Today in History
| November 29 | ||
| 1760 | Major Robert 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 President John F. Kennedy. | |
| 1967 | US Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara announces his resignation. | |
| 1972 | Atari announces the release of Pong, the first commercially successful video game. | |
| 2007 | Armed forces of the Philippines besiege The Peninsula Manila in response to a mutiny led by Senator Antonio Trillanes. | |
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). | |
| 1919 | Joe Weider, Canadian-American bodybuilder and magazine publisher; co-founded the International Federation of BodyBuilding & Fitness and Muscle & Fitness magazine. | |
| 1921 | Dagmar (Virginia Ruth Egnor) actress, model, television personality (Dagmar’s Canteen, Broadway Open House). | |
| 1932 | Jacques Chirac, politician; President of France (1995–2007). | |
| 1933 | John Mayall, singer, songwriter, musician; founder of John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers band. | |
| 1940 | Chuck Mangione, jazz musician, composer ("Feels So Good"). | |
| 1942 | Ann Dunham, mother of Barack Obama, 44th President of the US; she was an anthropologist specializing in economic anthropology and rural development. | |
| 1955 | Howard "Howie" Mandel, Canadian comedian, actor (St. Elsewhere), TV host (Deal or No Deal game show), voice actor (Bobby’s World); judge onAmerica’s Got Talent TV show. | |
| 1957 | Janet Napolitano, politician, lawyer; first woman to serve as US Secretary of Homeland Security (2009-2013). | |
| 1973 | Sarah Jones, Tony and Obie award-winning playwright, actress, poet (Bridge & Tunnel). | |
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