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

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• 1777 - San Jose, California, is founded as el Pueblo de San José de Guadalupe. It is the first civilian settlement, or pueblo, in Alta California.
• 1781 - The Slave ship the Zong dumps living cargo into the sea in order to claim insurance.
• 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 .
• 1872 - Indian Wars: Modoc War begins with the Battle of Lost RiverThe Battle of Lost River in November 1872 was the first battle in the Modoc War in the northwestern United States. The skirmish, which was fought near the Lost River along the California- Oregon border, was the result of an attempt by the First Cavalry of.
• 1877Events January 1 Queen Victoria proclaimed Empress of India by the Royal Titles Act, introduced by United Kingdom Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli. January 8 Crazy Horse and his warriors fight their last battle with the United States Cavalry ( Montana) Ja - Thomas EdisonThomas Alva Edison ( February 11, 1847 October 18, 1931) was an inventor and businessman who developed many important devices. The Wizard of Menlo Park was one of the first inventors to apply the principles of mass production to the process of invention. demonstrates his phonographThe phonograph or gramophone was the most common device for playing recorded sound from the 1870s through the 1980s. Usage of these terms is somewhat different in British English and American English; see usage note below. In more modern usage, this devic for the first time.
• 1890Events January 2 Alice Sanger becomes the first female staffer for the U. White House. January 25 The United Mine Workers of America is founded. January 25 Nellie Bly completes her round-the-world journey in 72 days. March 1 Leon Bourgeois succeeds Ernest - The Meiji ConstitutionIn 1881, Ito Hirobumi announced that the government would draft the Meiji Constitution in a decade. It was adopted on February 11, 1889 and went into effect in Japan on November 29, 1890. The first Diet of Japan convened on that day as well. The constitut goes into effect in JapanJapan (, Nippon/Nihon literally "the origin of the sun") is a country in East Asia situated on a chain of islands east of the Asian continent on the western edge of the Pacific Ocean. The largest of these islands are, from north to south, Hokkaido , Honsh and the first DietThe National Diet of Japan (; Kokkai is Japan's legislature. It consists of two houses: the House of Representatives (; Shugi-in and the House of Councillors (; Sangi-in . Both houses of the Diet are directly elected under a parallel voting system. As wel 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.
• 1943 - Second session of AVNOJ, the Anti-fascist council of national liberation of Yugoslavia, is held in Jajce, Bosnia and Herzegovina, determining the post-war ordering of the country.
• 1944 - World War II: Albania is liberated from German occupation.
• 1944 - The first surgery (on a human) to correct blue baby syndrome is performed by Alfred Blalock and Vivien Thomas.
• 1945 - The Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia is declared (this day was celebrated as Republic Day until 2003).
• 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: US president-elect Dwight D. Eisenhower fulfills a campaign promise by traveling to Korea to find out what can be done to end the conflict.
• 1961 - 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 - 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 after taking-off from Dorval Airport near Montreal.
• 1967 - Vietnam War: US Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara announces his resignation.
• 1975 - The name "Micro-soft" (for microcomputer software) is used by Bill Gates in a letter to Paul Allen for the first time.
• 1981 - Off Santa Catalina Island, 43-year old actress Natalie Wood drowns during a boating accident.
• 1982 - Soviet invasion of Afghanistan: The United Nations General Assembly passes United Nations Resolution 37/37, stating that the Soviet Union forces should withdraw from Afghanistan.
• 1987 - A Korean Air Boeing 707 exploded over the Thai-Burmese border killing 155.
• 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 by a neck injury during a football game against the Kansas City Chiefs.