Daily Calendar for Monday, November 29, 2027

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Monday, November 29, 2027

Born

  • Wendell Phillips (abolitionist crusader)
  • Morrison Remick Waite (Chief Justice)
  • Louisa May Alcott (author)
  • Sir John Ambrose Fleming (physicist)
  • C. S. Lewis (novelist)
  • Merle Travis (musician)
  • Dilhan Eryurt (Turkish astrophysicist)
  • John Mayall (musician)
  • Chuck Mangione (musician)
  • Suzy Chaffee (Olympic skier)
  • Garry Shandling (comedian)
  • Joel Coen (director, producer, & writer)
  • Howie Mandel (comedian, actor, & television host)
  • Andrew McCarthy (actor)
  • Don Cheadle (actor)
  • Anna Faris (actress)
  • Chadwick Boseman (actor)

Died

  • Sir Charles Stanley (4th Viscount Monck; first governor-general of Canada)
  • Natalie Wood (actress)
  • Cary Grant (actor)
  • George Harrison (musician; member of The Beatles)
  • John D. Barrymore (actor)
  • Wendie Jo Sperber (actress)
  • Henry Kissinger (statesman )

Events

  • Committee of Secret Correspondence organized by 2nd Continental Congress
  • Fire destroyed much of Maryland Agricultural College, in College Park, Maryland
  • Richard E. Byrd and pilot Bernt Balchen, in the Floyd Bennett, were first to fly over the South Pole
  • Doctors Alfred Blalock and Vivien Thomas performed the first surgery (on a human) to correct blue baby syndrome
  • The first helicopter hoist rescue took place, at Penfield Reef, Connecticut
  • Kukla, Fran and Ollie debuted on television
  • Enos became the first chimp to orbit Earth
  • President Lyndon B. Johnson established the Warren Commission to investigate the assassination of President John F. Kennedy
  • English was used for the first time during a U.S. Catholic Mass.
  • Pong, a coin-operated video game, debuted
  • Megamouth shark caught off Catalina Island, California
  • Ensemble of 1,013 cellists played in Kobe, Japan, setting world record

Weather

  • Major Henry Hitchcock, during Sherman’s March, Georgia, wrote: “Weather so warm that I could not wear any cape after 10 a.m. Afternoon perfectly lovely and tonight beautiful starlight: Atmosphere dense and smoke from campfires hangs low.”
  • Nine inches of snow fell on New York City