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What happend on 29. December in History
In our data base we found 255 events happened on 29. December:
• 721: Empress Gemmei of Japan (b. 661) [category: Deaths]
• 765: Ali Al-Ridha, Saudi Arabian 8th of the Twelve Imams (d. 818) [category: Births]
• 1170: Thomas Becket, English archbishop (b. 1118) [category: Deaths]
• 1170: Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, is assassinated inside Canterbury Cathedral by followers of King Henry II; he subsequently becomes a saint and martyr in the Anglican Church and the Catholic Church. [category: Events]
• 1563: Sebastian Castellio, French preacher and theologian (b. 1515) [category: Deaths]
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• 1634: John Albert Vasa, Polish cardinal (b. 1612) [category: Deaths]
• 1661: Antoine Girard de Saint-Amant, French poet (b. 1594) [category: Deaths]
• 1689: Thomas Sydenham, English physician (b. 1624) [category: Deaths]
• 1709: Elizabeth of Russia (d. 1762) [category: Births]
• 1721: Madame de Pompadour, French mistress of Louis XV of France (d. 1764) [category: Births]
• 1731: Brook Taylor, English mathematician (b. 1685) [category: Deaths]
• 1737: Joseph Saurin, French mathematician and minister (b. 1659) [category: Deaths]
• 1778: American Revolutionary War: 3,000 British soldiers under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Archibald Campbell capture Savannah, Georgia. [category: Events]
• 1785: Johan Herman Wessel, Norwegian poet (b. 1742) [category: Deaths]
• 1786: French Revolution: The Assembly of Notables is convened. [category: Events]
• 1796: Johann Christian Poggendorff, German physicist (d. 1877) [category: Births]
• 1800: Charles Goodyear, American inventor (d. 1860) [category: Births]
• 1808: Andrew Johnson, American politician, 17th President of the United States (d. 1875) [category: Births]
• 1809: William Ewart Gladstone, English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1898) [category: Births]
• 1812: The USS Constitution under the command of Captain William Bainbridge, captures the HMS Java off the coast of Brazil after a three hour battle. [category: Events]
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• 1813: British soldiers burn Buffalo, New York during the War of 1812. [category: Events]
• 1816: Carl Ludwig, German physician (d. 1895) [category: Births]
• 1825: Jacques-Louis David, French painter (b. 1748) [category: Deaths]
• 1835: The Treaty of New Echota is signed, ceding all the lands of the Cherokee east of the Mississippi River to the United States. [category: Events]
• 1843: Elisabeth of Wied (d. 1916) [category: Births]
• 1845: In accordance with International Boundary delimitation, United States annexes the Republic of Texas, following the manifest destiny doctrine. [category: Events]
• 1851: The first American YMCA opens in Boston, Massachusetts. [category: Events]
• 1856: Thomas Joannes Stieltjes, Dutch mathematician (d. 1894) [category: Births]
• 1860: The first British seagoing ironclad warship, HMS Warrior is launched. [category: Events]
• 1870: Albert Amrhein, German rugby player [category: Births]
• 1874: François Brandt, Dutch rower (d. 1949) [category: Births]
• 1876: Pau Casals, Catalan cellist and conductor (d. 1973) [category: Births]
• 1876: The Ashtabula River Railroad Disaster occurs, leaving 64 injured and 92 dead at Ashtabula, Ohio. [category: Events]
• 1877: Max Hess, American gymnast (d. 1969) [category: Births]
• 1879: Billy Mitchell, American general (d. 1936) [category: Births]
• 1881: Jess Willard, American boxer (d. 1968) [category: Births]
• 1881: Scott Leary, American swimmer (d. 1958) [category: Births]
• 1885: Roman von Ungern-Sternberg, Austrian-Russian general (d. 1921) [category: Births]
• 1890: United States soldiers kill more than 200 Oglala Lakota people with four Hotchkiss guns in the Wounded Knee Massacre. [category: Events]
• 1891: Leopold Kronecker, German mathematician (b. 1823) [category: Deaths]
• 1894: Christina Rossetti, English poet (b. 1830) [category: Deaths]
• 1896: David Alfaro Siqueiros, Mexican painter (d. 1974) [category: Births]
• 1897: William James Linton, English-American painter, author, and activist (b. 1812) [category: Deaths]
• 1899: Nie Rongzhen, Chinese military leader (d. 1992) [category: Births]
• 1902: Nels Stewart, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1957) [category: Births]
• 1904: Kuvempu, Indian author and poet (d. 1994) [category: Births]
• 1908: Helmut Gollwitzer, German theologian and author (d. 1993) [category: Births]
• 1910: Ronald Coase, English-American economist, Nobel Prize laureate [category: Births]
• 1910: Reginald Doherty, English tennis player (b. 1872) [category: Deaths]
• 1911: Mongolia gains independence from the Qing Dynasty. [category: Events]
• 1911: Sun Yat-sen becomes the provisional President of the Republic of China; he formally takes office on January 1, 1912. [category: Events]
• 1914: Albert Tucker, Australian painter (d. 1999) [category: Births]
• 1914: Billy Tipton, American pianist (d. 1989) [category: Births]
• 1914: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, the first novel by James Joyce, is serialized in The Egoist. [category: Events]
• 1915: Bill Osmanski, American football player (d. 1996) [category: Births]
• 1916: Grigori Rasputin, Russian monk (b. 1869) [category: Deaths]
• 1917: Ramanand Sagar, Indian director and producer (d. 2005) [category: Births]
• 1917: Tom Bradley, American politician, 38th Mayor of Los Angeles (d. 1998) [category: Births]
• 1920: Viveca Lindfors, Swedish-American actress (d. 1995) [category: Births]
• 1921: Robert C. Baker, American chef, invented the chicken nugget (d. 2006) [category: Births]
• 1922: William Gaddis, American author (d. 1998) [category: Births]
• 1923: Shlomo Venezia, Greek-Italian author and holocaust survivor (d. 2012) [category: Births]
• 1924: Joe Allbritton, American businessman and publisher, founded the Allbritton Communications Company (d. 2012) [category: Births]
• 1924: Carl Spitteler, Swiss poet, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1845) [category: Deaths]
• 1925: Pete Dye, American designer [category: Births]
• 1926: Rainer Maria Rilke, Austrian author and poet (b. 1875) [category: Deaths]
• 1927: Andy Stanfield, American sprinter (d. 1985) [category: Births]
• 1928: Bernard Cribbins, English actor and singer [category: Births]
• 1929: Wilhelm Maybach, German engineer and businessman, founded Maybach (b. 1846) [category: Deaths]
• 1930: Sir Muhammad Iqbal's presidential address in Allahabad introduces the Two nation theory and outlines a vision for the creation of Pakistan. [category: Events]
• 1931: Yi Gu, Japanese-American son of Bangja, Crown Princess Euimin of Korea (d. 2005) [category: Births]
• 1932: Inga Swenson, American actress [category: Births]
• 1934: Ed Flanders, American actor (d. 1995) [category: Births]
• 1934: Alma Tell, American actress (b. 1898) [category: Deaths]
• 1934: Japan renounces the Washington Naval Treaty of 1922 and the London Naval Treaty of 1930. [category: Events]
• 1936: Mary Tyler Moore, American actress [category: Births]
• 1936: Ray Nitschke, American football player (d. 1998) [category: Births]
• 1937: Barbara Steele, English actress [category: Births]
• 1937: Wayne Huizenga, American businessman, founded AutoNation [category: Births]
• 1937: Don Marquis, American author (b. 1878) [category: Deaths]
• 1937: The Irish Free State is replaced by a new state called Ireland with the adoption of a new constitution. [category: Events]
• 1938: Harvey Smith, English horse rider [category: Births]
• 1938: Jon Voight, American actor [category: Births]
• 1939: First flight of the Consolidated B-24 Liberator. [category: Events]
• 1940: World War II: In the Second Great Fire of London, the Luftwaffe fire-bombs London, England, UK, killing almost 200 civilians. [category: Events]
• 1941: Ray Thomas, English singer-songwriter (The Moody Blues) [category: Births]
• 1941: Tullio Levi-Civita, Italian mathematician (b. 1873) [category: Deaths]
• 1942: Dinah Christie, English-Canadian actress and singer [category: Births]
• 1942: Rajesh Khanna, Indian actor, singer, and producer (d. 2012) [category: Births]
• 1942: Rick Danko, Canadian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (The Band) (d. 1999) [category: Births]
• 1943: Bill Aucoin, American talent manager (d. 2010) [category: Births]
• 1946: Marianne Faithfull, English singer-songwriter and actress [category: Births]
• 1947: Cozy Powell, English drummer (Emerson, Lake & Powell, The Jeff Beck Group, Rainbow, Whitesnake, and Black Sabbath) (d. 1998) [category: Births]
• 1947: Richard Crandall, American physicist and computer scientist (d. 2012) [category: Births]
• 1947: Ted Danson, American actor and producer [category: Births]
• 1947: Vincent Winter, Scottish actor (d. 1998) [category: Births]
• 1948: Peter Robinson, Irish politician, 3rd First Minister of Northern Ireland [category: Births]
• 1949: David Topliss, English rugby player [category: Births]
• 1949: Syed Kirmani, Indian cricketer [category: Births]
• 1949: KC2XAK of Bridgeport, Connecticut becomes the first Ultra high frequency (UHF) television station to operate a daily schedule. [category: Events]
• 1950: Jon Polito, American actor [category: Births]
• 1951: Georges Thurston, Canadian singer-songwriter (d. 2007) [category: Births]
• 1951: Yvonne Elliman, American singer-songwriter and pianist [category: Births]
• 1952: Gelsey Kirkland, American ballerina [category: Births]
• 1952: Fletcher Henderson, American pianist, composer, and bandleader (b. 1897) [category: Deaths]
• 1953: Alan Rusbridger, Zambian-English journalist [category: Births]
• 1953: Gali Atari, Israeli singer and actress [category: Births]
• 1953: Stanley Williams, American gang leader, co-founded the Crips (d. 2005) [category: Births]
• 1953: Violet MacMillan, American actress (b. 1887) [category: Deaths]
• 1954: Albrecht Böttcher, German mathematician [category: Births]
• 1954: Prince Takamado of Japan (d. 2002) [category: Births]
• 1954: Roger Voudouris, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2003) [category: Births]
• 1956: Fred MacAulay, Scottish comedian and radio host [category: Births]
• 1957: Brad Grey, American film producer [category: Births]
• 1957: Oliver Hirschbiegel, German director [category: Births]
• 1957: Paul Rudnick, American author and screenwriter [category: Births]
• 1958: Nancy J. Currie, American astronaut [category: Births]
• 1959: Patricia Clarkson, American actress [category: Births]
• 1959: Paula Poundstone, American comedian and actress [category: Births]
• 1959: Robin Milford, English composer (b. 1903) [category: Deaths]
• 1959: Physicist Richard Feynman gives a speech entitled "There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom", which is regarded as the birth of nanotechnology. [category: Events]
• 1959: The Lisbon Metro begins operation. [category: Events]
• 1960: David Boon, Australian cricketer [category: Births]
• 1960: Katerina Didaskalou, Greek actress [category: Births]
• 1960: Matthew Kandegas, American painter [category: Births]
• 1960: Thomas Lubanga Dyilo, Congolese militia leader, founded the Union of Congolese Patriots [category: Births]
• 1960: Eden Phillpotts, English author and poet (b. 1862) [category: Deaths]
• 1961: Jim Reid, Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Jesus and Mary Chain and Freeheat) [category: Births]
• 1961: Kevin Granata, American educator, victim of the Virginia Tech massacre (d. 2007) [category: Births]
• 1962: Devon White, Jamaican baseball player [category: Births]
• 1963: Dave McKean, English illustrator, photographer, director, and pianist [category: Births]
• 1963: Des Foy, English rugby player [category: Births]
• 1963: Francisco Bustamante, Filipino Pool player [category: Births]
• 1963: Liisa Savijarvi, Canadian skier [category: Births]
• 1963: Sean Payton, American football player and coach [category: Births]
• 1965: Dexter Holland, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Offspring) [category: Births]
• 1966: Laurent Boudouani French boxer [category: Births]
• 1966: Martin Offiah, English rugby player [category: Births]
• 1966: Stefano Eranio, Italian footballer [category: Births]
• 1967: Andy Wachowski, American director, screenwriter, and producer [category: Births]
• 1967: Ashleigh Banfield, Canadian journalist [category: Births]
• 1967: Chris Barnes, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Six Feet Under, Cannibal Corpse, and Torture Killer) [category: Births]
• 1967: Evan Seinfeld, American bass player, actor, and director (Biohazard) [category: Births]
• 1967: Paul Whiteman, American violinist, composer, and conductor (b. 1890) [category: Deaths]
• 1968: Austin Farrer, English theologian and philosopher (b. 1904) [category: Deaths]
• 1969: Allan McNish, Scottish race car driver [category: Births]
• 1969: Jennifer Ehle, American-English actress [category: Births]
• 1970: Aled Jones, Welsh singer [category: Births]
• 1970: Glen Phillips, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Toad the Wet Sprocket and Works Progress Administration) [category: Births]
• 1970: Hidetoshi Mitsusada, Japanese race car driver [category: Births]
• 1970: Kevin Weisman, American actor [category: Births]
• 1970: Marie Menken, American director and painter (b. 1909) [category: Deaths]
• 1971: Eom Sang Hyeon, South Korean voice actor [category: Births]
• 1971: Margot Thien, American swimmer [category: Births]
• 1972: Asheru, American rapper [category: Births]
• 1972: Jason Kreis, American soccer player [category: Births]
• 1972: Jude Law, English actor, director, and producer [category: Births]
• 1972: Leonor Varela, Chilean-American actress [category: Births]
• 1972: Chrysostomos Papasarantopoulos, Greek missionary (b. 1903) [category: Deaths]
• 1972: An Eastern Air Lines Flight 401 (a Lockheed L-1011 TriStar) crashes on approach to Miami International Airport, Florida, killing 101. [category: Events]
• 1973: Pimp C, American rapper and producer (UGK) (d. 2007) [category: Births]
• 1973: Theo Epstein, American businessman [category: Births]
• 1974: Mekhi Phifer, American actor [category: Births]
• 1974: Richie Sexson, American baseball player [category: Births]
• 1974: Ryan Shore, Canadian composer and producer [category: Births]
• 1974: Twinkle Khanna, Indian actress and producer [category: Births]
• 1975: Jaret Wright, American baseball player [category: Births]
• 1975: Shawn Hatosy, American actor [category: Births]
• 1975: A bomb explodes at LaGuardia Airport in New York, New York, killing 11 people and injuring 74. [category: Events]
• 1976: Danny McBride, American actor, screenwriter, and producer [category: Births]
• 1976: Filip Kuba, Czech ice hockey player [category: Births]
• 1976: Ivo Van Damme, Belgian runner (b. 1954) [category: Deaths]
• 1977: Jimmy Journell, American baseball player [category: Births]
• 1977: Katherine Moennig, American actress [category: Births]
• 1978: Alexis Amore, Peruvian porn actress [category: Births]
• 1978: Danny Higginbotham, English footballer [category: Births]
• 1978: Kieron Dyer, English footballer [category: Births]
• 1978: LaToya London, American singer and actress [category: Births]
• 1978: Matthew Carr, Australian footballer [category: Births]
• 1978: Pierre Dagenais, Canadian ice hockey player [category: Births]
• 1978: Steve Kemp, English drummer (Hard-Fi) [category: Births]
• 1979: Ariel Schrag, American cartoonist and screenwriter [category: Births]
• 1979: Diego Luna, Mexican actor [category: Births]
• 1979: Mitsuhiro Ishida, Japanese mixed martial artist [category: Births]
• 1980: Nadezhda Mandelstam, Russian author and educator (b. 1899) [category: Deaths]
• 1980: Tim Hardin, American singer-songwriter (b. 1941) [category: Deaths]
• 1981: Shaun Suisham, American football player [category: Births]
• 1981: Shizuka Arakawa, Japanese figure skater [category: Births]
• 1981: Miroslav Krleža, Croatian author, poet, and playwright (b. 1893) [category: Deaths]
• 1982: Alison Brie, American actress [category: Births]
• 1982: Dale Morris, Australian footballer [category: Births]
• 1982: Gabrielle Destroismaisons, Canadian singer [category: Births]
• 1983: Gonzalo Olave, Chilean actor (d. 2009) [category: Births]
• 1983: James Kelly, Australian footballer [category: Births]
• 1983: Jessica Andrews, American singer-songwriter [category: Births]
• 1985: Alexa Ray Joel, American singer-songwriter and pianist [category: Births]
• 1986: Joe Anyon, English footballer [category: Births]
• 1986: Kim Ok-bin, South Korean actress and singer [category: Births]
• 1986: Andrei Tarkovsky, Russian director (b. 1932) [category: Deaths]
• 1986: Harold Macmillan, English captain and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1894) [category: Deaths]
• 1987: Yuhi Sekiguchi, Japanese race car driver [category: Births]
• 1988: Eric Berry, American football player [category: Births]
• 1988: Ágnes Szávay, Hungarian tennis player [category: Births]
• 1988: Mike Beuttler, Egyptian race car driver (b. 1940) [category: Deaths]
• 1989: Jane Levy, American actress [category: Births]
• 1989: Left Brain, American rapper and producer (Odd Future and MellowHype) [category: Births]
• 1989: Riots break-out after Hong Kong decides to forcibly repatriate Vietnamese refugees. [category: Events]
• 1990: Allen Kim, South Korean singer, dancer, and actor (U-KISS and Xing) [category: Births]
• 1992: Fernando Collor de Mello, president of Brazil, tries to resign amidst corruption charges, but is then impeached. [category: Events]
• 1993: Frunzik Mkrtchyan, Russian-Armenian actor (b. 1930) [category: Deaths]
• 1994: Princess Kako of Akishino [category: Births]
• 1995: Rina Ikoma, Japanese singer (Nogizaka46) [category: Births]
• 1995: Ross Lynch, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (R5) [category: Births]
• 1995: Lita Grey, American actress (b. 1908) [category: Deaths]
• 1996: Mireille Hartuch, French singer-songwriter and actress (b. 1906) [category: Deaths]
• 1996: Guatemala and leaders of Guatemalan National Revolutionary Unity sign a peace accord ending a 36-year civil war. [category: Events]
• 1997: Hong Kong begins to kill all the nation's 1.25 million chickens to stop the spread of a potentially deadly influenza strain. [category: Events]
• 1998: Jean-Claude Forest, French writer and illustrator (b. 1930) [category: Deaths]
• 1998: Leaders of the Khmer Rouge apologize for the 1970s genocide in Cambodia that claimed over 1 million lives. [category: Events]
• 1999: Leon Radzinowicz, Polish-English criminologist and academic (b. 1906) [category: Deaths]
• 2001: Cássia Eller, Brazilian singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1962) [category: Deaths]
• 2001: Takashi Asahina, Japanese conductor (b. 1908) [category: Deaths]
• 2001: A fire at the Mesa Redonda shopping center in Lima, Peru, kills at least 291. [category: Events]
• 2003: Bob Monkhouse, English comedian, actor, and game show host (b. 1928) [category: Deaths]
• 2003: Dinsdale Landen, English actor (b. 1932) [category: Deaths]
• 2003: Earl Hindman, American actor (b. 1942) [category: Deaths]
• 2003: The last known speaker of Akkala Sami dies, rendering the language extinct. [category: Events]
• 2004: Julius Axelrod, American biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1912) [category: Deaths]
• 2004: Ken Burkhart, American baseball player (b. 1915) [category: Deaths]
• 2004: Liddy Holloway, New Zealand actress (b. 1947) [category: Deaths]
• 2005: Gerda Boyesen, Norwegian-English psychotherapist (b. 1922) [category: Deaths]
• 2007: Kevin Greening, English radio host (b. 1962) [category: Deaths]
• 2007: Phil O'Donnell, Scottish footballer (b. 1972) [category: Deaths]
• 2008: Freddie Hubbard, American trumpet player and composer (b. 1938) [category: Deaths]
• 2009: Akmal Shaikh, Pakistani-English businessman and drug trafficker (b. 1956) [category: Deaths]
• 2009: Dr. Death Steve Williams, American wrestler and football player (b. 1960) [category: Deaths]
• 2010: Bill Erwin, American actor (b. 1914) [category: Deaths]
• 2011: Tyron Perez, Filipino actor and model (b. 1985) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Ben Overton, American judge (b. 1926) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Bruce Stark, American cartoonist (b. 1933) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Edward Meneeley, American painter and sculptor (b. 1927) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: George Hazlett, Scottish footballer (b. 1923) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Ignacy Tokarczuk, Polish archbishop (b. 1918) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Mike Auldridge, American singer and guitarist (The Seldom Scene and Chesapeake) (b. 1938) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Paulo Rocha, Portuguese director and screenwriter (b. 1935) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Roland Griffiths-Marsh, Australian soldier and author (b. 1923) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Salvador Reyes Monteón, Mexican footballer (b. 1936) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Tony Greig, South African-English cricketer (b. 1946) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: William Rees-Mogg, English journalist (b. 1928) [category: Deaths]
• _: Christian Feast Day: [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Constitution Day (Ireland) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Independence Day (Mongolia) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: The fifth day of Christmas (Western Christianity) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Thomas Becket [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Trophimus of Arles [category: Holidays and observances]