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 363^rd 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, 29,449,440 minutes 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.

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.

December 29 Historical Events

• 1778 –
  American Revolutionary War: 3,000 British soldiers under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Archibald Campbell capture Savannah, Georgia.
• 1813 –
  British soldiers burn Buffalo, New York during the 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.
• 1851 –
  The first American YMCA opens in Boston, Massachusetts.
• 1930 –
  Sir Muhammad Iqbal’s presidential address in Allahabad introduces the Two-Nation Theory and outlines a vision for the creation of Pakistan.
• 1937 –
  The Irish Free State is replaced by a new state called Ireland with the adoption of a new constitution.
• 1939 –
  First flight of the Consolidated B-24 Liberator.
• 1940 –
  World War II: In The Second Great Fire of London, the Luftwaffe fire-bombs London, killing almost 200 civilians.
• 1997 –
  Hong Kong begins to kill all the nation’s 1.25 million chickens to stop the spread of a potentially deadly influenza strain.
• 2001 –
  A fire at the Mesa Redonda shopping center in Lima, Peru, kills at least 291.

Who were born on December 29?

• 1920 –
  Viveca Lindfors, Swedish-American actress (d. 1995)
• 1936 –
  Ray Nitschke, American football player (d. 1998)
• 1953 –
  Gali Atari, Israeli singer and actress
• 1954 –
  Roger Voudouris, American singer (d. 2003)
• 1962 –
  Devon White, Jamaican baseball player
• 1965 –
  Dexter Holland, American musician (The Offspring)
• 1967 –
  Andy Wachowski, American director
• 1971 –
  Margot Thien, American synchronized swimmer
• 1978 –
  Matthew Carr, Australian rules footballer
• 1986 –
  Kim Ok-bin, South Korean actress and model

Who died on December 29?

• 721 –
  Empress Gemmei of Japan (b. 661)
• 1563 –
  Sebastian Castellio, French theologian (b. 1515)
• 1785 –
  Johan Herman Wessel, Norwegian poet (b. 1742)
• 1970 –
  Marie Menken, American experimental filmmaker and socialite (b. 1909)
• 1980 –
  Nadezhda Mandelstam, Russian writer (b. 1899)
• 1988 –
  Mike Beuttler, British racing driver (b. 1940)
• 1995 –
  Lita Grey, American actress (b. 1908)
• 2004 –
  Julius Axelrod, American biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1912)
• 2007 –
  Phil O'Donnell, Scottish footballer (b. 1972)
• 2011 –
  Tyron Perez, Filipino actor and model (b. 1985)