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The29t o Decemberis the 363t day o the year (364t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 2 days bidin.
Events
- 1170- Murther o Airchbishop oCanterburyThomas Becket.
- 1813-War o 1812:Breetish troops burn the ceety oBuffalo, New York.
- 1837- Fire destroys the Winter Palace inSaunt Petersburg.
- 1845-Texasbecomes the 28t state o theUnitit States.
- 1874-Alfonso XII o Spainbecomes Keeng.
- 1890- US Cavalrymen commit the Wounded Knee massacre on 300LakotaNative Americans.
- 1911-Mongoliegains unthirldom.
- 1911-Sun Yat-senbecomes Preses o the Proveesional Govrenment o theRepublic o Cheenae.
- 1921-William Lyon Mackenzie Kingbecomes Prime meenister oCanadae.
- 1937- TheErse Free Stateis replaced bi a state criedIreland.
- 1940-Warld War II:TheLuftwaffebombsLunnon.
- 1989-Vaclav HavelbecomesPresesoCzechoslovakie.
- 2001- A fire at the Mesa Redonda Shoppin centre inLima,Peru,kills 291 fowk.
- 2008- The last speaker o theAkkala Sami leiddies.
- 2013- A bomb is detonatit at Volgograd-1 railwey station inVolgograd,SoothrenRoushie,killin 18 fowk.
- 2013-Michael Schumachersuffers severe injuries in askiinaccident inFraunce.
- 2017- Afireat ahottlean restaurant complex inMumbaikills 14 fowk.
Births
- 1709-Elizabeth o Roushie(d.1762)
- 1721-Madame de Pompadour,offeecial mistress oLouis XV o Fraunce(d.1764)
- 1766-Charles Macintosh,Scots chemist an inventor o watterpruif faibric (d.1843)
- 1808-Andrew Johnson,17tPreses o the Unitit States(d.1875)
- 1809-William Ewart Gladstone,Prime Meenister o the Unitit Kinrick(d.1898)
- 1859-Venustiano Carranza,PresesoMexico(d.1920)
- 1871-William Thomas Calman,Scots zoologist (d.1952)
- 1876-Pablo Casals,Spainyie cellist (d.1973)
- 1910-Ronald Coase,Inglis economist (d.2013)
- 1928-Bernard Cribbins,Inglis actor
- 1936-Mary Tyler Moore,American actress (d.2017)
- 1938-Jon Voight,American actor
- 1946-Marianne Faithfull,Inglis sangster
- 1948-Peter Robinson,umwhile First Meenister oNorthren Ireland
- 1953-Thomas Bach,German fencer anPreseso theInternaitional Olympic Committee
- 1962-Carles Puigdemont,Catalan politeecian
- 1967-Ashleigh Banfield,Canadian-American jurnalist
- 1969-Allan McNish,Scots racin driver
- 1972-Jude Law,Inglis actor
- 1979-Diego Luna,Mexican actor, director an producer
- 1981-Shizuka Arakawa,Japanese feegur skeitcher
- 1982-Martin Laird,Scots gowfer
- 1989-Kei Nishikori,Japanese tennis player
- 1995-Ross Lynch,American actor
Daiths
- 1170-Thomas Becket,Inglis airchbeeshop (b.1118)
- 1825-Jacques-Louis David,French penter (b.1748)
- 1924-Carl Spitteler,Swiss poet (b.1845)
- 1926-Rainer Maria Rilke,Austrick writer (b.1875)
- 1986-Andrei Tarkovsky,Soviet-Roushie filmmaker (b.1932)
- 1986-Harold Macmillan,Prime Meenister o the Unitit Kinrick(b.1894)
- 2007-Phil O'Donnell,Scots fitbawer (b.1972)
- 2013-Wojciech Kilar,Pols componer (b.1932)
- 2019-Alasdair Gray,Scots writer an airtist (b.1934)
Halidays
- Independence Day (Mongolie)
- Constitution Day (Republic o Ireland)
- Stairt o Four HillsSki jumpintournament (Germany,Austrick)
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