What are the important events that happened on December 29? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
December 29: Facts & Myths About This Day
December 29 is the 363rd day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 2 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is December 16, 2025 – a Monday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 29,449,440 minutes has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.
Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘trihectahexacontatrigon’ day.
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Capricorn is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Turquoise is the modern birthstone for this month. Onyx is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 50 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,756 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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December 29 Historical Events
- 1778 –American Revolutionary War: 3,000 British soldiers under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Archibald Campbell capture Savannah, Georgia.
- 1860 –The first British seagoing iron-clad warship, HMS Warrior is launched.
- 1940 –World War II: In The Second Great Fire of London, the Luftwaffe fire-bombs London, killing almost 200 civilians.
- 1949 –KC2XAK of Bridgeport, Connecticut becomes the first Ultra high frequency (UHF) television station to operate a daily schedule.
- 1959 –Physicist Richard Feynman gives a speech entitled “There’s Plenty of Room at the Bottom”, which is regarded as the birth of nanotechnology.
- 1959 –The Lisbon Metro begins operation.
- 1972 –An Eastern Air Lines Flight 401 (a Lockheed Tristar) crashes on approach to Miami International Airport, Florida, killing 101.
- 1989 –Riots break-out after Hong Kong decides to forcibly repatriate Vietnamese refugees.
- 1996 –Guatemala and leaders of Guatemalan National Revolutionary Union sign a peace accord ending a 36-year civil war.
- 2003 –The last known speaker of Akkala Sami dies, rendering the language extinct.
Who were born on December 29?
- 1816 –Carl Ludwig, German physician (d. 1895)
- 1843 –Elisabeth of Wied, queen of Romania and novelist (d. 1916)
- 1881 –Jess Willard, American boxer (d. 1968)
- 1932 –Inga Swenson, American actress
- 1946 –Marianne Faithfull, British singer
- 1953 –Alan Rusbridger, British newspaper editor
- 1953 –Stanley Tookie Williams, American murderer (d. 2005)
- 1956 –Fred MacAulay, Scottish comedian
- 1962 –Devon White, Jamaican baseball player
- 1983 –Gonzalo Olave, Chilean television actor (d. 2009)
Who died on December 29?
- 1661 –Antoine Gérard de Saint-Amant, French poet (b. 1594)
- 1737 –Joseph Saurin, French mathematician (b. 1659)
- 1825 –Jacques-Louis David, French painter (b. 1748)
- 1924 –Carl Spitteler, Swiss writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1845)
- 1934 –Alma Tell, American stage and film actress (b. 1898)
- 1937 –Don Marquis, American author (b. 1878)
- 1972 –Chrysostomos Papasarantopoulos, Greek missionary (b. 1903)
- 1986 –Harold Macmillan, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1894)
- 1993 –Frunzik Mkrtchyan, Soviet Armenian actor (b. 1930)
- 2003 –Earl Hindman, American actor (b. 1942)
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