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Events on November 29

• 1814 The Times is printed in London as the first daily newspaper in the world to use the steam-powered printing press invented by Friedrich Koenig. This marks a milestone in the history of printing technology, making it possible to produce 1100 copies per hour and thus ushering in the era of mass-circulation newspapers.
• 1850 Prussia concludes the Punctuation of Olmütz with the Austrian Empire and Russia. In the agreement, it must abandon its union policy and renounce its claim to leadership in Germany and the small German solution.
• 1877 Thomas Alva Edison demonstrates his phonograph.
• 1935 The Deutschlandhalle in Berlin, built on the occasion of the 1936 Summer Olympics as the world's largest multi-purpose hall at the time, is inaugurated in the presence of Adolf Hitler. It can accommodate up to 10,000 people.
• 1947 The UN General Assembly adopts the UN partition plan for Palestine, which is intended to resolve the Arab-Jewish conflict in the territory of the British Mandate for Palestine.
• 1951 In the United States, the first underground nuclear weapons test is conducted at the Nevada Test Site.
• 1969 The Rolling Stones release the studio album Let It Bleed. It is the last album to which Brian Jones contributes.
• 1970 The first episode of the crime series Tatort, Taxi to Leipzig, starring Walter Richter as Detective Trimmel, is broadcast by NDR.
• 1974 Ulrike Meinhof, a member of the Red Army Faction, is sentenced to eight years' imprisonment for attempted murder.
• 1978 In Bonn, a protocol on the course of the Inner German border is signed, which excludes the disputed sections along the Elbe and the Bode. The joint border commission of the two German states ends its work with this outcome.
• 1990 Ariel, the mermaid from the Walt Disney Company, makes her first appearance in the German-speaking region.
• 2013 The PlayStation 4 video game console is launched in Europe.

Born on November 29

• 1856 Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg, German politician
• 1891 Julius Raab, Austrian politician
• 1898 Clive Staples Lewis, British fantasy author and lecturer
• 1917 Herbert Zimmermann, German sports reporter
• 1932 Jacques Chirac, French president
• 1933 John Mayall, British musician
• 1961 Tom Sizemore, American actor
• 1972 Andreas Goldberger, Austrian ski jumper
• 1980 Janina Gavankar, American actress and musician
• 2000 Yann Aurel Bisseck, German-Cameroonian football player

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Source of events and birthdays: German Wikipedia article „29. November“, licence CC BY-SA 4.0, selected, shortened and translated by Birthday Paper.

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