What are the important events that happened on November 29? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
November 29: Facts & Myths About This Day
November 29 is the 334th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 32 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is November 16, 2024 – a Friday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 481,344 hours has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.
Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘trihectatriacontatetragon’ day.
Sagittarius is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Topaz is the modern birthstone for this month. Pearl is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 61 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,361 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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November 29 Historical Events
- 1776 –American Revolutionary War: The Battle of Fort Cumberland, Nova Scotia comes to an end with the arrival of British reinforcements.
- 1781 –The crew of the British slave ship Zong murders 133 Africans by dumping them into the sea to claim insurance.
- 1850 –The treaty, Punctation of Olmütz, is signed in Olomouc. Prussia capitulates to Austrian Empire, which took over the leadership of German Confederation.
- 1864 –Indian Wars: Sand Creek Massacre – Colorado volunteers led by Colonel John Chivington massacre at least 150 Cheyenne and Arapaho noncombatants inside Colorado Territory.
- 1872 –Indian Wars: The Modoc War begins with the Battle of Lost River.
- 1929 –U.S. Admiral Richard Byrd becomes the first person to fly over the South Pole.
- 1944 –The first surgery (on a human) to correct blue baby syndrome is performed by Alfred Blalock and Vivien Thomas.
- 1961 –Project Mercury: Mercury-Atlas 5 Mission – Enos, a chimpanzee, is launched into space. The spacecraft orbited the Earth twice and splashed-down off the coast of Puerto Rico.
- 1965 –The Canadian Space Agency launches the satellite Alouette 2.
- 2007 –The Armed Forces of the Philippines lay siege to The Peninsula Manila after soldiers led by Senator Antonio Trillanes stage a mutiny.
Who were born on November 29?
- 1627 –John Ray, English naturalist (d. 1705)
- 1690 –Christian Augustus of Anhalt-Zerbst, father of Catherine II of Russia (d. 1747)
- 1876 –Nellie Tayloe Ross, American politician and 14th Governor of Wyoming (d. 1977)
- 1896 –Yakima Canutt, American actor and stuntman (d. 1986)
- 1947 –Petra Kelly, German politician (d. 1992)
- 1957 –Janet Napolitano, United States Secretary of Homeland Security
- 1965 –Yutaka Ozaki, Japanese musician (d. 1992)
- 1976 –Ehren McGhehey, American actor
- 1976 –Michalis Kakiouzis, Greek basketball player
- 1978 –Ludwika Paleta, Polish/Mexican actress
Who died on November 29?
- 1253 –Otto II Wittelsbach, Duke of Bavaria (b. 1206)
- 1330 –Roger Mortimer, 1st Earl of March (b. 1287)
- 1595 –Alonso de Ercilla y Zúñiga, Basque soldier and poet (b. 1533)
- 1643 –William Cartwright, English dramatist (b. 1611)
- 1953 –Sam De Grasse, American actor (b. 1875)
- 1972 –Carl Stalling, American composer (b. 1888)
- 2004 –Anne Samson, Canadian Nun and supercentenarian (b. 1891)
- 2005 –David Di Tommaso, French footballer (b. 1979)
- 2007 –Roger Bonham Smith, American automobile executive (b. 1925)
- 2009 –Robert Holdstock, English author (b. 1948)
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