About November 29
November 29, 2025 is the 333rd day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 32 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.
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Sagittarius is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Topaz is the modern birthstone for this month. Pearl is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 80 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On November 29
- 1394 –The Korean king Yi Seong-gye, founder of the Joseon Dynasty, moves the capital from Kaesŏng to Hanyang, today known as Seoul.
- 1830 –November Uprising: An armed rebellion against Russia’s rule in Poland begins.
- 1847 –Whitman Massacre: Missionaries Dr. Marcus Whitman, his wife Narcissa, and 15 others are killed by Cayuse and Umatilla Indians, causing the Cayuse War.
- 1864 –Indian Wars: Sand Creek Massacre – Colorado volunteers led by Colonel John Chivington massacre at least 150 Cheyenne and Arapaho noncombatants inside Colorado Territory.
- 1872 –Indian Wars: The Modoc War begins with the Battle of Lost River.
- 1877 –Thomas Edison demonstrates his phonograph for the first time.
- 1881 –Spokan Falls (today the city of Spokane, Washington) is officially incorporated as a city.
- 1885 –End of Third Anglo-Burmese War, and end of Burmese monarchy
- 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 –Albania is liberated by the Albanian partisans.
- 1945 –The Federal People’s Republic of Yugoslavia is declared.
- 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.
- 1965 –The Canadian Space Agency launches the satellite Alouette 2.
- 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.
- 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.
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