29 December

The 29t o December is the 363t day o the year (364t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 2 days bidin.

 Events 
 1170 - Murther o Airchbishop o Canterbury Thomas Becket.
 1813 - War o 1812: Breetish troops burn the ceety o Buffalo, New York. 
 1837 - Fire destroys the Winter Palace in Saunt Petersburg.
 1845 - Texas becomes the 28t state o the Unitit States.
 1874 - Alfonso XII o Spain becomes Keeng.
 1890 - US Cavalrymen commit the Wounded Knee massacre on 300 Lakota Native Americans.
 1911 - Mongolie gains unthirldom.
 1911 - Sun Yat-sen becomes Preses o the Proveesional Govrenment o the Republic o Cheenae.
 1921 - William Lyon Mackenzie King becomes Prime meenister o Canadae.
 1937 - The Erse Free State is replaced bi a state cried Ireland.
 1940 - Warld War II: The Luftwaffe bombs Lunnon.
 1989 - Vaclav Havel becomes Preses o Czechoslovakie.
 2001 - A fire at the Mesa Redonda Shoppin centre in Lima, Peru, kills 291 fowk.
 2008 - The last speaker o the Akkala Sami leid dies.
 2013 - A bomb is detonatit at Volgograd-1 railwey station in Volgograd, Soothren Roushie, killin 18 fowk.
 2013 - Michael Schumacher suffers severe injuries in a skiin accident in Fraunce.
 2017 - A fire at a hottle an restaurant complex in Mumbai kills 14 fowk.

 Births 
 1709 - Elizabeth o Roushie (d. 1762)
 1721 - Madame de Pompadour, offeecial mistress o Louis XV o Fraunce (d. 1764)
 1766 - Charles Macintosh, Scots chemist an inventor o watterpruif faibric (d. 1843)
 1808 - Andrew Johnson, 17t Preses o the Unitit States (d. 1875)
 1809 - William Ewart Gladstone, Prime Meenister o the Unitit Kinrick (d. 1898)
 1859 - Venustiano Carranza, Preses o Mexico (d. 1920)
 1871 - William Thomas Calman, Scots zoologist (d. 1952)
 1876 - Pablo Casals, Spainyie cellist (d. 1973)
 1910 - Ronald Coase, Inglis economist (d. 2013)
 1928 - Bernard Cribbins, Inglis actor
 1936 - Mary Tyler Moore, American actress (d. 2017)
 1938 - Jon Voight, American actor
 1946 - Marianne Faithfull, Inglis sangster
 1948 - Peter Robinson, umwhile First Meenister o Northren Ireland
 1953 - Thomas Bach, German fencer an Preses o the Internaitional Olympic Committee
 1962 - Carles Puigdemont, Catalan politeecian
 1967 - Ashleigh Banfield, Canadian-American jurnalist
 1969 - Allan McNish, Scots racin driver
 1972 - Jude Law, Inglis actor
 1979 - Diego Luna, Mexican actor, director an producer
 1981 - Shizuka Arakawa, Japanese feegur skeitcher
 1982 - Martin Laird, Scots gowfer
 1989 - Kei Nishikori, Japanese tennis player
 1995 - Ross Lynch, American actor

 Daiths 
 1170 - Thomas Becket, Inglis airchbeeshop (b. 1118)
 1825 - Jacques-Louis David, French penter (b. 1748)
 1924 - Carl Spitteler, Swiss poet (b. 1845)
 1926 - Rainer Maria Rilke, Austrick writer (b. 1875)
 1986 - Andrei Tarkovsky, Soviet-Roushie filmmaker (b. 1932)
 1986 - Harold Macmillan, Prime Meenister o the Unitit Kinrick (b. 1894)
 2007 - Phil O'Donnell, Scots fitbawer (b. 1972)
 2013 - Wojciech Kilar, Pols componer (b. 1932)
 2019 - Alasdair Gray, Scots writer an airtist (b. 1934)

 Halidays 
 Independence Day (Mongolie)
 Constitution Day (Republic o Ireland)
 Stairt o Four Hills Ski jumpin tournament (Germany, Austrick)

Category:Days o the year