Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/November 29

This is a list of selected November 29 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.

Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article, featured list or picture of the day.

To report an error when this appears on the Main Page, see Main Page errors. Please remember that this list defers to the supporting articles, so it is best to achieve consensus and make any necessary changes there first.

← November 28	November 30 →

Staging area

Images

Use only ONE image at a time

• 
  Eureka Flag
• 
  Eureka Flag
• 
  A bust of Richard E. Byrd
• 
  Edison Phonograph
• 
  Joint session of the National Diet of Japan in 2002
• 
  Joan Gamper
• 
  Queen Maria I of Portugal

Ineligible

Blurb	Reason
1549 – After the death of Pope Paul III, a papal conclave was convened with an unprecedented number of cardinals, who eventually elected Julius III more than two months later.	date not cited
1777 – El Pueblo de San José de Guadalupe, the first civil settlement in the Spanish colony of Alta California, was founded as a farming community.	too many picutres
1807 – Peninsular War: Maria I of Portugal, the Braganza royal family and its court of nearly 15,000 people departed Lisbon for the colony of Brazil just days before French forces invaded the city.	section too long
1830 – The November Uprising, an armed rebellion against Russia's rule in Poland, broke out in Warsaw.	unreferenced section
1847 – Oregon missionaries Marcus and Narcissa Whitman, along with about a dozen others, were killed by members of the Cayuse and Umatilla tribes, sparking the Cayuse War.	Too much uncited
1877 – Thomas Edison demonstrated the phonograph, his invention for recording and replaying sound, for the first time.	unreferenced section
1929 – American explorer Richard E. Byrd and three others completed the first flight over the South Pole.	refimprove section
1935 – Russian-French chess player Alexander Alekhine became world champion, holding the title for 17 of the next 19 years until his death.	refimprove section
1944 – Alfred Blalock and Vivien Thomas at the Johns Hopkins Hospital performed the first Blalock–Taussig shunt operation to treat blue baby syndrome.	Shunt: needs more footnotes; BBS: date not in article
John Felton |d|1628|	too many {cn} tags

Eligible

• 903 – The Abbasid Caliphate captured the Qarmatian leadership at the Battle of Hama in Syria, opening the way for the reconquest of Tulunid Egypt.
• 1729 – Natchez Indians revolted against French colonists near modern-day Natchez, Mississippi, killing approximately 230 people.
• 1776 – American Revolutionary War: British reinforcements brought an end to the Patriot attempt to capture Fort Cumberland in Nova Scotia.
• 1854 – An estimated crowd of more than 10,000 demonstrators swore allegiance to the Eureka Flag (pictured) as a symbol of defiance, in advance of the Eureka Rebellion in Ballarat, Australia.
• 1864 – American Indian Wars: A 700-man Colorado Territory militia attacked a village of Cheyenne and Arapaho, killing 133 men, women, and children.
• 1890 – The National Diet of Japan (pictured in session), a bicameral legislature modelled after both the German Reichstag and the British Westminster system, first met in Tokyo.
• 1899 – FC Barcelona, one of the most successful clubs in Spanish football, was founded by Swiss football pioneer Joan Gamper.
• 1947 – The United Nations General Assembly voted to approve the Partition Plan for Palestine, a plan to resolve the Arab–Israeli conflict in Mandatory Palestine by separating the territory into Jewish and Arab states.
• 1979 – The controversial Tellico Dam project by the Tennessee Valley Authority is completed despite being ordered to shut down from the Supreme Court of the United States' decision in Tennessee Valley Authority v. Hill.
• 1982 – Michael Jackson's Thriller, the best-selling album of all time, was released.
• 1987 – A time bomb planted by North Korean agents on Korean Air Flight 858 detonated over the Andaman Sea, killing all 115 people on board.
• 2007 – During their trial for the 2003 Oakwood mutiny, Philippine soldiers led by Senator Antonio Trillanes mutinied and seized a conference room in The Peninsula Manila in Makati.
• Born/died: | Claudio Monteverdi |d|1643| Public Universal Friend |b|1752| Amos Bronson Alcott |b|1799| Mary Somerville |d|1872| Artur Phleps |b|1881| Emma Morano |b|1899| Abdullah Cevdet |d|1932| Janet Smith |b|1940| Lalit Modi |b|1963

Notes

• Camp Nou appears on September 24, so FC Barcelona should not be used in the same year
• Eureka Rebellion appears on December 3, so Eureka Flag should not be used in the same year

November 29: Black Friday in the United States (2024); Liberation Day in Albania

Screenshot of a game of Pong

• 1781 – The crew of the British slave ship Zong, running low on water, began the killing of more than 130 African slaves by throwing them into the sea to claim insurance.
• 1810 – Napoleonic Wars: British troops rendezvoused at Grand Baie to launch an invasion of Isle de France, now known as Mauritius.
• 1924 – The Bronx County Bird Club was formed and would go on to lead the Audubon Society's Christmas Bird Count in the eastern US for three years in a row.
• 1963 – Five minutes after taking off from Montréal–Dorval, Trans-Canada Air Lines Flight 831 crashed in bad weather, killing all 118 people on board.
• 1972 – Atari announced the release of Pong (screenshot pictured), one of the first video games to achieve widespread popularity in both the arcade and home-console markets.
• 2012 – In resolution 67/19, the United Nations General Assembly voted to accord the status of a non-member observer state to Palestine.

• Christian Doppler (b. 1803)
• George Brown (b. 1818)
• Adam Clayton Powell Jr. (b. 1908)
• Yōichi Masuzoe (b. 1948)

More anniversaries:

• November 28
• November 29
• November 30