November 29, 1900 (Thursday)
- Thirteen people were killed and more than 80 seriously injured while watching the football game between Stanford and California. Over 100 persons had gathered on the roof of the Pacific Glass Works in Palo Alto for a free view of the game. When the roof collapsed, the victims fell into vats of molten glass.
- Born: Mildred Gillars, who later become the Nazi-propaganda broadcaster "Axis Sally", as Mildred Sisk in Portland, Maine (d. 1988)
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Famous quotes containing the word november:
“Not yesterday I learned to know
The love of bare November days
Before the coming of the snow....”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)