It’s allegedly "international day of solidarity with Palestinian people," which the UN began in 1978. Back then, the day was boycotted by the US and about 20 other countries, but apparently the globalists have been successful in shifting the culture and national values in recent decades.
Speaking of scams, it’s also National Package Protection Day, which was founded by Ring in 2016 to, “alert citizens to protect their valuable purchases, especially during the high-traffic holiday season.” Be sure to promptly bring in your deliveries this holiday season. It’s also Electronic Greeting Day, which is a day of mourning for the dying art of letter writing.
Now let’s get onto today’s history…
In Government…
On this day in 1863, Confederate troops failed to break through Union defenses during the Battle of Fort Sanders in Tennessee, and they reportedly sustained 800-900 casualties. That’s a lot of dead soldiers. A couple decades later, the US obtained the rights to Pearl Harbor in 1887.
The following century was marked by US authoritarianism, with the US declaring martial law in the Dominican Republic in 1916, and the US Office of Price Administration rationing coffee for everyone in 1942. The ration was 10 pounds per year, and this is a much greater violation than the Stamp Act of the Tea Act almost a couple centuries earlier. I think my family goes through 10 pounds of coffee in a month or less.
Into the 21st Century, CIA Director Allen Dulles resigned in 1961 following the failure of the Bay of Pigs invasion. He was replaced by John McCone. Exactly two years later in 1963, President Johnson set up the Warren Commission to investigate the assassination of President Kennedy. It was a coverup, and there is nothing new under the sun. From History.com:
“According to many historians, the CIA and the Cuban exile brigade believed that President Kennedy would eventually allow the American military to intervene in Cuba on their behalf. However, the president was resolute: As much as he did not want to “abandon Cuba to the communists,” he said, he would not start a fight that might end in World War III.
His efforts to overthrow Castro never flagged—in November 1961, Kennedy approved Operation Mongoose, an espionage and sabotage campaign—but never went so far as to provoke an outright war. In 1962, the Cuban Missile Crisis inflamed American-Cuban-Soviet tensions even further.”
In 1997, the mother of food stamps Isabelle Kelley died. Kelly was the American social worker credited with instigating the US Federal Food Stamp Program.
In 2020, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris announced the first all-female Communications team for the White House. The team was devoid of he/hims, but also they/thems, and I’m offended.
World
1870: Compulsory education in England
1893: Wuhan University founded
1918: Serbia annexed Montenegro
1933: Japan began persecuting communists
1947: UN voted to allow partition of Palestine between Arabs and Jews
2001: UN approved extension of Oil-for-Food in Iraq
2012: UN approved Palestinian status change from observer to observer state
2017: Slobodan Praljak committed suicide
2022: Three stowaways rescued by Spanish coastguard
2022: Singapore decriminalised gay sex, but protected current definition of marriage
In Culture…
All the World’s a Stage
Speaking of gay stuff, in 1932 Cole Porter's musical "Gay Divorcee" opened in New York. To be clear, I think gay meant happy back then, but one can’t be too sure these days.
In 1991, on the idiot box, "Roc" was the first US show to have a gay wedding episode. It was entitled, “Can't Help Loving that Man.”
It’s Louisa May Alcott’s birthday. The Little Women author was born in 1832, and her works have been adapted for stage and screen for generations. It’s also Catholic Anarchist Dorothy Day’s birthday.
“I never considered myself a liberal—I considered myself a radical.”
~ Dorothy Day
Other moments in stage include:
1825: "Il barbiere di Siviglia" opened
1941: "Pal Joey" closed
1956: “Bells Are Ringing" opened
Other moments in the idiot box include:
1948: First televised opera, "Othello"
1948: Puppet TV show debuted
2017: Matt Lauer new-tooed
On the big screen, "The Lost Weekend" premiered in 1945 in LA. It went on to win the Academy Award for Best Picture in 1946.
Acting birthdays today include Garry Shandling (1949), Howie Mandel (1955), Andrew McCarthy (1962), Don Cheadle (1964), and Anna Ferris and Chadwick Boseman (1976). There were also several notable acting deaths today, including Natalie Wood (1981), Carey Grant (1986), and Patrice O'Neal (2011).
In music, Bobby Darin won a Grammy in 1959 for "Mack The Knife.” It was the 2nd Grammy Awards.
It was another big day for the Beatles, as "I Want to Hold Your Hand" was released 1963. Exactly five years later in 1968, John and Yoko released their first album "Two Virgins,” and a year later in 1969, “Something / Come Together" reached number one. And in 2001, George Harrison died.
In 2010, Adele released "Rolling in the Deep" on this day, which went on to win Billboard Song of the Year in 2011, and a Grammy for Record of the Year and Song of the Year 2012.
Cultural Firsts
Another musical milestone on this day was that time in 1877 when Thomas Edison demonstrated his hand-cranked phonograph for the first time.
In 1972, Pong was released by Nolan Bushnell, co-founder of Atari, which became the first commercially successful video game in the US. There were lots of other firsts on November 29 as well:
1910: First US Traffic light patent
1933: First state liquor store authorized
1953: First regular commercial flight NY-LA
Speaking of flights, in 1962, Great Britain and France agreed to jointly build the Concorde supersonic airliner.
Today in Exploitation
MeToo was a defining cultural trend during the last decade and, in 2016, Former NFL player Darren Sharper was sentenced to 20 years for a series of rapes. Three years later in 2019, K-pop stars Jung Joon-young and Choi Jong-hoon were sentenced to prison for gang-raping unconscious fans and distributing footage of it.
In a different exploitation domain, Jack Dorsey announced he was stepping down as CEO of Twitter in 2021 on this day. Old Twitter was the worst.
Trust the Science
Christian Doppler was born on this day in 1803, and in 1935, Physicist Erwin Schrödinger published "Schrödinger's cat", his famous thought experiment that challenged the preexisting consensus on quantum mechanics.
In 1961, a chimp named Enos went to space, allegedly, and in 2022, Canadian scientists announced that they discovered two new minerals elaliite and elkinstantonite in the 'Nightfall' meteorite found in Somalia.
In other religions on this day, in 1950, the National Council of Church of Christ formed in the US, and Jesus wept. In 2004, Anne Samson died — she was the oldest-ever documented nun having been born in 1891.
In 2019, Pope Francis returned a “Wood fragment from Jesus' manger” to Bethlehem after 1400 years. Also, it’s C.S. Lewis’s birthday (1898).
In Death & Destruction…
526: 200,000 killed in the Antioch earthquake during the Byzantine Empire in present-day Syria
1781: 142 slaves killed by crew of slave ship Zong to claim insurance
1847: 14 missionaries killed by Cayuse Indians in Oregon Country
1864: 150 Cheyenne and Arapaho Indians killed in Sand Creek Massacre by Colorado militia
1949: 3,700 killed in Uranium mine explosions in East Germany
1963: 118 killed in Trans-Canada plane crash
1975: Kilauea Volcano erupts in Hawaii
1987: A Korean Air Boeing 707 explodes over the Thai-Burmese border, killing 115
2012: 30 killed, 100 wounded by bombs in Iraq
2019: 2 killed in terrorist knife attack at Fishmongers Hall
2022: Malawi begins “historic campaign” against malaria by vaccinating children under five
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