On this day 29th November

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Some notable facts about this date, for more, visit http://www.onthisday.com

Facts

526 Antioch, modern day Syria, struck by an earthquake, killing about 250,000

1745 Bonnie Prince Charlie's army moves into Manchester & 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

Deaths

561 Chlotarius I, king of the France (558-61), dies at about 61

1843 Marco Santucci, composer, dies at 81

1924 Giacomo Puccini, Italian composer (Mme Butterfly), dies in Brussels at 65

1981 Natalie Wood, American actress (West Side Story), drowns at 43

1987 Irene Handl, actress (Riding High, Morgan), dies at 85

1994 Ronald "Buster" Edwards, British Great Train Robber turned flower-seller, founded hanged at 63

2001 George Harrison, English pop star and Beatle (Traveling Wilburys-My Sweet Lord), dies of lung cancer at 58

2010 Mario Monicelli, Italian film director (b. 1915)

Born on this day

1960 Cathy Moriarty, American actress (Raging Bull, Bless This House), born in The Bronx, New York

1973 Ryan Giggs, Welsh footballer

A Couple of Pics from those no longer with us


Natalie Wood


Irene Handl

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