Today in History, 11/29

1781: The crew of the slave ship Zong murders 133 Africans by dumping them into the sea in order to claim insurance.
1803: Christian Doppler, Austrian physicist, is born. He discovered the doppler effect.1831: Louisa May Alcott is born. She wrote Little Women.1847: The Whitman Massace occurs as Missionaries Dr. Marcus Whitman, his wife Narcissa, and 15 others are killed in the Oregon Territory by Cayuse and Umatilla Indians, causing the Cayuse War.
1864: The Sand Creek Massacre occurs as Colorado volunteers led by Colonel John Chivington massacre at least 150 Cheyenne and Arapaho noncombatants inside Colorado Territory.
1890: At West Point, the United States Naval Academy defeats the United States Military Academy 24-0 in the first Army-Navy football game.
1895: Busby Berkeley, choreographer, is born.

1898: C.S. Lewis is born.1910: The first US patent for inventing the traffic lights system is issued to Ernest Sirrine.
1915: Fire destroys most of the buildings on Santa Catalina Island, California.
1915: Billy Strayhorn is born. He is the composer of Duke Ellington's "Take the A-Train."

1918: Madeleine L'Engle is born. She wrote the A Wrinkle in Time series.
1927: Vin Scully is born.1929: U.S. Admiral Richard Byrd becomes the first person to fly over the South Pole.
1939: Peter Bergman, of The Firesign Theater, is born. I don't remember which one he was, but Everything You Know is Wrong is one of my favorite albums.

1940: Chuck Mangione is born.

1947: The U.N. General Assembly passes a resolution calling for Palestine to be partitioned between Arabs and Jews
1949: Garry Shandling is born.

1952: U.S. President-elect Dwight D. Eisenhower fulfills a campaign promise by traveling to Korea to find out what can be done to end the conflict.
1954: Joel Coen is born.1955: Howie Mandel is born.

1956: Leo Laporte is born.

1963: President Lyndon B. Johnson establishes the Warren Commission to investigate the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
1972: Nolan Bushnell (co-founder of Atari) releases Pong (the first commercially successful video game) in Andy Capp’s Tavern in Sunnyvale, California.1981: Actress Natalie Wood drowns in a boating accident at age 43.Today in History elements mostly cribbed from The History Channel, Wikipedia, The New York Times, The Jewish World Review, The Writer's Almanac and anything else I can dig up.