| November 29 |
| 1760 |
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Major Roger Rogers takes possession of Detroit on
behalf of Britain. |
| 1787 |
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Louis XVI promulgates an edict of tolerance, granting
civil status to Protestants. |
| 1812 |
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The last elements of Napoleon Bonaparte's Grand
Armee retreats across the Beresina River in Russia. |
| 1863 |
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The Battle of Fort Sanders, Knoxville, Tenn., ends
with a Confederate withdrawal. |
| 1864 |
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Colonel John M. Chivington's 3rd Colorado Volunteers
massacre Black Kettles' camp of Cheyenne and Arapahoe Indians at Sand Creek, Colo. |
| 1903 |
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An Inquiry into the U.S. Postal Service demonstrates
the government has lost millions in fraud. |
| 1923 |
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An international commission headed by American banker
Charles Dawes is set up to investigate the German economy. |
| 1929 |
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Commander Richard Byrd makes the first flight over
the South Pole. |
| 1931 |
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The Spanish government seizes large estates for
land redistribution. |
| 1939 |
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Soviet planes bomb an airfield at Helsinki, Finland.
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| 1948 |
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The Metropolitan Opera is televised for the first
time as the season opens with "Othello." |
| 1948 |
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The popular children's television show, Kukla,
Fran and Ollie, premieres. |
| 1949 |
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The United States announces it will conduct atomic
tests at Eniwetok Atoll in the Pacific. |
| 1961 |
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NASA launches a chimpanzee named Enos into Earth
orbit. |
| 1962 |
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Algeria bans the Communist Party. |
| 1963 |
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President Lyndon B. Johnson appoints Chief Justice
Earl Warren head of a commission to investigate the assassination of John F. Kennedy. |
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