SomeFacts | December 29

On this day - December 29

1170 — Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, is assassinated ...

1503 — The Battle of Garigliano was fought between a Spanish army ...

1607 — According to John Smith, Pocahontas, daughter of Powhatan ...

1778 — American Revolutionary War: British forces under the command ...

1812 — USS Constitution, under the command of Captain William ...

1835 — The Treaty of New Echota is signed, ceding all the lands of ...

1845 — The United States annexes the Republic of Texas and admits it ...

1860 — The launch of HMS Warrior, with her combination of screw ...

1862 — American Civil War: The Battle of Chickasaw Bayou ends in a ...

1874 — The military coup of Gen. Martinez Campos in Sagunto ends the ...

1876 — The Ashtabula River railroad disaster occurs, leaving 64 ...

1890 — Wounded Knee Massacre: On Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, 300 ...

1911 — Mongolia gains independence from the Qing dynasty, enthroning ...

1913 — Cecil B. DeMille starts filming Hollywood's first feature ...

1930 — Sir Muhammad Iqbal's presidential address in Allahabad ...

1934 — Japan renounces the Washington Naval Treaty of 1922 and the ...

1937 — The Irish Free State is replaced by a new state called Ireland ...

1940 — World War II: in the Second Great Fire of London, the ...

1972 — Eastern Air Lines Flight 401 (a Lockheed L-1011 TriStar) ...

1975 — A bomb explodes at LaGuardia Airport in New York City, killing ...

1989 — The Nikkei 225 for the Tokyo Stock Exchange hits its all-time ...

1989 — Czech writer, philosopher and dissident Václav Havel is ...

1992 — Fernando Collor de Mello, president of Brazil, tries to resign ...

1994 — Turkish Airlines Flight 278 (a Boeing 737-400) crashes on ...

1996 — Guatemala and leaders of Guatemalan National Revolutionary ...

1998 — Leaders of the Khmer Rouge apologize for the Cambodian ...

2003 — The last known speaker of Akkala Sami dies, rendering the ...

2006 — The UK settles its Anglo-American loan, post-WWII loan debt.

2012 — A Tupolev Tu-204 airliner crashes in a ditch between the ...

2013 — Seven-time Formula One champion Michael Schumacher suffers a ...

2013 — A suicide bomb attack at the Volgograd-1 railway station in ...

2020 — A magnitude 6.4 earthquake hits near the town of Petrinja in ...

2023 — South Africa files a genocide case against Israel at the ...

2024 — Jeju Air Flight 2216 crashes into a wall in Muan, South Korea, ...