November 29 is:
Square Dance Day The square dance is the official dance of nineteen American states. Square Dance is a fun, simple, and healthy form of dance and it has roots in normal English, Irish and Scottish folk dance.
National Lemon Cream Pie Day
Lemon cream pie is a Southern specialty which was first made in the 1920s.
National Rice Cake Day
Soft forms of rice cakes have been popular in Japan for hundreds of years.
National Chocolates Day
Per Foodimentary.com
Chocolate comes from the Aztec word “xocolatl” which means “bitter water”.
In 1777, San Jose, California, was founded as Pueblo de San José de Guadalupe. It was the first civilian settlement, or pueblo, in Alta California.
Birthday of Louisa May Alcott (November 28, 1832), author of “Little Women” and many more. Raised in New England by her transcendentalist parents, Abigail May and Amos Bronson Alcott, she grew up among many of the well-known intellectuals of the day, such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry David Thoreau, and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
The Sand Creek Massacre occurred in Colorado on November 29, 1864, when a militia led by Colonel John Chivington, killed at least 400 peaceful Cheyenne and Arapaho Indians who had surrendered and had been given permission to camp.
Thomas Edison demonstrated his phonograph for the first time in 1877.
Birthday of C.S.(Clive Staples) Lewis (November 29, 1898), a British writer and lay theologian. He held academic positions in English literature at both Oxford University and Cambridge University. He is best known for his works of fiction, especially The Screwtape Letters, The Chronicles of Narnia, and The Space Trilogy, and for his non-fiction Christian apologetics, such as Mere Christianity, Miracles, and The Problem of Pain
U.N. General Assembly partitioned Palestine between Arabs and Jews in 1947.
“Kukla, Fran, and Ollie” debuted on NBC in 1948.
President-elect Eisenhower visited Korea to assess war in 1952, fulfilling a campaign promise.
President Lyndon Baines Johnson set up Warren Commission in 1963 to investigate assassination of John F. Kennedy.
Roman Catholic Church in U.S. replaced Latin with English in 1964.
Atari announced the release of Pong, the first commercially successful video game in 1972.
1975 – Bill Gates adopted the name Microsoft for the company he and Paul Allen had formed to write the BASIC computer language for the Altair.