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On this day November 29

2009


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

2007


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

1987


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

1986


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

1972


Atari announces the release of Pong, the first commercially successful video game.

1967


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

1963


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

1963


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

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.

1952


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.

1950


Korean War: North Korean and Chinese troops force United Nations forces to retreat from North Korea.

1947


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

1947


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

1945


The Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia is declared.

1944


World War II: Albania is liberated by the Partisans.

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 (present-day Bosnia and Herzegovina).

1929


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

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.

1890


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

1877


Thomas Edison demonstrates his phonograph for the first time.

1872


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

1864


American Civil War: Battle of Spring Hill: 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.

1864


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

1850


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

1847


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

1847


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

1830


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

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.

1783


A 5.3 magnitude earthquake strikes New Jersey.

1781


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

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.

1776


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

1729


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

1612


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

1549


The papal conclave of 1549-50 begins.

1394


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

903


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

618


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

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.

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