Year 1729
Natchez Indians massacre 138 Frenchmen, 35 French women, and 56 children at Fort Rosalie, near the site of modern-day Natchez, Mississippi.
NOVEMBER 29
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29 November: What Happened On This Day in History
Curated historical timeline of momentous political pacts, freedom struggle uprisings, constitutional developments, scientific breakthroughs, and prominent birthdays recorded on 29 November.
Year 1759
The assassination of King Alamgir II of Delhi.
Year 1775
Sir James Jay invented musty ink.
Year 1830
Rebellion against the rule of Russia began in Poland.
Year 1864
American Indian Wars: Sand Creek massacre: Colorado volunteers led by Colonel John Chivington massacre at least 150 Cheyenne and Arapaho noncombatants inside Colorado Territory.
Year 1870
Education law came into force in Britain.
Year 1872
American Indian Wars: The Modoc War begins with the Battle of Lost River.
Year 1877
Thomas Edison demonstrated the first phonograph.
Year 1889
The foundation stone of ‘Glass House’ was laid in Lalbagh Garden, Bengaluru.
Year 1944
Albania was released from Nazi occupation.
Year 1847
Whitman massacre: Missionaries Dr. Marcus Whitman, his wife Narcissa, and 15 others are killed by Cayuse and Umatilla Indians, causing the Cayuse War.
Year 1949
A uranium mine explosion in East Germany killed 3700 people.
Year 1961
The world’s first astronaut Yuri Gagarin arrived in India.
Year 1970
Haryana became the first Indian state to achieve 100% rural electrification.
Year 1999
World’s largest meter wave radio telescope opened at Narayangaon village in Maharashtra.
Year 2000
Former South African President Nelson Mandela received the Gandhi Peace Prize.
Year 2004
ASEAN countries finalized a trade agreement with China.
Year 2008
Commando operation against terrorists ended after 60 hours in Mumbai.
Year 2012
The United Nations General Assembly gave Palestine the status of a non-member observer state.
Born 1786
Syed Ahmad Barelvi, an Indian Muslim revivalist.
Born 1803
Christian Doppler, an Austrian physicist.
Born 1849
Sir John Ambrose Fleming, a British physicist.
Born 1869
Amritlal Vitthaldas Thakkar, popularly known as Thakkar Bappa, an Indian social worker.
Born 1874
Antonio Moniz, Nobel laureate, and inventor of cerebral angiography.
Born 1898
Clive Staples Lewis, a British writer, and lay theologian.
Born 1908
N. S. Krishnan, Indian-Tamil film actor.
Born 1919
Joey Weeder, co-founder of the International Federation of Bodybuilding and Fitness.
Born 1920
Joseph Shivers, creator of Spandex.
Born 1932
Jacques Chirac, the 32nd President of France.
Born 1963
Lalit Modi, Indian industrialist.
Born 1977
Younis Khan, a Pakistani cricketer.
Born 1978
Shekhar Ravjiani, an Indian music director, and record producer.
Died 1314
Philip IV of France.
Died 1885
Satguru Ram Singh Ji, the twelfth guru in the Namdhari Sikh lineage.
Died 1993
J. R. D. Tata, an Indian aviator, entrepreneur, and chairman of Tata Company.
Died 2001
George Harrison, an English musician, singer, songwriter, and music and film producer.
Died 1993
J. R. D. Tata, French-Indian pilot and businessman, founded Tata Motors and Tata Global Beverages (b. 1904)