November 29

1114 – A large earthquake damages areas the Crusaders in the Middle East rule, hitting the cities of Antioch, Mamistra, Marash and Edessa, with over 40,000 people killed.

1729 – Natchez Indians massacre 138 French men, 35 women, and 56 children at Fort Rosalie, near the site of modern day Natchez, Mississippi.

1776 – During the American Revolutionary War, a 500 man, but poorly supplied, American force besieging Fort Cumberland, near the present day border between Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, is repulsed when British Marine reinforcements arrive

1777 – San Jose, California, is founded as Pueblo de San José de Guadalupe by José Joaquín Moraga.

1783 – An  earthquake later calculated at measuring magnitude 5.3 on the Richter scale, strikes New Jersey, to date the most powerful quake in the state.

1847 – Missionaries Dr. Marcus Whitman, his wife Narcissa, and 15 others are killed at their mission near present day Walla Walla Washington, by Cayuse and Umatilla Indians, causing the Cayuse War east of the Cascade mountain range.

1864 – Colorado volunteers led by Colonel John Chivington massacre at least 150 Cheyenne and Arapaho noncombatants near Sand Creek in Colorado Territory.

1872 – The Modoc War in northeastern California and southeastern Oregon  begins with the Battle of Lost River between a small force of U.S. troops under Captain James Jackson, and Modoc warriors under Kintpuash, known as Captain Jack.

1877 – Thomas Edison demonstrates his phonograph for the first time.

1890 –The US Army and Navy academy’s foot ball teams play their first game with Navy beating Army 24-0 at West Point.

1902 – The Pittsburgh Stars defeat the Philadelphia Athletics, at Pittsburg 11–0 to win the first championship associated with an American national professional football league.

1910 The first US patent for inventing a traffic lights system is issued to Ernest Sirrine.

1929 – Admiral Richard Byrd leads the first expedition to fly over the South Pole.

1942 – During World War II, the US Office of Price Administration begins the rationing of coffee a 10 pound a year

1947 – The United Nations General Assembly approves a plan for the partition of Palestine.

1953 – American Airlines begins the 1st regular commercial New York to Los Angeles air service

1963 – President Johnson establishes the Warren Commission to investigate the assassination of President Kennedy.

1972 – Atari releases Pong, the first commercially successful video game.

1999 – Kazuo Sakamaki, a former ensign in the Imperial Japanese Navy, the skipper of midget submarine H-19 which attempted to attack Pearl Harbor, and the first official U.S. prisoner of war in World War II, dies, age 81, in Tokyo.

2009 – 4 police officers are shot and killed in a gunfight inside a coffee shop in Lakewood, Washington by Maurice Clemmons, who escapes wounded and is shot and killed 2 days later by police in Seattle.

2013 – LAM Mozambique Airlines Flight 470, an Embraer 190, is crashed in the Bwabata National Park, Namibia, by the pilot in a mass murder-suicide, killing all 33 passengers and crew on board.