| November 29 |
| 1760 |
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Major Roger Rogers takes possession of Detroit on behalf of Britain. |
| 1787 |
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Louis XVI promulgates an edict of tolerance, granting civil status to Protestants. |
| 1812 |
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The last elements of Napoleon Bonaparte’s Grand Armee retreats across the Beresina River in Russia. |
| 1863 |
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The Battle of Fort Sanders, Knoxville, Tenn., ends with a Confederate withdrawal. |
| 1864 |
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Colonel John M. Chivington’s 3rd Colorado Volunteers massacre Black Kettles’ camp of Cheyenne and Arapahoe Indians at Sand Creek, Colo. |
| 1903 |
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An Inquiry into the U.S. Postal Service demonstrates the government has lost millions in fraud. |
| 1923 |
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An international commission headed by American banker Charles Dawes is set up to investigate the German economy. |
| 1929 |
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Commander Richard Byrd makes the first flight over the South Pole. |
| 1931 |
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The Spanish government seizes large estates for land redistribution. |
| 1939 |
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Soviet planes bomb an airfield at Helsinki, Finland. |
| 1948 |
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The Metropolitan Opera is televised for the first time as the season opens with "Othello." |
| 1948 |
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The popular children’s television show, Kukla, Fran and Ollie, premieres. |
| 1949 |
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The United States announces it will conduct atomic tests at Eniwetok Atoll in the Pacific. |
| 1961 |
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NASA launches a chimpanzee named Enos into Earth orbit. |
| 1962 |
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Algeria bans the Communist Party. |
| 1963 |
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President Lyndon B. Johnson appoints Chief Justice Earl Warren head of a commission to investigate the assassination of John F. Kennedy. |
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Born on November 29 |
| 1803 |
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Christian Doppler, best known for his explanation of perceived frequency variation of sound and light waves, known as the Doppler effect. |
| 1832 |
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Louisa May Alcott, novelist (Little Women). |
| 1895 |
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Busby Berkeley, director (42nd Street). |
| 1898 |
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C.S. Lewis, Christian writer. |
| 1900 |
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Mildred Elizabeth Sisk, aka Axis Sally, Nazi propagandist. |
| 1908 |
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Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., politician and Civil Rights leader. |
| 1911 |
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Konrad Fuchs, German atomic physicist. |
| 1918 |
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Madeleine L’Engle, writer (A Wrinkle in Time). |
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