Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/December 29
This is a list of selected December 29 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article or picture of the day.
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Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
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| Independence Day in Mongolia (1911) | outdated, lots of CN tags in History section |
| 1170 – Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Becket was slain in his own cathedral by four knights of Henry II of England. | refimprove section |
| 1835 – The United States signed the Treaty of New Echota with leaders of a minority Cherokee faction, which became the legal basis for the forcible removal known as the Trail of Tears. | refimprove |
| 1890 – Sioux Wars: The United States Army killed 250 to 300 Lakota men, women and children at the Wounded Knee Massacre, beginning the Ghost Dance War. | POTD for 2020 |
| 1891 – Physical education teacher James Naismith introduced a game in Springfield, Massachusetts, with thirteen rules and nine players on each team that he called "basket ball". | multiple issues |
| 1930 – Muhammad Iqbal introduced the two-nation theory outlining a vision for the creation of an independent state for Muslim-majority provinces in northwestern British India. | refimprove section |
| 1937 – The Constitution of Ireland, the founding legal document of the state known today as the Republic of Ireland, came into force. | refimprove section |
| 1939 – The Consolidated B-24 Liberator, the most-produced American military aircraft, made its first flight. | refimprove sections |
| 1992 – President of Brazil Fernando Collor de Mello resigned in an attempt to stop his impeachment proceedings from continuing, but the Senate of Brazil continued anyway, finding him guilty. | refimprove |
| 1993 – The Big Buddha, at the time the world's tallest outdoor bronze statue of the seated Buddha, was completed. | too many {{cn}} tags (5) |
| 1997 – In order to prevent the spread of the H5N1 flu virus, the Hong Kong government began the slaughter of 1.3 million chickens. | prose |
Eligible
- 1779 – American Revolutionary War: Lieutenant Colonel Archibald Campbell led a contingent of British soldiers to capture the city of Savannah, Georgia.
- 1860 – To counter the French Navy's Gloire, the world's first ironclad warship, the Royal Navy launched the world's first iron-hulled armoured warship, HMS Warrior.
- 1876 – A railway bridge over the Ashtabula River in Ohio collapsed when a Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway train was crossing over it, killing 92 people and injuring 64 others.
- 1911 – Sun Yat-sen (pictured) was elected the provisional president of the Republic of China in Nanjing.
- 1959 – Physicist Richard Feynman gave a speech entitled "There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom" at Caltech, anticipating the field of nanotechnology.
- Born/died: | Empress Genmei |d|721| Stephen Bocskai |d|1606| Womesh Chunder Bonnerjee |b|1844| Christina Rossetti |d|1894| Adele Zay |d|1928| Ann Demeulemeester |b|1959| Ashleigh Banfield |b|1967| Twinkle Khanna |b|1974
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- 1812 – War of 1812: In a three-hour single-ship action, HMS Java was captured by USS Constitution off the coast of Brazil.
- 1845 – The Republic of Texas was annexed by the United States, becoming the 28th state to be admitted to the Union.
- 1940 – Second World War: The Luftwaffe began a major night bombing raid on the British capital as part of the Blitz, beginning what was later called the "Second Great Fire of London".
- 1975 – A bomb planted by unknown perpetrators exploded at LaGuardia Airport in New York City, killing 11 people and seriously injuring 74 others.
- 1996 – Peace accords were signed under the leadership of President Álvaro Arzú (pictured) and guerilla leader Rolando Morán, ending the 36-year-long Guatemalan Civil War.
- Maria Margaretha Kirch (d. 1720)
- Diogo de Carvalho e Sampayo (d. 1807)
- C. T. Hsia (d. 2013)