On November 29:
800 Charlemagne arrived in Rome to investigate the alleged crimes of Pope Leo III.
1832 Louisa May Alcott, American novelist, was born.
1849 Sir John Ambrose Fleming, British physicist, was born.
1893 Elizabeth Yates became the first woman in the British Empire to win a mayoral election when she became Mayor of Onehunga.
1893 Ziqiang Institute, today known as Wuhan University, was founded by Zhang Zhidong.
1898 C. S. Lewis, Irish writer, was born.
1910 The first US patent for inventing the traffic lights system was issued to Ernest Sirrine.
1913 Fédération Internationale d’Escrime, the international organizing body of competitive fencing was founded in Paris, France.
1917 Merle Travis, American singer/guitarist, was born.
1929 U.S. Admiral Richard Byrd becomes the first person to fly over the South Pole.
1932 Jacques Chirac, French President, was born.
1933 John Mayall, British blues musician, was born.
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1944 The first surgery on a human to correct blue baby syndrome was performed by Alfred Blalock and Vivien Thomas.
1945 The Federal People’s Republic of Yugoslavia was declared.
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1961 Mercury-Atlas 5 Mission – Enos, a chimpanzee, was launched into space.
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