TODAY IN SPORTS - NOVEMBER 29TH

1783 – A 5.3 magnitude earthquake strikes New Jersey.

1864 – American Indian Wars: Sand Creek massacre – Colorado volunteers led by Colonel John Chivington massacre at least 150 Cheyenne and Arapaho noncombatants inside Colorado Territory.

1864 – American Civil War: Battle of Spring Hill – A Confederate advance into Tennessee misses an opportunity to crush the Union Army. General John Bell Hood is angered, which leads to the Battle of Franklin.

1877 – Thomas Edison demonstrates his phonograph for the first time.

1899 – FC Barcelona Association football club is founded.

1902 – The Pittsburgh Stars defeated the Philadelphia Athletics, 11–0, at the Pittsburgh Coliseum, to win the first championship associated with an American national professional football league.

1920 – Joseph Shivers, American chemist and academic, developed spandex (d. 2014) is born.

1929 – U.S. Admiral Richard E. Byrd leads the first expedition to fly over the South Pole.

1949 – Garry Shandling, American comedian, actor, and screenwriter (d. 2016) is born.

1952 – Korean War: U.S. President-elect Dwight D. Eisenhower fulfills a campaign promise by traveling to Korea to find out what can be done to end the conflict.

1955 – Howie Mandel, Canadian comedian, actor, and television host is born.

1963 – U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson establishes the Warren Commission to investigate the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.

1967 – Vietnam War: U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara announces his resignation.

1969 – Mariano Rivera, Panamanian-American baseball player, New York Yankees, is born.

1972 – Atari announces the release of Pong, the first commercially successful video game.

1988 – Russell Wilson, American football player, Seattle Seahawks star quarterback, is born.

1990 – Gulf War: The United Nations Security Council passes two resolutions to restore international peace and security if Iraq does not withdraw its forces from Kuwait and free all foreign hostages by January 15, 1991.

2009 – Maurice Clemmons shoots and kills four police officers inside a coffee shop in Lakewood, Washington.