Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/November 29
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November 29: Liberation Day in Albania
- 1854 – The Eureka Flag was flown for the first time during the Eureka Stockade rebellion in Australia.
- 1877 – Thomas Edison demonstrated the phonograph (pictured), his invention for recording and replaying sound, for the first time.
- 1890 – The Diet of Japan, Japan's bicameral legislature modelled after both the German Reichstag and the British Westminster system, first met after the Meiji Constitution went into effect.
- 1929 – American explorer Richard Evelyn Byrd and three others completed the first flight over the South Pole.
- 1947 – The United Nations General Assembly voted to approve the Partition Plan for Palestine, a plan to resolve the Arab-Israeli conflict in the British Mandate of Palestine by separating the territory into Jewish and Arab states.
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