Vero - Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/November 29
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Screenshot of a game of Pong
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Eureka Flag
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A bust of Richard E. Byrd
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Edison Phonograph
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Joint session of the National Diet of Japan in 2002
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Joan Gamper
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Queen Maria I of Portugal
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| Blurb | Reason |
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| 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. | date not cited |
| 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 pictures |
| 1807 – Peninsular War: [[Maria I of Portugal|Template:Nowrap 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 |
| 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. | Too much uncited |
| 1864 – American Indian Wars: A 700-man Colorado Territory militia attacked a village of Cheyenne and Arapaho, killing 133 men, women, and children. | Date not cited, too many quotes |
| 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 |
| 1935 – Russian-French chess player Alexander Alekhine became world champion, holding the title for 17 of the next 19 years until his death. | 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 |
| John Felton |d|1628| | too many {cn} tags |
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- 903 – The Abbasid Caliphate captured the Qarmatian leadership at the Battle of Hama in Syria, opening the way for the reconquest of Tulunid Egypt.
- 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 enslaved African people by throwing them into the sea to claim insurance.
- 1810 – Napoleonic Wars: British troops rendezvoused at Grand Baie to launch an invasion of Isle de France, now known as Mauritius.
- 1899 – FC Barcelona, one of the most successful clubs in Spanish football, was founded by Swiss football pioneer Joan Gamper.
- 1924 – The Bronx County Bird Club was formed and would go on to lead the Audubon Society's Christmas Bird Count in the eastern US for three years in a row.
- 1963 – Five minutes after taking off from Montréal–Dorval, Trans-Canada Air Lines Flight 831 crashed in bad weather, killing all 118 people on board.
- 1972 – Atari announced the release of Pong (screenshot pictured), one of the first video games to achieve widespread popularity in both the arcade and home-console markets.
- 1979 – The controversial Tellico Dam project by the Tennessee Valley Authority is completed despite being ordered to shut down from the Supreme Court of the United States' decision in Tennessee Valley Authority v. Hill.
- 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.
- 2012 – In resolution 67/19, the United Nations General Assembly voted to accord the status of a non-member observer state to Palestine.
- Born/died: | Jacob of Serugh |d|521| Public Universal Friend |b|1752| Amos Bronson Alcott |b|1799| Christian Doppler |b|1803| George Brown |b|1818| Mary Somerville |d|1872| Artur Phleps |b|1881| Emma Morano |b|1899| Adam Clayton Powell Jr. |b|1908| Yōichi Masuzoe |b|1948| Lalit Modi |b|1963| Younis Khan |b|1977|
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 Template:Main page image/OTD
- 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.
- 1890 – The National Diet of Japan (pictured in session), 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 Mandatory Palestine by separating the territory into Jewish and Arab states.
- 1982 – Michael Jackson's Thriller, the best-selling album of all time, was released.
- 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 in Makati.