On This Day in History November 29, 2022

Historical Events 526  A possible date for the Antioch earthquake in present-day Syria (then the Byzantine Empire) which killed 200,000 people 1745  Bonnie Prince Charlie's army moves into Manchester and occupies Carlisle 1877  US inventor Thomas Edison demonstrates his hand-cranked phonograph for the first time 1935  Physicist Erwin Schrödinger publishes his famous thought experiment "Schrödinger's cat", a paradox that illustrates the problem of the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics 1951  1st underground atomic explosion at Frenchman Flat in Nevada More Historical Events

Famous Birthdays

Adam Clayton Powell Jr. 1908 - 1972 C. S. Lewis 1898 - 1963 Cathy Moriarty 62nd Birthday Christian Doppler 1803 - 1853

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Famous Deaths

George Harrison 1943 - 2001 Giacomo Puccini 1858 - 1924

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November 29: Wrong Address for Shakespeare Tourist Attraction

Millions of tourists around the world still have souvenirs of the house where William Shakespeare’s mother was born and grew up. Sadly, it’s the wrong house.

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