Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/November 29
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November 29: Liberation Day in Albania
- 1777 - San José de Guadalupe, the first town in the Spanish colony of California, was founded.
- 1854 - The Eureka Flag was flown for the first time during the Eureka Stockade rebellion in Australia.
- 1877 - Thomas Edison demonstrated the phonograph (pictured), his invention for recording and replaying sound, for the first time.
- 1890 - The Diet of Japan, modelled after the German Reichstag, first met, when the Meiji Constitution went into effect in Japan.
- 1947 - The United Nations General Assembly voted to approve the Partition Plan for Palestine, a plan to resolve the Arab-Israeli conflict in the British Mandate of Palestine.
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