Notable Historical Events on December 29th
December 29th Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
1170 |
Assassination inside Canterbury Cathedral of Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury by followers of King Henry II; he subsequently becomes a saint and martyr in the Anglican Church and the Roman Catholic Church. |
1503 |
Battle at Carigliano: Spanish army beats France |
1539 |
St Jacobs Church burns after being hit by lightning |
1541 |
Isabella of Poland & King Ferdinand of Austria sign Treaty of Gyalu |
1558 |
Charles V, German Emperor, buried |
1705 |
Prosper Jolyot's "Idomenée," premieres in Paris |
1708 |
Great Alliance occupies Gent |
1778 |
English troops occupy Savannah, Georgia |
1782 |
1st nautical almanac in US published by Samuel Stearns, Boston |
1786 |
French Revolution: The Assembly of Notables is convoked |
1812 |
The USS Constitution under the command of Captain William Bainbridge, captures the HMS Java off the coast of Brazil after a three hour battle. |
1813 |
British burn Buffalo, NY during War of 1812 |
1835 |
The Treaty of New Echota is signed, ceding all the lands of the Cherokee east of the Mississippi River to the United States. |
1837 |
Canadian militia destroy Caroline, a US steamboat docked at Buffalo |
1837 |
Steam-powered threshing machine patented, Winthrop, Maine |
1841 |
King/grand duke Willem II installs Order of Eikenkroon |
1845 |
Texas admitted as 28th state |
1848 |
Gas lights 1st installed at White House (Polk's administration) |
1851 |
1st American Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) chapter opened in Boston Massachusetts. |
1852 |
Emma Snodgrass arrested in Boston for wearing pants |
1857 |
Franz Liszt's "Die Hunnenschlacht," premieres in Weimar |
1860 |
The first British seagoing iron-clad warship, HMS Warrior is launched. |
1862 |
Battle of Chichasaw Bayou: confederate armies defeat General William T. Sherman |
1862 |
Bowling ball invented |
1864 |
Fire Dept celebrates 1st annual ball |
1867 |
1st telegraph ticker used by a brokerage house, Groesbeck & Co, NY |
1876 |
11 passenger cars crash in a ravine near Ashtabula Ohio, 92 die |
1885 |
Gottlieb Daimler patents 1st bike (Germany) |
1890 |
US 7th Cavalry massacre 200+ captive Sioux at Wounded Knee, SD |
1891 |
Edison patents "transmission of signals electrically" (radio) |
1895 |
Dr L S Jameson begins failed raid on Johannesburg |
1899 |
English fleet brings German postschip Bundesrath up |
1900 |
General Viljoen surprise attack British garrison to Helvetia |
1903 |
French Equatorial Africa separates into Gabon, Chad & Ubangi-Shari |
1906 |
Montreal Wanderers beat New Glasgow (NS) for Stanley Cup (2nd of 1906) |
1908 |
Patent granted for a 4-wheel automobile brake, Clintonville, Wisc |
1911 |
Proclamation restores "Dei Gratia" from Canada's coins |
1911 |
SF Symphony formed |
1911 |
Sun Yat-sen becomes the first President of the Republic of China. |
1911 |
Mongolia gains independence from the Qing dynasty. |
1913 |
1st movie serial, "Adventures of Kathlyn," premieres in Chicago |
1920 |
The netherlands/Venezuela recover diplomatic relations |
1920 |
Yugoslav government bans communist party |
1921 |
Mackenzie King elected and sworn in as the 10th Prime Minister of Canada |
1922 |
Dutch Constitution proclaimed |
1922 |
Revised Netherlands Law proclaims suffrage |
1926 |
Vatican puts French fascist Charles Maurras' work on the index |
1926 |
Victoria (1107) beat NSW (221 & 230) by an innings 656 runs |
1929 |
Police arrest Sukarno & 100s PNI-leaders |
1930 |
Fred P Newton completes longest swim ever (1826 miles), when he swam in the Mississippi River from Ford Dam, Minn, to New Orleans |
1931 |
Identification of heavy water publicly announced, HC Urey |
1931 |
Victoria score 7 for 435 in second innings to beat NSW |
1933 |
Yank refuses to release Babe Ruth so he can manage the Cin Reds |
1934 |
1st collegiate basketball doubleheader (Madison Square Garden) |
1934 |
Federico Garcia Lorca's "Yerma," premieres in Madrid |
1934 |
Japan renounces Wash Naval Treaty of 1922 & London Treaty of 1930 |
1937 |
2nd Irish constitution comes into effect; Irish Free State renamed Erie |
1937 |
Lou Thesz beats E Marshall in St Louis, to become wrestling champ |
1937 |
Pan Am starts San Francisco-to-Auckland, New Zealand service |
1938 |
Construction on Lake Washington Floating Bridge, Seattle, begins |
1939 |
First flight of the Consolidated B-24 Liberator bomber prototype |
1940 |
Germany begins dropping incendiary bombs on London (WW II) |
1940 |
NFL Pro Bowl: Chi Bears beats NFL All-Stars 28-14 |
1944 |
Belgian nazi Leon Degrelle at default to the death sentenced |
1944 |
Gen Eisenhowers train returns to Versailles |
1947 |
Ship carrying Jewish immigrants driven away from Palestine |
1948 |
"Rape of Lucretia" opens at Ziegfeld Theater NYC for 23 performances |
1948 |
Canada recognizes Israel |
1948 |
US State Dept announces work on placing objects into Earth orbit |
1949 |
1st UHF television station operating regular basis (Bridgeport Ct) |
1949 |
Hungary nationalized its industries |
1951 |
Flying Enterprise in difficulty in Canal |
1952 |
1st transistorized hearing aid offered for sale (Elmsford NY) |
1954 |
Kingdom of Netherlands, with Netherlands & Netherlands Antilles as autonomous parts, comes into being |
1955 |
Barbra Streisand's 1st recording "You'll Never Know" at age 13 |
1957 |
Detroit Lions beat Cleveland Browns 50-14 in NFL championship game |
1957 |
Singers Steve Lawrence & Eydie Gorme wed in Las Vegas |
1958 |
Balt Colts beat NY Giants 23-17 in NFL championship game |
1958 |
TV soap "Young Dr Malone" debuts |
1959 |
Saul Levitt's "Andersonville Trial," premieres in NYC |
1962 |
Doug Walters makes 1st-class debut for NSW 17 yrs 8 days |
1963 |
52nd Davis Cup: USA beats Australia in Adelaide (3-2) |
1965 |
"Thunderball" premieres in US |
1965 |
CBS purchases NFL TV rights for 1966-68 at $18.8 million per year |
1965 |
Supremes release "My World is Empty Without You" |
1965 |
54th Davis Cup: Australia beats Spain in Sydney (4-1) |
1966 |
Pirate Radio Phoenix, 1st transmission (Worcester, Mass) |
1967 |
Star Trek's "Trouble With Tribbles" 1st airs |
1967 |
Turkish-Cypriot government forms in Cyprus |
1968 |
Balt Colts beat Cleveland Browns 34-0 in NFL championship game |
1968 |
Israeli commandos destroy 13 Lebanese airplanes |
1968 |
NY Jets beat Oakland Raiders 27-23 in AFL championship game |
1969 |
NY Times reports Curt Flood will sue baseball & challenge the reserve clause |
1972 |
Eastern Tristar Jumbo Jet crashes near Everglades killing 101 |
1972 |
Life magazine ceases publication |
1972 |
Test Cricket debut of Jeff Thomson & Max Walker v Pakistan at MCG |
1972 |
President of Sinn Féin Ruairi O Bradaigh is arrested and held under new legislation in Republic of Ireland |
1974 |
Murray Schisgal's "All Over Town," premieres in NYC |
1975 |
11 killed, 75 hurt by terrorist bomb at LaGuardia Airport in NYC |
1977 |
Ronald Ribman's "Cold Storage," premieres in NYC |
1978 |
Shah of Iran, asks Shapour Bahktiar to form a civilian government |
1978 |
Spain constitution goes into effect |
1978 |
Test Cricket debut of Allan Robert Border, v England at the MCG |
1979 |
Red Army beats NY Islanders 3-2 at Nassau Coliseum |
1980 |
Shuttle STS-1 moves from Vandenberg AFB to Launch Complex 39A |
1982 |
Bob Marley postage stamp issued in Jamaica |
1982 |
Coach Paul "Bear" Bryant ends his career with Alabama (323 wins) |
1983 |
Gavaskar makes the highest Test Cricket score by an Indian, 236* v WI |
1983 |
Graeme Yallop completes 268 v Pakistan at cricket MCG |
1983 |
US announced withdrawal from UNESCO |
1984 |
5th United Negro College Fund |
1984 |
Blues took 27 shots against Islanders in 1 period |
1984 |
Indian PM Rajiv Gandhi claims victory in parlimetary elections |
1988 |
Soviet Red Army Team edges NY Islanders, 3-2 at Nassau Coliseum |
1988 |
Victorian Post Office Museum in Australia closes |
1989 |
Jane Pauley says goodbye to NBC's "Today" show |
1989 |
Vaclav Havel becomes president of Czechoslovakia |
1989 |
Wayne Gretzky & Martina Navratilova, named athletes of decade by AP |
1989 |
Riots break-out after Hong Kong decides to forcibly repatriate Vietnamese refugees. |
1991 |
"Christmas Carol" closes at Eugene O'Neill Theater NYC after 14 perfs |
1991 |
12th United Negro College Fund |
1991 |
Boeing 747-200F of China Airlines crash into mountain at Taipei |
1992 |
Gov Cuomo grants Jean Harris (Scarsdale Diet Dr killer) clemency |
1993 |
Courtney Love sues doctors for leaking news of her methadone treatment |
1993 |
Todd Bridges arrested for transporting methamphetamine (speed) |
1994 |
B737-400 flies into a mountain at Edremit East Turkey, 54 killed |
1994 |
Bangladesh government of Zia resigns |
1994 |
Last Dutch electro-magnetic telephone exchange shuts down |
1994 |
Shane Warne takes a hat-trick v England at cricket MCG |
1996 |
"Dreams & Nightmares" closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC |
1996 |
"Skylight" closes at Royale Theater NYC after |
1996 |
"Taking Sides" closes at Atkinson Theater NYC |
1997 |
Carquest Bowl 8: Georgia Tech beats West Virginia, 35-30 |
1997 |
Hong Kong begins slaughtering all its chickens to prevent bird flu |
1997 |
Orville Lynn Majors, 36, arrested for many deaths under his care |
1997 |
Russia signs agreement to build a $3B nuclear power plant in China |
1998 |
Leaders of the Khmer Rouge apologize for the 1970s genocide in Cambodia that claimed over 1 million. |
2001 |
Mesa Redonda shopping center fire, Lima, Peru, at least 291 killed. |
2007 |
Tom Brady sets a then-NFL record, throwing his 50th TD pass, and the New England Patriots become the first team in NFL history to finish the regular season 16-0. |
2012 |
200 people are executed by the Syrian army in Homs |
2012 |
21 security personnel are killed by Pakistani Taliban near Peshawar |
2012 |
5 people are killed in a Tupolev Tu-204 plane crash in Moscow |
2013 |
The volcano, Chaparrastique, erupts in El Salvador |
2013 |
16 people are killed and 40 are wounded by a suicide bomb attack at Volgograd-1 railway station, Russia |
2015 |
Fugitive 'affluenza' teen captured in Mexico |
2015 |
Blast kills 14 people; Pakistani Taliban faction claims responsibility |
2016 |
Bid for Access to Amazon Echo Audio in Murder Case Raises Privacy Concerns |
2016 |
Obama Designates Two New National Monuments, Protecting 1.35 Million Acres |
2017 |
Fire in New York City apartment block kills 12 including an infant |
2017 |
South Korea seizes HK-flagged vessel it says transferred oil to North Korea |
2017 |
At least 15 dead in fire at rooftop Mumbai restaurant |
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