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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.
Contents
1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 Holidays and observances 5 External links
Events 1812 - USS Constitution (Captain William Bainbridge ) captures HMS Java off Brazil after a three hour battle.
1813 - British soldiers burn Buffalo, New York during the War of 1812 .
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 - Texas is admitted as the 28th U.S. state .
1851 - The first American YMCA opens in Boston, Massachusetts .
1860 - The first British seagoing iron-clad warship , the HMS Warrior is launched.
1862 - The Battle of Chickasaw Bayou ends.
1876 - The Ashtabula River Railroad bridge disaster occurs, leaving 64 injured and 92 dead at Ashtabula, Ohio .
1890 - United States soldiers massacre more than 400 men, women and children of the Great Sioux Nation at Wounded Knee, South Dakota .
1911 - Sun Yat-sen becomes the first President of the Republic of China .
1913 - Seligs Polyscope Company releases The Unwelcome Throne motion picture .
1921 - William Lyon Mackenzie King becomes Prime Minister of Canada .
1930 - Sir Muhammad Iqbal 's presidential address in Allahabad introduces the Two-Nation Theory and outlines a vision for the creation of Pakistan .
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 .
1940 - World War II : In The Second Great Fire of London , 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 - Twenty-two people perish in the Hotel Roosevelt fire , the worst fire to occur in Liege since the Great Fire of 1901 .
1972 - An Eastern Air Lines Lockheed "Tristar " crashes on approach to Miami International Airport , Florida , killing 101.
1973 - The world was blessed by the birth of TJ COSTELLO
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 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 , tried to resign amidst corruption charges, but ended up being impeached.
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 chickens (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.
2002 - Cincinnati's Riverfront Stadium /Cinergy Field is demolished.
2006 - The FCC approved AT&T 's $86 million buyout of BellSouth .
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 (d. 1860 )
1808 - Andrew Johnson , 17th President of the United States (d. 1875 )
1809 - William Ewart Gladstone , Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1898 )
1816 - Carl Ludwig , German physician (d. 1895 )
1856 - Thomas Joannes Stieltjes , Dutch mathematician (d. 1894 )
1859 - Venustiano Carranza , 54th President of Mexico (d. 1920 )
1876 - Pablo Casals , Catalan musician (d. 1973 )
1881 - Jess Willard , American boxer (d. 1968 )
1896 - David Alfaro Siqueiros , Mexican painter (d. 1974 )
1899 - Nie Rongzhen , Chinese Communist military leader (d. 1992 )
1902 - Nels Stewart , National Hockey League player (d. 1957 )
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 )
1915 - Bill Osmanski , American football player (d. 1996 )
1917 - Tom Bradley , American politician (d. 1998 )
1917 - Ramanand Sagar , Indian film director (d. 2005 )
1920 - Viveca Lindfors , Swedish-American actress (d. 1995 )
1922 - William Gaddis , American writer (d. 1998 )
1927 - Andy Stanfield , American athlete (d. 1985 )
1928 - Bernard Cribbins , British actor
1931 - Prince Gu of Korea (d. 2005 )
1932 - Inga Swenson , American actress
1934 - Ed Flanders , American actor (d. 1995 )
1936 - Mary Tyler Moore , American actress
1936 - Ray Nitschke , American football player (d. 1998 )
1937 - Barbara Steele , British actress
1937 - Wayne Huizenga , American football team owner
1938 - Jon Voight , American actor
1941 - Ray Thomas , British musician (The Moody Blues )
1942 - Rick Danko , Canadian musician (The Band ) (d. 1999 )
1942 - Rajesh Khanna , Indian actor
1946 - Marianne Faithfull , British singer
1947 - Ted Danson , American actor
1947 - Cozy Powell , English rock drummer (d. 1998 )
1947 - Vincent Winter , British actor (d. 1998 )
1949 - Syed Kirmani , Indian cricket player
1951 - Yvonne Elliman , American disco singer
1952 - Gelsey Kirkland , American dancer
1953 - Stanley Tookie Williams , American author (d. 2005 )
1953 - Gali Atari , Israeli singer
1954 - Roger Voudouris , American singer
1954 - Prince Takamado of Japan (d. 2002 )
1956 - Fred MacAulay , Scottish comedian
1957 - Brad Grey , American film producer
1957 - Paul Rudnick , American screenwriter/playwright
1958 - Nancy J. Currie , American astronaut
1959 - Patricia Clarkson , American actress
1959 - Paula Poundstone , American comedian
1962 - Devon White , Jamaican baseball player
1962 - Blake Mitchell , American porn star
1963 - Francisco Bustamante , Filipino billiard player
1963 - Dave McKean , British artist and filmmaker
1963 - Sean Payton , American football coach
1965 - Dexter Holland , American musician (The Offspring )
1966 - Stefano Eranio , Italian footballer
1967 - Andy Wachowski , American director
1967 - Ashleigh Banfield , Canadian journalist
1967 - Chris Barnes , American singer
1969 - Jennifer Ehle , American actress
1970 - Aled Jones , Welsh singer
1970 - Kevin Weisman , American actor
1970 - Glen Phillips , American musician (Toad The Wet Sprocket )
1970 - Hidetoshi Mitsusada , Japanese racing driver
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
1974 - Mekhi Phifer , American actor
1976 - Katherine Moennig , American actress
1977 - Jimmy Journell , American baseball player
1978 - Alexis Amore , Peruvian pornographic actress
1978 - Kieron Dyer , British footballer
1978 - LaToya London , American singer
1979 - J.D. Harmeyer , American radio producer (The Howard Stern Show )
1979 - Justin Roberts , American wrestling announcer
1979 - Diego Luna , Mexican actor
1981 - Angela Via , American singer
1981 - Shizuka Arakawa , Japanese figure skater
1983 - Jessica Andrews , American country music artist
1988 - Samantha Lainez , Peruvian actress
1989 - Nathan Forbes , British footballer
1994 - Princess Kako of Akishino of Japan
Deaths 721 - Empress Gemmei of Japan (b. 661 )
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 )
1737 - Joseph Saurin , French mathematician (b. 1659 )
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 )
1960 - Philippe Panneton , Quebec physician, diplomat and writer (b. 1895 )
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 )
1993 - Frunzik Mkrtchyan , Soviet Armenian actor (b. 1930 )
1996 - Mireille , French singer and actress (b. 1906 )
1998 - Jean-Claude Forest , writer and illustrator of comics (Barbarella ) (b. 1930 )
1999 - Leon Radzinowicz , British criminologist (b. 1906 )
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 )
2004 - Ken Burkhart , American baseball player (b. 1915 )
2005 - Gerda Boyesen , Norwegian-born body psychotherapist (b. 1922 )
Holidays and observances
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