Wednesday, November 29, 2023

History for November 29

History for November 29 - On-This-Day.com 
C.S. Lewis 1898
  • 1892 - A patent was issued to Almon Brown Strowger for the rotary dial.
  • 1929 - The first airplane flight over the South Pole was made by U.S. Navy Lt. Comdr. Richard E. Byrd.
  • 1947 - The U.N. General Assembly passed a resolution that called for the division of Palestine between Arabs and Jews.
  • 1961 - The Mercury-Atlas 5 spacecraft was launched by the U.S. with Enos the chimp on board. The craft orbited the earth twice before landing off Puerto Rico.
  • 1967 - U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara announced that he was leaving the Johnson administration to become president of the World Bank.
  • 1975 - Bill Gates adopted the name Microsoft for the company he and Paul Allen had formed to write the BASIC computer language for the Altair.

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