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29 Dec 1503
Battle of Garigliano Spanish army under General Cordoba defeats French forces
29 Dec 1539
St Jacobs Church burns after being hit by lightning
29 Dec 1541
Isabella of Poland and King Ferdinand of Austria sign Treaty of Gyalu
29 Dec 1705
Prosper Jolyots Idomene premieres in Paris
29 Dec 1782
1st nautical almanac in US published by Samuel Stearns Boston
29 Dec 1786
French Revolution The Assembly of Notables is convoked
29 Dec 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
29 Dec 1813
British burn Buffalo New York during War of 1812
29 Dec 1835
The Treaty of New Echota is signed ceding all the lands of the Cherokee east of the Mississippi River to the United States
29 Dec 1837
Canadian militia destroy Caroline a US steamboat docked at Buffalo
29 Dec 1837
Steam-powered threshing machine patented in Winthrop Maine
29 Dec 1841
King and Grand Duke Willem II installs Order of Eikenkroon
29 Dec 1848
Gas lights 1st installed at White House (Polks administration)
29 Dec 1851
1st American Young Mens Christian Association (YMCA) chapter opened in Boston Massachusetts
29 Dec 1852
Emma Snodgrass arrested in Boston for wearing pants
29 Dec 1860
The first British seagoing iron-clad warship HMS Warrior is launched
29 Dec 1867
1st telegraph ticker used by a brokerage house Groesbeck & Co New York
29 Dec 1876
11 passenger cars crash in a ravine near Ashtabula Ohio 92 die
29 Dec 1890
US 7th Cavalry massacre 200 captive Sioux at Wounded Knee South Dakota
29 Dec 1891
Edison patents transmission of signals electrically (radio)
29 Dec 1895
Dr L S Jameson begins failed raid on Johannesburg
29 Dec 1899
British fleet seizes German Imperial Mail Steamer Bundesrath accused of carrying contraband
29 Dec 1900
General Viljoen surprise attack British garrison to Helvetia
29 Dec 1903
French Equatorial Africa separates into Gabon Chad and Ubangi-Shari
29 Dec 1906
Montreal Wanderers beat New Glasgow (NS) for Stanley Cup (2nd of )
29 Dec 1908
Patent granted for a 4-wheel automobile brake Clintonville Wisconsin
29 Dec 1911
Proclamation restores Dei Gratia from Canadas coins
29 Dec 1911
Mongolia gains independence from the Qing dynasty
29 Dec 1913
1st movie serial Adventures of Kathlyn premieres in Chicago
29 Dec 1920
The Netherlands and Venezuela recover diplomatic relations
29 Dec 1926
Vatican puts French fascist Charles Maurras work on the index
29 Dec 1926
Victoria (1107) beat NSW (221 & 230) by an innings 656 runs
29 Dec 1930
Fred P. Newton completes longest swim ever (1826 miles) when he swam in the Mississippi River from Ford Dam Minnesota to New Orleans
29 Dec 1931
Identification of heavy water publicly announced HC Urey
29 Dec 1931
Victoria score 7 for 435 in second innings to beat NSW
29 Dec 1934
1st collegiate basketball doubleheader at Madison Square Garden
29 Dec 1934
Federico Garcia Lorcas Yerma premieres in Madrid
29 Dec 1934
Japan renounces Wash Naval Treaty of 1922 and London Treaty of 1930
29 Dec 1937
Constitution of Ireland (Irish Bunreacht na hireann) is enacted and Irish free state is named Eire
29 Dec 1937
Lou Thesz beats Everett Marshall in St Louis to win National Wrestling Ass.World heavyweight title - youngest ever
29 Dec 1937
Pan Am starts service between San Francisco and Auckland New Zealand
29 Dec 1938
Construction on Lake Washington Floating Bridge Seattle begins
29 Dec 1939
First flight of the Consolidated B-24 Liberator bomber prototype
29 Dec 1940
Germany drops its 1st incendiary bombs on London during the Blitz
29 Dec 1940
NFL Pro Bowl Chicago Bears beats NFL All-Stars 28-14
29 Dec 1945
Montreal right wing Maurice Richard scores twice in Canadiens 5-4 loss to Chicago Black Hawks to record his 100th NHL career goal reaches mark in just 145 games then fastest in history since broken by Mike Bossy 100 goals in 129 games
29 Dec 1947
Ship carrying Jewish immigrants driven away from Palestine
29 Dec 1948
Rape of Lucretia opens at Ziegfeld Theater NYC for 23 performances
29 Dec 1948
US State Department announces work on placing objects into Earth orbit
29 Dec 1949
1st UHF television station operating regular basis Bridgeport Connecticut
29 Dec 1952
1st transistorized hearing aid offered for sale (Elmsford NY)
29 Dec 1954
Kingdom of Netherlands with Netherlands & Netherlands Antilles as autonomous parts comes into being
29 Dec 1955
NHL officials wear new vertically striped black-and-white sweaters for the first time in Montreal Canadiens 5-2 win over Toronto Maple Leafs
29 Dec 1957
Detroit Lions beat Cleveland Browns 50-14 in NFL championship game
29 Dec 1957
Singers Steve Lawrence & Eydie Gorme wed in Las Vegas
29 Dec 1958
Balt Colts beat NY Giants 23-17 in NFL championship game
29 Dec 1959
Saul Levitts Andersonville Trial premieres in NYC
29 Dec 1962
Doug Walters makes 1st-class debut for NSW 17 yrs 8 days
29 Dec 1962
British driver Graham Hill wins the South African Grand Prix at Prince George Circuit in a BRM takes out his first World Championship of Drivers title by 12 points from Scotsman Jim Clark
29 Dec 1963
52nd Davis Cup USA beats Australia in Adelaide (3-2)
29 Dec 1963
Chicago Bears win NFL championship defeating New York Giants 14-10 in Chicago
29 Dec 1965
CBS purchases NFL TV rights for 1966-68 at 18.8 million per year
29 Dec 1965
Supremes release My World is Empty Without You
29 Dec 1965
54th Davis Cup Australia beats Spain in Sydney (4-1)
29 Dec 1966
Pirate Radio Phoenix 1st transmission (Worcester Massachusetts)
29 Dec 1968
Baltimore Colts beat Cleveland Browns 34-0 in NFL championship game
29 Dec 1968
Israeli commandos destroy 13 Lebanese airplanes
29 Dec 1969
NY Times reports Curt Flood will sue baseball and challenge the reserve clause
29 Dec 1970
Occupational Safety and Health Act (United States) signed into law by President Richard M. Nixon
29 Dec 1970
Ballon dOr Bayern Munich striker Gerd Mller wins award for best European football player ahead of West Ham United defender Bobby Moore and Cagliari forward Luigi Riva
29 Dec 1972
Eastern Tristar Jumbo Jet crashes near Everglades killing 101
29 Dec 1972
Test Cricket debut of Jeff Thomson and Max Walker v Pakistan at MCG
29 Dec 1972
President of Sinn Fin Ruairi O Bradaigh is arrested and held under new legislation in Republic of Ireland
29 Dec 1972
Aguirre the Wrath of God film written and directed by Werner Herzog starring Klaus Kinki premieres in West Germany
29 Dec 1974
Murray Schisgals All Over Town premieres in NYC
29 Dec 1974
AFC Championship Game Pittsburgh Steelers beat Oakland Raiders 24-13
29 Dec 1974
NFC Championship Game Minnesota Vikings beat Los Angeles Rams 14-10
29 Dec 1975
11 killed 75 hurt by terrorist bomb at LaGuardia Airport in NYC
29 Dec 1977
Ronald Ribmans Cold Storage premieres in NYC
29 Dec 1978
Shah of Iran asks Shapour Bahktiar to form a civilian government
29 Dec 1978
Test Cricket debut of Allan Robert Border v England at the MCG
29 Dec 1979
Red Army beats NY Islanders 3-2 at Nassau Coliseum
29 Dec 1980
Shuttle STS-1 moves from Vandenberg AFB to Launch Complex 39A
29 Dec 1981
Ballon dOr German 1-2-3 with Bayern Munich forward Karl-Heinz Rummenigge taking title of Europes best football player for the 2nd straight year beats team mate Paul Breitner and Barcelona midfielder Bernd Schuster
29 Dec 1982
Coach Paul Bear Bryant ends his career with Alabama (323 wins)
29 Dec 1983
Gavaskar makes the highest Test Cricket score by an Indian 236 v WI
29 Dec 1983
Graeme Yallop completes 268 v Pakistan at cricket MCG
29 Dec 1984
Blues took 27 shots against Islanders in 1 period
29 Dec 1984
Indian PM Rajiv Gandhi claims victory in parlimetary elections
29 Dec 1984
Wayne Gretzky scores his NHL career 32nd hat trick & adds 3 assists in Edmontons 6-3 win over Detroit Red Wings for his 100th point in just 35 games 2nd fastest in history - recorded 100 points in 34 games in 1983
29 Dec 1987
Ballon dOr Milans Dutch midfielder Ruud Gullit wins best football player in Europe award ahead of Paulo Futre (PortoAtltico Madrid) and Real Madrid striker Emilio Butragueo
29 Dec 1988
Soviet Red Army Team edges NY Islanders 3-2 at Nassau Coliseum
29 Dec 1988
Victorian Post Office Museum in Australia closes
29 Dec 1988
Torontos Ed Olczyk and Gary Leeman score goals just 4 seconds apart in the 3rd period tying the NHL record for fastest 2 goals by one team Leafs beat the Quebec Nordiques 6-5.
29 Dec 1989
Jane Pauley says goodbye to NBCs Today show
29 Dec 1989
Riots break-out after Hong Kong decides to forcibly repatriate Vietnamese refugees.
29 Dec 2012
21 security personnel are killed by Pakistani Taliban near Peshawar
29 Dec 2012
5 people are killed in a Tupolev Tu-204 plane crash in Moscow
29 Dec 2013
Chaparrastique volcano erupts inEl Salvador
29 Dec 2013
16 people are killed and 40 are wounded by a suicide bomb attack atVolgograd-1 railway station Russia
29 Dec 2013
Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says barrel bombs on Aleppo have killed 517 people since 15th December
29 Dec 2015
Ebola epidemic in Guinea declared over by WHO 2500 died over 2 years
29 Dec 1991
Christmas Carol closes at Eugene ONeill Theater NYC after 14 performances
29 Dec 1991
Boeing 747-200F of China Airlines crash into mountain at Taipei
29 Dec 1992
Governor Cuomo grants Jean Harris (Scarsdale Diet Dr killer) clemency
29 Dec 1993
Todd Bridges arrested for transporting methamphetamine (speed)
29 Dec 1994
B737-400 flies into a mountain at Edremit East Turkey 54 killed
29 Dec 1994
Last Dutch electro-magnetic telephone exchange shuts down
29 Dec 1994
Shane Warne takes a hat-trick v England at cricket MCG
29 Dec 1996
Dreams & Nightmares closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC
29 Dec 1997
Hong Kong begins slaughtering all its chickens to prevent bird flu
29 Dec 1997
Orville Lynn Majors 36 arrested for many deaths under his care
29 Dec 1997
Russia signs agreement to build a 3B nuclear power plant in China
29 Dec 1997
Cricket Womens World Cup Australia defeats New Zealand by 5 wickets
29 Dec 1998
Leaders of the Khmer Rouge apologize for the 1970s genocide in Cambodia that claimed over a million people
29 Dec 2001
Mesa Redonda shopping center fire Lima Peru at least 291 killed.
29 Dec 2003
50th National Film Awards (India) Mondo Meyer Upakhyan wins the Golden Lotus
29 Dec 2007
American boxer Steve Cunningham defends his IBF cruiserweight title for the first time with a 12th-round TKO of local favourite Marco Huck in Bielefeld Germany
29 Dec 2012
200 people are executed by the Syrian army in Homs
29 Dec 1906
Stanley Cup Montreal Arena Westmount Quebec Montreal Wanderers beat New Glasgow (NS) 7-2 for 17-5 aggregate challenge series victory
29 Dec 1940
3rd NFL All Star Game Chicago Bears beats NFL All-Stars 28-14
29 Dec 1957
National Football League Championship Briggs Stadium Detroit Detroit Lions beat Cleveland Browns 50-14 Lions score 2 touchdowns in each quarter
29 Dec 1962
British driver Graham Hill wins the South African Grand Prix at Prince George Circuit in a BRM takes out his first F1 World Drivers Championship by 12 points from Scotsman Jim Clark
29 Dec 1963
National Football League Championship Wrigley Field Chicago Chicago Bears beat New York Giants 14-10 Giants 3rd consecutive championship defeat played in temperatures under 10 F (12 C)
29 Dec 1968
NFL Championship Cleveland Municipal Stadium Baltimore Colts shutout Cleveland Browns 34-0
29 Dec 1972
Aguirre the Wrath of God film written and directed by Werner Herzog starring Klaus Kinski premieres in West Germany
29 Dec 1974
AFC Championship Oakland Coliseum Pittsburgh Steelers beat Oakland Raiders 24-13
29 Dec 1974
NFC Championship Metropolitan Stadium Bloomington Minnesota Vikings beat Los Angeles Rams 14-10
29 Dec 1989
Wayne Gretzky and Martina Navratilova named athletes of decade by the Associated Press
29 Dec 2018
40 militants killed in Giza and El-Arish by Egyptian police after attack on a tourist bus the day before killed four
29 Dec 2018
85th Orange Bowl 1 Alabama beats 4 Oklahoma 45-34
29 Dec 1981
Ballon dOr German 1-2-3 with Bayern Munich forward Karl-Heinz Rummenigge taking title of Europes best football player for the 2nd straight year beats teammate Paul Breitner and Barcelona midfielder Bernd Schuster
29 Dec 1983
US formally notifies UNESCO that it will withdraw from the organization on the Jan 1 1985 in protest over perceived anti-Western bias efforts to restrict press freedom and wasteful management methods
29 Dec 1503
Battle of Garigliano Spanish army under Gonzalo Fernndez de Crdoba defeats French forces in Italy giving Spain control of the Kingdom of Naples
29 Dec 1705
Prosper Jolyot de Crbillons play Idomne premieres in Paris
29 Dec 1934
First collegiate basketball doubleheader is played at Madison Square Garden NYC New York University beats Notre Dame 25-18 Westminster edges St. Johns 37-33
29 Dec 1944
Belgian Walloon Nazi collaborator Lon Degrelle sentenced to death
29 Dec 1962
Australian cricket batting champion Doug Walters makes 1st-class debut for NSW v Queensland in Sydney at just 17 years 8 days scores 50 in NSW 2nd innings
29 Dec 1980
Shuttle STS-1 moves from Vehicle Assembly Building at Kennedy Space Center (Florida) to Launch Complex 39A
29 Dec 1982
American college football coach Paul Bear Bryant ends his career with University of Alabama (323 wins)
29 Dec 1991
12th United Negro College Fund Parade of Stars telethon hosted by Lou Rawls airs from Aquarius Theatre in Hollywood and The Apollo Theatre in Harlem NYC
29 Dec 2018
Record lowest temperature of -111C registered by American satellite Noaa-20 in the western Pacific at top of large storm [1]
29 Dec 2020
Milwaukee Bucks break NBA record for most 3-pointers made by a team in a single game with 29 in a dominant 144-97 victory over the Heat in Miami
29 Dec 1566
Danish student and future astronomer Tycho Brache loses part of his nose in a sword duel over who is the better mathematician (he wore a prosthetic nose the rest of his life)
29 Dec 1983
Australian cricket batsman Graham Yallop completes a painstaking 268 (716 mins) v Pakistan in the drawn 4th Test in Melbourne
29 Dec 1903
French Equatorial Africa separates into Gabon Chad and Ubangi-Shari (Central African Republic)
29 Dec 1944
General Eisenhowers train returns to Versailles
29 Dec 1973
Jerry Livingston Leonard Adelson and Mack Davids musical Molly starring Kaye Ballard closes at Alvin Theater. NYC after 68 performances
29 Dec 1974
Murray Schisgals stage comedy All Over Town directed by Dustin Hoffman opens at the Booth Theatre NYC runs for 233 performances
29 Dec 1508
Portuguese under Francisco de Almeida attack pillage and burn the Muslim trading city of Dabul Sultanate of Bijapur (modern India)
29 Dec 1845
Texas is admitted as the 28th state of the Union
29 Dec 1852
Emma Snodgrass is arrested in Boston for wearing pants
29 Dec 1913
First movie serial The Adventures of Kathlyn premieres in Chicago
29 Dec 1984
NHL St. Louis Blues launch 27 shots in 1 period during 5-1 loss to visiting New York Islanders NY goaltender Kelly Hrudey finishes game with 47 saves
29 Dec 1987
US Food and Drug Administration first approves the use of Prozac (fluoxetine hydrochloride) to treat depression [1]
29 Dec 1989
Wayne Gretzky and Martina Navratilova are named Athletes of the Decade by the Associated Press
29 Dec 1991
Boeing 747-200F freight plane of China Airlines crashes into mountain shortly after takeoff from Chiang Kai-shek International Airportat Taipei Taiwan killing 5-member crew
29 Dec 2022
Social medial personality Andrew Tate arrested in Romania on charges of sex trafficking and rape following an exchange with Greta Thunberg over Twitter [1]
29 Dec 1782
The first Nautical Almanac in the US is published by Samuel Stearns in Boston
29 Dec 1862
The modern bowling ball is invented made out of wood
29 Dec 1867
First telegraph ticker used by a brokerage house in Groesbeck & Co. New York
29 Dec 1891
Edison patents his invention Means for Transmitting Signals Electrically using induction rather than radio waves
29 Dec 1930
Fred Newton (27) becomes the first to swim the entire length of the Mississippi River from Ford Dam Minnesota to New Orleans Louisiana he covers 1826 miles over 176 days spending 742 hours in the water
29 Dec 1967
Star Treks episode Trouble With Tribbles airs
29 Dec 1995
CNNfn a financial network by Turner Enterprises launches
29 Dec 2016
Duge Bridge over the Nizhu River in provinces of Guizhou and Yunnan China opens as the highest bridge in the world (565 m 1.854 ft) surpassed by Huajiang Canyon Bridge in 2025
29 Dec 2024
South Korean Jeju Air plane crashes and explodes trying to land without landing gear at Muan International Airport killing 179 out of 181 on board [1]