SomeFacts | November 29

On this day - November 29

528 — Antioch suffers its second major earthquake in two years, ...

561 — Following the death of King Chlothar I at Compiègne, his four ...

618 — The Tang dynasty scores a decisive victory over their rival Xue ...

903 — The Abbasid army under Muhammad ibn Sulayman al-Katib defeats ...

1114 — A large earthquake damages the areas of the Crusaders in the ...

1549 — The papal conclave of 1549–50 begins.

1612 — The Battle of Swally takes place, which loosens the Portuguese ...

1729 — Natchez Indians massacre 138 Frenchmen, 35 French women, and ...

1732 — The magnitude 6.6 Irpinia earthquake causes 1,940 deaths in ...

1776 — During the American Revolutionary War, the Battle of Fort ...

1777 — San Jose, California, is founded as Pueblo de San José de ...

1781 — The crew of the British slave ship Zong murders 54 Africans by ...

1783 — A 5.3 magnitude earthquake strikes New Jersey.

1807 — John VI of Portugal flees Lisbon from advancing Napoleonic ...

1830 — An armed rebellion against Russia's rule in Poland begins.

1847 — Missionaries Dr. Marcus Whitman, his wife Narcissa, and 15 ...

1847 — The Sonderbund is defeated by the joint forces of other Swiss ...

1850 — The treaty, Punctation of Olmütz, is signed in Olomouc. ...

1863 — American Civil War: Union forces under General Ambrose ...

1864 — American Civil War: The Confederate Army of Tennessee misses ...

1864 — Colorado War: Colorado volunteers led by Colonel John ...

1872 — The Modoc War begins with the Battle of Lost River.

1877 — Thomas Edison demonstrates his phonograph for the first time.

1890 — The Meiji Constitution goes into effect in Japan, and the ...

1899 — FC Barcelona is founded by Catalan, Spanish and Englishmen. It ...

1920 — The Armenian Revolutionary Committee declares Armenia to be a ...

1929 — U.S. Admiral Richard E. Byrd leads the first expedition to fly ...

1943 — The second session of the Anti-Fascist Council for the ...

1944 — Albania is liberated by the Partisans.

1945 — The Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia is declared.

1947 — French forces carry out a massacre at Mỹ Trạch, Vietnam during ...

1947 — The United Nations General Assembly approve the United Nations ...

1952 — U.S. President-elect Dwight D. Eisenhower fulfills a campaign ...

1961 — Enos, a chimpanzee, is launched into space. The spacecraft ...

1963 — "I Want to Hold Your Hand", recorded on October 17, ...

1963 — Trans-Canada Air Lines Flight 831 crashes shortly after ...

1963 — U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson establishes the Warren ...

1967 — U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara announces his ...

1972 — Atari releases Pong, the first commercially successful video ...

1982 — Michael Jackson releases Thriller, the best-selling music ...

1986 — The Surinamese military attacks the village of Moiwana during ...

1987 — North Korean agents plant a bomb on Korean Air Flight 858, ...

2007 — The Armed Forces of the Philippines lay siege to the Peninsula ...

2009 — Maurice Clemmons shoots and kills four police officers inside ...

2013 — LAM Mozambique Airlines 470 crashes in the Bwabata National ...

2025 — The Government of Jordan officially announces the launch of ...