December 29th

The December 29th is the 363e Jour of the Année (364e in the event of Leap year) of the Gregorian calendar . There remain 2 days before the end of the year.

Events

  •    716: The king Childéric II confirms the privileges of immunity granted by his ancestors to the Abbaye of Saint-Denis.

  • 1170 : At the instigation of the king Henri II of England, which showed it félonie, the archbishop Thomas Becket is assassinated on the steps of the furnace bridge of the cathedral of Canterbury.
  • 1503 : The Spain completes the conquest of Naples
  • 1721: Occupation of the Mauritius by the French, that they baptize Ile de France.
  • 1778 : New England. The English carry the war in the South and seizes Savannah, the capital of the Georgia.
  • 1788 : Marseilles claims the increase in the number of the elected officials of the Tiers state and votes it per capita with the General states.
  • 1796 : Ireland. It is the failure of the attempt at unloading of the French revolutionary troops. The thin troops of the general Hoche cannot hold. The survivors re-embark.
  • 1797 : The French seize Mainz
  • 1825: Simon Bolivar Palacios gives up the Presidency of Bolivia, which it leaves with its lieutenant Antonio Jose de Sucre Alcala.
  • 1840 : The general Bugeaud is named general governor of the Algérie.
  • 1845 :
    • the Texas becomes the 28e American State
    • In Ireland beginning of the great famine
  • 1855: Austrian ultimatum with the Russia.
  • 1857 : Occupation of Canton by a task force free - British.
  • 1874 : Spain. With Sagonte, the general Martinez Campos, by Pronunciamiento declares king d' Espagne infant it gift fine Alfonso putting at the dictatorship of the general Francisco Serrano there Dominguez .
  • 1890 : Massacre of Wounded Knee Creek, 300 Amerindians are massacred with the machine-gun by the soldiers of 7th of cavalry of the army of the the United States, charged with escorting the chief Big Foot with a Pow-wow; 13 Étatsuniens die, victims of the shootings of their colleagues.
  • 1895 : Southern Africa. Pushed by Cecil Rhodos, Leander Starr Jameson had invaded the République Boer with a hundred and hundred men to reverse Paul Kruger, but it is overcome, stopped and condemned.
  • 1916 : Raspoutine, a monk miracle-worker and discharged, shown to have exerted a harmful influence on the Russian imperial family, is assassinated by the prince Felix Youssoupoff.
  • 1921 :
  • 1925 : The French Communist party east creates.
  • 1933 :
    • Ion Duca, First Rumanian minister, is assassinated by members of the Garde of iron; Georges Tatarescu succeeds to him.
    • the Juifs protest against the restrictions imposed on immigration in Palestine.
  • 1934 : The Japan denounces the Traité of Washington, which limited the tonnage of the navy of war.
  • 1940 : German bombers inflict with London the largest damage that the British capital underwent since the large fire of 1666.
  • 1943 : Birth of the French Forces of the interior (clandestine military groupings of Resistance).
  • 1951 : Beginning of the nuclear power with the the United States.
  • 1952 : The first apparatus with Transistor for deaf people is marketed.
  • 1958 : The realizers of Radio-Canada start the strike.
  • 1959 : Premonitory conference of Richard Feynman, with Caltech, on future the nano-machines , with 30 years in advance on the Nanotechnologies.
  • 1962 :
    • the workmen of Renault obtain a fourth week of paid vacations.
    • the blue helmets occupy Elisabethville, with the Katanga.
  • 1965 : Independence of the Betchouanaland (old name of the Botswana ).
  • 1972 : A Lockheed L-1011 of the company Eastern Air Lines (flight 401) is crushed close to Miami with 176 people on her board. 101 victims will be counted. The accident is due to a fault of piloting.
  • 1973 : The Filipino president Ferdinand Marcos arrives at the end of his electoral mandate, but remains with the capacity and control surface by decrees.
  • 1978 : In spite of a paralyzed economy and a situation which turns to the Chaos, the Chah of Iran refuses to abdicate.
  • 1981 : The American suspend their exports, in particular technology, towards the Soviet Union, in sign of protest against the introduction of the martial Loi in Poland.
  • 1983 : Marriage of Caroline of Monaco and Stefano Casiraghi.
  • 1986 :
    • a bomb explodes with 500 meters of the residence of holidays of the king Juan Carlos: the attack is asserted by the ETA.
    • Facing the prohibition of the communist dictatorship, of the thousands of students expresses with Beijing.
  • 1987 : Yuri Romanenko, cosmonaut Soviet, returns on ground after having established the record of the longest mission in space is 326 days, 11 hours and 40 minutes.
  • 1989 :
  • 1992 : The Parliament having to discuss its dismissal, with the Brazil, the president Fernando Collor of Mello resigns.
  • 1993 : The the United States and the Russia sign the nuclear agreement of disarmament Start II .
  • 1996 : The government of the Guatemala and the guerilla sign an peace agreement, after thirty-six years of civil war and more than one hundred forty thousand dead.
  • 1997 : A hundred people are killed in three days (of the 27 to the 29) by groups armed in the south with Algiers, close to Tlemcen, with Mascara, Médéa, Sidi-Beautiful-Abbots and Djelfa.
  • 1998 : With the Kosovo, NATO threat the Serbes and UCK to intervene if the truce is not restored.
  • 1999 : An investigation begins in Germany, on the secret funding of the party of the former chancellor Helmut Kohl.
  • 2001 : Peru: the explosion of a store of fireworks of the center of the capital with Lima causes the death of more than 250 people.
  • 2003 : Assassination with the Burundi of the Apostolic nuncio, Mgr Michael Courtney.

Births

Death

Celebrations

Catholic and orthodoxe saints of the day

  • David (the king)

See too

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