This Day in History
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
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Pat Boone earns second #1 hit with April Love
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Texas enters the Union
Six months after the congress of the Republic of Texas accepts U.S. annexation of the territory Texas is admitted into the United States as the 28th state.Afte...
The making of an English martyr
Archbishop Thomas Becket is brutally murdered in Canterbury Cathedral by four knights of King Henry II of England apparently on orders of the king.In 1155 Hen...
U.S. Army massacres Indians at Wounded Knee
On this day in 1890 in the final chapter of Americas long Indian wars the U.S. Cavalry kills 146 Sioux at Wounded Knee on the Pine Ridge reservation i...
Germans raid London
On this day German aircraft blanket incendiary bombs over London setting both banks of the Thames ablaze and killing almost 3600 British civilians.The German...
Saigon announces success of strategic hamlet program
Saigon announces that 4077 strategic hamlets have been completed out of a projected total of 11182. The figures also stated that 39 percent of the South Vietn...
Johnson Administration responds to Harrison Salisbury’s charges
Assistant Secretary of Defense Arthur Sylvester admits that the North Vietnamese city of Nam Dinh has been hit by U.S. planes 64 times since mid-1965 and that ...
Cuban professional baseball league holds first game
On December 29 1878 the first game is played between two teams of the first professional baseball league in Cuba later known as the Cuban League. Representin...
Andrew Johnson is born
On this day in 1808 future President Andrew Johnson is born in Raleigh North Carolina.Johnsons career took him from mayor of Greeneville (1834) to the...
U.S. Army massacres Sioux at Wounded Knee
In the tragic final chapter of Americas long war against the Plains Indians the U.S. Cavalry kills 146 Sioux Indians at Wounded Knee South Dakota.Tens...
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is published
On this day in 1916 James Joyces book Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is published in New York. The book had been previously serialized in Ezra P...
Cheers star Ted Danson born
On this day in 1947 the actor Ted Danson who will become best known for his role as bar owner Sam Malone on the mega-hit TV sitcom Cheers which originally ai...
Bridge collapses in Ohio
A bridge in Ashtabula Ohio collapses on this day in 1876 causing a train to fall into a gorge killing 80 passengers.The Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Rai...
The Railway Rapist commits his first murder
The Railway Rapist attacks 19-year-old Alison Day and abducts her from a London train. Her strangled body was recovered two weeks later. Although ...
Battle of Chickasaw Bluffs
On this day in 1862 at the Battle of Chickasaw Bluffs Union General William T. Sherman is thwarted in his attempt to capture Vicksburg Mississippi when he o...
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