December 29
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December 29 is the 363rd day of the year (364th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 2 days remaining.
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Events
- 1170 - Thomas Becket is slain in his own cathedral on orders from Henry II of England.
- 1813 - War of 1812: British soldiers burn Buffalo, New York.
- 1845 - Texas is admitted as the 28th U.S. state.
- 1851 - The first American-based YMCA opens, in Boston, Massachusetts
- 1860 - The first British seagoing iron-clad warship, the HMS Warrior is launched.
- 1862 - American Civil War: End of the Battle of Chickasaw Bayou.
- 1876 - The Ashtabula River Railroad bridge disaster, 64 injured, 92 dead at Ashtabula, Ohio.
- 1890 - Wounded Knee Massacre: The United States soldiers massacred over 400 men, women and children of the Great Sioux Nation at Wounded Knee, South Dakota.
- 1891 - Thomas Edison patents the radio.
- 1911 - Sun Yat-sen becomes the first President of the Republic of China
- 1913 - The first serial motion picture, The Unwelcome Throne is released by Seligs Polyscope Company.
- 1921 - William Lyon Mackenzie King becomes Prime Minister of Canada
- 1934 - The first college basketball game at Madison Square Garden in New York City is played, between the University of Notre Dame and New York University
- 1934 - Japan renounces the Washington Naval Treaty of 1922 and the London Naval Treaty of 1930.
- 1937 - The Irish Free State was replaced by a new state called Ireland when a new constitution was adopted.
- 1940 - Battle of Britain: Luftwaffe firebombs London, killing almost 3000 civilians
- 1949 - KC2XAK of Bridgeport, Connecticut becomes the first Ultra high frequency (UHF) television station to operate a daily schedule.
- 1972 - An Eastern Airlines Lockheed Tristar crashed on approach to Miami International Airport, Florida, killing 101
- 1975 - A bomb explodes at New York City's LaGuardia Airport killing 11.
- 1987 - Yuri Romanenko of USSR remained in space for 326 days and came back to Earth on this day that year.
- 1989 - Václav Havel becomes President of Czechoslovakia
- 1989 - Riots break-out after Hong Kong decides to forcibly repatriate Vietnamese refugees.
- 1989 - On the final day of trading for the year and decade, the Japanese Nikkei 225 Average closes at an all-time high of 38,915.87.
- 1992 - Fernando Collor de Mello, president of Brazil, resigned.
- 1993 - Construction of the Tian Tan Buddha, the world's tallest outdoor bronze statue of the seated Buddha, was completed.
- 1996 - Guatemala and leaders of Guatemalan National Revolutionary Union sign a peace accord that ends a 36 year civil war.
- 1997 - Hong Kong begins to kill all the nation's chickens (1.25 million) to stop the spread of a potentially deadly influenza strain.
- 1998 - Leaders of the Khmer Rouge apologize for the genocide in Cambodia that claimed over 1 million in the 1970s.
Births
- 1709 - Empress Elizabeth of Russia (d. 1762)
- 1796 - Johann Christian Poggendorff, German physicist (d. 1877)
- 1800 - Charles Goodyear, American inventor and businessman (d. 1860)
- 1808 - Andrew Johnson, 17th President of the United States (d. 1875)
- 1809 - William Ewart Gladstone, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1897)
- 1840 - Anton Dohrn, German zoologist (d. 1909)
- 1876 - Pablo Casals, Catalan cellist and conductor (d. 1973)
- 1881 - Jess Willard, American boxer (d. 1968)
- 1908 - Helmut Gollwitzer, German theologian (d. 1993)
- 1910 - Ronald Coase, British economist, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1914 - Billy Tipton, American musician (d. 1989)
- 1914 - Albert Tucker, Australian artist (d 1999)
- 1917 - Tom Bradley, Mayor of Los Angeles, California (d. 1998)
- 1927 - Andy Stanfield, American athlete d. (1985)
- 1931 - Prince Gu of Korea (d. 2005)
- 1934 - Tom Jarriel, American correspondent
- 1936 - Mary Tyler Moore, American actress
- 1936 - Ray Nitschke, American football player (d. 1998)
- 1937 - Barbara Steele, British actress
- 1938 - Jon Voight, American actor
- 1942 - Rick Danko, Canadian musician (The Band) (d. 1999)
- 1946 - Marianne Faithfull, English singer
- 1947 - Ted Danson, American actor
- 1952 - Gelsey Kirkland, American dancer
- 1953 - Gali Atari, Israeli singer
- 1954 - Roger Voudouris, American singer and songwriter
- 1963 - Francisco Bustamante, Filipino billiard player
- 1963 - Dave McKean, English artist and filmmaker
- 1965 - Dexter Holland, American singer and guitarist (The Offspring)
- 1967 - Andy Wachowski, American director
- 1970 - Kevin Weisman, American actor
- 1970 - Frankie Dettori, Italian jockey
- 1972 - Jason Kreis, American soccer player
- 1972 - Jude Law, English actor
- 1973 - Theo Epstein, Boston Red Sox general manager
- 1974 - Richie Sexson, baseball player
- 1978 - Alexis Amore, Peruvian pornographic actress, exotic dancer and model
- 1981 - Angela Via, American singer
Deaths
- 1170 - Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury (assassinated)
- 1563 - Sebastian Castellio, French theologian (b. 1515)
- 1634 - John Albert Vasa, Polish bishop (b. 1612)
- 1661 - Antoine Gérard de Saint-Amant, French poet (b. 1594)
- 1689 - Thomas Sydenham, English physician (b. 1624)
- 1731 - Brook Taylor, English mathematician (b. 1685)
- 1785 - Johan Herman Wessel, Norwegian poet (b. 1742)
- 1825 - Jacques-Louis David, French painter (b. 1748)
- 1891 - Leopold Kronecker, mathematician (b. 1823)
- 1894 - Christina Rossetti, English poet (b. 1830)
- 1916 - Grigori Rasputin, Russian monk (b. 1869)
- 1924 - Carl Spitteler, Swiss writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1845)
- 1926 - Rainer Maria Rilke, Austrian writer (b. 1875)
- 1937 - Don Marquis, American author (b. 1878)
- 1960 - Eden Phillpotts, British writer (b. 1862)
- 1967 - Paul Whiteman, American musician and conductor (b. 1890)
- 1980 - Tim Hardin, American musician (b. 1941)
- 1980 - Nadezhda Mandelstam, Russian writer (b. 1899)
- 1986 - Harold Macmillan, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1894)
- 2003 - Earl Hindman, American actor (lung cancer) (b. 1942)
- 2003 - Dinsdale Landen, English actor (cancer) (b. 1932)
- 2003 - Bob Monkhouse, English comedian and game show host (b. 1928)
- 2004 - Julius Axelrod, American biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1912)
- 2004 - Liddy Holloway, New Zealand actress (b. 1947)
Holidays and observances
- The fourth day of Christmas in Western Christianity
External links
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