November 29
Today in America's Present Past
1752 | Cleric Jemima Wilkinson was born.
1797 | Educator Samuel Langdon died.
1799 | Poet Amos Bronson Alcott was born.
1811 | Activist Wendell Phillips was born.
1816 | SCOTUS: Justice Morrison Waite was born.
1832 | Author Louisa May Alcott was born.
1847 | Missionaries Marcus and Narcissa Whitman were massacred.
1863 | Civil War: The Battle of Fort Sanders, Tennessee.
1864 | Indian Wars: Sand Creek Massacre.
1872 | Indian Wars: The Battle of Lost River.
1872 | Publisher Horace Greeley died.
1877 | Thomas Edison demonstrated his hand-cranked phonograph for the first time.
1908 | Politician Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. was born.
1914 | Economist Edith Tilton Penrose was born.
1918 | Author Madeleine L’Engle was born.
1923 | Journalist Frank Reynolds was born.
1927 | Journalist Vin Scully was born.
1940 | Activist Thelma Mothershed Wair was born.
1942 | WWII: The U.S. Office of Price Administration rations coffee for everyone.
1959 | Politician Rahm Emanuel was born.
1963 | POTUS: Democrat President Johnson sets up the Warren Commission to investigate the assassination of President Kennedy.
1968 | Entertainer Jonathan Knight was born.
1972 | Nolan Bushnell released the video game “Pong.”
1974 | Boxer James J. Braddock died.
1975 | POTUS: Republican President Ford signed the “Education for All Handicapped Children Act.”
1976 | Actor Chadwick Boseman was born.
1980 | Journalist Dorothy Day died.
1981 | Actress Natalie Wood died.
1994 | POTUS: Democrat President Clinton survives a would-be assassination at the White House.
1996 | POTUS: Democrat President Clinton authorizes exports of oil from the Alaskan North Slope.
1996 | Actor Gary Grant died.
2007 | Politician Henry Hyde died.
2023 | Diplomat Henry Kissinger died.