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.