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