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December 29 is the 363rd day of the year (364th in Leap Year s) in the Gregorian Calendar , with 2 days remaining.
Events
- 1170 - Thomas Becket is slain in his own cathedral by knights eager to please Henry II Of England .
- soldiers burn Buffalo, New York .
- 1835 - The Treaty Of New Echota is signed, ceding all the lands of the Cherokee east of the Mississippi River to the United States .
- 1845 - Republic Of Texas and United States agree to Annexation of Texas . 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.
- ends.
- 1876 - The Ashtabula River Railroad Bridge Disaster , 64 injured, 92 dead at Ashtabula, Ohio .
- soldiers massacre 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 - Seligs Polyscope Company releases '' The Unwelcome Throne '', the first serial Motion Picture .
- 1921 - William Lyon Mackenzie King becomes Prime Minister Of Canada .
- 1934 - The first college Basketball game at New York City 's Madison Square Garden 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 is replaced by a new state called Ireland with the adoption of a new Constitution .
- , the Luftwaffe firebombs City Of London , killing almost 200 civilians.
- 1949 - KC2XAK of Bridgeport, Connecticut becomes the first Ultra High Frequency (UHF) Television station to operate a daily schedule.
- 1963 - 22 people perish in the Hotel Roosevelt Fire , the worst fire to occur in Jacksonville, Florida since the Great Fire Of 1901 .
- 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.
- 1979 - Closing night of the Concerts For The People Of Kampuchea at the Hammersmith Odeon ; a benefit concert for the citizens of Cambodia who were victims of dictator Pol Pot
- 1987 - Yuri Romanenko of USSR returns to Earth after 326 days in Space .
- 1989 - Václav Havel becomes President of Czechoslovakia .
- 1989 - Riots break-out after Hong Kong decides to forcibly repatriate Vietnam ese Refugee s.
- 1989 - On the final day of trading for the year and decade, the Japan ese 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 , is completed.
- 1996 - Guatemala and leaders of Guatemalan National Revolutionary Union sign a peace accord ending a 36 year Civil War .
- 1997 - Hong Kong begins to kill all the nation's Chicken s (1.25 million) to stop the spread of a potentially deadly Influenza strain.
- 1998 - Leaders of the Khmer Rouge apologize for the 1970s Genocide in Cambodia that claimed over 1 million.
- 2001 - A massive fire in the historic district of downtown Lima , Peru kills at least 274 people.
Births
- 1709 - Empress Elizabeth Of Russia (d. 1762 )
- 1721 - Madame De Pompadour , mistress of King Louis XV Of France (d. 1764 )
- 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 )
- 1816 - Carl Ludwig , German physician (b. 1895 )
- 1876 - Pablo Casals , Catalan cellist and conductor (d. 1973 )
- 1881 - Jess Willard , American boxer (d. 1968 )
- 1899 - Nie Rongzhen , Chinese Communist military leader (d. 1992 )
- 1908 - Helmut Gollwitzer , German theologian (d. 1993 )
- 1910 - Ronald Coase , British economist, recipient Bank Of Sweden Prize
- 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 )
- 1928 - Bernard Cribbins , British actor
- 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
- 1937 - Wayne Huizenga , owner of the Miami Dolphins
- 1938 - Jon Voight , American actor
- 1941 - Ray Thomas , British musician ( The Moody Blues )
- 1942 - Rick Danko , Canadian musician ( The Band ) (d. 1999 )
- 1946 - Marianne Faithfull , British singer
- 1947 - Ted Danson , American actor
- 1951 - Yvonne Elliman , American disco singer
- 1952 - Gelsey Kirkland , American dancer
- 1953 - Gali Atari , Israeli singer
- 1954 - Roger Voudouris , American singer and songwriter
- 1954 - Prince Norihito of Japan (d. 2002 )
- 1957 - Brad Grey , American film & television producer
- 1959 - Patricia Clarkson , American actress
- 1963 - Francisco Bustamante , Filipino billiard player
- 1963 - Dave McKean , British artist and filmmaker
- 1965 - Dexter Holland , American singer and guitarist ( The Offspring )
- 1967 - Andy Wachowski , American director
- 1967 - Ashleigh Banfield , Canadian journalist
- 1970 - Aled Jones , Welsh singer and television presenter
- 1970 - Kevin Weisman , American actor
- 1970 - Glen Phillips , American singer/songwriter ( Toad The Wet Sprocket )
- 1972 - Evan Seinfeld , American musician ( Biohazard ) and actor
- 1972 - Jason Kreis , American soccer player
- 1972 - Jude Law , British actor
- 1973 - Theo Epstein , American baseball general manager
- 1974 - Richie Sexson , American baseball player
- 1976 - Katherine Moennig , American actress
- 1978 - Alexis Amore , Peruvian actress, dancer, and model
- 1978 - Kieron Dyer , British footballer
- 1978 - LaToya London , American singer
- 1981 - Angela Via , American singer
- 1981 - Shizuka Arakawa , Japanese figure skater
- 1994 - Princess Kako of Japan
Deaths
- 1170 - Thomas Becket , Archbishop Of Canterbury (assassinated) (b. 1118 )
- 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 )
- 1929 - Wilhelm Maybach , German automobile designer (b. 1846 )
- 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
External links
December 28 - December 30 - November 29 - January 29 -- Listing Of All Days
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