Today in History
29 November
Madame De Pompadour
Billy
Mitchell
aviation hero (WW I)
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| 1503 Battle at Carigliano: Spanish army beats France | ||
| 1539 St Jacobs Church burns after being hit by lightning |
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| 1541 Isabella of Poland & King Ferdinand of Austria sign Treaty of Gyalu | ||
| 1558 Charles V, German emperor, buried | ||
| 1708 Great Alliance occupies Gent | ||
| 1709 Elisabeth Petrovna, tsarina of Russia/daughter of Peter the Great was born | ||
| 1721 Madame De Pompadour, mistress of French King Louis the 15th was born | ||
| 1778 English troops occupy Savannah, Georgia | ||
| 1800 Charles Goodyear, inventor (vulcanization process for rubber) was born | ||
| 1813 British burn Buffalo, NY during War of 1812 | ||
| 1841 King/grand duke Willem II installs Order of Eikenkroon | ||
| 1852 Emma Snodgrass arrested in Boston for wearing pants | ||
| 1856 Thomas J Stieltjes, mathematician (Stieltjes integral) was born | ||
| 1857 Franz Liszt's "Die Hunnenschlacht," premieres in Weimar | Madame De Pompadour |
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| 1864 At Sand Creek, Colorado, an army force led by Colonel John Chivington attacked and massacred at least 400 Cheyenne and Arapahoe Indians who had surrendered and been given permission to camp. | ||
| 1867 1st telegraph ticker used by a brokerage house, Groesbeck & Co, NY | ||
| 1872 U.S. editor Horace Greeley died; he founded the daily New York Tribune in 1841 | ||
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1876 11 passenger cars crash in a ravine near Ashtabula Ohio, 92 die | |
| 1879 Billy Mitchell, aviation hero Gen (WW I) was born | ||
| 1885 Gottlieb Daimler patents 1st bike (Germany) | ||
| 1890 The first Imperial Diet was opened in Japan. It consisted of a House of Peers and a House of Representatives. | ||
| 1920 The netherlands/Venezuela recover diplomatic relations | ||
| 1920 Yugoslav govt bans communist party | ||
| 1922 Dutch Constitution proclaimed | ||
| 1922 Revised Netherlands Law proclaims suffrage | ||
| 1926 Vatican puts French fascist Charles Maurras' work on the index | ||
| 1929 U.S. explorer Richard Byrd and Bernt Balchen completed the first flight over the South Pole. | ||
| 1937 Ireland adopts constitution (Irish Free State becomes Eire) | ||
| 1939 The USSR broke off diplomatic relations with Finland prior to the Soviet attack on the country. | ||
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1940 Germany begins dropping incendiary bombs on London (WW II) | |
| 1940 Brigitte Kronauer, writer was born | ||
| 1944 Gen Eisenhowers train returns to Versailles | ||
| 1945 The newly elected Constituent Assembly in Yugoslavia proclaimed a federal republic. | ||
| 1947 Ship carrying Jewish immigrants driven away from Palestine | ||
| 1947 The U.N. General Assembly voted to partition Palestine into Jewish and Arab land, leading to the establishment of a Jewish state the following year. | ||
| 1948 Canada recognizes Israel | ||
| 1948 US State Dept announces work on placing objects into Earth orbit | ||
| 1949 Hungary nationalized its industries | ||
| 1951 Flying Enterprise in difficulty in Canal | ||
| 1966 King Ntare IV was overthrown in Burundi and a republic was proclaimed. | ||
| 1967 Turkish-Cypriot government forms in Cyprus | ||
| 1968 Israeli commandos destroy 13 Lebanese airplanes | ||
| 1972 Eastern Tristar Jumbo Jet crashes near Everglades killing 101 | ||
| 1972 Life magazine ceases publication | ||
| 1974 A bill to outlaw the Irish Republican Army became law in Britain. | ||
| 1975 11 killed, 75 hurt by terrorist bomb at LaGuardia Airport in NYC | ||
| 1978 Shah of Iran, asks Shapour Bahktiar to form a civilian govt | ||
| 1978 Spain constitution goes into effect | ||
| 1983 US announced withdrawal from UNESCO | ||
| 1984 Blues took 27 shots against Islanders in 1 period | ||
| 1984 Indian PM Rajiv Gandhi claims victory in parlimetary elections | ||
| 1988 Victorian Post Office Museum in Australia closes | ||
| 1989 Vaclav Havel becomes president of Czechoslovakia | ||
| 1990 Bulgarian Prime Minister Lukanov and his government resigned following a general strike. | ||
| 1991 Boeing 747-200F of China Airlines crash into mountain at Taipei | ||
| 1994 B737-400 flies into a mountain at Edremit East Turkey, 54 killed | ||
| 1994 Bangladesh govt of Zia resigns | ||
| 1994 Last Dutch electro-magnetic telephone exchange shuts down | ||
| 1997 Hong Kong begins slaughtering all its chickens to prevent bird flu | ||
| 1997 Orville Lynn Majors, 36, arrested for many deaths under his care | ||
| 1997 Russia signs agreement to build a $3B nuclear power plant in China | ||