November
29
International
Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People
In 1977, the General Assembly called for the annual observance
of 29 November as the International Day of Solidarity with the
Palestinian People (resolution 32/40 B). On that day, in 1947,
the Assembly adopted the resolution on the partition of Palestine
(resolution 181 (II))
In resolution
60/37 of 1 December 2005, the Assembly requested the Committee
on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian
People and the Division for Palestinian Rights, as part of the
observance of the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian
People on 29 November, to continue to organize an annual exhibit
on Palestinian rights or a cultural event in cooperation with
the Permanent Observer Mission of Palestine to the UN.
The observance
of the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian
People also encouraged Member States to continue to give the
widest support and publicity to the observance of the Day of
Solidarity.
Events
November 29
800 – Charlemagne
arrives at Rome to investigate the alleged crimes of Pope Leo
III.
1394 – The Korean king Yi Seong-gye, founder of the Joseon Dynasty,
moves the capital from Kaesŏng to Hanyang, today known as Seoul.
1776 – American Revolutionary War: The Battle of Fort Cumberland,
Nova Scotia comes to an end with the arrival of British reinforcements.
1777 – San Jose, California, is founded as Pueblo de San José
de Guadalupe. It is the first civilian settlement, or pueblo,
in Alta California.
1781 – The crew of the British slave ship Zong murders 133 Africans
by dumping them into the sea to claim insurance.
1830 – November Uprising: An armed rebellion against Russia's
rule in Poland begins.
1847 – The Sonderbund is defeated by the joint forces of other
Swiss cantons under General Guillaume-Henri Dufour.
1847 – Whitman Massacre: Missionaries Dr. Marcus Whitman, his
wife Narcissa, and 15 others are killed by Cayuse and Umatilla
Indians, causing the Cayuse War.
1850 – The treaty, Punctation of Olmütz, is signed in Olomouc.
Prussia capitulates to Austrian Empire, which took over the
leadership of German Confederation.
1864 – Indian Wars: Sand Creek Massacre – Colorado volunteers
led by Colonel John Chivington massacre at least 150 Cheyenne
and Arapaho noncombatants inside Colorado Territory.
1864 – American Civil War: Battle of Spring Hill – A Confederate
advance into Tennessee misses an opportunity to crush the Union
Army. General John Bell Hood is angered, which leads to the
Battle of Franklin.
1872 – Indian Wars: The Modoc War begins with the Battle of
Lost River.
1877 – Thomas Edison demonstrates his phonograph for the first
time.
1885 – End of Third Anglo-Burmese War, and end of Burmese monarchy
1890 – The Meiji Constitution goes into effect in Japan and
the first Diet convenes.
1893 – The Ziqiang Institute, today known as Wuhan University,
is founded by Zhang Zhidong, governor of Hubei and Hunan Provinces
in late Qing Dynasty of China after his memorial to the throne
is approved by the Qing Government.
1929 – U.S. Admiral Richard Byrd becomes the first person to
fly over the South Pole.
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.
1944 – The first surgery (on a human) to correct blue baby syndrome
is performed by Alfred Blalock and Vivien Thomas.
1944 – Albania is liberated by the Albanian partisans.
1945 – The Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia is declared.
1947 – The Partition Plan: the United Nations General Assembly
votes to partition Israel.
1947 – My Trach Massacre: First Indochina War.
1950 – Korean War: North Korean and Chinese troops force United
Nations forces to retreat from North Korea.
1952 – Korean War: 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.
1961 – Project Mercury: Mercury-Atlas 5 Mission – Enos, a chimpanzee,
is launched into space. The spacecraft orbited the Earth twice
and splashed-down off the coast of Puerto Rico.
1963 – U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson establishes the Warren
Commission to investigate the assassination of President John
F. Kennedy.
1965 – The Canadian Space Agency launches the satellite Alouette
2.
1967 – Vietnam War: U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara
announces his resignation.
1972 – Atari announces the release of Pong, the first commercially
successful video game.
1983 – Soviet war in Afghanistan: The United Nations General
Assembly passes a resolution stating that Soviet Union forces
should withdraw from Afghanistan.
1987 – Korean Air Flight 858 explodes over the Thai-Burmese
border, killing 155.
1990 – Gulf War: The United Nations Security Council passes
two resolutions to restore international peace and security
if Iraq did not withdraw its forces from Kuwait and free all
foreign hostages by January 15, 1991.
2007 – The Armed Forces of the Philippines lay siege to The
Peninsula Manila after soldiers led by Senator Antonio Trillanes
stage a mutiny.
2007 – A 7.4 magnitude earthquake occurs off the northern coast
of Martinique. This affected the Eastern Caribbean as far north
as Puerto Rico and as far south as Trinidad.
Holidays
and observances
Christian
Feast Day:
Brendan of Birr
Cuthbert Mayne
Radboud of Utrecht
Saturnin
November 29 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People
(International)
Liberation Day or Dita e Çlirimit (Albania)
Republic Day (Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia)
Unity Day (Vanuatu)
William Tubman's Birthday (Liberia)
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