November 29

Today in History
• 1349 - Jews of Augsburg Germany massacred
• 1516 - Treaty of Freiburg French/Swiss "eternal" peace treaty
• 1596 - King Philip II devalues Spanish currency
• 1775 - Sir James Jay invents invisible ink
• 1781 - Crew of slave ship Zong murder about 142 African slaves by dumping them into the sea
• 1864 - Colorado militia kills 150 peaceful Cheyenne Indians
• 1870 - Compulsory education proclaimed in England
• 1877 - US inventor Thomas Edison demonstrates his hand-cranked phonograph for the first time


Holidays - Traditional and Obscure
• Chadwick Boseman Day
• National Evan Day
• Electronic Greetings Day
• International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People
• Isdal Woman Day
• National Lemon Cream Pie Day
• Square Dancing Day
• Throw Out Your Leftovers Day

Birthdays
• 1330 - Louis van Male, Count of Flanders/Nevers/Rethel
• 1435 - Zhu Qizhen, Chinese Emperor Yingzong of Ming (1435-49 and 1457-64)
• 1781 - Andres Bello, Venezuela poet/diplomat/scholar, Silvas Americanas
• 1803 - Christian Doppler, Austrian physicist, Doppler effect
• 1811 - Wendell Phillips, women's suffrage/antislavery/prison reformer
• 1818 - George Brown, Canada, publisher, Toronto Globe, PM, L, 1858
• 1832 - Louisa May Alcott, Germantown, Pennsylvania, author, Little Women
• 1895 - William V S Tubman, Whig, 17th Liberian president, 1943-70