Historical Events - November 29
1759 – The assassination of King Alamgir II of Delhi.
1775 – Sir James Jay invented musty ink.
1830 – Rebellion against the rule of Russia began in Poland.
1870 – Education law came into force in Britain.
1877 – Thomas Edison demonstrated the first phonograph.
1889 – The foundation stone of ‘Glass House’ was laid in Lalbagh Garden, Bengaluru.
1944 – Albania was released from Nazi occupation.
1949 – A uranium mine explosion in East Germany killed 3700 people.
1961 – The world’s first astronaut Yuri Gagarin arrived in India.
1970 – Haryana became the first Indian state to achieve 100% rural electrification.
1999 – World’s largest meter wave radio telescope opened at Narayangaon village in Maharashtra.
2000 – Former South African President Nelson Mandela received the Gandhi Peace Prize.
2004 – ASEAN countries finalized a trade agreement with China.
2008 – Commando operation against terrorists ended after 60 hours in Mumbai.
2012 – The United Nations General Assembly gave Palestine the status of a non-member observer state.
Famous Birthdays – November 29
1786: Syed Ahmad Barelvi, an Indian Muslim revivalist.
1803: Christian Doppler, an Austrian physicist.
1849: Sir John Ambrose Fleming, a British physicist.
1869: Amritlal Vitthaldas Thakkar, popularly known as Thakkar Bappa, an Indian social worker.
1874: Antonio Moniz, Nobel laureate, and inventor of cerebral angiography.
1898: Clive Staples Lewis, a British writer, and lay theologian.
1908: N. S. Krishnan, Indian-Tamil film actor.
1919: Joey Weeder, co-founder of the International Federation of Bodybuilding and Fitness.
1920: Joseph Shivers, creator of Spandex.
1932: Jacques Chirac, the 32nd President of France.
1963: Lalit Modi, Indian industrialist.
1977: Younis Khan, a Pakistani cricketer.
1978: Shekhar Ravjiani, an Indian music director, and record producer.
Death Anniversaries – November 29
1314: Philip IV of France.
1885: Satguru Ram Singh Ji, the twelfth guru in the Namdhari Sikh lineage.
1993: J. R. D. Tata, an Indian aviator, entrepreneur, and chairman of Tata Company.
2001: George Harrison, an English musician, singer, songwriter, and music and film producer.
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