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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. Events Pre-1600 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. 1503 – The Battle of Garigliano was fought between a Spanish army under Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba and a French army commanded by Ludovico II, Marquess of Saluzzo. 1601–1900 1607 – According to John Smith, Pocahontas, daughter of Powhatan leader Wahunsenacawh, successfully pleads for his life after tribal leaders attempt to execute him. 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 – The United States annexes the Republic of Texas and admits it as the 28th state. 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 – On Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, 300 Lakota are killed by the United States 7th Cavalry Regiment. 1901–present 1911 – Mongolia gains independence from the Qing dynasty, enthroning 8th Jebtsundamba Khutughtu as Khagan of Mongolia. 1913 – Cecil B. DeMille starts filming Hollywood's first feature film, The Squaw Man. 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 – In the Second Great Fire of London, the Luftwaffe fire-bombs London, England, killing almost 200 civilians during World War II. 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 more than 75. 1989 – Czech writer, philosopher and dissident Václav Havel is elected the first post-communist President of Czechoslovakia. 1989 – The Nikkei 225 for the Tokyo Stock Exchange hits its all-time intra-day high of 38,957.44 and closing high at 38,915.87, serving as the apex of the Japanese asset price bubble. 1992 – Fernando Collor de Mello, president of Brazil, tries to resign amidst corruption charges, but is then impeached. 1994 – Turkish Airlines Flight 278 (a Boeing 737-400) crashes on approach to Van Ferit Melen Airport in Van, Turkey, killing 57 of the 76 people on board. 1996 – Guatemala and leaders of Guatemalan National Revolutionary Unity sign a peace accord ending a 36-year civil war. 1998 – Leaders of the Khmer Rouge apologize for the Cambodian genocide that claimed over one million lives. 2003 – The last known speaker of Akkala Sami dies, rendering the language extinct. 2006 – The UK settles its Anglo-American loan, post-WWII loan debt. 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. 2013 – Seven-time Formula One champion Michael Schumacher suffers a massive head injury while skiing in the French Alps. 2020 – A large explosion at the airport in the southern Yemeni city of Aden kills at least 22 people and wounds 50. 2020 – A magnitude 6.4 earthquake hits near the town of Petrinja in Sisak-Moslavina County, Croatia, killing seven people. Births Pre-1600 1536 – Henry VI, German nobleman (d. 1572) 1550 – García de Silva Figueroa, Spanish diplomat and traveller (d. 1624) 1601–1900 1633 – Johannes Zollikofer, Swiss vicar (d. 1692) 1721 – Madame de Pompadour, mistress of King Louis XV (d. 1764) 1746 – Saverio Cassar, Maltese priest and rebel leader (d. 1805) 1766 – Charles Macintosh, Scottish chemist and the inventor of waterproof fabric (d. 1843) 1788 – Christian Jürgensen Thomsen, Danish antiquarian (d. 1865) 1796 – Johann Christian Poggendorff, German physicist and journalist (d. 1877) 1800 – Charles Goodyear, American chemist and engineer (d. 1860) 1804 – John Langdon Sibley, American librarian (d. 1885) 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) 1811 – Francisco Palau, Catalan Discalced Carmelite friar and priest (d. 1872) 1816 – Carl Ludwig, German physician and physiologist (d. 1895) 1844 – Womesh Chunder Bonnerjee, Indian barrister and 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) 1857 – Sydney Young, English chemist (d. 1937) 1859 – Venustiano Carranza, Mexican soldier and politician, 37th President of Mexico (d. 1920) 1870 – Earl Gregg Swem, American historian, bibliographer and librarian (d. 1965) 1876 – Pablo Casals, Catalan cellist and conductor (d. 1973) 1876 – Lionel Tertis, English violist (d. 1975) 1879 – Billy Mitchell, American general and pilot (d. 1936) 1881 – Jess Willard, American boxer (d. 1968) 1886 – Georg Hermann Struve, German astronomer (d. 1933) 1894 – J. Lister Hill, American politician (d. 1984) 1896 – David Alfaro Siqueiros, Mexican painter (d. 1974) 1901–present 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 – Robert Ruark, A.... Discover the Eden Sher Julia Wertz popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Eden Sher Julia Wertz books.