NOVEMBER 29
1530: Cardinal Thomas Wolsey was arrested as a traitor and recalled to London. On the way he died at Leicester, and was buried there.
1580: Sir Francis Drake returned to England from circumnavigating the globe.
1681: The Royal College of Physicians, Edinburgh, was granted its charter by Charles II.
1745: Bonnie Prince Charlie’s army seized Manchester. 1864: Massacre at Sand Creek, Colorado, of Cheyenne and Arapahoe Indians by troops under command of Colonel John M Chivington.
1877: Thomas Edison demonstrated his hand-cranked phonograph for the first time. 1897: The first motorcycle race took place, in Surrey.
1900: Lord Kitchener assumed command of the British forces in South Africa succeeding General Lord Roberts.
1907: Florence Nightingale, the “Lady with the Lamp”, was presented, at the age of 87, with the Order of Merit by King Edward VII for her services to the sick during the Crimean war.
1915: Women were first employed on the permanent staff at Scotland Yard.
1918: Serbia annexed Montenegro.
1922: Archaeologists announced that they had found fabulous treasures in the tomb of Tutankhamen in Egypt. 1929: American admiral and aviator Richard Byrd made first flight over the South Pole. 1944: Albania was liberated from Nazi control.
1945: Monarchy was abolished in Yugoslavia, which was proclaimed a communist republic. 1947: United Nations announced plan for partition of Palestine, with Jerusalem under United Nations control.
1949: Explosions at a uranium mine at Johanngeorgenstadt, East Germany killed 3,700 people.
1962: Great Britain and France agreed to jointly build Concorde. 1963: The Beatles released I Want To Hold Your Hand. 1965: Mary Whitehouse began her Clean Up TV campaign by setting up the National Viewers’ and Listeners’ Association to tackle “BBC bad taste and irresponsibility”.
1974: Parliament passed a bill making the IRA an illegal organisation.
1975: Graham Hill, 46, motor racing champion, died with five others while piloting a plane that crashed in fog over north London.
1988: South African presidential council rejected proposed bill that would have tightened enforcement of residential segregation laws.
1989: Romanian gymnast Nadia Comaneci fled to Hungary. 1990: John Major was criticised for his all-male Cabinet, the first since 1964.
1995: The Conservative government announced an expanded role for the Scottish Grand Committee by switching some parliamentary proceedings from Westminster, including examination of the prime minister and Cabinet ministers.
2013: A helicopter crashed through the roof of the crowded Clutha Bar in central Glasgow, killing ten people.