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29 November, 2005
New Croatian Communist Party (KPH) founded in Vukovar.
29 November, 1990
Gulf War: The United Nations Security Council passes United Nations Security Council Resolution 678, authorizing "use all necessary means to uphold and implement" United Nations Security Council Resolution 660 "to restore international peace and security" if Iraq did not withdraw its forces from Kuwait and free all foreign hostages by January 15, 1991.
29 November, 1987
A Korean Air Boeing 707 explodes over the Thai-Burmese border, killing 155.
29 November, 1982
Soviet war in Afghanistan: The United Nations General Assembly passes United Nations Resolution 37/37, stating that Soviet Union forces should withdraw from Afghanistan.
29 November, 1975
The name "Micro-soft" (for "microcomputer software") is first used in a letter from Bill Gates to Paul Allen.
29 November, 1972
Nolan Bushnell (co-founder of Atari) released Pong (the first commercially successful video game) in Andy Capp’s Tavern in Sunnyvale, Calif.
29 November, 1967
Vietnam War: U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara announces his resignation.
29 November, 1965
Canadian Space Agency launches the satellite Alouette 2.
29 November, 1963
U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson establishes the Warren Commission to investigate the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
29 November, 1963
Trans-Canada Airlines Flight 831, A Douglas DC-8 carrying 118, crashes after taking-off from Dorval Airport near Montreal.
29 November, 1961
Project Mercury: Mercury-Atlas 5 Mission - Enos, a chimpanzee, launched into space (the spacecraft orbited the Earth twice and splashed-down off the coast of Puerto Rico).
29 November, 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.
29 November, 1950
Korean War: North Korean and Chinese troops force United Nations forces to retreat from North Korea.
29 November, 1947
The United Nations General Assembly votes to partition Palestine (The Partition Plan)
29 November, 1945
The Federal Peoples Republic of Yugoslavia declared.
29 November, 1944
The first surgery (on a human) to correct blue baby syndrome performed by Alfred Blalock and Vivien Thomas.
29 November, 1943
The second session of AVNOJ, the Anti-fascist council of national liberation of Yugoslavia, is held in Jajce, Bosnia and Herzegovina, determining the post-war ordering of the country.
29 November, 1929
U.S. Admiral Richard Byrd becomes the first person to fly over the South Pole.
29 November, 1922
Howard Carter opened the tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamun to the public.
29 November, 1915
Fire destroys most of the buildings on Santa Catalina Island in California.
29 November, 1910
The first US patent for inventing the traffic lights system was issued to Ernest Sirrine.
29 November, 1899
Spanish football club FC Barcelona founded.
29 November, 1893
Ziqiang Institute, today known as Wuhan University, was founded by Zhang Zhidong, governor of Hubei and Hunan Provinces in late Qing Dynasty of China after his memorial to the throne was approved by the Qing Government.
29 November, 1890
The Meiji Constitution goes into effect in Japan and the first Diet convenes.
29 November, 1890
In West Point, New York, the United States Naval Academy defeats the United States Military Academy 24-0 in the first Army-Navy football game.
29 November, 1877
Thomas Edison demonstrates his phonograph for the first time.
29 November, 1872
Indian Wars: The Modoc War begins with the Battle of Lost River.
29 November, 1864
Indian Wars: Sand Creek Massacre - Colorado volunteers led by Colonel John Chivington massacre at least 150 Cheyenne and Arapaho noncombatants inside Colorado Territory.
29 November, 1850
The treaty, Punctation of Olmütz, signed in Olomouc meant diplomatic capitulation of Prussia to Austrian Empire, which took over the leadership of German Confederation.
29 November, 1847
Whitman Massacre: Missionaries Dr. Marcus Whitman, his wife Narcissa, and 15 others are killed by Cayuse and Umatilla Indians, causing the Cayuse War.
29 November, 1845
The Sonderbund defeated by the joint forces of other Swiss cantons under General Guillaume-Henri Dufour.
29 November, 1830
November Uprising: An armed rebellion against Russias rule in Poland begins.
29 November, 1781
The crew of the slave ship Zong murders 133 Africans by dumping them into the sea in order to claim insurance.
29 November, 1777
San Jose, California, founded as el Pueblo de San José de Guadalupe. It is the first civilian settlement, or pueblo, in Alta California.

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