November 29 | ||
1760 | Major Roger 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. |
What is going on with the East Alton Rotary Club? We will cover it here, along with all sorts of other interesting and off-kilter stuff that will inform, enlighten and amuse you.
Friday, November 29, 2013
TODAY IN HISTORY
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