History Events on November 29

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

#Armed_Forces_of_the_Philippines

World War II: Albania is liberated by the Partisans.

#Liberation_Day_(Albania)

Atari releases Pong, the first commercially successful video game.

#Atari,_Inc.

Partition Plan: The United Nations General Assembly approves a plan for the partition of Palestine.

#United_Nations_Partition_Plan_for_Palestine

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.

#Project_Mercury

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

#Natchez_people

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

#Zong_massacre

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

#Battle_of_Swally

Thomas Edison demonstrates his phonograph for the first time.

#Thomas_Edison

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

#Whitman_massacre

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.

#San_Jose,_California

The Tang dynasty scores a decisive victory over their rival Xue Rengao at the Battle of Qianshuiyuan.

#Tang_dynasty

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 (present-day Bosnia and Herzegovina).

#World_War_II

First Indochina War: French forces carry out a massacre at M? Tr?ch, Vietnam.

#First_Indochina_War

American Indian Wars: Sand Creek massacre: Colorado volunteers led by Colonel John Chivington massacre at least 150 Cheyenne and Arapaho noncombatants inside Colorado Territory.

#American_Indian_Wars

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

#November_Uprising

North Korean agents plant a bomb on Korean Air Flight 858, which kills all 115 passengers and crew.

#Korean_Air_Flight_858

American Civil War: Battle of Spring Hill: The Confederate Army of Tennessee misses an opportunity to crush the Army of the Ohio.

#Battle_of_Spring_Hill

American Civil War: Battle of Fort Sanders: Union forces under Ambrose Burnside successfully defend Knoxville, Tennessee from Confederate forces under James Longstreet.

#American_Civil_War

U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson establishes the Warren Commission to investigate the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.

#Lyndon_B._Johnson

U.S. Admiral Richard E. Byrd leads the first expedition to fly over the South Pole.

#Richard_E._Byrd

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

#American_Revolutionary_War

Korean War: U.S. President-elect Dwight D. Eisenhower fulfills a campaign promise by traveling to Korea to find out what can be done to end the conflict.

#Dwight_D._Eisenhower

The Korean king Yi Seong-gye, founder of the Joseon dynasty, moves the capital from Kaes?ng to Hanyang, today known as Seoul.

#Taejo_of_Joseon

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

#Trans-Canada_Air_Lines_Flight_831

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.

#Chlothar_I

The magnitude 6.6 Irpinia earthquake causes 1,940 deaths in the former Kingdom of Naples, southern Italy.

#1732_Irpinia_earthquake

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

#Meiji_Constitution

Vietnam War: U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara announces his resignation.

#Vietnam_War

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

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

The Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia is declared.

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

FC Barcelona is founded by Catalan, Spanish and Englishmen. It later develops into one of Spanish football's most iconic and strongest teams.

American Indian Wars: The Modoc War begins with the Battle of Lost River.

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

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

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.

A 5.3 magnitude earthquake strikes New Jersey.

The papal conclave of 1549-50 begins.

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