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 Mercury: Mercury-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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