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 364th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 2 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is December 16, 2024 – a Sunday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 482,064 hours 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 ‘trihectahexacontatetragon’ 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 31 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 4,391 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1975 –A bomb explodes at LaGuardia Airport in New York, New York, killing 11 people and injuring 74.
- 2003 –The last known speaker of Akkala Sami dies, rendering the language extinct.
Who were born on December 29?
- 1808 –Andrew Johnson, 17th President of the United States (d. 1875)
- 1870 –Albert Amrhein, German rugby player (death year unknown)
- 1910 –Ronald Coase, British economist, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1946 –Marianne Faithfull, British singer
- 1947 –Cozy Powell, English rock drummer (d. 1998)
- 1954 –Albrecht Böttcher, German mathematician
- 1967 –Chris Barnes, American singer
- 1969 –Allan McNish, Scottish race car driver
- 1970 –Kevin Weisman, American actor
- 1983 –Alison Brie, American actress
Who died on December 29?
- 1731 –Brook Taylor, English mathematician (b. 1685)
- 1737 –Joseph Saurin, French mathematician (b. 1659)
- 1929 –Wilhelm Maybach, German automobile designer (b. 1846)
- 1959 –Robin Milford, British composer (b. 1903)
- 1960 –Philippe Panneton, Quebec physician, diplomat and writer (b. 1895)
- 1970 –Marie Menken, American experimental filmmaker and socialite (b. 1909)
- 1998 –Jean-Claude Forest, writer and illustrator of comics (Barbarella) (b. 1930)
- 2001 –Cássia Eller, Brazilian musician (b. 1962)
- 2009 –Akmal Shaikh, British drug trafficker, executed by lethal injection in the People’s Republic of China (b. 1956)
- 2010 –Bill Erwin, American actor (b. 1914)
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