29 November
Notable Births
Yunus Musah
b. 2002
American soccer player (born 2002)
MJ Melendez
b. 1998
American baseball player (born 1998)
Lovie Simone
b. 1998
American actress
Nick Richards
b. 1997
Jamaican basketball player (born 1997)
Laura Marano
b. 1995
American actress and singer (born 1995)
Siobhan-Marie O'Connor
b. 1995
English swimmer (born 1995)
Shaun Lane
b. 1994
Australian rugby league footballer
Julius Randle
b. 1994
American basketball player (born 1994)
Stefon Diggs
b. 1993
American football player (born 1993)
Ben Nugent
b. 1992
English footballer
Becky James
b. 1991
Welsh cyclist (born 1991)
Diego Boneta
b. 1990
Mexican actor and singer (born 1993)
Sheldon Richardson
b. 1990
American football player (born 1990)
Andrej Šustr
b. 1990
Czech ice hockey player (born 1990)
Yacouba Sylla
b. 1990
Malian footballer (born 1990)
Adam Chapman
b. 1989
Northern Irish footballer (born 1989)
Abby Bishop
b. 1988
Australian basketball player (born 1988)
Dana Brooke
b. 1988
American professional wrestler (born 1988)
Damon Harrison
b. 1988
American football player (born 1988)
Russell Wilson
b. 1988
American football player (born 1988)
Notable Deaths
Marshall Brickman
d. 2024
American screenwriter and director (1939–2024)
Will Cullen Hart
d. 2024
American musician (1971–2024)
Wayne Northrop
d. 2024
American actor (1947–2024)
Henry Kissinger
d. 2023
American diplomat and political scientist (1923–2023)
Tapunuu Niko Lee Hang
d. 2022
Samoan politician (died 2022)
Kinza Clodumar
d. 2021
President of Nauru from 1997 to 1998
Arlene Dahl
d. 2021
American actress (1925–2021)
LaMarr Hoyt
d. 2021
American baseball player (1955–2021)
Papa Bouba Diop
d. 2020
Senegalese footballer (1978–2020)
Yasuhiro Nakasone
d. 2019
Prime Minister of Japan from 1982 to 1987
Slobodan Praljak
d. 2017
Bosnian Croat war criminal (1945–2017)
Luis Alberto Monge
d. 2016
President of Costa Rica from 1982 to 1986
Joe Marston
d. 2015
Australian soccer player
Utkir Tukhtamurodovich Sultonov
d. 2015
Prime Minister of Uzbekistan (1995–2003)
Dwayne Alons
d. 2014
American politician (1946–2014)
Dick Bresciani
d. 2014
American baseball executive
Mark Strand
d. 2014
Canadian-American poet, essayist, translator
Oliver Cheatham
d. 2013
American singer (1948–2013)
Colin Eglin
d. 2013
South African politician (1925–2013)
Natalya Gorbanevskaya
d. 2013
Russian poet, translator and civil rights activist
On This Day in History
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2025
The Government of Jordan officially announces the launch of the Amra City development project during a site visit by the Prime Minister.
Politics of Jordan
2013
LAM Mozambique Airlines 470 crashes in the Bwabata National Park in a pilot mass murder-suicide, killing all 33 people on board.
LAM Mozambique Airlines Flight 470
2009
Maurice Clemmons shoots and kills four police officers inside a coffee shop in Lakewood, Washington.
2009 Lakewood shooting
2007
The Armed Forces of the Philippines lay siege to the Peninsula Manila after soldiers led by Senator Antonio Trillanes stage a mutiny.
Armed Forces of the Philippines
1987
North Korean agents plant a bomb on Korean Air Flight 858, which kills all 115 passengers and crew.
Korean Air Flight 858
1986
The Surinamese military attacks the village of Moiwana during the Suriname Guerrilla War, killing at least 39 civilians, mostly women and children.
Suriname National Army
1982
Michael Jackson releases Thriller, the best-selling music album of all time.
Michael Jackson
1972
Atari releases Pong, the first commercially successful video game.
Atari, Inc.
1967
U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara announces his resignation.
United States Secretary of Defense
1963
U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson establishes the Warren Commission to investigate the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
Lyndon B. Johnson
1963
Trans-Canada Air Lines Flight 831 crashes shortly after takeoff from Montreal-Dorval International Airport, killing all 118 people on board.
Trans-Canada Air Lines Flight 831
1963
"I Want to Hold Your Hand", recorded on October 17, 1963, is released by the Beatles in the United Kingdom.
I Want to Hold Your Hand
1961
Enos, a chimpanzee, is launched into space. The spacecraft orbits the Earth twice and splashes down off the coast of Puerto Rico.
Enos (chimpanzee)
1952
U.S. President-elect Dwight D. Eisenhower fulfills a campaign promise by traveling to Korea to find out what can be done to end the conflict.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
1947
The United Nations General Assembly approve the United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine.
United Nations General Assembly
1947
French forces carry out a massacre at Mỹ Trạch, Vietnam during the First Indochina War.
Mỹ Trạch massacre
1945
The Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia is declared.
Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
1944
Albania is liberated by the Partisans.
Albania
1943
The second session of the Anti-Fascist Council for the National Liberation of Yugoslavia (AVNOJ), held to determine the post-war ordering of the country, concludes in Jajce (present-day Bosnia and Herzegovina).
Anti-Fascist Council for the National Liberation of Yugoslavia
1929
U.S. Admiral Richard E. Byrd leads the first expedition to fly over the South Pole.
Richard E. Byrd