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Events on the 29th of December in history

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29 Dec 1170 Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, is assassinated inside Canterbury Cathedral by followers of King Henry II; he subsequently becomes a saint and martyr in the Anglican Church and the Catholic Church.
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29 Dec 1427 The Ming army begins its withdraw from Hanoi, ending the Chinese domination of Đại Việt.
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29 Dec 1503 Battle at Carigliano: Spanish army beats France
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29 Dec 1508 Portuguese forces under the command of Francisco de Almeida attack Khambhat at the Battle of Dabul.
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29 Dec 1539 St Jacobs Church burns after being hit by lightning
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29 Dec 1541 Isabella of Poland & King Ferdinand of Austria sign Treaty of Gyalu
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29 Dec 1558 Charles V, German emperor, buried
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29 Dec 1705 Prosper Jolyot's "Idomen
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29 Dec 1708 Great Alliance occupies Gent
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29 Dec 1778 American Revolutionary War: 3,000 British soldiers under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Archibald Campbell capture Savannah, Georgia.
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29 Dec 1778 English troops occupy Savannah, Georgia
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29 Dec 1782 1st nautical almanac in US published by Samuel Stearns, Boston
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29 Dec 1786 French Revolution: The Assembly of Notables is convened.
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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.
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29 Dec 1813 British burn Buffalo New York during the War of 1812
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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.
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29 Dec 1837 Steam-powered threshing machine patented, Winthrop, Maine
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29 Dec 1837 Canadian militia destroy Caroline, a US steamboat docked at Buffalo
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29 Dec 1841 King/grand duke Willem II installs Order of Eikenkroon
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29 Dec 1845 In accordance with International Boundary delimitation, the United States annexes the Republic of Texas, following the manifest destiny doctrine. The Republic of Texas, which had been independent since the Texas Revolution of 1836, is thereupon admitted as the 28th U.S. state.
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29 Dec 1845 Texas admitted as the 28th state
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29 Dec 1848 Gas lights 1st installed at White House (Polk's administration)
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29 Dec 1851 The first American YMCA opens in Boston, Massachusetts.
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29 Dec 1851 1st Young Men's Christian Association chapter opened (Boston)
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29 Dec 1852 Emma Snodgrass arrested in Boston for wearing pants
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29 Dec 1857 Franz Liszt's "Die Hunnenschlacht" premieres in Weimar
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29 Dec 1860 The first British seagoing ironclad warship, HMS Warrior is launched.
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29 Dec 1862 Battle of Chichasaw Bayou: confederate armies defeat General Sherman
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29 Dec 1862 Bowling ball invented
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29 Dec 1864 Fire Department celebrates 1st annual ball
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29 Dec 1867 1st telegraph ticker used by a brokerage house, Groesbeck & Company, New York
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29 Dec 1876 The Ashtabula River Railroad Disaster occurs, leaving 64 injured and 92 dead at Ashtabula, Ohio.
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29 Dec 1876 11 passenger cars crash in a ravine near Ashtabula OH, 92 die
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29 Dec 1876 Fr
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29 Dec 1885 Gottlieb Daimler patents 1st bike (Germany)
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29 Dec 1890 US 7th Cavalry massacre 200+ captive Sioux at Wounded Knee, South Dakota
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29 Dec 1890 Wounded Knee Massacre on Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, 300 Lakota killed by the United States 7th Cavalry Regiment.
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29 Dec 1890 US 7th Cavalry massacre 200+ captive Sioux at Wounded Knee SD; Indian "war" in the west
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29 Dec 1891 Edison patents "transmission of signals electrically" (radio)
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29 Dec 1895 Dr L S Jameson begins failed raid on Johannesburg
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29 Dec 1899 English fleet brings German postschip Bundesrath up
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29 Dec 1900 General Viljoen surprise attack British garrison to Helvetia
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29 Dec 1903 French Equatorial Africa separates into Gabon, Chad & Ubangi-Shari
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29 Dec 1906 Montreal Wanderers beat New Glasgow (NS) for Stanley Cup (2nd of 1906)
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29 Dec 1906 Montr
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29 Dec 1908 Patent granted for a 4-wheel automobile brake, Clintonville, Wisc
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29 Dec 1911 Mongolia gains independence from the Qing dynasty, enthroning 9th Jebtsundamba Khutughtu as Khagan of Mongolia.
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29 Dec 1911 Sun Yat-sen becomes the provisional President of the Republic of China; he formally takes office on January 1, 1912.
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29 Dec 1911 San Francisco Symphony is formed
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29 Dec 1911 Proclamation restores "Dei Gratia" from Canada's coins
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29 Dec 1913 1st movie serial, "Adventures of Kathlyn, " premieres in Chicago
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29 Dec 1916 A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, the first novel by James Joyce, was first published as a book by an American publishing house B. W. Huebschis after it had been serialized in The Egoist (1914–15).
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29 Dec 1920 The netherlands/Venezuela recover diplomatic relations
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29 Dec 1920 Yugoslav government bans communist party
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29 Dec 1921 William Lyon Mackenzie King succeeded Arthur Meighen as Canadian Prime Minister
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29 Dec 1922 Dutch Constitution proclaimed
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29 Dec 1922 Revised Netherlands Law proclaims suffrage
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29 Dec 1926 Vatican puts French fascist Charles Maurras' work on the index
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29 Dec 1926 Victoria (1107) beat New South Wales (221 & 230) by an innings 656 runs
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29 Dec 1929 Police arrest Sukarno & 100s PNI-leaders
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29 Dec 1930 Sir Muhammad Iqbal's presidential address in Allahabad introduces the two-nation theory and outlines a vision for the creation of Pakistan.
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29 Dec 1930 Fred P Newton completes longest swim ever (1826 miles), when he swam in the Mississippi River from Ford Dam MN, to New Orleans LA
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29 Dec 1931 Identification of heavy water publicly announced, HC Urey
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29 Dec 1931 Victoria score 7 for 435 in second innings to beat New South Wales
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29 Dec 1933 Yankees refuse to release Babe Ruth so he can manage the Cincinnati Reds
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29 Dec 1934 Japan renounces the Washington Naval Treaty of 1922 and the London Naval Treaty of 1930.
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29 Dec 1934 1st collegiate basketball doubleheader (Madison Square Garden)
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29 Dec 1934 Federico Garc
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29 Dec 1937 2nd Irish constitution goes into effect; Irish Free State renamed Erie
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29 Dec 1937 The Irish Free State is replaced by a new state called Ireland with the adoption of a new constitution.
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29 Dec 1937 Pan Am starts San Francisco CA-to-Auckland, New Zealand service
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29 Dec 1937 Ireland adopts constitution (Irish Free State becomes Eire)
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29 Dec 1937 Lou Thesz beats E Marshall in St Louis, to become wrestling champion
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29 Dec 1938 Construction on Lake Washington Floating Bridge, Seattle WA, begins
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29 Dec 1939 First flight of the Consolidated B-24 Liberator.
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29 Dec 1940 World War II: In the Second Great Fire of London, the Luftwaffe fire-bombs London, England, UK, killing almost 200 civilians.
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29 Dec 1940 Germany begins dropping incendiary bombs on London (WWII)
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29 Dec 1940 NFL Pro Bowl: Chi Bears beats NFL All-Stars 28-14
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29 Dec 1944 Belgian Nazi L
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29 Dec 1944 General Eisenhowers train returns to Versailles
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29 Dec 1947 Ship carrying Jewish immigrants driven away from Palestine
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29 Dec 1948 "Rape of Lucretia" opens at Ziegfeld Theater NYC for 23 performances
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29 Dec 1948 US State Department announces work on placing objects into Earth orbit
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29 Dec 1948 Canada recognizes Israel
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29 Dec 1949 KC2XAK of Bridgeport, Connecticut becomes the first Ultra high frequency (UHF) television station to operate a daily schedule.
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29 Dec 1949 1st UHF television station operating regular basis (Bridgeport CT)
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29 Dec 1949 Hungary nationalized its industries
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29 Dec 1951 Flying Enterprise in difficulty in Canal
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29 Dec 1952 1st transistorized hearing aid offered for sale (Elmsford NY)
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29 Dec 1954 Kingdom of the Netherlands, with Netherlands & Netherlands Antilles as autonomous parts, comes into being
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29 Dec 1955 Barbra Streisand's 1st recording, "You'll Never Know" at age 13
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29 Dec 1957 Singers Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gorme wed in Las Vegas
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29 Dec 1957 Detroit Lions beat Cleveland Browns 50-14 in NFL championship game
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29 Dec 1957 Singers Steve Lawrence & Eydie Gorm
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29 Dec 1958 Baltimore Colts beat the New York Giants 23-17 in NFL championship game
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29 Dec 1958 TV soap "Young Dr Malone" debuts
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29 Dec 1958 TV soap "Young Dr Malone" debuts
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29 Dec 1959 Physicist Richard Feynman gives a speech entitled "There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom", which is regarded as the birth of nanotechnology.
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29 Dec 1959 The Lisbon Metro begins operation.
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29 Dec 1959 Saul Levitt's "Andersonville Trial" premieres in New York NY
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29 Dec 1962 Doug Walters makes 1st-class debut for New South Wales 17 years 8 days
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29 Dec 1963 52nd Davis Cup: USA beats Australia in Adelaide (3-2)
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29 Dec 1965 "Thunderball" premieres in US
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29 Dec 1965 Supremes release "My World is Empty Without You"
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29 Dec 1965 CBS purchases NFL TV rights for 1966-68 at $18.8 million per year
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29 Dec 1965 "Thunderball" premieres in US
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29 Dec 1966 Pirate Radio Phoenix, 1st transmission (Worcester, Massachusetts)
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29 Dec 1967 Star Trek's "The Trouble With Tribbles" 1st airs
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29 Dec 1967 Turkish-Cypriot government forms in Cyprus
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29 Dec 1968 Baltimore Colts beat Cleveland Browns 34-0 in NFL championship game
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29 Dec 1968 New York Jets beat Oakland Raiders 27-23 in AFL championship game
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29 Dec 1968 Israeli commandos destroy 13 Lebanese airplanes
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29 Dec 1969 New York Times reports Curt Flood will sue baseball & challenge the reserve clause
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29 Dec 1972 An Eastern Air Lines Flight 401 (a Lockheed L-1011 TriStar) crashes on approach to Miami International Airport, Florida, killing 101.
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29 Dec 1972 Eastern Tristar Jumbo Jet crashes near Everglades killing 101
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29 Dec 1972 Life magazine ceases publication
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29 Dec 1972 Test Cricket debut of Jeff Thomson & Max Walker vs Pakistan at MCG
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29 Dec 1974 Murray Schisgal's "All Over Town" premieres in New York NY
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29 Dec 1975 A bomb explodes at LaGuardia Airport in New York City, killing 11 people and injuring 74.
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29 Dec 1975 11 killed, 75 hurt by terrorist bomb at LaGuardia Airport in New York NY
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29 Dec 1977 Ronald Ribman's "Cold Storage" premieres in New York NY
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29 Dec 1978 Shah of Iran, asks Shapour Bahktiar to form a civilian government
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29 Dec 1978 Spain constitution goes into effect
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29 Dec 1978 Test Cricket debut of Allan Robert Border, vs England at the MCG
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29 Dec 1980 Shuttle STS-1 moves from Vandenberg AFB to Launch Complex 39A
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29 Dec 1982 Coach Paul "Bear" Bryant ends his career with Alabama (323 wins)
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29 Dec 1982 Bob Marley postage stamp issued in Jamaica
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29 Dec 1983 US announces withdrawal from UNESCO
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29 Dec 1983 Gavaskar makes the highest Test Cricket score by an Indian, 236 vs West Indies
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29 Dec 1983 Graeme Yallop completes 268 vs Pakistan at cricket MCG
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29 Dec 1984 Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi claims victory in parlimetary elections
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29 Dec 1984 Blues take 27 shots against Islanders in 1 period
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29 Dec 1988 Soviet Red Army Team edges New York Islanders, 3-2 at Nassau Coliseum
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29 Dec 1988 Victorian Post Office Museum in Australia closes
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29 Dec 1989 Wayne Gretzky and Martina Navratilova, named athletes of decade by AP
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29 Dec 1989 Riots break-out after Hong Kong decides to forcibly repatriate Vietnamese refugees.
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29 Dec 1989 Vaclav Havel becomes President of Czechoslovakia
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29 Dec 1989 Wayne Gretzky & Martina Navratilova are named athletes of the decade by the Associated Press
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29 Dec 1989 Jane Pauley says goodbye to NBC's "Today" show
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29 Dec 1990 Olympic gymnast Mary Lou Retton weds Shannon Kelley
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29 Dec 1991 "Christmas Carol" closes at Eugene O'Neill Theater NYC after 14 performances
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29 Dec 1991 12th United Negro College Fund
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29 Dec 1991 Boeing 747-200F of China Airlines crash into mountain at Taipei
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29 Dec 1992 Fernando Collor de Mello, president of Brazil, tries to resign amidst corruption charges, but is then impeached.
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29 Dec 1992 Governor Cuomo grants Jean Harris ("Scarsdale Diet" Murderess) clemency
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29 Dec 1993 Courtney Love sues doctors for leaking news of her methadone treatment
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29 Dec 1993 Todd Bridges arrested for transporting methamphetamine (speed)
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29 Dec 1994 B737-400 flies into a mountain at Edremit East Turkey, 54 killed
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29 Dec 1994 Bangladesh government of Zia resigns
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29 Dec 1994 Billionaire J Paul Getty Jr marries Victoria Holdsworth on Barbados
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29 Dec 1994 Last Dutch electro-magnetic telephone exchange shuts down
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29 Dec 1994 Shane Warne takes a hat-trick vs England at cricket MCG
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29 Dec 1996 "Dreams & Nightmares" closes at Martin Beck Theater, New York City
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29 Dec 1996 "Skylight" closes at Royale Theater NYC after
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29 Dec 1996 "Taking Sides" closes at Atkinson Theater, New York City
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29 Dec 1996 Guatemala and leaders of Guatemalan National Revolutionary Unity sign a peace accord ending a 36-year civil war.
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29 Dec 1996 "Dreams & Nightmares" closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC
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29 Dec 1996 "Taking Sides" closes at Atkinson Theater NYC
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29 Dec 1997 Hong Kong begins to kill all the nation's 1.25 million chickens to stop the spread of a potentially deadly influenza strain.
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29 Dec 1997 Carquest Bowl 8: Georgia Tech beats West Virginia, 35-30
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29 Dec 1997 Hong Kong begins slaughtering all its chickens to prevent bird flu
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29 Dec 1997 Orville Lynn Majors, 36, arrested for many deaths under his care
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29 Dec 1997 Russia signs agreement to build a $3B nuclear power plant in China
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29 Dec 1998 Leaders of the Khmer Rouge apologize for the 1970s genocide in Cambodia that claimed over one million lives.
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29 Dec 2001 A fire at the Mesa Redonda shopping center in Lima, Peru, kills at least 291.
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29 Dec 2003 The last known speaker of Akkala Sami dies, rendering the language extinct.
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29 Dec 2006 UK settles its Anglo-American loan, post-WWII loan debt.
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29 Dec 2012 A Tupolev Tu-204 airliner crashes in a ditch between the airport fence and the M3 highway after overshooting a runway at Vnukovo International Airport in Moscow, Russia, killing five people and leaving three others critically injured.
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29 Dec 2013 A suicide bomb attack at the Volgograd-1 railway station in the southern Russian city of Volgograd kills at least 18 people and wounds 40 others.
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