Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/November 29
This is a list of selected November 29 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article or picture of the day.
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Joan Gamper -
Queen Maria I of Portugal
Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
|---|---|
| 1777 – El Pueblo de San José de Guadalupe, the first civil settlement in the Spanish colony of Alta California, was founded as a farming community. | too many picutres |
| 1807 – Peninsular War: Maria I of Portugal, the Braganza royal family and its court of nearly 15,000 people departed Lisbon for the colony of Brazil just days before French forces invaded the city. | section too long |
| 1830 – The November Uprising, an armed rebellion against Russia's rule in Poland, broke out in Warsaw. | unreferenced section |
| 1877 – Thomas Edison demonstrated the phonograph, his invention for recording and replaying sound, for the first time. | unreferenced section |
| 1929 – American explorer Richard E. Byrd and three others completed the first flight over the South Pole. | refimprove section |
| 1944 – Alfred Blalock and Vivien Thomas at the Johns Hopkins Hospital performed the first Blalock–Taussig shunt operation to treat blue baby syndrome. | Shunt: needs more footnotes; BBS: date not in article |
Eligible
- 903 – The Abbasid Caliphate captured the Qarmatian leadership in the Battle of Hama in Syria, opening the way for the reconquest of Tulunid Egypt.
- 1729 – Natchez Indians revolted against French colonists near modern-day Natchez, Mississippi, killing approximately 230 people.
- 1776 – American Revolutionary War: British reinforcements brought an end to the Patriot attempt to capture Fort Cumberland in Nova Scotia.
- 1781 – The crew of the British slave ship Zong, running low on water, began the killing of more than 130 African slaves by throwing them into the sea to claim insurance.
- 1847 – Oregon missionaries Marcus and Narcissa Whitman, along with about a dozen others, were killed by members of the Cayuse and Umatilla tribes, sparking the Cayuse War.
- 1864 – American Indian Wars: A 700-man Colorado Territory militia attacked a village of Cheyenne and Arapaho, killing 133 men, women, and children.
- 1890 – The National Diet of Japan, a bicameral legislature modelled after both the German Reichstag and the British Westminster system, first met in Tokyo.
- 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.
- 1963 – Five minutes after taking off from Montreal, Trans-Canada Air Lines Flight 831 crashed in bad weather, killing all 118 people on board.
- 2007 – During their trial for the 2003 Oakwood mutiny, Philippine soldiers led by Senator Antonio Trillanes mutinied and seized a conference room in The Peninsula Manila hotel in Makati.
- 2012 – The United Nations General Assembly voted to accord non-member observer state status to Palestine.
- Born/died: | John Felton |d|1628| Claudio Monteverdi |d|1643| Public Universal Friend |b|1752| Christian Doppler |b|1803| George Brown |b|1818| Mary Somerville |d|1872| Emma Morano |b|1899| Adam Clayton Powell Jr. |b|1908| Yōichi Masuzoe |b|1948
Notes
- Camp Nou appears on September 24, so FC Barcelona should not be used in the same year
- Eureka Rebellion appears on December 3, so Eureka Flag should not be used in the same year
November 29: Liberation Day in Albania (1944)
- 1549 – After the death of Pope Paul III, a papal conclave was convened with an unprecedented number of cardinals, who eventually elected Julius III more than two months later.
- 1854 – An estimated crowd of more than 10,000 demonstrators swore allegiance to the Eureka Flag (pictured) as a symbol of defiance, in advance of the Eureka Rebellion in Ballarat, Australia.
- 1899 – FC Barcelona, one of the most successful clubs in Spanish football, was founded by Swiss football pioneer Joan Gamper.
- 1972 – Atari announced the release of Pong, one of the first video games to achieve widespread popularity in both the arcade and home-console markets.
- 1987 – A time bomb planted by North Korean agents on Korean Air Flight 858 detonated over the Andaman Sea, killing all 115 people on board.
- Amos Bronson Alcott (b. 1799)
- Artur Phleps (b. 1881)
- Janet Smith (b. 1940)