This day in #history 2911
NOVEMBER 29th
1803 – Dessalines & Christophe declare StDomingue (Haiti) independent
1918 – Serbia annexes Montenegro
1944 – Albania liberated from Nazi control (Natl Day )
1944 – John Hopkins hospital performs 1 st open
heart surgery
1944 – The first surgery (on a human) to correct blue baby syndrome is performed by Alfred Blalock and Vivien Thomas.
1945 – Yugoslavian Socialist Republic proclaimed
FAMOUS BIRTHDAYS
1979 – Jayceon “The Game ” Taylor, American rapper
FAMOUS DEATHS
2001 – John Knowles, American author ( b . 1926 )