Thursday, November 29, 2012

November 29 in history


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Events


526 A possible date for the Antioch earthquake in present-day Syria (then the Byzantine Empire) which killed 200,000 people

561 – King Chlothar I dies at Compiègne. The Merovingian dynasty is continued by his four sons — Charibert I, Guntram, Sigebert I and Chilperic I — who divide the Frankish Kingdom.

799 Pope Leo III, aided by Charles the Great, returns to Rome

800 – Charlemagne arrives at Rome to investigate the alleged crimes of Pope Leo III.

903 – The Abbasid army under Muhammad ibn Sulayman al-Katib deals a crushing defeat on the Qarmatians at the Battle of Hama.

1349 Jews of Augsburg, Germany massacred

1394 – The Korean king Yi Seong-gye, founder of the Joseon dynasty, moves the capital from Kaesŏng to Hanyang, today known as Seoul.

1516 Treaty of Freiburg: French/Swiss "eternal" peace treaty

1549 – The papal conclave of 1549–50 begins.

1561 Lofland subjects himself on Sigismund August II of Poland

1573 Don Luis de Requesensy Zuniga succeeds duke of Alva as land guardian of Netherlands

1581 Doornik (Tournai) surrenders to Duke of Parma

1596 King Philip II devalues Spanish currency

1612 – The Battle of Swally takes place, which loosens the Portuguese Empire's hold on India.

1729 – Natchez Indians massacre 138 Frenchmen, 35 French women, and 56 children at Fort Rosalie, near the site of modern-day Natchez, Mississippi.

1745 Bonnie Prince Charlie's army moves into Manchester and occupies Carlisle

1760 French commandant Beletre surrenders Detroit to Major R. Rogers

1775 Sir James Jay invents invisible ink

1775:  The Second Continental Congress, meeting in Philadelphia, established a Committee of Secret Correspondence. The committee's goal was to provide European nations with a Patriot interpretation of events in Britain's North American colonies, in the hope of soliciting aid for the American war effort.

1776 – American Revolutionary War: The Battle of Fort Cumberland, Nova Scotia, comes to an end with the arrival of British reinforcements.

1777 – San Jose, California, is founded as Pueblo de San José de Guadalupe by José Joaquín Moraga. It is the first civilian settlement, or pueblo, in Alta California.

1781 – The crew of the British slave ship Zong murders 133 Africans by dumping them into the sea to claim insurance.

1783 – A 5.3 magnitude earthquake strikes New Jersey.

1791 Chatham Islands sighted by HMS Chatham commanded by William Broughton

1803 Dessalines & Christophe declare St Domingue (Haiti) independent

1807 – Transfer of the Portuguese Court to Brazil: John VI of Portugal flees Lisbon from advancing Napoleonic forces during the Peninsular War, transferring the Portuguese court to Brazil.

1812 Napoleon's Grand Army crosses Berezina River in retreat from Russia

1813 Dutch politician Elias Canneman (Lib) becomes Minister of Finance

1825 Gioachino Rossini's comic opera "Il barbiere di Siviglia" (The Barber of Seville) become 1st opera performed in Italian in US, staged at New York City's Park Theater

1830 – November Uprising: An armed rebellion against Russia's rule in Poland begins.

1845 – The Sonderbund is defeated by the joint forces of other Swiss cantons under General Guillaume-Henri Dufour.

1847 – Whitman massacre: Missionaries Dr. Marcus Whitman, his wife Narcissa, and 15 others are killed by Cayuse and Umatilla Indians, causing the Cayuse War.

1850 – The treaty, Punctation of Olmütz, is signed in Olomouc. Prussia capitulates to Austria, which will take over the leadership of the German Confederation.

1863 Battle of Fort Sanders, Tennessee: Confederate troops fail to break through Union defenses with 8-900 causalities

1864 – Sand Creek massacre: A band of Colorado volunteers led by Colonel John Chivington massacre at least 150 peaceful Southern Cheyenne and Arapaho noncombatants at Sand Creek, Colorado Territory.

1864 – Battle of Spring Hill, Tennessee (Thomason's Station): A Confederate advance into Tennessee misses an opportunity to crush the Union Army. General John Bell Hood is angered, which leads to the Battle of Franklin.

1870 Compulsory education proclaimed in England.

1872 – The Modoc War begins with the Battle of Lost River.

1877 – US inventor Thomas Edison demonstrates his hand-cranked phonograph for the first time.

1885 – End of Third Anglo-Burmese War, and end of Burmese monarchy

1887 US receives rights to Pearl Harbor, on Oahu, Hawaii

1890 – The Meiji Constitution goes into effect in Japan, and the first Diet convenes.

1890 – The first football game between Army and Navy is played at West Point with Navy prevailing 24-0.

1893 – The Ziqiang Institute, today known as Wuhan University, is founded by Zhang Zhidong, governor of Hubei and Hunan Provinces in late Qing dynasty China, after his memorial to the throne is approved by the Qing Government.

1897 1st motorcycle race in Surrey, England

1900 General Horatio Kitchener assumes command of the British forces in South Africa from General Lord Roberts

1901 East 182nd Street in the Bronx is paved & opened

1902 – The Pittsburgh Stars defeated the Philadelphia Athletics, 11–0, at the Pittsburgh Coliseum, to win the first championship associated with an American national professional football league.

1902 Gerhart Hauptmann's play "Der arme Heinrich" premieres in Vienna

1910 The first US patent for inventing the traffic lights system is issued to Ernest Sirrine

1915 Fire destroys most of the buildings on Santa Catalina Island, California

1916 US declares martial law in Dominican Republic

1917 A Supreme Allied War Council meets at Versailles to define war aims

1918 Serbia annexes Montenegro

1921 Coldest day in November in Netherlands -14.0°C

1921 Z Parenteau & Schuyler Green's musical "Kiki" premieres in NYC

1923 The Dawes Commission, chaired by the American Banker Charles G. Dawes, is set up to look into the German economic situation and make recommendations that the US can accept

1924 NHL's Montreal Forum opens

1926 W Somerset Maughams "Constant Wife" premieres in NYC

1929 – American explorer Admiral Richard E. Byrd, with three companions, makes the first flight over the South Pole, flying from a base on the Ross Ice Shelf to the pole and back in 18 hours and 41 minutes. Richard E. Byrd sends "My calculations indicate that we have reached vicinity of South Pole" (He was wrong)

1932 Cole Porter's musical "Gay Divorcee" opens at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre, NYC, later transferred to the Schubert Theater; runs for 248 performances

1932 France & USSR sign non-aggression pact

1933 1st state liquor stores authorized (Pennsylvania)

1933 Japan begins persecution of communists

1935 Michael Joseph Savage becomes the first Labour party Prime Minister of New Zealand

1937 Dutch Prince Bernhard injured in auto accident in Netherlands

1938 Mayor Oud of Rotterdam forbids soccer match between Netherlands and Germany

1939 USSR drops diplomatic relations with Finland

1941 Passenger ship Lurline sends radio signal of sighting Japanese war fleet

1942 – Coffee joined the list of items rationed in the United States. Despite record coffee production in Latin American countries, the growing demand for the bean from both military and civilian sources, and the demands placed on shipping, which was needed for other purposes, required the limiting of its availability. US Office of Price Administration rations coffee for everyone, 10 pound a year.

1943 – World War II: The second session of the Anti-Fascist Council for the National Liberation of Yugoslavia (AVNOJ), held to determine the post-war ordering of the country, concludes in Jajce in what is now Bosnia and Herzegovina. Partisan Tito forms temporary government in Jajce, Bosnia

1943 U-86 sinks in Atlantic Ocean

1943 US aircraft carrier Hornet launched

1944 – The first open heart surgery on a human to correct blue baby syndrome is performed by Alfred Blalock and Vivien Thomas at John Hopkins hospital. 

1944 – World War II: Albania is liberated by partisan forces.

1945 "The Lost Weekend", based on Charles R. Jackson's novel, directed by Billy Wilder and starring Ray Milland and Jane Wyman premieres in Los Angeles (Academy Awards Best Picture 1946)

1945 – The Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia (Yugoslavian Socialist Republic) is declared.

1946 Minister Drees begins emergency rule of old age facilities

1946 – The All Indonesia Centre of Labour Organizations (SOBSI) is founded in Jakarta.

1947 – Partition Plan: Despite strong Arab opposition, the United Nations General Assembly approves a plan for the partition of Palestine and the creation of an independent Jewish state. Anti-Jewish riots erupt in Aleppo, with cost of 75 lives and the disappearance of medieval manuscript the Aleppo Codex,

1947 – First Indochina War: French forces carry out a massacre at Mỹ Trạch, Vietnam.

1948 First opera to be televised, "Othello", broadcast from the Met (NYC)

1948 Puppet TV show"Kukla, Fran, & Ollie" starring Fran Allison debuts on NBC

1949 Nationalist regime of China leaves for Taiwan/Formosa

1949 Uranium mine explosions in East Germany kills 3,700

1950 National Council of Church of Christ in US forms.

1950 – Korean War: Three weeks after U.S. General Douglas MacArthur first reported Chinese communist troops in action in North Korea, North Korean and Chinese troops force U.S.-led United Nations forces to begin a desperate retreat out of North Korea under heavy fire from the Chinese.

1951 First underground atomic explosion at Frenchman Flat in Nevada

1952 – Korean War: Making good on his most dramatic presidential campaign promise, U.S. President-elect Dwight D. Eisenhower travels to Korea to find out whether he can find the key to ending the bitter and frustrating conflict.

1953 American Airlines begins 1st regular commercial NY-LA air service

1955 Turkish government of Menderes resigns

1956 Jule Styne, Betty Comden and Adolph Green's musical "Bells Are Ringing", starring Judy Holiday, opens at Shubert Theater, NYC; runs for 924 performances, wins 2 Tony Awards

1961 Following the failure of the Bay of Pigs invasion CIA Director Allen Dulles resigns and is replaced by John McCone as 6th director of CIA.

1961 Freedom Riders attacked by white mob at bus station in Miss

1961 – Project Mercury: Mercury-Atlas 5 Mission – Enos, a chimpanzee, is launched into space. The spacecraft orbits the Earth twice and splashes down off the coast of Puerto Rico.

1962 Great Britain & France decide to jointly build the Concorde supersonic airliner

1963 "I Want to Hold Your Hand" single released by the Beatles in the United Kingdom

1963 –  Warren Commission: One week after President John F. Kennedy is fatally shot while riding in a motorcade in Dallas, Texas, President Lyndon B. Johnson establishes a special commission, headed by Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren, to investigate the assassination.

1963 – Trans-Canada Air Lines Flight 831, a  Douglas DC-8, crashes shortly after takeoff from Montreal-Dorval International Airport, killing all 118 people on board.

1964 Roman Catholic Church in US replaces Latin with English

1965 "Anya" opens at Ziegfeld Theater NYC for 16 performances

1965 – The Canadian Space Agency launches the satellite Alouette 2.

1966 SS Daniel J Morrell sinks in a storm on Lake Huron, 28 die, 1 survivor.

1967 British troops withdraw from Aden and South Yemen

1967 – Vietnam War: U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara announces that he is resigning as Secretary of Defense and would become president of the World Bank.

1968 John Lennon and Yoko Ono release their 1st album "Two Virgins" in UK

1969 The Beatles' single "Something / Come Together" reaches #1

1971 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR

1972 – Co-founder of Atari Nolan Bushnell releases Pong, the first commercially successful video game, in Andy Capp's Tavern in Sunnyvale, California

1974 Coco the Clown [Nicolai Poliakoff] special memorial service held at St. Paul's Cathedral, London, England

1975 Kilauea Volcano erupts in Hawaii

1975 – Graham Hill and Tony Brise, along with four other members of the Embassy Hill F1 team, were killed when their plane crashed at Arkley golf course, England, in thick fog.

1975 New Zealand general election won by the National Party headed by Robert Muldoon

1975 US President Gerald Ford requires states to provide free education for handicapped

1978 UN observes "international day of solidarity with Palestinian people," boycotted by US & about 20 other countries

1978 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR

1979 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

1981 Major Iranian offensive mounted on central front

1981 Revival of musical "My Fair Lady" closes at Uris Theater, NYC, after 119 performances

1982 USSR performs underground nuclear test

1983 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR

1986 – The Surinamese military attacks the village of Moiwana during the Suriname Guerrilla War, killing at least 39 civilians, mostly women and children.

1987 – Korean Air Flight 858 explodes over the Thai–Burmese border, killing 115.

1987 France performs nuclear test at Mururoa atoll

1987 Revival of Henry Krieger and Tom Eyen's musical ."Dreamgirls" closes at Ambassador Theater, NYC, after 177 performances

1989 Rajiv Gandhi resigns as Prime Minister of India after losing national elections

1990 "Shogun - The Musical" opens at Marquis Theater, NYC; runs for 72 performances

1990 – Gulf War: The United Nations Security Council passes two resolutions authorizing the use of force in the Persian Gulf to restore international peace and security if Iraq does not withdraw its forces from Kuwait and free all foreign hostages by January 15, 1991.

1992 "Sea Gull" opens at Lyceum Theater NYC for 48 performances

1992 "Solitary Confinement" closes at Nederlander NYC after 25 performances

1993 "Abe Lincoln in Illinois" opens at Beaumont Theater NYC for 40 performances

1994 "My Life" second studio album by Mary J. Blige is released (Billboard Music Award Top R&B Album 1995)

1994 Seoul, Korea, celebrated the 600th anniversary of its founding

1995 "Garden District" closes at Circle in the Square Theater, NYC

1995 CNNfn, a financial network by Turner Enterprises is launched

1995 US President Bill Clinton lifts ban on exports of oil from the Alaskan North Slope; the ban was imposed after the oil embargo by Arab oil producers in 1973

1997 OPEC agrees to an increase in its production ceiling. OPEC has raised the ceiling to 27.5 million barrels per day for the first half of 1998

2001 UN Security Council unanimously approves a resolution extending the Oil-for-Food program in Iraq for another six-month period

2002 "The Concert for George", a benefit memorial to George Harrison held at the Royal Albert Hall, London, features Eric Clapton; Paul McCartney; Ringo Starr; Jeff Lynne; Tom Petty; Joe Brown; Anoushka Shankar; Billy Preston; and members of Monty Python

2003 The first of Nelson Mandela's 46664 AIDS benefit concerts held at Green Point Stadium, Capetown

2005 The new Croatian Communist Party (KPH) is founded in Vukovar.

2007 – The Armed Forces of the Philippines lay siege to the Peninsula Manila after soldiers led by Senator Antonio Trillanes stage a mutiny.

2007 – A 7.4 magnitude earthquake occurs off the northern coast of Martinique. This affects the Eastern Caribbean as far north as Puerto Rico and as far south as Trinidad.

2009 – Maurice Clemmons shoots and kills four police officers inside a coffee shop in Lakewood, Washington.

2010 "Rolling in the Deep" single is released by Adele (Billboard Song of the Year 2011, Grammy Award for Record of the Year and Song of the Year 2012)

2012 30 people are killed and 100 are wounded by bombs in Hillah and Karbala, Iraq

2012 The UN votes to approve Palestine’s status change from an observer to an observer state

2013 – LAM Mozambique Airlines Flight 470 crashes in Namibia, killing 33 people.

2014 – Taiwan local elections: The Democratic Progressive Party wins a landslide victory.

2017 American TV host Matt Lauer is fired from NBC's "Today" show after an allegation of sexual misconduct

2017 Bosnian war criminal Slobodan Praljak commits suicide by poison in court at The Hague after 20 year prison term read out

2018 Tens of thousands Indian farmers protest the agrarian crisis at parliament in Delhi

2019 K-pop stars Jung Joon-young and Choi Jong-hoon sentenced to prison for gang-raping unconscious fans and distributing footage of it (Jung)

2019 Terrorist knife attack at Fishmongers Hall by London Bridge, kills two and injures three, attacker who was previously imprisoned for 2012 terror offence is shot dead

2019 Wood fragment believed to be from Jesus' manger returned to Bethlehem after 1400 years by Pope Francis

2020 Joe Biden and Kamala Harris announce the first all-female Communications team for the White House

2021 British socialite and former girlfriend of Jeffery Epstein Ghislaine Maxwell found guilty of sex trafficking in a federal court in Manhattan

2021 Jack Dorsey announces he is stepping down as CEO of Twitter, to be replaced by Parag Agrawal

2022 Canadian scientists announce discovery of two new minerals elaliite and elkinstantonite, never seen on earth before from 'Nightfall' meteorite found in Somalia

2022 For the first time fewer than half of people in England and Wales call themselves Christian according to the 2021 Census

2022 Malawi begins historic campaign against malaria by vaccinating children under five using the RTS,S vaccine (thought to provide 30% protection)

2022 Singapore's parliament repeals British-era Section 377A decriminalising gay sex, but introduces amendments to protect current definition of marriage

2022 Three stowaways rescued by Spanish coastguard after 11 days at sea balancing on a ships' rudder from Nigeria to the Canary islands



Saints' Days and Holy Days

Traditional Western

Willibrord, Archbishop of Utrecht, Confessor      Double
Commemoration of the Eve of St Andrew (if out of Advent)
Commemoration of St. Saturninus, Martyr


Contemporary Western

Blessed Bernardo de Hoyos
Brendan of Birr
Cuthbert Mayne
Radboud of Utrecht
Saturnin


Anglican, Episcopal, Lutheran



Eastern Orthodox

November 29 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Venerable Nicholas, Archbishop of Thessaloniki (c. 160)
Hieromartyr Dionysius, Bishop of Corinth (182)
Martyrs Paramon and 370 others, at Bithynia (250)
Martyr Philoumenos of Ancyra (274)
Martyr Valerian, by the sword (274)
Martyr Phaedrus, by pouring hot resin over him (274)
Hieromartyr John, in Persia (4th century)
Holy 6 Martyrs
Venerable Pitirim of Egypt (4th century), disciple of St. Anthony the Great
Saint Tiridates, King of Armenia (4th century)
Saint Acacius of Sinai (6th century), mentioned by John of the Ladder
Hieromartyr Abibus, Bishop of Nekresi, Georgia (6th century)
Bishop Urban of Macedonia
Venerable Pankosmios
Venerable Mark.

Hieromartyr Saturninus, venerated as the first Bishop of Toulouse (c. 257)
Saint Blaise and Demetrius, martyrs in Veroli in central Italy
Hieromartyrs Saturninus and Sisinius (c. 309)
Saint Illuminata, a virgin in Todi in Italy (c. 320)
Saint Brendan of Birr (571)
Saint Sadwrn (Sadwen), hermit, brother of St Illtyd
      and disciple of St Cadfan (6th century)
Saint Hardoin, Bishop of St Pol-de-Léon in Brittany (7th century)
Saint Æthelwine of Athelney (Egelwine, Aylwine), a prince of the house of Wessex
      who lived as a hermit at Athelney in Somerset, England (7th century)
Saint Walderic, founder of the monastery of Murrhardt in Germany (c. 817)
Saint Radboud of Utrecht, Bishop of Utrecht (917)
Saint Gulstan (Gustan, Constans), a monk at St Gildas of Rhuys in Brittany (c. 1010)

Saint Nectarius the Obedient, of the Kiev Caves (12th century)
Saint Mardarije (Uskokovich) of Libertyville, Illinois,
      Enlightener and Apostle of the Church in America (1935)

New Hieromartyr Sergius Kochurov, Priest (1941)
New Hieromartyr Philoumenos (Hasapis) of Jacob's Well (1979)

Consecration of the Church of the Holy Martyrs Sergius and Bacchus
Repose of Blessed Abel "the Prophet", of Valaam Monastery (1831)


Coptic Orthodox












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