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29th of December 1170 EVENT 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 Roman Catholic Church.
29th of December 1778 EVENT American Revolutionary War: 3,500 British soldiers under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Archibald Campbell capture Savannah, Georgia.
29th of December 1786 EVENT French Revolution: The Assembly of Notables is convened.
29th of December 1812 EVENT The USS Constitution under the command of Captain William Bainbridge, captures the HMS Java off the coast of Brazil after a three hour battle.
29th of December 1813 EVENT British soldiers burn Buffalo, New York during the War of 1812.
29th of December 1835 EVENT The Treaty of New Echota is signed, ceding all the lands of the Cherokee east of the Mississippi River to the United States.
29th of December 1845 EVENT According with International Boundary delimitation, U.S.A annexes the Mexican state of Texas, following the Manifest Destiny doctrine. For others, the Republic of Texas, which had been independent since the Texas Revolution of 1836, is admitted as the 28th U.S. state.
29th of December 1851 EVENT The first American YMCA opens in Boston, Massachusetts.
29th of December 1860 EVENT The first British seagoing iron-clad warship, HMS Warrior is launched.
29th of December 1876 EVENT The Ashtabula River Railroad bridge disaster occurs, leaving 64 injured and 92 dead at Ashtabula, Ohio.
29th of December 1890 EVENT United States soldiers kill more than 200 Oglala Lakota people with four Hotchkiss guns in the Wounded Knee Massacre.
29th of December 1911 EVENT Sun Yat-sen becomes the provisional President of the Republic of China; he formally takes office on January 1, 1912.
29th of December 1911 EVENT Mongolia gains independence from the Qing dynasty.
29th of December 1914 EVENT A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, the first novel by James Joyce, is serialised in The Egoist.
29th of December 1930 EVENT Sir Muhammad Iqbal's presidential address in Allahabad introduces the Two-Nation Theory and outlines a vision for the creation of Pakistan.
29th of December 1934 EVENT Japan renounces the Washington Naval Treaty of 1922 and the London Naval Treaty of 1930.
29th of December 1937 EVENT The Irish Free State is replaced by a new state called Ireland with the adoption of a new constitution.
29th of December 1939 EVENT First flight of the Consolidated B-24.
29th of December 1940 EVENT World War II: In The Second Great Fire of London, the Luftwaffe fire-bombs London, killing almost 200 civilians.
29th of December 1949 EVENT KC2XAK of Bridgeport, Connecticut becomes the first Ultra high frequency (UHF) television station to operate a daily schedule.
29th of December 1959 EVENT Physicist Richard Feynman gives a speech entitled "There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom", which is regarded as the birth of nanotechnology; the Lisbon Metro begins operation.
29th of December 1966 EVENT The Beatles start the recording session that would become the hit single Penny Lane at Abbey Road Studio.
29th of December 1972 EVENT An Eastern Air Lines Flight 401 (a Lockheed Tristar) crashes on approach to Miami International Airport, Florida, killing 101.
29th of December 1975 EVENT A bomb explodes at La Guardia Airport in New York City, killing 11 people and injuring 74.
29th of December 1989 EVENT Riots break-out after Hong Kong decides to forcibly repatriate Vietnamese refugees.
29th of December 1992 EVENT Fernando Collor de Mello, president of Brazil, tries to resign amidst corruption charges, but is then impeached.
29th of December 1996 EVENT Guatemala and leaders of Guatemalan National Revolutionary Union sign a peace accord ending a 36-year civil war.
29th of December 1997 EVENT Hong Kong begins to kill all the nation's 1.25 million chickens to stop the spread of a potentially deadly influenza strain.
29th of December 1998 EVENT Leaders of the Khmer Rouge apologize for the 1970s genocide in Cambodia that claimed over 1 million lives.
29th of December 2001 EVENT A fire at the Mesa Redonda shopping center in Lima, Peru, kills at least 291.
29th of December 2003 EVENT The last known speaker of Akkala Sami dies, rendering the language extinct.
29th of December 1709 BIRTHDAY Empress Elizabeth of Russia (d. 1762)
29th of December 1721 BIRTHDAY Madame de Pompadour, mistress of King Louis XV of France (d. 1764)
29th of December 1796 BIRTHDAY Johann Christian Poggendorff, German physicist (d. 1877)
29th of December 1800 BIRTHDAY Charles Goodyear, American inventor (d. 1860)
29th of December 1808 BIRTHDAY Andrew Johnson, 17th President of the United States (d. 1875)
29th of December 1809 BIRTHDAY William Ewart Gladstone, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1898)
29th of December 1816 BIRTHDAY Carl Ludwig, German physician (d. 1895)
29th of December 1843 BIRTHDAY Elisabeth of Wied, queen of Romania and novelist (d. 1916)
29th of December 1856 BIRTHDAY Thomas Joannes Stieltjes, Dutch mathematician (d. 1894)
29th of December 1859 BIRTHDAY Venustiano Carranza, 54th President of Mexico (d. 1920)
29th of December 1870 BIRTHDAY Albert Amrhein, German rugby player (death year unknown)
29th of December 1876 BIRTHDAY Pau Casals, Catalan musician (d. 1973)
29th of December 1881 BIRTHDAY Jess Willard, American boxer (d. 1968)
29th of December 1896 BIRTHDAY David Alfaro Siqueiros, Mexican painter (d. 1974)
29th of December 1899 BIRTHDAY Nie Rongzhen, Chinese Communist leader (d. 1992)
29th of December 1902 BIRTHDAY Nels Stewart, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1957)
29th of December 1908 BIRTHDAY Helmut Gollwitzer, German theologian (d. 1993)
29th of December 1910 BIRTHDAY Ronald Coase, British economist, Nobel Prize laureate
29th of December 1914 BIRTHDAY Albert Tucker, Australian artist (d. 1999)
29th of December 1914 BIRTHDAY Billy Tipton, American musician (d. 1989)
29th of December 1915 BIRTHDAY Bill Osmanski, American football player (d. 1996)
29th of December 1917 BIRTHDAY Tom Bradley, American politician (d. 1998)
29th of December 1917 BIRTHDAY Ramanand Sagar, Indian film director (d. 2005)
29th of December 1920 BIRTHDAY Viveca Lindfors, Swedish-American actress (d. 1995)
29th of December 1921 BIRTHDAY Robert C. Baker, Inventor of the chicken nugget (d. 2006)
29th of December 1922 BIRTHDAY William Gaddis, American writer (d. 1998)
29th of December 1925 BIRTHDAY Pete Dye, American golf course architect
29th of December 1927 BIRTHDAY Andy Stanfield, American athlete (d. 1985)
29th of December 1928 BIRTHDAY Bernard Cribbins, British actor
29th of December 1931 BIRTHDAY Prince Gu of Korea (d. 2005)
29th of December 1932 BIRTHDAY Inga Swenson, American actress
29th of December 1934 BIRTHDAY Ed Flanders, American actor (d. 1995)
29th of December 1936 BIRTHDAY Ray Nitschke, American football player (d. 1998)
29th of December 1936 BIRTHDAY Mary Tyler Moore, American actress
29th of December 1937 BIRTHDAY Wayne Huizenga, American football team owner
29th of December 1937 BIRTHDAY Barbara Steele, British actress
29th of December 1938 BIRTHDAY Harvey Smith, English showjumper
29th of December 1938 BIRTHDAY Jon Voight, American actor
29th of December 1941 BIRTHDAY Ray Thomas, British musician (The Moody Blues)
29th of December 1942 BIRTHDAY Rick Danko, Canadian musician (The Band) (d. 1999)
29th of December 1942 BIRTHDAY Rajesh Khanna, Indian actor
29th of December 1943 BIRTHDAY Bill Aucoin, American rock band manager (d. 2010)
29th of December 1946 BIRTHDAY Marianne Faithfull, British singer
29th of December 1947 BIRTHDAY Ted Danson, American actor
29th of December 1947 BIRTHDAY Cozy Powell, English rock drummer (d. 1998)
29th of December 1947 BIRTHDAY Vincent Winter, British actor (d. 1998)
29th of December 1948 BIRTHDAY Peter Robinson, Northern Ireland politician
29th of December 1949 BIRTHDAY Syed Kirmani, Indian cricket player
29th of December 1949 BIRTHDAY David Topliss, English rugby league player
29th of December 1950 BIRTHDAY Jon Polito, American actor
29th of December 1951 BIRTHDAY Yvonne Elliman, American disco singer
29th of December 1951 BIRTHDAY Georges Thurston, Canadian singer (d. 2007)
29th of December 1952 BIRTHDAY Gelsey Kirkland, American dancer
29th of December 1953 BIRTHDAY Alan Rusbridger, British newspaper editor
29th of December 1953 BIRTHDAY Stanley Tookie Williams, American murderer (d. 2005)
29th of December 1953 BIRTHDAY Gali Atari, Israeli singer and actress
29th of December 1954 BIRTHDAY Prince Takamado of Japan (d. 2002)
29th of December 1954 BIRTHDAY Roger Voudouris, American singer (d. 2003)
29th of December 1956 BIRTHDAY Fred MacAulay, Scottish comedian
29th of December 1957 BIRTHDAY Paul Rudnick, American screenwriter/playwright
29th of December 1957 BIRTHDAY Brad Grey, American film producer
29th of December 1958 BIRTHDAY Nancy J. Currie, American astronaut
29th of December 1959 BIRTHDAY Patricia Clarkson, American actress
29th of December 1959 BIRTHDAY Paula Poundstone, American comedian
29th of December 1960 BIRTHDAY David Boon, Australian Cricketer
29th of December 1960 BIRTHDAY Matthew Kandegas, American Painter
29th of December 1960 BIRTHDAY Thomas Lubanga, Congolese political activist
29th of December 1960 BIRTHDAY Katerina Didaskalou, Greek actress
29th of December 1961 BIRTHDAY Jim Reid, Scottish singer (The Jesus and Mary Chain, Freeheat)
29th of December 1961 BIRTHDAY Kevin Granata, American college educator (d. 2007)
29th of December 1962 BIRTHDAY Devon White, Jamaican baseball player
29th of December 1963 BIRTHDAY Francisco Bustamante, Filipino billiard player
29th of December 1963 BIRTHDAY Des Foy, British rugby league player
29th of December 1963 BIRTHDAY Sean Payton, American football coach
29th of December 1963 BIRTHDAY Dave McKean, British artist and filmmaker
29th of December 1965 BIRTHDAY Dexter Holland, American musician (The Offspring)
29th of December 1966 BIRTHDAY Stefano Eranio, Italian footballer
29th of December 1966 BIRTHDAY Laurent Boudouani French Boxer
29th of December 1966 BIRTHDAY Martin Offiah, former rugby league footballer
29th of December 1967 BIRTHDAY Chris Barnes, American singer
29th of December 1967 BIRTHDAY Andy Wachowski, American director
29th of December 1967 BIRTHDAY Ashleigh Banfield, Canadian journalist
29th of December 1967 BIRTHDAY Evan Seinfeld, American musician (Biohazard) and actor
29th of December 1969 BIRTHDAY Jennifer Ehle, British - American actress
29th of December 1969 BIRTHDAY Allan McNish, Scottish race car driver
29th of December 1970 BIRTHDAY Glen Phillips, American musician (Toad The Wet Sprocket)
29th of December 1970 BIRTHDAY Hidetoshi Mitsusada, Japanese racing driver
29th of December 1970 BIRTHDAY Kevin Weisman, American actor
29th of December 1970 BIRTHDAY Aled Jones, Welsh singer
29th of December 1971 BIRTHDAY Margot Thien, American synchronized swimmer
29th of December 1972 BIRTHDAY Asheru, American rapper
29th of December 1972 BIRTHDAY Jason Kreis, American soccer player
29th of December 1972 BIRTHDAY Jude Law, British actor
29th of December 1972 BIRTHDAY Leonor Varela, Chilean actress
29th of December 1973 BIRTHDAY Theo Epstein, American baseball general manager
29th of December 1973 BIRTHDAY Pimp C, American rapper (UGK) (d. 2007)
29th of December 1974 BIRTHDAY Mekhi Phifer, American actor
29th of December 1974 BIRTHDAY Richie Sexson, American baseball player
29th of December 1974 BIRTHDAY Ryan Shore, film composer
29th of December 1975 BIRTHDAY Jaret Wright, American baseball player
29th of December 1976 BIRTHDAY Filip Kuba, Czech ice hockey player
29th of December 1976 BIRTHDAY Danny R. McBride, American actor, writer, and producer
29th of December 1977 BIRTHDAY Katherine Moennig, American actress
29th of December 1977 BIRTHDAY Jimmy Journell, American baseball player
29th of December 1978 BIRTHDAY Alexis Amore, Peruvian pornographic actress
29th of December 1978 BIRTHDAY Matthew Carr, Australian rules footballer
29th of December 1978 BIRTHDAY Kieron Dyer, English footballer
29th of December 1978 BIRTHDAY LaToya London, American singer
29th of December 1978 BIRTHDAY Steve Kemp, British musician (Hard-Fi)
29th of December 1979 BIRTHDAY Diego Luna, Mexican actor
29th of December 1979 BIRTHDAY Ariel Schrag, American Cartoonist
29th of December 1979 BIRTHDAY Mitsuhiro Ishida, Japanese mixed-martial arts fighter
29th of December 1981 BIRTHDAY Shizuka Arakawa, Japanese figure skater
29th of December 1981 BIRTHDAY Shaun Suisham, American football player
29th of December 1982 BIRTHDAY Dale Morris, Australian rules footballer
29th of December 1982 BIRTHDAY Gabrielle Destroismaisons, Quebec singer
29th of December 1983 BIRTHDAY Jessica Andrews, American country/pop singer
29th of December 1983 BIRTHDAY Alison Brie, American actress
29th of December 1983 BIRTHDAY James Kelly, Australian rules footballer
29th of December 1983 BIRTHDAY Gonzalo Olave, Chilean television actor (d. 2009)
29th of December 1985 BIRTHDAY Cho Cho Cheng, Chinese American fashion designer
29th of December 1986 BIRTHDAY Joe Anyon, English footballer
29th of December 1986 BIRTHDAY Kim Ok-bin, South Korean actress and model
29th of December 1987 BIRTHDAY Yuhi Sekiguchi, Japanese racing driver
29th of December 1988 BIRTHDAY Agnes Szavay, Hungarian tennis player
29th of December 1988 BIRTHDAY Eric Berry, American football player
29th of December 1994 BIRTHDAY Princess Kako of Akishino of Japan
29th of December 0721 DEATH Empress Gemmei of Japan (Born 661)
29th of December 1170 DEATH Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury (assassinated) (Born 1118)
29th of December 1563 DEATH Sebastian Castellio, French theologian (Born 1515)
29th of December 1634 DEATH John Albert Vasa, Polish bishop (Born 1612)
29th of December 1661 DEATH Antoine Gerard de Saint-Amant, French poet (Born 1594)
29th of December 1689 DEATH Thomas Sydenham, English physician (Born 1624)
29th of December 1731 DEATH Brook Taylor, English mathematician (Born 1685)
29th of December 1737 DEATH Joseph Saurin, French mathematician (Born 1659)
29th of December 1785 DEATH Johan Herman Wessel, Norwegian poet (Born 1742)
29th of December 1825 DEATH Jacques-Louis David, French painter (Born 1748)
29th of December 1891 DEATH Leopold Kronecker, German mathematician (Born 1823)
29th of December 1894 DEATH Christina Rossetti, English poet (Born 1830)
29th of December 1897 DEATH William James Linton, American wood engraver and political reformer. (Born 1812)
29th of December 1916 DEATH Grigori Rasputin, Russian monk (Born 1869)
29th of December 1924 DEATH Carl Spitteler, Swiss writer, Nobel Prize laureate (Born 1845)
29th of December 1926 DEATH Rainer Maria Rilke, Austrian writer (Born 1875)
29th of December 1929 DEATH Wilhelm Maybach, German automobile designer (Born 1846)
29th of December 1934 DEATH Alma Tell, American stage and film actress (Born 1898)
29th of December 1937 DEATH Don Marquis, American author (Born 1878)
29th of December 1941 DEATH Tullio Levi-Civita, Italian mathematician (Born 1873)
29th of December 1953 DEATH Violet MacMillan, American Broadway theatre actress(Born 1887)
29th of December 1959 DEATH Robin Milford, British composer (Born 1903)
29th of December 1960 DEATH Philippe Panneton, Quebec physician, diplomat and writer (Born 1895)
29th of December 1960 DEATH Eden Phillpotts, British writer (Born 1862)
29th of December 1967 DEATH Paul Whiteman, American musician and conductor (Born 1890)
29th of December 1968 DEATH Austin Farrer, English theologian and philosopher (Born 1904)
29th of December 1970 DEATH Marie Menken, American experimental filmmaker and socialite (Born 1909)
29th of December 1976 DEATH Ivo Van Damme, Belgian athlete (Born 1954)
29th of December 1980 DEATH Nadezhda Mandelstam, Russian writer (Born 1899)
29th of December 1980 DEATH Tim Hardin, American musician (Born 1941)
29th of December 1981 DEATH Miroslav Krleza, Croatian writer (Born 1893)
29th of December 1986 DEATH Harold Macmillan, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (Born 1894)
29th of December 1986 DEATH Andrei Tarkovsky, Russian director (Born 1932)
29th of December 1988 DEATH Mike Beuttler, British racing driver (Born 1940)
29th of December 1993 DEATH Frunzik Mkrtchyan, Soviet Armenian actor (Born 1930)
29th of December 1995 DEATH Lita Grey, American actress (Born 1908)
29th of December 1996 DEATH Mireille Hartuch, French singer and actress (Born 1906)
29th of December 1998 DEATH Jean-Claude Forest, writer and illustrator of comics (Barbarella) (Born 1930)
29th of December 1999 DEATH Leon Radzinowicz, British criminologist (Born 1906)
29th of December 2001 DEATH Takashi Asahina, Japanese conductor (Born 1908)
29th of December 2001 DEATH Cassia Eller, Brazilian musician (Born 1962)
29th of December 2003 DEATH Earl Hindman, American actor (Born 1942)
29th of December 2003 DEATH Dinsdale Landen, English actor (Born 1932)
29th of December 2003 DEATH Bob Monkhouse, English comedian and game show host (Born 1928)
29th of December 2004 DEATH Julius Axelrod, American biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (Born 1912)
29th of December 2004 DEATH Liddy Holloway, New Zealand actress (Born 1947)
29th of December 2004 DEATH Ken Burkhart, American baseball player (Born 1915)
29th of December 2005 DEATH Gerda Boyesen, Norwegian-born body psychotherapist (Born 1922)
29th of December 2007 DEATH Kevin Greening, British radio presenter (Born 1962)
29th of December 2007 DEATH Phil O'Donnell, Scottish footballer (Born 1972)
29th of December 2008 DEATH Freddie Hubbard, American jazz trumpet player (Born 1938)
29th of December 2009 DEATH "Dr. Death" Steve Williams, American former professional wrestler and football player (Born 1960)
29th of December 2009 DEATH Akmal Shaikh, British drug trafficker, executed by lethal injection in the People's Republic of China (Born 1956)
29th of December 2010 DEATH Bill Erwin, American actor (Born 1914)