Daily Calendar for Wednesday, November 29, 2028

Name: Daily Almanac Features
Start: 2028-11-29T00:00:00
End: 2028-11-29T23:59:59

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Sir Charles Stanley (4th Viscount Monck; first governor-general of Canada) – 1894
Natalie Wood (actress) – 1981
Cary Grant (actor) – 1986
George Harrison (musician; member of The Beatles) – 2001
John D. Barrymore (actor) – 2004
Wendie Jo Sperber (actress) – 2005
Henry Kissinger (statesman ) – 2023

Committee of Secret Correspondence organized by 2nd Continental Congress – 1775
Fire destroyed much of Maryland Agricultural College, in College Park, Maryland – 1912
Richard E. Byrd and pilot Bernt Balchen, in the Floyd Bennett, were first to fly over the South Pole – 1929
Doctors Alfred Blalock and Vivien Thomas performed the first surgery (on a human) to correct blue baby syndrome – 1944
The first helicopter hoist rescue took place, at Penfield Reef, Connecticut – 1945
Kukla, Fran and Ollie debuted on television – 1948
Enos became the first chimp to orbit Earth – 1961
President Lyndon B. Johnson established the Warren Commission to investigate the assassination of President John F. Kennedy – 1963
English was used for the first time during a U.S. Catholic Mass. – 1964
Pong, a coin-operated video game, debuted – 1972
Megamouth shark caught off Catalina Island, California – 1984
Ensemble of 1,013 cellists played in Kobe, Japan, setting world record – 1998

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.” – 1864
Nine inches of snow fell on New York City – 1882