29 November

The **29t o November** is the 333t day o the year (334t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 32 days bidin.

## Events

* 1830 - November Uprisin: An airmed rebellion begins in Poland, agin Roushie's rule.
* 1877 - Thomas Edison demonstrates the phonograph.
* 1899 - FC Barcelona is foondit bi Joan Gamper.
* 1922 - The tomb o Tutankhamun opens tae the public.
* 1944 - Warld War II: Albanie is liberatit bi Albanie partisans.
* 1947 - The Unitit Naitions General Assembly votes tae split Palestine.
* 1961 - A chimpanzee is sent intae space on a Mercury-Atlas 5 rocket.
* 1967 - The Sempor Dam breaks in Java, Indonesie, killin 160 tae 200 fowk.
* 2008 - The Mumbai terror attacks are brocht tae an end.
* 2009 - Rwanda jyns the Commonweel o Nations.
* 2012 - The Unitit Naitions General Assembly votes tae gie Palestine non-member observer status.
* 2013 - A polis helicopter crashes intae the Clutha Vaults pub in Glesga, killin 10 fowk.
* 2015 - Great Breetain wins the Davis Cup tennis competeetion for the first time in 79 year, efter Scot Andy Murray defeats David Goffin o Belgium in his singles match.
* 2017 - Slobodan Praljak drinks pushion in coort in The Hague, efter his war crimes conviction is upheld, dyin a short time later.
* 2019 - A stobbin attack on Lunnon Brig results in 2 fowk bein kilt; a separate stobbin incident in The Hague a few hours later injures 3 fowk.
* 2020 - French Formula Ane driver Romain Grosjean survives a major crash at the Bahrain Grand Prix.

## Births

* 1797 - Gaetano Donizetti, Italian componer (d. 1848)
* 1803 - Christian Doppler, Austrick mathemateecian an pheesicist (d. 1853)
* 1825 - Jean-Martin Charcot, French neurologist (d. 1893)
* 1832 - Louisa May Alcott, American writer (d. 1888)
* 1835 - Empress Dowager Cixi o Cheenae (d. 1908)
* 1856 - Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg, Chancellor o Germany (d. 1921)
* 1898 - C. S. Lewis, Erse writer (d. 1963)
* 1899 - Emma Morano, Italian supercentenarian (d. 2017)
* 1912 - Jock Shaw, Scots fitbawer (d. 2000)
* 1925 - Ernst Happel, Austrick fitbawer an manager (d. 1992)
* 1926 - Beji Caid Essebsi, Preses o Tunisie (d. 2019)
* 1932 - Jacques Chirac, Preses o Fraunce (d. 2019)
* 1939 - Hugh Robertson, Scots fitbawer (d. 2010)
* 1947 - Petra Kelly, German politeecian (d. 1992)
* 1948 - David Rintoul, Scots actor
* 1949 - Garry Shandling, American actor an comedian (d. 2016)
* 1956 - Ross Drummond, Scots gowfer
* 1957 - Janet Napolitano, American politeecian
* 1958 - John Dramani Mahama, umwhile Preses o Ghana
* 1959 - Rahm Emanuel, American politeecian, 55t Mayor o Chicago
* 1963 - Kenny Black, Scots fitbawer
* 1964 - Don Cheadle, American actor
* 1970 - Nathan Hines, Australie-born Scots rugby union player
* 1973 - Ryan Giggs, Welsh fitbawer
* 1976 - Chadwick Boseman, American actor (d. 2020)
* 1976 - Anna Faris, American actress

## Daiths
* 1530 - Thomas Wolsey, Inglis cardinal (b. 1470)
* 1643 - Claudio Monteverdi, Italian componer (b. 1567)
* 1695 - James Dalrymple, 1st Viscoont o Stair, Scots lawer an statesman (b. 1619)
* 1780 - Maria Theresa, Empress o Austrick (b. 1717)
* 1792 - David Dalrymple, Laird Hailes, Scots advocate, juidge an historian (b. 1726)
* 1897 - James Legge, Scots sinologist, meesionar an scholar (b. 1815)
* 1924 - Giacomo Puccini, Italian componer (b. 1858)
* 1939 - Philipp Scheidemann, Chancellor o Germany (b. 1865)
* 1975 - Graham Hill, Inglis racin driver (b. 1929)
* 1981 - Natalie Wood, American actress (b. 1938)
* 1986 - Cary Grant, Inglis-American actor (b. 1904)
* 2001 - George Harrison, Inglis muisicker (b. 1943)
* 2017 - Slobodan Praljak, Croatie-Bosnie ingineer, general an politeecian (b. 1945)
* 2019 - Yasuhiro Nakasone, Prime meenister o Japan (b. 1918)
* 2020 - Papa Bouba Diop, Senegalese fitbawer (b. 1978)

## Halidays
* Saunt Andra's E'en
* Internaitional Day o Solidarity wi Palestinian fowk

## Ootside airtins
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