WHAT HAPPENED ON 29. NOVEMBER
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The Ziqiang Institute, today known as Wuhan University, is founded by Zhang Zhidong, governor of Hubei and Hunan Provinces in late Qing Dynasty China, after his memorial to the throne is approved by the Qing Government. (29. November 1893)

The Pittsburgh Stars defeated the Philadelphia Athletics, 11-0, at the Pittsburgh Coliseum, to win the first championship associated with an American national professional football league. (29. November 1902)

U.S. Admiral Richard E. Byrd leads the first expedition to fly over the South Pole. (29. November 1929)

World War II: The second session of the Anti-Fascist Council for the National Liberation of Yugoslavia (AVNOJ), held to determine the post-war ordering of the country, concludes in Jajce in what is now Bosnia and Herzegovina. (29. November 1943)

The first surgery (on a human) to correct blue baby syndrome is performed by Alfred Blalock and Vivien Thomas. (29. November 1944)

World War II: Albania is liberated by partisan forces. (29. November 1944)

The Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia is declared. (29. November 1945)

The All Indonesia Centre of Labour Organizations (SOBSI) is founded in Jakarta. (29. November 1946)

Partition Plan: The United Nations General Assembly approves a plan for the partition of Palestine. (29. November 1947)

First Indochina War: French forces carry out a massacre at Mỹ Trạch, Vietnam. (29. November 1947)

Korean War: North Korean and Chinese troops force United Nations forces to retreat from North Korea. (29. November 1950)

Korean War: U.S. President-elect Dwight D. Eisenhower fulfills a campaign promise by traveling to Korea to find out what can be done to end the conflict. (29. November 1952)

Project Mercury: Mercury-Atlas 5 Mission – Enos, a chimpanzee, is launched into space. The spacecraft orbits the Earth twice and splashes down off the coast of Puerto Rico. (29. November 1961)

U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson establishes the Warren Commission to investigate the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. (29. November 1963)

Trans-Canada Air Lines Flight 831 crashes shortly after takeoff from Montreal-Dorval International Airport, killing all 118 people on board. (29. November 1963)

The Canadian Space Agency launches the satellite Alouette 2. (29. November 1965)

Vietnam War: U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara announces his resignation. (29. November 1967)

Atari announces the release of Pong, the first commercially successful video game. (29. November 1972)

Graham Hill and Tony Brise, along with three other members of the Embassy Hill F1 team, were killed when their plane crashed at Arkley golf course, England, in thick fog. (29. November 1975)

Korean Air Flight 858 explodes over the Thai-Burmese border, killing 115. (29. November 1987)