Monday, November 29, 2010

November 29

Track Year Event Artist Song Album
1. 1777 San Jose, California, is founded as el Pueblo de San José de Guadalupe. It is the first civilian settlement, or pueblo, in Alta California. Dionne Warwick Do You Know the Way to San Jose? I Say a Little Prayer
2. 1910 The first US patent for inventing the traffic lights system is issued to Ernest E. Sirrine. The Snobs Red Light, Green Light Control
3. 1929 U.S. Admiral Richard Byrd becomes the first person to fly over the South Pole. Piebald South of Heaven (Slayer) Barely Legal / All Ages
4. 1961 Project MercuryMercury-Atlas 5 Mission – Enos, a chimpanzee, is launched into space. The spacecraft orbited the Earth twice and splashed-down off the coast ofPuerto Rico. The Pixies Monkey Gone to Heaven Doolittle
5. 1972 Nolan Bushnell (co-founder of Atari) releases Pong (the first commercially successful video game) in Andy Capp's Tavern in Sunnyvale, California. UNKLE Back and Forth Never Neverland
6. N/A Republic Day (Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia) New Order Times Change Republic

(Historical facts about November 29 are from Wikipedia.)

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