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November 29

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195

November Uprising

195 years ago

Born this day

1932

Jacques Chirac

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819th

Béla IV of Hungary

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Famous births26

1206 · 819 yrs

Béla IV of Hungary

Béla IV (1206 – 3 May 1270) was King of Hungary and Croatia between 1235 and 1270, and Duke of Styria from 1254 to 1258. As the oldest son of King Andrew II, he was crowned upon the initiative of a group of influential noblemen in his father's lifetime in 1214.

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RoyaltyDied aged 63

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1627 · 398 yrs

John Ray

John Ray (29 November 1627 – 17 January 1705) was an English Christian naturalist and one of the earliest English parson-naturalists. Until 1670 he wrote his name as John Wray; from then on, he used 'Ray', after "having ascertained that such had been the practice of his family before him".

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ReligionDied aged 77

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1797 · 228 yrs

Gaetano Donizetti

Domenico Gaetano Maria Donizetti (29 November 1797 – 8 April 1848) was an Italian composer of the early Romantic era, best known for his over 70 operas.

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MusicDied aged 50

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1802 · 223 yrs

Wilhelm Hauff

Wilhelm Hauff (29 November 1802 – 18 November 1827) was a German poet and novelist known for his stories and novels.

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LiteratureDied aged 24

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1803 · 222 yrs

Christian Doppler

Christian Andreas Doppler (German:; 29 November 1803 – 17 March 1853) was an Austrian mathematician and physicist. He formulated the principle – now known as the Doppler effect – that the observed frequency of a wave depends on the relative speed of the source and the observer.

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ScienceDied aged 49

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1825 · 200 yrs

Jean-Martin Charcot

Jean-Martin Charcot (French:; 29 November 1825 – 16 August 1893) was a French neurologist and professor of anatomical pathology. He worked on groundbreaking work about hypnosis and hysteria, in particular with his hysteria patient Louise Augustine Gleizes.

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ScienceDied aged 67

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1832 · 193 yrs

Louisa May Alcott

Louisa May Alcott ( AWL-kət; November 29, 1832 – March 6, 1888) was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet best known for writing the novel Little Women (1868) and its sequels Good Wives (1869), Little Men (1871), and Jo's Boys (1886).

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LiteratureDied aged 55

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1835 · 190 yrs

Empress Dowager Cixi

Empress Dowager Cixi (Mandarin pronunciation:; 29 November 1835 – 15 November 1908) was a Manchu noblewoman of the Yehe Nara clan who periodically controlled the government of the late Qing dynasty as empress dowager and regent from 1861 until her death in 1908.

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RoyaltyDied aged 72

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1856 · 169 yrs

Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg

Theobald Theodor Friedrich Alfred von Bethmann Hollweg (29 November 1856 – 1 January 1921) was a German politician who was imperial chancellor of the German Empire from 1909 to 1917. He oversaw the German entry into World War I and played a key role during its first three years.

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PoliticsDied aged 64

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1856 · 169 yrs

Georgi Plekhanov

Georgi Valentinovich Plekhanov (Russian: Георгий Валентинович Плеханов; 11 December 1856 – 30 May 1918) was a Russian Marxist theorist, philosopher, and revolutionary.

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PhilosophyDied aged 61

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1874 · 151 yrs

António Egas Moniz

António Caetano de Abreu Freire Egas Moniz (29 November 1874 – 13 December 1955), known as simply Egas Moniz, was a Portuguese neurologist and the developer of cerebral angiography.

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PoliticsDied aged 81

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1898 · 127 yrs

C. S. Lewis

Clive Staples Lewis (29 November 1898 – 22 November 1963) was a British author, literary scholar and Anglican lay theologian. He held academic positions in English literature at both Magdalen College, Oxford (1925–1954), and Magdalene College, Cambridge (1954–1963).

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LiteratureWould be 127

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Famous deaths15

1268 · 757 yrs

Clement IV

Pope Clement IV (Latin: Clemens IV; c.

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ReligionDied aged 78

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1378 · 647 yrs

Charles IV

Charles IV (German: Karl IV.; Czech: Karel IV.; Latin: Carolus IV; also known as Charles of Luxembourg German: Karl von Luxemburg; Czech: Karel Lucemburský; Latin: Carolus Luxemburgensis; Luxembourgish: Karel vu Lëtzebuerg; born Wenceslaus German: Wenzel; Czech: Václav; 14 May 1316 – 29 November 1378) was Holy Roman…

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RoyaltyDied aged 62

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1643 · 382 yrs

Claudio Monteverdi

Claudio Giovanni Antonio Monteverdi (baptized 15 May 1567 – 29 November 1643) was an Italian composer, choirmaster and string player.

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MusicDied aged 76

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1694 · 331 yrs

Marcello Malpighi

Marcello Malpighi (10 March 1628 – 30 November 1694) was an Italian biologist and physician, who is referred to as the "founder of microscopical anatomy, histology and father of physiology and embryology".

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ScienceDied aged 66

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1780 · 245 yrs

Maria Theresa of Austria

Maria Theresa (Maria Theresia Walburga Amalia Christina; 13 May 1717 – 29 November 1780) was the ruler of the Habsburg monarchy from 1740 until her death in 1780, and the only woman to hold the position in her own right.

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RoyaltyDied aged 63

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1924 · 101 yrs

Giacomo Puccini

Giacomo Antonio Domenico Michele Secondo Maria Puccini (1858 – 1924) was an Italian composer known primarily for his operas. Widely regarded as the greatest and most successful proponent of Italian opera after Verdi, he was descended from a long line of composers, stemming from the late Baroque era.

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MusicDied aged 65

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1980 · 45 yrs

Dorothy Day

Dorothy May Day (November 8, 1897 – November 29, 1980) was an American journalist, social activist and anarchist who, after a bohemian youth, became a Catholic. She was perhaps the best-known political radical among American Catholics.

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ActivismWould be 128

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1986 · 39 yrs

Cary Grant

Cary Grant (born Archibald Alec Leach; 18 January 1904 – 29 November 1986) was a British-American actor. Known for his blended British and American accent, debonair demeanor, lighthearted approach to acting, and sense of comic timing, he was one of classic Hollywood's definitive leading men.

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FilmWould be 122

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2001 · 24 yrs

George Harrison

George Harrison (25 February 1943 – 29 November 2001) was an English musician who achieved international fame as the lead guitarist of the Beatles.

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MusicWould be 83

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2008 · 17 yrs

Jørn Utzon

Jørn Oberg Utzon (Danish:; 9 April 1918 – 29 November 2008) was a Danish architect. In 1957, he won an international design competition for his design of the Sydney Opera House in Australia.

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2010 · 15 yrs

Bella Akhmadulina

Izabella Akhatovna Akhmadulina (Russian: Бе́лла (Изабе́лла) Аха́товна Ахмаду́лина, Tatar: Белла Әхәт кызы Әхмәдуллина; 10 April 1937 – 29 November 2010) was a Soviet and Russian poet, short story writer, and translator, known for her apolitical writing stance. She was part of the Russian New Wave literary movement.

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LiteratureWould be 89

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2017 · 8 yrs

Slobodan Praljak

Slobodan Praljak (Croatian pronunciation:; 2 January 1945 – 29 November 2017) was a Bosnian Croat general found guilty by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) of committing violations of the laws of war, crimes against humanity, and breaches of the Geneva Conventions during the…

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MilitaryWould be 81

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Events5

1781 · 244 yrs

Zong massacre

The Zong massacre was a mass killing of more than 130 enslaved African people by the crew of the British slave ship Zong over several days from 29 November 1781. The William Gregson slave-trading syndicate, based in Liverpool, owned the ship as part of the Atlantic slave trade.

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Tragedy

1830 · 195 yrs

November Uprising

The November Uprising (Polish: powstanie listopadowe), also known as the Polish–Russian War of 1830–31 or the Cadet Revolution, was an armed rebellion in the heartland of partitioned Poland against the Russian Empire.

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War

1920 · 105 yrs

Polish–Lithuanian War

The Polish–Lithuanian War was an undeclared war fought in the aftermath of World War I between newly independent Lithuania and Poland, with fighting mainly in the Vilnius and Suwałki regions, which was part of the Lithuanian Wars of Independence and lasted from May 1919 to 29 November 1920.

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War

2015 · 10 yrs

2015 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix

The 2015 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix (formally known as the 2015 Formula 1 Etihad Airways Abu Dhabi Grand Prix) was a Formula One motor race held at the Yas Marina Circuit on 29 November 2015.

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Sports

2024 · 1 yrs

Battle of Aleppo (2024)

The Battle of Aleppo (2024), also known as the Second Battle of Aleppo or the Fall of Aleppo began when the Syrian opposition group Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham, along with allied Turkish-backed groups in the Military Operations Command, entered the Syrian government-held city of Aleppo.

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