On This Day (November 29)

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1530 - Thomas Wolsey, adviser to King Henry VIII of England died.
1643 - Claudio Monteverdi, Italian composer died. (b. 1567)
1797 - Gaetano Donizetti, Italian composer born. (d. 1848)
1803 - Christian Doppler, Austrian physicist born. (d. 1853)
1831 - Louisa May Alcott, American novelist born. (d. 1888)
1854 – The Eureka Flag was flown for the first time during the Eureka Stockade rebellion in Australia.
1877 – Thomas Edison demonstrated the phonograph (pictured), his invention for recording and replaying sound, for the first time.

Edison Phonograph

1890 – The Diet of Japan, Japan's bicameral legislature modelled after both the German Reichstag and the British Westminster system, first met after the Meiji Constitution went into effect.
1898 - C. S. Lewis, Irish writer born. (d. 1963)
1924 - Giacomo Puccini, Italian composer died. (b. 1858)
1929 – American explorer Richard Evelyn Byrd and three others completed the first flight over the South Pole.
1947 – The United Nations General Assembly voted to approve the Partition Plan for Palestine, a plan to resolve the Arab-Israeli conflict in the British Mandate of Palestine by separating the territory into Jewish and Arab states.
1972 - Nolan Bushnell (co-founder of Atari) released Pong (the first commercially successful video game) in Andy Capp’s Tavern in Sunnyvale, Calif.
1975 - The name "Micro-soft" (for "microcomputer software") is first used in a letter from Bill Gates to Paul Allen.
1979 - Zeppo_Marx, American actor and comedian died. (b. 1901)