On This Day in History  November 29

Historical Events

526 Possible date of the Antioch earthquake in the Byzantine Empire (present-day Syria) which killed 200,000 people

1745 Bonnie Prince Charlie's Jacobite army moves into Manchester and occupies Carlisle

Thomas Edison with his second phonograph, photographed in 1878

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 First underground atomic explosion at Frenchman Flat in Nevada

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Famous Birthdays

Christian Doppler 1803 - 1853 Louisa May Alcott 1832 - 1888

C. S. Lewis 1898 - 1963 Russell Wilson 36th Birthday

Also Jacques Chirac and Chadwick Boseman.

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Famous Deaths

Natalie Wood 1938 - 1981 George Harrison 1943 - 2001

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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.

Shakespeare's Mistaken Birthplace