Saturday, November 29, 2025

History for November 29

History for November 29 - On-This-Day.com 
C.S. Lewis 1898
  • 1890 - Navy defeated Army by a score of 24-0 in the first Army-Navy football game. The game was played at West Point, NY.
  • 1892 - A patent was issued to Almon Brown Strowger for the rotary dial.
  • 1929 - The first airplane flight over the South Pole was made by U.S. Navy Lt. Comdr. Richard E. Byrd.
  • 1975 - Bill Gates adopted the name Microsoft for the company he and Paul Allen had formed to write the BASIC computer language for the Altair.
  • 1994 - The U.S. House passed the revised General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT).

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