What are the important events that happened on December 29? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
December 29: Facts & Myths About This Day
December 29 is the 363rd day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 2 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is December 16, 2025 – a Monday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 1,766,966,400 seconds has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.
Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘trihectahexacontatrigon’ day.
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Capricorn is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Turquoise is the modern birthstone for this month. Onyx is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 50 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,756 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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December 29 Historical Events
- 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 Church and the Catholic Church.
- 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.
- 1890 –United States soldiers kill more than 200 Oglala Lakota people with four Hotchkiss guns in the Wounded Knee Massacre.
- 1930 –Sir Muhammad Iqbal’s presidential address in Allahabad introduces the Two-Nation Theory and outlines a vision for the creation of Pakistan.
- 1940 –World War II: In The Second Great Fire of London, the Luftwaffe fire-bombs London, killing almost 200 civilians.
- 1959 –The Lisbon Metro begins operation.
- 1972 –An Eastern Air Lines Flight 401 (a Lockheed Tristar) crashes on approach to Miami International Airport, Florida, killing 101.
- 1989 –Riots break-out after Hong Kong decides to forcibly repatriate Vietnamese refugees.
- 1998 –Leaders of the Khmer Rouge apologize for the 1970s genocide in Cambodia that claimed over 1 million lives.
- 2001 –A fire at the Mesa Redonda shopping center in Lima, Peru, kills at least 291.
Who were born on December 29?
- 1896 –David Alfaro Siqueiros, Mexican painter (d. 1974)
- 1914 –Billy Tipton, American musician (d. 1989)
- 1917 –Ramanand Sagar, Indian film director (d. 2005)
- 1917 –Tom Bradley, American politician (d. 1998)
- 1949 –Syed Kirmani, Indian cricket player
- 1954 –Roger Voudouris, American singer (d. 2003)
- 1957 –Paul Rudnick, American screenwriter/playwright
- 1969 –Jennifer Ehle, British - American actress
- 1976 –Danny R. McBride, American actor, writer, and producer
- 1985 –Alexa Ray Joel, American musician, daughter of Billy Joel
Who died on December 29?
- 1563 –Sebastian Castellio, French theologian (b. 1515)
- 1661 –Antoine Gérard de Saint-Amant, French poet (b. 1594)
- 1891 –Leopold Kronecker, German mathematician (b. 1823)
- 1916 –Grigori Rasputin, Russian monk (b. 1869)
- 1970 –Marie Menken, American experimental filmmaker and socialite (b. 1909)
- 1976 –Ivo Van Damme, Belgian athlete (b. 1954)
- 1981 –Miroslav Krleža, Croatian writer (b. 1893)
- 2003 –Dinsdale Landen, English actor (b. 1932)
- 2004 –Ken Burkhart, American baseball player (b. 1915)
- 2008 –Freddie Hubbard, American jazz trumpet player (b. 1938)
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