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)