1330 Edward III of England was crowned King of England at the age of 14. During Edward's minority, a council of regency nominally ruled England, but the actual power was in the hands of his mother Queen Isabella and her lover Roger Mortimer. There was tension between the young king and Mortimer and during a council meeting in Nottingham, Edward's men forced their way into Mortimer's apartments, captured him and had him drawn on an oxhide to the gallows at Tyburn gallows, where he was hanged on November 29, 1330.
1643 Italian composer Claudio Monteverdi died, aged 76, in Venice on November 29, 1643. He was held in the highest esteem by his Venetian employers and was buried in the church of the Frari. . Largely forgotten during the eighteenth and much of the nineteenth centuries, Monteverdi's music enjoyed a rediscovery from the 1880s onward, and he is now seen as a significant influence in European musical history.
1694 Italian physician and biologist Marcello Malpighi died of apoplexy (an old-fashioned term for a stroke or stroke-like symptoms) in Rome on November 29, 1694, at the age of 66. In accordance with his wishes, an autopsy was performed. The Royal Society published his studies in 1696. He was the first to see capillaries in animals, and he discovered the link between arteries and veins.
1777 San Jose, California, was founded as Pueblo de San José de Guadalupe by José Joaquín Moraga on November 29, 1777. It was the first civilian settlement, or pueblo, in Alta California. (Alta California had an area comprising the modern state of California and other states to the east.)
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1643 Italian composer Claudio Monteverdi died, aged 76, in Venice on November 29, 1643. He was held in the highest esteem by his Venetian employers and was buried in the church of the Frari. . Largely forgotten during the eighteenth and much of the nineteenth centuries, Monteverdi's music enjoyed a rediscovery from the 1880s onward, and he is now seen as a significant influence in European musical history.
1694 Italian physician and biologist Marcello Malpighi died of apoplexy (an old-fashioned term for a stroke or stroke-like symptoms) in Rome on November 29, 1694, at the age of 66. In accordance with his wishes, an autopsy was performed. The Royal Society published his studies in 1696. He was the first to see capillaries in animals, and he discovered the link between arteries and veins.
1777 San Jose, California, was founded as Pueblo de San José de Guadalupe by José Joaquín Moraga on November 29, 1777. It was the first civilian settlement, or pueblo, in Alta California. (Alta California had an area comprising the modern state of California and other states to the east.)
1830 The November Uprising was an armed rebellion in the heartland of partitioned Poland against the Russian Empire. It began on November 29, 1830. The uprising was a response to the policies of Tsar Nicholas I of Russia, who curtailed traditional Polish liberties and sought to assimilate the Polish people into the Russian Empire. The Russian Empire, aided by its allies, managed to suppress the uprising by October 1831.
1832 American novelist Louisa Alcott was born on November 29, 1832 in Germantown, which is now part of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Louisa grew up in the company of her father's friends, the essayist Ralph Waldo Emerson and the naturalist Henry David Thoreau. Emerson said prophetically of young Louisa Alcott's early attempts to write. "She is a natural source of stories... she is and is to be the poet of children."
1878 Louis Antoine Godey, the publisher of Godey's Lady's Book, died on November 29, 1878. The largest circulation magazine of its time, Godey's Lady's Book's illustrations not only influenced nineteenth century women's fashions, but would become documents for social historians and prized items for collectors. A publisher also of children's and music journals, Godey was among the first to copyright magazine contents.
1898 British academic and writer Clive Staples Lewis (better known as CS Lewis) was born in Belfast, Ireland, on November 29, 1898. When Lewis was seven, his family moved into "Little Lea." A 3-storey house with an acre and half of garden on the outskirts of Belfast A hand carved wardrobe in one of the upstairs rooms at Little Lea became the inspiration for The Lion the Witch and The Wardrobe.
1899 Emma Morano was an Italian supercentenarian who was born on November 29, 1899. Prior to her death on April 15, 2017, she was the last living person to have been verified as being born in the 1800s. When asked about the secret of her longevity, Morano said that she had never used drugs, ate three eggs a day, drank a glass of homemade brandy, and enjoyed a chocolate sometimes, but, above all, she thought positively about the future.
1899 FC Barcelona is a professional football club, based in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. Founded on November 29, 1899 by a group of Swiss, English and Catalan footballers led by Joan Gamper, the club has become a symbol of Catalan culture and Catalanism, hence the motto "Més que un club" (More than a club). Unlike many other football clubs, the supporters own and operate Barcelona.
1878 Louis Antoine Godey, the publisher of Godey's Lady's Book, died on November 29, 1878. The largest circulation magazine of its time, Godey's Lady's Book's illustrations not only influenced nineteenth century women's fashions, but would become documents for social historians and prized items for collectors. A publisher also of children's and music journals, Godey was among the first to copyright magazine contents.
1898 British academic and writer Clive Staples Lewis (better known as CS Lewis) was born in Belfast, Ireland, on November 29, 1898. When Lewis was seven, his family moved into "Little Lea." A 3-storey house with an acre and half of garden on the outskirts of Belfast A hand carved wardrobe in one of the upstairs rooms at Little Lea became the inspiration for The Lion the Witch and The Wardrobe.
1899 Emma Morano was an Italian supercentenarian who was born on November 29, 1899. Prior to her death on April 15, 2017, she was the last living person to have been verified as being born in the 1800s. When asked about the secret of her longevity, Morano said that she had never used drugs, ate three eggs a day, drank a glass of homemade brandy, and enjoyed a chocolate sometimes, but, above all, she thought positively about the future.
1899 FC Barcelona is a professional football club, based in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. Founded on November 29, 1899 by a group of Swiss, English and Catalan footballers led by Joan Gamper, the club has become a symbol of Catalan culture and Catalanism, hence the motto "Més que un club" (More than a club). Unlike many other football clubs, the supporters own and operate Barcelona.
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1915 Canada-born cosmetics entrepreneur Elizabeth Arden married Thomas Lewis on November 29, 1915, at age 33, and automatically became an American citizen. Lewis was an advertising man who managed Arden's wholesale operation and together they expanded the business greatly, but constant work led to their divorce.
1924 Italian composer Giacomo Puccini died following treatment for throat cancer on November 29, 1924, in Brussels, Belgium. When news of Puccini’s death reached Rome, a performance of La bohème was stopped and Chopin’s funeral march was played. The whole of Italy went into mourning at Puccini's death and Mussolini spoke at his funeral.
1927 Ted Geisel, aka Dr. Seuss, first met Helen Palmer, an American children's author, editor, and philanthropist in a class at Oxford. They got married in America on November 29, 1927. Geisel cheated on his wife with Audrey Stone Dimond while she was sick with cancer. Helen found out about the affair and committed suicide on October 23, 1967.
1929 US Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd, with the assistance of his first pilot Bernt Balchen and two other crew members, became the first person to fly over the South Pole on November 29, 1929. They completed the historic flight aboard a Ford Trimotor aircraft named the "Floyd Bennett." Myrd and his crew took off from the Little America base in the Antarctic and made the successful flight over the South Pole, returning safely to their base.
1946 Pinwright's Progress, the world's first regular half-hour televised sitcom, was debuted on the BBC Television Service on November 29, 1946. The show was was about the adventures of J. Pinwright, the proprietor of the smallest multiple store in the world. The ten episodes aired fortnightly in alternation with the light entertainment show Kaleidoscope. They were broadcast live from the BBC studios at Alexandra Palace.
1948 Roller derby is a contact sport played by two teams of five members. It has its origins in the banked-track roller skating marathons of the 1930s, and by 1940 had become a popular American sport. On November 29, 1948, Roller Derby debuted on New York television—broadcasting well before television viewership was widespread.
1972 University of Utah engineering student Nolan Bushnell constructed Pong, the first commercially successful video game, which could be linked to a television set. Based on table tennis, Pong was commercially released by Atari, on November 29, 1972. Bushnell said it was a game "so simple that any drunk in any bar could play."
1986 Hollywood great Cary Grant suffered a major stroke in his hotel room prior to performing in his one man show An Evening With Cary Grant at the Adler Theater in Davenport, Iowa, on November 29, 1986. He died later that night at St. Luke's Hospital at at 11.22 pm aged 82.
1991 In 1971 the Bank of England started issuing £5 banknotes featuring the Duke of Wellington.. On the back of the £5 English pound note is a battle scene with a cannon and cavalry. They were withdrawn from circulation on November 29, 1991.
2011 Conrad Murray was the personal physician of Michael Jackson at the time of the singer's passing in 2009. He was sentenced to four years imprisonment for involuntary manslaughter having improperly administered the anesthetic drug that led to the singer's death. Murray was released from prison in 2013 two years ahead of schedule, due to California prison overcrowding, plus good behavior.
2012 On November 29, 2012, the United Nations General Assembly voted to upgrade the status of the Palestinian territories to that of a "non-member observer state." The resolution passed with an overwhelming majority, with 138 votes in favor, 9 against, and 41 abstentions. This move was significant as it implicitly recognized the State of Palestine as a sovereign state, even though it fell short of full membership in the United Nations.
2014 The largest firework display ever in Europe consisted of a stunning 540,382 fireworks in the Norwegian town of Søgne on November 29, 2014. The event was organized by local business Svea Fyrverkerier in cooperation with the local hardware store Sør-Tre. The display lasted for one and a half hours.
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