November 29

Sunday 29, 1992:

Dennis Byrd of the New York Jets is paralyzed by a neck injury during a football game against the Kansas City Chiefs.

Thursday 29, 1990:

Gulf War: The United Nations Security Council passes UN Security Council Resolution 678, authorizing military intervention in Iraq if that nation did not withdraw its forces from Kuwait and free all foreign hostages by January 15, 1991.

Sunday 29, 1987:

A Korean Air Boeing 707 explodes over the Thai-Burmese border, killing 155.

Monday 29, 1982:

Soviet invasion of Afghanistan: The United Nations General Assembly passes United Nations Resolution 37/37, stating that the Soviet Union forces should withdraw from Afghanistan.

Sunday 29, 1981:

Off Santa Catalina Island, 43-year-old actress Natalie Wood drowns during a boating accident.

Saturday 29, 1975:

The name "Micro-soft" (for "microcomputer software") is used by Bill Gates in a letter to Paul Allen for the first time.

Wednesday 29, 1967:

Vietnam War: US Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara announces his resignation.

Monday 29, 1965:

Canadian Satellite Alouette 2 is launched.

Friday 29, 1963:

Trans-Canada Airlines Flight 831, A Douglas DC-8 carrying 118, crashes after taking-off from Dorval Airport near Montreal.

Wednesday 29, 1961:

Mercury-Atlas 5 is launched with Enos the chimp aboard (the spacecraft orbited the Earth twice and splashed-down off the coast of Puerto Rico).

Saturday 29, 1952:

Korean War: US president-elect Dwight D. Eisenhower fulfills a campaign promise by traveling to Korea to find out what can be done to end the conflict.

Wednesday 29, 1950:

Korean War: North Korean and Chinese troops force a desperate retreat of United Nations forces from North Korea.

Monday 29, 1948:

The children's television program Kukla, Fran and Ollie debuts.

Saturday 29, 1947:

The United Nations General Assembly votes to partition Palestine between Arabs and Jews.

Thursday 29, 1945:

The Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia is declared , celebrated as Republic Day until 2003).

Wednesday 29, 1944:

The first surgery (on a human) to correct blue baby syndrome is performed by Alfred Blalock and Vivien Thomas.

Monday 29, 1943:

The second session of AVNOJ, the Anti-fascist council of national liberation of Yugoslavia, is held in Jajce, Bosnia and Herzegovina, determining the post-war ordering of the country.

Friday 29, 1929:

US Admiral Richard Byrd becomes the first person to fly over the South Pole.

Monday 29, 1915:

Fire destroys most of the buildings on Santa Catalina Island in California.

Wednesday 29, 1893:

Ziqiang Institute, today known as Wuhan University, was founded by Zhang Zhidong, governor of Hubei and Hunan Provinces in late Qing Dynasty of China after his memorial to the throne was approved by the Qing Government.

Saturday 29, 1890:

In West Point, New York, the United States Naval Academy defeats the United States Military Academy 24 to 0 in the first Army-Navy football game.

Thursday 29, 1877:

Thomas Edison demonstrates his phonograph for the first time.

Friday 29, 1872:

Indian Wars: Modoc War begins with the Battle of Lost River.

Tuesday 29, 1864:

Colorado volunteers led by Colonel John Chivington massacre at least 400 Cheyenne and Arapahoe noncombatants at Sand Creek, Colorado.

Monday 29, 1847:

Whitman Massacre Dr. Marcus Whitman, his wife Narcissa, and 15 others killed, beginning the Indian Wars.

Monday 29, 1830:

November Uprising breaks out in Poland.

Thursday 29, 1781:

The slave ship Zong dumps its living cargo into the sea in order to claim insurance.

Saturday 29, 1777:

San Jose, California, is founded as el Pueblo de San José de Guadalupe. It is the first civilian settlement, or pueblo, in Alta California.

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