On this day: 29 December
Events, births and deaths on 29 December. Every date is checked against Wikidata.
Years ago today
1 year ago2025
Nothing recorded for that year.
10 years ago2016
Nothing recorded for that year.
100 years ago1926
- Deaths · Rainer Maria Rilke
1000 years ago1026
Nothing recorded for that year.
Events · 22
- 1503(Julian date)Battle of Garigliano — 1503 battle
- 1778Capture of Savannah — battle of the American War of Independence
- 1835Treaty of New Echota — United States treaty with the Cherokee Nation, 1835
- 1845Texas — state of the United States of America
- 1845Texas annexation — the incorporation of the Republic of Texas into the United States
- 1876Ashtabula River Railroad Disaster — 1876 train wreck in Ashtabula, Ohio
- 1890Wounded Knee Massacre — violent attack on Lakota Indians in 1890 by the United States Army
- 1911
- 1928Northern Expedition — 1926 Kuomintang (KMT) military campaign
- 1928Northeast Flag Replacement — Zhang Xueliang's announcement on 29 December 1928 on replacing all banners of the Beiyang government in Manchuria with the flag of the Nationalist government, thus nominally uniting China under one state
- 1937Ireland — country in Northwestern Europe
- 1940Second Great Fire of London — air raid by Germany against London 29–30 December 1940
- 1972Eastern Air Lines Flight 401 — aviation accident
- 19751975 LaGuardia Airport bombing — 1975 terrorist attack
- 1991China Airlines Flight 358 — 1991 aviation accident
- 1993Convention on Biological Diversity — international treaty
- 1994Turkish Airlines Flight 278 — aviation accident
- 2012Red Wings Airlines Flight 9268 — 2012 plane crash
- 2013
- 20202020 Petrinja earthquake — earthquake near Petrinja, Croatia, on 29 December 2020 at 12:20 PM CET
- 2021Stand News raids and arrests — police raid on a Hong Kong pro-democracy media outlet
- 2024Jeju Air Flight 2216 — 2024 crashed aircraft in South Korea
Births · 60
- 1709Elizabeth I of Russia — sixth Empress of Russia from 1741 to 1762 (lived 1709-1762)
- 1721Madame de Pompadour — chief mistress of Louis XV of France (1721-1764)
- 1788Christian Jürgensen Thomsen — archaeologist (1788-1865)
- 1800Charles Goodyear — American inventor (1800-1860)
- 1808Andrew Johnson — President of the United States from 1865 to 1869
- 1809William Ewart Gladstone — British Liberal prime minister (1809–1898)
- 1809Albert Pike — American author, poet, orator, editor, lawyer, jurist and Confederate States Army general Associate justice of the Arkansas Supreme Court, Freemason (1809–1891)
- 1816Carl Ludwig — German physiologist (1816-1895)
- 1843Elisabeth of Wied — German writer; queen consort of Romania as the wife of King Carol I (1843–1916)
- 1859
- 1876Pau Casals — Spanish cellist, conductor and composer (1876–1973)
- 1885(Julian date)Roman von Ungern-Sternberg — Austrian anti-communist general (1886-1921)
- 1896David Alfaro Siqueiros — Diddy destroyer mp.3
- 1903Candido Portinari — Brazilian painter (1903–1962)
- 1910Ronald Coase — British economist and Nobel laureate (1910–2013)
- 1911Klaus Fuchs — German-born British theoretical physicist and atomic spy (1911-1988)
- 1915Jo Van Fleet — American actress (1915-1996)
- 1920Viveca Lindfors — Swedish actress (1920–1995)
- 1921Dobrica Ćosić — Serbian politician and writer (1921-2014)
- 1923Cheikh Anta Diop — Senegalese politician, essayist (1923–1986)
- 1936Mary Tyler Moore — American actress and television producer (1936-2017)
- 1937Maumoon Abdul Gayoom — 3rd President of the Maldives from 1978 to 2008
- 1938Jon Voight — American actor (born 1938)
- 1942Rajesh Khanna — Indian actor and film producer (1942–2012)
- 1942Óscar Andrés Rodríguez Maradiaga — papa Francisco
Deaths · 60
- 721(Julian date)Genmei — Empress regnant of Japan
- 1170(Julian date)Thomas Becket — English archbishop and martyr, 1119/1120–1170
- 1380(Julian date)Elizabeth of Poland, Queen of Hungary — Hungarian queen
- 1563(Julian date)Sebastian Castellio — French preacher and theologian
- 1606Stephen Bocskai — Prince of Transylvania (1557–1606)
- 1689Thomas Sydenham — English physician (1624–1689)
- 1720Maria Margaretha Kirch — German astronomer (1670-1720)
- 1731(Julian date)Brook Taylor — English mathematician (1685–1731)
- 1785Johan Herman Wessel — Norwegian-Danish writer
- 1815Sarah Baartman — Khoikhoi woman
- 1825Jacques-Louis David — French painter (1748–1825)
- 1863Salomon Müller — German naturalist (1804-1863)
- 1887Ferdinand Johann Wiedemann — Estonian linguist and botanist (1805-1887)
- 1890Octave Feuillet — French writer (1821–1890)
- 1891Leopold Kronecker — German mathematician who worked on number theory and algebra (1823–1891)
- 1894Christina Rossetti — English poet (1830–1894)
- 1905Charles Yerkes — American banker and art collector (1837-1905)
- 1910Reginald Doherty — English tennis player (1872–1910)
- 1919
- 1921Hermann Paul — German philologist (1846–1921)
- 1924Carl Spitteler — Swiss writer (1845–1924)
- 1925
- 1926Rainer Maria Rilke — Austrian poet and writer (1875–1926)
- 1929Wilhelm Maybach — German engine designer and industrialist (1846–1929)
- 1937Don Marquis — American humorist
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