29 December

The 29t o December is the 363t day o the year (364t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 2 days bidin.

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Events

1837: Winter Palace in Saunt Petersburg

1845: Banner o Texas

• 1170 - Murther o Airchbishop o Canterbury Thomas Becket.
• 1813 - War o 1812: Breetish troops burn the ceety o Buffalo, New York.
• 1837 - Fire destroys the Winter Palace in Saunt Petersburg.
• 1845 - Texas becomes the 28t state o the Unitit States.
• 1874 - Alfonso XII o Spain becomes Keeng.
• 1890 - US Cavalrymen commit the Wounded Knee massacre on 300 Lakota Native Americans.
• 1911 - Mongolie gains unthirldom.
• 1911 - Sun Yat-sen becomes Preses o the Proveesional Govrenment o the Republic o Cheenae.
• 1921 - William Lyon Mackenzie King becomes Prime meenister o Canadae.
• 1937 - The Erse Free State is replaced bi a state cried Ireland.
• 1940 - Warld War II: The Luftwaffe bombs Lunnon.
• 1989 - Vaclav Havel becomes Preses o Czechoslovakie.
• 2001 - A fire at the Mesa Redonda Shoppin centre in Lima, Peru, kills 291 fowk.
• 2008 - The last speaker o the Akkala Sami leid dies.
• 2013 - A bomb is detonatit at Volgograd-1 railwey station in Volgograd, Soothren Roushie, killin 18 fowk.
• 2013 - Michael Schumacher suffers severe injuries in a skiin accident in Fraunce.
• 2017 - A fire at a hottle an restaurant complex in Mumbai kills 14 fowk.

Births

Madame de Pompadour

Andrew Johnson

• 1709 - Elizabeth o Roushie (d. 1762)
• 1721 - Madame de Pompadour, offeecial mistress o Louis XV o Fraunce (d. 1764)
• 1766 - Charles Macintosh, Scots chemist an inventor o watterpruif faibric (d. 1843)
• 1808 - Andrew Johnson, 17t Preses o the Unitit States (d. 1875)
• 1809 - William Ewart Gladstone, Prime Meenister o the Unitit Kinrick (d. 1898)
• 1859 - Venustiano Carranza, Preses o Mexico (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 o Northren Ireland
• 1953 - Thomas Bach, German fencer an Preses o the Internaitional 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 Hills Ski jumpin tournament (Germany, Austrick)

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