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1 - 26 of 26 Interesting & Fun 29th of December Facts: |
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| 1170 - Thomas Becket is slain in his own cathedral by knights eager to please Henry II of England. |
| 1813 - War of 1812: British soldiers burn Buffalo, New York. |
| 1835 - The Treaty of New Echota is signed, ceding all the lands of the Cherokee east of the Mississippi River to the United States. |
| 1845 - Texas is admitted as the 28th U.S. state. (Republic of Texas and United States agree to annexation of Texas.) |
| 1851 - The first American-based YMCA opens in Boston, Massachusetts. |
| 1860 - The first British seagoing iron-clad warship, the HMS Warrior is launched. |
| 1862 - American Civil War: The Battle of Chickasaw Bayou ends. |
| 1876 - The Ashtabula River Railroad bridge disaster, 64 injured, 92 dead at Ashtabula, Ohio. |
| 1890 - Wounded Knee Massacre: The United States soldiers massacre over 400 men, women and children of the Great Sioux Nation at Wounded Knee, South Dakota. |
| 1911 - Sun Yat-sen becomes the first President of the Republic of China. |
| 1913 - Seligs Polyscope Company releases The Unwelcome Throne, the first serial motion picture. |
| 1921 - William Lyon Mackenzie King becomes Prime Minister of Canada. |
| 1934 - The first college basketball game at New York City's Madison Square Garden is played between the University of Notre Dame and New York University. |
| 1934 - Japan renounces the Washington Naval Treaty of 1922 and the London Naval Treaty of 1930. |
| 1937 - The Irish Free State is replaced by a new state called Ireland with the adoption of a new constitution. |
| 1940 - World War II: In The Second Great Fire of London, the Luftwaffe firebombs City of London, killing almost 200 civilians. |
| 1963 - 22 people perish in the Hotel Roosevelt fire, the worst fire to occur in Jacksonville, Florida since the Great Fire of 1901. |
| 1972 - An Eastern Air Lines Lockheed "Tristar" crashed on approach to Miami International Airport, Florida, killing 101. |
| 1975 - A bomb explodes at New York City's LaGuardia Airport killing 11. |
| 1987 - Yuri Romanenko of USSR returns to Earth after 326 days in space. |
| 1989 - Riots break-out after Hong Kong decides to forcibly repatriate Vietnamese refugees. |
| 1989 - On the final day of trading for the year and decade, the Japanese Nikkei 225 Average closes at an all-time high of 38,915.87. |
| 1993 - Construction of the Tian Tan Buddha, the world's tallest outdoor bronze statue of the seated Buddha, is completed. |
| 1997 - Hong Kong begins to kill all the nation's chickens (1.25 million) to stop the spread of a potentially deadly influenza strain. |
| 2001 - A massive fire in the historic district of downtown Lima, Peru kills at least 274 people. |
| 2002 - Cincinnati's Riverfront Stadium/Cinergy Field is demolished. |
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