Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/November 29
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This is a list of selected November 29 anniversaries that appears on the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition may be controversial, or on a day that is or soon will be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
To report an error when this appears on the Main Page, see Main Page errors.November 29: Liberation Day in Albania
- 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, Japan's bicameral legislature modelled after both the German Reichstag and the British Westminster system, first met after the Meiji Constitution went into effect.
- 1929 – American explorer Richard Evelyn Byrd and three others completed the first flight over the South Pole.
- 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 by separating the territory into Jewish and Arab states.
More events: November 28 – November 29 – November 30
