded hillside after taking-off from Dorval Airport near Montreal, killing all 118 on board (for many years this was the worst air disaster in Canada's history).
1967 - Vietnam War: US Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara announces his pending resignation and that he will become president of the World Bank. This action was the result of US President Lyndon B. Johnson's outright rejection of McNamara's early November recommendations to freeze troop levels, stop bombing North Vietnam and handing over ground fighting to South Vietnam.
1975 - The name "Micro-soft" (for microcomputer software) is used by Bill Gates in a letter to Paul Allen for the first time (Microsoft became a registered trademark on November 26, 1976).
1981 - Off Santa Catalina Island, 43-year old actress Natalie Wood drowns during a boating accident.
1982 - Soviet Union Invasion of Afghanistan: The United Nations General Assembly passes United Nations Resolution 37/37, stating that the Soviet Union forces should withdraw from Afghanistan.
1990 - Gulf War: The United Nations Security Council passes UN Security Council Resolution 678, authorizing military intervention in Iraq if that nation did not withdraw its forces from Kuwait and free all foreign hostages by January 15, 1991.
1992 - Dennis Byrd of the New York Jets is paralyzed from a neck injury during a basketball game against the Kansas City Chiefs.