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November 29, 2010

Revisit the music, news, notable people, and historical moments connected to this date.

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Billboard 200

The Top 50 albums for the chart week of November 24, 2010, covering November 29, 2010.

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    Album cover for The Gift by Susan Boyle

    The Gift

    Susan Boyle

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    Album cover for Speak Now by Taylor Swift

    Speak Now

    Taylor Swift

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    3
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    Album cover for Man On The Moon II: The Legend Of Mr. Rager by Kid Cudi

    Man On The Moon II: The Legend Of Mr. Rager

    Kid Cudi

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    Album cover for NOW 36 by Various Artists

    NOW 36

    Various Artists

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    Album cover for Greatest Hits: The Ultimate Collection by Bon Jovi

    Greatest Hits: The Ultimate Collection

    Bon Jovi

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Notable Deaths

Bella Akhmadulina

2010Bella Akhmadulina, Russian poet and author (born 1937)[†]

Izabella Akhatovna Akhmadulina was a Soviet and Russian poet, short story writer, and translator, known for her apolitical writing stance. She was part of the Russian New Wave literary movement. She was cited by Joseph Brodsky as the best living poet in the Russian language. She is known in Russia as "the voice of the epoch".

Mario Monicelli

2010Mario Monicelli, Italian director and screenwriter (born 1915)[†]

Mario Alberto Ettore Monicelli was an Italian film director and screenwriter, one of the masters of the commedia all'italiana. He was nominated six times for an Oscar, and received the Golden Lion for his career.

S. Sivanayagam

2010S. Sivanayagam, Sri Lankan journalist and author (born 1930)[†]

Subramaniam Sivanayagam was a Sri Lankan journalist, author and editor of the Saturday Review, Tamil Nation and Hot Spring.

Stephen Solarz

2010Stephen J. Solarz, American academic and politician (born 1940)[†]

Stephen Joshua Solarz was an American educator and politician who served as a United States representative from New York until his political career ended in the wake of the House banking scandal in 1992.

Maurice Wilkes

2010Maurice Wilkes, English physicist and computer scientist (born 1913)[†]

Sir Maurice Vincent Wilkes was an English computer scientist who designed and helped build the Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator (EDSAC), one of the earliest stored-program computers, and who invented microprogramming, a method for using stored-program logic to operate the control unit of a central processing unit's circuits. At the time of his death, Wilkes was an Emeritus Professor at the University of Cambridge.

Historical Context for November 29, 2010

In 2010, the world population was approximately 7,021,732,148 people[†]