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<p><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/November_29" title="November 29">November 29</a></b>: <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberation_Day_(Albania)" title="Liberation Day (Albania)">Liberation Day</a></b> in Albania (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1944" title="1944">1944</a>)
</p><ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/903" title="903">903</a> – The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abbasid_Caliphate" title="Abbasid Caliphate">Abbasid Caliphate</a> captured the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qarmatians" title="Qarmatians">Qarmatian</a> leadership at the <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Hama" title="Battle of Hama">Battle of Hama</a></b> in Syria, opening the way for the reconquest of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulunids" title="Tulunids">Tulunid</a> Egypt.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1776" title="1776">1776</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Revolutionary_War" title="American Revolutionary War">American Revolutionary War</a>: British reinforcements brought an end to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patriot_(American_Revolution)" title="Patriot (American Revolution)">Patriot</a> attempt <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Fort_Cumberland_(1776)" title="Battle of Fort Cumberland (1776)">to capture</a></b> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Beaus%C3%A9jour" title="Fort Beauséjour">Fort Cumberland</a> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nova_Scotia" title="Nova Scotia">Nova Scotia</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1890" title="1890">1890</a> – The <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Diet" title="National Diet">National Diet</a></b> of Japan, a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bicameralism" title="Bicameralism">bicameral legislature</a> modelled after both the German <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reichstag_(German_Empire)" title="Reichstag (German Empire)">Reichstag</a> and the British <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westminster_system" title="Westminster system">Westminster system</a>, first met in Tokyo.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1979" title="1979">1979</a> – The controversial <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tellico_Dam" title="Tellico Dam">Tellico Dam</a></b> project by the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tennessee_Valley_Authority" title="Tennessee Valley Authority">Tennessee Valley Authority</a> is completed despite being ordered to shut down from the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supreme_Court_of_the_United_States" title="Supreme Court of the United States">Supreme Court of the United States</a>' decision in <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tennessee_Valley_Authority_v._Hill" title="Tennessee Valley Authority v. Hill">Tennessee Valley Authority v. Hill</a></i>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007" title="2007">2007</a> – During their trial for the 2003 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oakwood_mutiny" title="Oakwood mutiny">Oakwood mutiny</a>, Philippine soldiers led by Senator <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio_Trillanes" title="Antonio Trillanes">Antonio Trillanes</a> <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manila_Peninsula_siege" title="Manila Peninsula siege">mutinied and seized a conference room</a></b> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Peninsula_Manila" title="The Peninsula Manila">The Peninsula Manila</a> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Makati" title="Makati">Makati</a>.</li></ul>
<p><b>Births and Deaths: </b><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claudio_Monteverdi" title="Claudio Monteverdi">Claudio Monteverdi</a></b>  (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 1643); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Somerville" title="Mary Somerville">Mary Somerville</a></b>  (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 1872); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lalit_Modi" title="Lalit Modi">Lalit Modi</a></b>  (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1963)</p>