On this day in history: 29th November: 526 - Antioch in modern day Syria struck by Earthquake, about 250,000 die 799 - Pope Leo III, aided by Charles the Great, returns to Rome 1349 - Jews of Augsburg Germany massacred 1516 - Treaty of Freiburg] French/Swiss eternal peace treaty 1561 - Lofland subjects himself on Sigismund August II of Poland 1573 - Don Luis de Requesensy Zuniga succeeds duke of Alva as land guardian of Netherlands 1581 - Doornik (Tournai) surrenders to Duke of Parma 1596 - King Philip II devalues Spanish currency 1745 - Bonnie Prince Charlies army moves into Manchester & occupies Carlisle 1760 - French commandant Beletre surrenders Detroit to Maj R Rogers 1775 - Sir James Jay invents invisible ink 1781 - Crew of the slave ship Zong murder approx. 142 African slaves by dumping them into the sea in order to claim insurance. 1791 - Chatham Islands sighted by HMS Chatham commanded by William Broughton 1803 - Dessalines & Christophe declare St Domingue (Haiti) independent 1812 - Napoleons Grand Army crosses Berezina River in retreat from Russia 1830 - November Uprising: An armed rebellion against Russias rule in Poland begins. 1845 - The Sonderbund is defeated by the joint forces of other Swiss cantons under General Guillaume-Henri Dufour. 1850 - The treaty, Punctation of Olmütz, signed in Olomouc means diplomatic capitulation of Prussia to Austrian Empire, which took over the leadership of German Confederation. 1870 - Compulsory education proclaimed in England 1877 - US inventor Thomas Edison demonstrates his hand-cranked phonograph for the first time 1893 - Ziqiang Institute, today known as Wuhan University, is founded by Zhang Zhidong, governor of Hubei and Hunan Provinces in late Qing Dynasty of China after his memorial to the throne is approved by the Qing Government. 1897 - 1st motorcycle race (Surrey England) 1900 - General Horatio Kitchener assumes command of the British forces in South Africa from General Lord Roberts 1918 - Serbia annexes Montenegro 1921 - Coldest day in Nov in Netherlands -14.0°C 1929 - Lt Cmdr Richard E Byrd sends My calculations indicate that we have reached vicinity of South Pole (He was wrong) 1932 - France signs non-agression pact with Soviet Union 1932 - USSR & France sign no attack treaty 1933 - Japan begins persecution of communists 1935 - Physicist Erwin Schrödinger publishes his famous thought experiment Schrödingers cat, a paradox that illustrates the problem of the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics 1937 - Prince Bernhard injured in auto accident in Netherlands 1938 - Mayor Oud of Rotterdam forbids soccer match between Neth-Germany 1939 - USSR drops diplomatic relations with Finland 1943 - Partisan Tito forms temporary government in Jajce Bosnia 1943 - U-86 sinks in Atlantic Ocean 1944 - Albania liberated from Nazi control (Natl Day) 1944 - John Hopkins hospital performs 1st open heart surgery 1944 - The first surgery (on a human) to correct blue baby syndrome is performed by Alfred Blalock and Vivien Thomas. 1945 - Yugoslavian Socialist Republic proclaimed 1947 - UN Gen Assembly partitions Palestine between Arabs & Jews 1949 - Nationalist regime of China leaves for Taiwan/Formosa 1949 - Uranium mine explosions in East Germany kills 3,700
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