On this day...

1812 Napoleon's Grand Army crosses Berezina River in retreat from Russia
1825 First Italian opera, Barber of Seville, produced in US (NYC)
1847 Indians kill Marcus & Narcissa Whitman, 11 settlers in Walla Walla, Oregon
1864 Colorado militia kills 150 peaceful Cheyenne Indians
1877 Thomas Edison demonstrates the hand-cranked phonograph
1887 US receives rights to Pearl Harbor, on Oahu, Hawaii
1890 First Army-Navy football game, Score: Navy 24, Army 0 at West Point
1901 East 182nd Street in the Bronx is paved & opened
1916 US declares martial law in Dominican Republic
1933 First state liquor stores authorized (Pennsylvania)
1934 Chicago Bears beat Detroit in First NFL game broadcast nationally
1944 Albania liberated from Nazi control (Natl Day)
1944 John Hopkins hospital performs First open heart surgery
1945 Monarchy abolished as Yugoslavia proclaims it's republic
1947 UN Gen Assembly partitions Palestine between Arabs & Jews
1950 National Council of the Church of Christ in US established
1951 First underground atomic explosion, Frenchman Flat, Nevada
1952 Pres-elect Eisenhower visits Korea to assess the war
1961 Freedom Riders attacked by white mob at bus station in Miss
1961 Mercury-Atlas 5 carries a chimp (Enos) to orbit
1962 Baseball decides to revert back to one all star game per year
1963 Beatles release "I Want to Hold Your Hand"
1963 LBJ sets up Warren Comm to investigate assassination of JFK
1964 Roman Catholic Church in US replaces Latin with English
1965 Dale Cummings does 14,118 consecutive sit-ups
1967 British troops withdraw from Aden
1967 US Sec. of Defense McNamara becomes president of the World Bank
1971 First pro golf championship at Walt Disney World
1975 Kilauea Volcano erupts in Hawaii
1976 Free agent Reggie Jackson signs 5 year pact with Yankees
1987 Korean Air Boeing 707 disappears off Burma, on route to Seoul. All 115 lost
1990 UN Security Council sets Jan 15th military deadline against Iraq
1994 Russian aircraft bomb Chechen capital of Grozney

Birthdays which occurred on November 29th:

1803 Christian Doppler, discovered Doppler Effect (color shift)
1811 Wendell Phillips, women's suffrage/antislavery/prison reformer
1818 George Brown, Canada, publisher (Toronto Globe), PM (L) (1858)
1832 Louisa May Alcott, Germantown PA, author (Little Women)
1849 Sir Ambrose Fleming, inventor (diode)
1874 Ant¢nio Egas Moniz, Portugal, lobotomist (Nobel 1949)
1895 William V.S. Tubman, (Whig), 17th Liberian president (1943-70)
1896 Philip L Carret, Lynn Mass, CEO (Pioneer Fund)
1898 CS Lewis, English writer/scholar (Le Roman de la Rosa)
1902 Carlo Levi, Italy, painter/novelist (Of Fear & Freedom)
1906 Luis Van Rooten, Mexico City Mexico, actor (One Man's Family)
1907 Merle Travis, country singer (16 Tons)
1918 Herb Shriner, Toledo Ohio, host/humorist (Herb Shriner Show)
1923 Frank Reynolds, news anchor (ABC Evening News)
1926 Dagmar, Huntington WV, actress (Broadway's Open House)
1927 Rubert Crosse, NYC, actor (Det Robinson-The Partners)
1927 Vin Scully, sportscaster (NBC Baseball Game of the Week)
1928 Paul Simon, (Sen-D-Ill), pres candidate
1929 Don January, pro golfer (1976 Vardon Trophy)
1932 Diane Ladd, Meridian Miss, actress (Wild Angels, Wild at Heart)
1933 Dr. David Reuben, writer (Everything You Wanted to Know about Sex)
1933 John Mayall, blues singer (Crusade, Looking Back)
1939 Gennadiy Volnov, USSR, basketball player (Olympic-gold-1972)
1940 Chuck Mangione, jazz composer/horn blower (Chasing the Clouds Away)
1944 Felix Cavaliere, Pelham NY, rocker (Rascals-Lonely too Long)
1946 Suzy Chaffee, US, skier/chapstick user (Olympics-1968)
1949 Garry Shandling, comedian (It's Garry Shandling Show)
1955 Howie Mandel, Toronto Canada, comedian (Dr. Wayne Fiscus-St Elsewhere)
1959 Charles Grant, Winston Salem NC, actor (Another World)
1960 Cathy Moriarty, actress (Neighbors, Raging Bull)
1961 Kim Delaney, Philadelphia, actress (All My Children, NYPD Blue)
1963 Andrew McCarthy, actor (St Elmo's Fire)
1964 Kris Kamm, Evanston Illinois, actor (Stuart Rosebrock-Coach)
1965 Neill Barry, NYC, actor (Old Enough, Heat)

Deaths which occurred on November 29th:

1530 Cardinal Thomas Wolsey, adviser to England's King Henry VIII
1780 Maria Theresa, leader of Austria, dies at 63
1924 Giacomo Puccini, Italian composer, dies in Brussels
1962 Rav Aaron Kotler, Orthodox Talmudic scholar, dies in Lakewood NJ
1977 George Hamilton Combs, TV host (Through the Curtain), dies at 78
1980 Dorothy Day, author (Stump the Authors), dies at 83
1981 Natalie Wood, actress, drowns off Santa Catalina California, at 43
1986 Cary Grant, dies in Davenport, Iowa, at 82
1987 Howard Pyle, (Gov-R-Az, 1951-55), dies at 81
1991 Ralph Bellamy, actor