It happened on a… November 29

2010

“Rolling in the Deep” single is released by Adele (Billboard Song of the Year 2011, Grammy Award for Record of the Year and Song of the Year 2012).

1990

Expos pres Claude Brochu agrees to buy club from Charles Bronfman.

1975

Bill Gates adopted the name Microsoft for the company he and Paul Allen had formed to write the BASIC computer language for the Altair.

1972

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

1963

Trans-Canada Airlines DC-8F with 111 passengers and 7 crew crashes in woods north of Montreal 4 minutes after takeoff from Dorval Airport; there are no survivors; no satisfactory explanation to Canada’s worst air disaster.

1962

Great Britain & France decide to jointly build the Concorde supersonic airliner.

1947

The U.N. General Assembly passed a resolution that called for the division of Palestine between Arabs and Jews.

1924

Montreal Canadiens beat Toronto 7-1 in the first hockey game played in the new (old) Montreal Forum.

1775

Sir James Jay invents invisible ink.