December 29 History

December 29 History

December 29 is the 363rd day of the year (364th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. Two days remain until the end of the year.

Our aim is to enhance the knowledge of human beings. We will have 7 years of history on this side. The history of each particular day by date is what happened on a date. The date of death of any person and special person will be reported. If anyone wants to gain this knowledge then please visit our web site. The limit of your knowledge will increase greatly.

আমাদের উদ্দেশ্য হলো মানুয়ের জ্ঞানের পরিধি বাড়ানো। আমাদের এই সাইডে থাকবে ১ বছরের সমস্থ ঘটে যাওয়া ইতিহাস। তারিখ অনুসারে প্রতিটি বিশেষ দিনের  ইতিহাস কোন তারিখে কি ঘটেছিল। কোন ব্যাক্তির জন্য এবং বিশেষ ব্যাক্তির মৃত্যর তারিখ জানানো হবে। যদি কোন মানুষ এই জ্ঞান অর্জন করতে চায় তাহলে আমাদের এই ওয়েবসাইডটি ভিজিট করুন । আপনার জ্ঞানের সীমা অনেক বৃদ্ধি পাবে। 

Events
875 – Charles the Bald, King of the Franks, is crowned as Holy Roman Emperor Charles II.
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 Communion and the Catholic Church.
1427 – The Ming army begins its withdraw from Hanoi, ending the Chinese domination of Đại Việt.
1503 – The Battle of Garigliano (1503) was fought between a Spanish army under Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba and a French army commanded by Ludovico II, Marquess of Saluzzo
1508 – Portuguese forces under the command of Francisco de Almeida attack Khambhat at the Battle of Dabul.
1778 – American Revolutionary War: Three thousand British soldiers under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Archibald Campbell capture Savannah, Georgia.
1812 – USS Constitution, under the command of Captain William Bainbridge, captures HMS Java off the coast of Brazil after a three-hour battle.
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 – In accordance with International Boundary delimitation, the United States annexes the Republic of Texas, following the manifest destiny doctrine. The Republic of Texas, which had been independent since the Texas Revolution of 1836, is thereupon admitted as the 28th U.S. state.
1851 – The first American YMCA opens in Boston, Massachusetts.
1860 – The launch of HMS Warrior, with her combination of screw propeller, iron hull and iron armour, renders all previous warships obsolete.
1874 – The military coup of Gen. Martinez Campos in Sagunto ends the failed First Spanish Republic and the monarchy is restored as Prince Alfonso is proclaimed King of Spain.
1876 – The Ashtabula River railroad disaster occurs, leaving 64 injured and 92 dead at Ashtabula, Ohio.
1890 – Wounded Knee Massacre on Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, 300 Lakota are killed by the United States 7th Cavalry Regiment.
1911 – Mongolia gains independence from the Qing dynasty, enthroning 9th Jebtsundamba Khutughtu as Khagan of Mongolia.
1911 – Sun Yat-sen becomes the provisional President of the Republic of China; he formally takes office on January 1, 1912.
1916 – A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, the first novel by James Joyce, was first published as a book by an American publishing house B. W. Huebschis after it had been serialized in The Egoist (1914–15).
1930 – Sir Muhammad Iqbal's presidential address in Allahabad introduces the two-nation theory and outlines a vision for the creation of Pakistan.
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 fire-bombs London, England, killing almost 200 civilians.
1949 – KC2XAK of Bridgeport, Connecticut becomes the first Ultra high frequency (UHF) television station to operate a daily schedule.
1972 – Eastern Air Lines Flight 401 (a Lockheed L-1011 TriStar) crashes in the Florida Everglades on approach to Miami International Airport, Florida, killing 101 of the 176 people on board.
1975 – A bomb explodes at LaGuardia Airport in New York City, killing 11 people and injuring 74.
1989 – Czech writer, philosopher and dissident Václav Havel is elected the first post-communist President of Czechoslovakia.
1992 – Fernando Collor de Mello, president of Brazil, tries to resign amidst corruption charges, but is then impeached.
1996 – Guatemala and leaders of Guatemalan National Revolutionary Unity sign a peace accord ending a 36-year civil war.
1997 – Hong Kong begins to kill all the city's 1.25 million chickens 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 one million lives.
2003 – The last known speaker of Akkala Sami dies, rendering the language extinct.
2006 – UK settles its Anglo-American loan, post-WWII loan debt.
2011 – Samoa and Tokelau skip straight to December 31 when moving from one side of the International Date Line to another.
2012 – A Tupolev Tu-204 airliner crashes in a ditch between the airport fence and the M3 highway after overshooting a runway at Vnukovo International Airport in Moscow, Russia, killing five people and leaving three others critically injured.
2013 – A suicide bomb attack at the Volgograd-1 railway station in the southern Russian city of Volgograd kills at least 18 people and wounds 40 others.

Births
765 – Ali al-Ridha, Arab scholar and imam (d. 818)
1019 – Munjong, Korean ruler (d. 1083)
1536 – Henry VI, German nobleman (d. 1572)
1550 – García de Silva Figueroa, Spanish diplomat and traveller (d. 1624)
1633 – Johannes Zollikofer, Swiss vicar (d. 1692)
1709 – Elizabeth Petrovna, Russian empress (d. 1762)
1746 – Saverio Cassar, Maltese priest and rebel leader (d. 1805)
1766 – Charles Macintosh, Scottish chemist and the inventor of waterproof fabric (d. 1843)
1796 – Johann Christian Poggendorff, German physicist and journalist (d. 1877)
1800 – Charles Goodyear, American chemist and engineer (d. 1860)
1808 – Andrew Johnson, American general and politician, 17th President of the United States (d. 1875)
1809 – William Ewart Gladstone, English lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1898)
1816 – Carl Ludwig, German physician and physiologist (d. 1895)
1844 – Womesh Chunder Bonnerjee, Indian barrister and was the first president of Indian National Congress. (d. 1906)
1855 – August Kitzberg, Estonian author and poet (d. 1927)
1856 – Thomas Joannes Stieltjes, Dutch-French mathematician and academic (d. 1894)
1859 – Venustiano Carranza, Mexican soldier and politician, 37th President of Mexico (d. 1920)
1874 – François Brandt, Dutch rower and bishop (d. 1949)
1876 – Pablo Casals, Catalan cellist and conductor (d. 1973)
1879 – Billy Mitchell, American general and pilot (d. 1936)
1881 – Jess Willard, American boxer (d. 1968)
1885 – Roman von Ungern-Sternberg, Austrian-Russian general (d. 1921)
1886 – Norman Hallows, English runner and captain (d. 1968)
1895 – Oswald Freisler, German lawyer and author (d. 1939)
1896 – David Alfaro Siqueiros, Mexican painter (d. 1974)
1899 – Nie Rongzhen, Chinese general and politician, Mayor of Beijing (d. 1992)
1902 – Nels Stewart, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1957)
1903 – Candido Portinari, Brazilian painter (d. 1962)
1904 – Kuvempu, Indian author and poet (d. 1994)
1908 – Helmut Gollwitzer, German theologian and author (d. 1993)
1908 – Magnus Pyke, English scientist and author (d. 1992)
1910 – Ronald Coase, English-American economist, author, and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2013)
1911 – Klaus Fuchs, German physicist and spy (d. 1988)
1914 – Zainul Abedin, Bangladeshi painter and academic (d. 1976)
1914 – Billy Tipton, American pianist and saxophonist (d. 1989)
1914 – Albert Tucker, Australian painter and illustrator (d. 1999)
1915 – Bill Osmanski, American football player and coach (d. 1996)
1915 – Robert Ruark, American hunter and author (d. 1965)
1915 – Jo Van Fleet, American actress (d. 1996)
1917 – Tom Bradley, American lieutenant, lawyer, and politician, 38th Mayor of Los Angeles (d. 1998)
1917 – Ramanand Sagar, Indian director and producer (d. 2005)
1919 – Alfred de Grazia, American political scientist and author (d. 2014)
1919 – Roman Vlad, Italian pianist and composer (d. 2013)
1920 – Viveca Lindfors, Swedish-American actress, singer and poet (d. 1995)
1921 – Dobrica Ćosić, Serbian politician, 1st President of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (d. 2014)
1922 – Little Joe Cook, American singer-songwriter (d. 2014)
1922 – William Gaddis, American author and academic (d. 1998)
1923 – Cheikh Anta Diop, Senegalese historian, anthropologist, and physicist (d. 1986)
1923 – Morton Estrin, American pianist and educator (d. 2017)
1923 – Dina Merrill, American actress, game show panelist, socialite, heiress, and businesswoman (d. 2017)
1923 – Shlomo Venezia, Greek-Italian author and Holocaust survivor (d. 2012)
1923 – Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat, French mathematician and physicist
1924 – Joe Allbritton, American businessman and publisher, founded the Allbritton Communications Company (d. 2012)
1924 – Kim Song-ae, Korean politician (d.2014)
1925 – Pete Dye, American golfer and architect
1927 – Andy Stanfield, American sprinter (d. 1985)
1929 – Matt Murphy, American guitarist (d. 2018)
1931 – Stasys Stonkus, Lithuanian basketball player and coach (d. 2012)
1932 – Inga Swenson, American actress and singer
1933 – Samuel Brittan, English journalist and author
1934 – Ed Flanders, American actor (d. 1995)
1936 – Mary Tyler Moore, American actress and producer (d. 2017)
1936 – Ray Nitschke, American football player (d. 1998)
1937 – Wayne Huizenga, American businessman, founded AutoNation (d. 2018)
1938 – Harvey Smith, English horse rider and sportscaster
1938 – Jon Voight, American actor and producer
1939 – Ed Bruce, American country music singer-songwriter
1941 – Ray Thomas, English singer-songwriter and flute player (d. 2018)
1942 – Rajesh Khanna, Indian actor
1942 – Óscar Andrés Rodríguez Maradiaga, Honduran cardinal
1943 – Bill Aucoin, American talent manager (d. 2010)
1943 – Molly Bang, American author and illustrator
1943 – Rick Danko, Canadian singer-songwriter, bass player, and producer (d. 1999)
1944 – Rodney Redmond, New Zealand cricketer
1945 – Birendra of Nepal, King of Nepal from 1972 to 2001 (d. 2001)
1946 – Marianne Faithfull, English singer-songwriter and actress
1946 – Laffit Pincay, Jr., Panamanian jockey
1947 – Richard Crandall, American physicist and computer scientist (d. 2012)
1947 – Ted Danson, American actor and producer
1947 – Leonhard Lapin, Estonian architect and poet
1947 – Cozy Powell, English drummer, songwriter, and producer (d. 1998)
1947 – David Tanner, English rower and coach
1947 – Vincent Winter, Scottish actor, director, and production manager (d. 1998)
1948 – Peter Robinson, Northern Irish politician, 3rd First Minister of Northern Ireland
1949 – David Topliss, English rugby league player and coach (d. 2008)
1951 – Yvonne Elliman, American singer-songwriter and actress
1952 – Gelsey Kirkland, American ballerina and choreographer
1953 – Thomas Bach, German fencer, lawyer and sports administrator; 9th President of the International Olympic Committee
1953 – Alan Rusbridger, Zambia-born English journalist and academic
1953 – Kate Schmidt, American javelin thrower and coach
1953 – Stanley Williams, American gang leader, co-founded the Crips (d. 2005)
1953 – Charlayne Woodard, American actress and playwright
1954 – Albrecht Böttcher, German mathematician and author
1954 – Roger Voudouris, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2003)
1955 – Donald D. Hoffman, American quantitative psychologist and popular science writer
1956 – Katy Munger, American writer
1957 – Brad Grey, American screenwriter and producer (d. 2017)
1957 – Oliver Hirschbiegel, German actor, director, and producer
1957 – Iain Paxton, Scottish rugby player and coach
1957 – Paul Rudnick, American author, playwright, and screenwriter
1958 – Nancy J. Currie, American colonel, engineer, and astronaut
1959 – Keith Crossan, Irish rugby player
1959 – Patricia Clarkson, American actress
1959 – Ann Demeulemeester, Belgian fashion designer
1959 – Milton Ottey, Jamaican-Canadian high jumper and coach
1959 – Paula Poundstone, American comedian and author
1960 – David Boon, Australian cricketer
1960 – David Gilbert, Australian cricketer
1960 – Thomas Lubanga Dyilo, Congolese militia leader, founded the Union of Congolese Patriots
1961 – Kevin Granata, American engineer and academic (d. 2007)
1961 – Jim Reid, Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist
1961 – Richard Horton, English physician and journalist
1962 – Wynton Rufer, New Zealand footballer
1962 – Devon White, Jamaican-American baseball player
1962 – Carles Puigdemont, Catalan politician and former president
1963 – Des Foy, English rugby player
1963 – Dave McKean, English illustrator, photographer, director, and pianist
1963 – Sean Payton, American football player and coach
1963 – Liisa Savijarvi, Canadian skier
1964 – Michael Cudlitz, American actor
1965 – Laurent Boudouani, French boxer
1965 – Dexter Holland, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1965 – Danilo Pérez, Panamanian pianist and composer
1966 – Stefano Eranio, Italian footballer and coach
1966 – Martin Offiah, English rugby league player and sportscaster
1966 – Jeff Luhnow, American businessman
1967 – Ashleigh Banfield, Canadian-American journalist
1967 – Evan Seinfeld, American bass player, actor, and director
1967 – Lilly Wachowski, American director, screenwriter and producer[1]
1968 – Ri Pun-hui, North Korean table tennis player
1969 – Jennifer Ehle, American actress
1969 – Allan McNish, Scottish race car driver and journalist
1970 – Enrico Chiesa, Italian footballer and manager
1970 – Aled Jones, Welsh singer and television host
1970 – Glen Phillips, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Toad the Wet Sprocket)
1971 – Besnik Hasi, Kosovo Albanian football manager and former player
1972 – Jude Law, English actor
1973 – Theo Epstein, American businessman
1974 – Twinkle Khanna, Indian actress and writer
1974 – Mekhi Phifer, American actor and producer
1974 – Richie Sexson, American baseball player and coach
1974 – Ryan Shore, Canadian composer and producer
1975 – Shawn Hatosy, American actor
1975 – Jaret Wright, American baseball player
1976 – Filip Kuba, Czech ice hockey player
1976 – Danny McBride, American actor, producer and screenwriter
1977 – Jimmy Journell, American baseball player
1978 – Jake Berry, English lawyer and politician
1978 – Matthew Carr, Australian footballer
1978 – Kieron Dyer, English footballer and coach
1978 – Danny Higginbotham, English footballer and journalist
1978 – Steve Kemp, English drummer
1979 – Mitsuhiro Ishida, Japanese mixed martial artist
1979 – Diego Luna, Mexican actor, director and producer
1979 – Moe Oshikiri, Japanese model and actress
1979 – George Parros, American ice hockey player
1981 – Shizuka Arakawa, Japanese figure skater and sportscaster
1981 – Shaun Suisham, American football player
1981 – Vjatšeslav Zahovaiko, Estonian footballer
1982 – Alison Brie, American actress and singer
1982 – Brian Hill, Canadian swimmer
1982 – Dale Morris, Australian footballer
1982 – Norbert Siedler, Austrian race car driver
1983 – Jessica Andrews, American singer-songwriter
1983 – James Kelly, Australian footballer
1984 – Brenton Lawrence, Australian rugby league player
1984 – Reimo Tamm, Estonian basketball player
1986 – Joe Anyon, English footballer
1987 – Juliana Huxtable, American artist[2]
1987 – Iain De Caestecker, Scottish actor
1987 – Yuhi Sekiguchi, Japanese race car driver
1988 – Eric Berry, American football player
1988 – Christen Press, American footballer
1988 – Ágnes Szávay, Hungarian tennis player
1989 – Kei Nishikori, Japanese tennis player
1993 – Travis Head, Australian cricketer
1995 – Ross Lynch, American singer and actor
1996 – Sana Minatozaki, Japanese singer (Twice) [3]


Deaths
721 – Empress Genmei of Japan (b. 660)
1125 – Agnes I, Abbess of Quedlinburg (b.c. 1090)
1170 – Thomas Becket, English archbishop and saint (b. 1118)
1208 – Emperor Zhangzong of Jin, (b. 1168)
1380 – Elizabeth of Poland, queen consort of Hungary (b. 1305)[4]
1416 – Mathew Swetenham, bow bearer of Henry IV
1550 – Bhuvanaikabahu VII, King of Kotte (b. 1468)
1563 – Sebastian Castellio, French preacher and theologian (b. 1515)
1565 – Queen Munjeong of Korea (b. 1501)
1606 – Stephen Bocskay, Prince of Transylvania (b. 1557)
1634 – John Albert Vasa, Polish cardinal (b. 1612)
1661 – Antoine Girard de Saint-Amant, French poet (b. 1594)
1689 – Thomas Sydenham, English physician and author (b. 1624)
1720 – Maria Margarethe Kirch, German astronomer and educator (b. 1670)
1731 – Brook Taylor, English mathematician and theorist (b. 1685)
1737 – Joseph Saurin, French minister and mathematician (b. 1659)
1785 – Johan Herman Wessel, Norwegian-Danish poet and playwright (b. 1742)
1807 – Diogo de Carvalho e Sampayo, Portuguese diplomat and scientist (b. 1750)
1815 – Sarah Baartman, Khoikhoi woman (b. 1789)
1825 – Jacques-Louis David, French painter and illustrator (b. 1748)
1887 – Ferdinand Johann Wiedemann, Estonian-Russian linguist and botanist (b. 1805)
1890 – Spotted Elk, American tribal leader (b. 1826)
1891 – Leopold Kronecker, Polish-German mathematician and academic (b. 1823)
1894 – Christina Rossetti, English poet and hymn-writer (b. 1830)
1897 – William James Linton, English-American painter, author, and activist (b. 1812)
1900 – John Henry Leech, English entomologist (b. 1862)
1910 – Reginald Doherty, English tennis player (b. 1872)
1924 – Carl Spitteler, Swiss poet and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1845)
1925 – Félix Vallotton, Swiss/French painter (b. 1865)
1926 – Rainer Maria Rilke, Austrian poet and author (b. 1875)
1929 – Wilhelm Maybach, German engineer and businessman, founded Maybach (b. 1846)
1937 – Don Marquis, American journalist, author, and playwright (b. 1878)
1941 – Tullio Levi-Civita, Italian mathematician and scholar (b. 1873)
1944 – Khasan Israilov, Chechen rebel (b. 1910)
1949 – Tyler Dennett, American historian and author (b. 1883)
1952 – Fletcher Henderson, American pianist, composer, and bandleader (b. 1897)
1959 – Robin Milford, English soldier and composer (b. 1903)
1960 – Eden Phillpotts, English author and poet (b. 1862)
1967 – Paul Whiteman, American violinist, composer, and conductor (b. 1890)
1968 – Austin Farrer, English theologian and philosopher (b. 1904)
1970 – Marie Menken, American director and painter (b. 1909)
1972 – Joseph Cornell, American sculptor and director (b. 1903)
1972 – Chrysostomos Papasarantopoulos, Greek priest and missionary (b. 1903)
1976 – Ivo Van Damme, Belgian runner (b. 1954)
1980 – Nadezhda Mandelstam, Russian author and educator (b. 1899)
1981 – Miroslav Krleža, Croatian author, poet, and playwright (b. 1893)
1986 – Harold Macmillan, English captain and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1894)
1986 – Andrei Tarkovsky, Russian director and screenwriter (b. 1932)
1988 – Mike Beuttler, Egyptian race car driver (b. 1940)
1996 – Mireille Hartuch, French singer-songwriter and actress (b. 1906)
1998 – Jean-Claude Forest, French author and illustrator (b. 1930)
1999 – Leon Radzinowicz, Polish-English criminologist and academic (b. 1906)
2000 – Adele Stimmel Chase, American sculptor and painter (b. 1917)
2001 – Takashi Asahina, Japanese conductor (b. 1908)
2003 – Bob Monkhouse, English comedian, actor, and game show host (b. 1928)
2004 – Julius Axelrod, American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1912)
2004 – Ken Burkhart, American baseball player and umpire (b. 1915)
2007 – Phil O'Donnell, Scottish footballer (b. 1972)
2008 – Freddie Hubbard, American trumpet player and composer (b. 1938)
2009 – Steven Williams, American professional wrestler (b. 1960)
2010 – Avi Cohen, Israeli footballer and manager (b. 1956)
2012 – Tony Greig, South African-Australian cricketer and sportscaster (b. 1946)
2012 – Roland Griffiths-Marsh, Australian soldier and author (b. 1923)
2012 – Edward Meneeley, American painter and sculptor (b. 1927)
2012 – Paulo Rocha, Portuguese director and screenwriter (b. 1935)
2012 – Bruce Stark, American cartoonist (b. 1933)
2013 – C. T. Hsia, Chinese-American critic and scholar (b. 1921)
2013 – Benjamin Curtis, American guitarist, drummer, and songwriter (b. 1978)
2013 – Connie Dierking, American basketball player (b. 1936)
2013 – Eero Mäntyranta, Finnish skier (b. 1937)
2013 – Jagadish Mohanty, Indian author and translator (b. 1951)
2013 – Wojciech Kilar, Polish classical and film music composer (b. 1932)[5]
2014 – Hari Harilela, Indian-Hong Kong businessman and philanthropist (b. 1922)
2014 – Juanito Remulla, Sr., Filipino lawyer and politician, Governor of Cavite (b. 1933)
2015 – Om Prakash Malhotra, Indian general and politician, 25th Governor of Punjab (b. 1922)
2015 – Pavel Srníček, Czech footballer and coach (b. 1968)
2016 – Keion Carpenter, American football defensive back (b. 1977)
2016 – LaVell Edwards, American football head coach (b. 1930)