About December 29
December 29, 2025 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.
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Capricorn is the sun 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.
What Happened On December 29
- 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.
- 1778 –American Revolutionary War: 3,000 British soldiers under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Archibald Campbell capture Savannah, Georgia.
- 1813 –British soldiers burn Buffalo, New York during the War of 1812.
- 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 –In accordance with International Boundary delimitation, United States annexes the Mexican state 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.
- 1851 –The first American YMCA opens in Boston, Massachusetts.
- 1860 –The first British seagoing iron-clad warship, HMS Warrior is launched.
- 1876 –The Ashtabula River Railroad bridge disaster occurs, leaving 64 injured and 92 dead at Ashtabula, Ohio.
- 1911 –Mongolia gains independence from the Qing dynasty.
- 1914 –A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, the first novel by James Joyce, is serialised in The Egoist.
- 1934 –Japan renounces the Washington Naval Treaty of 1922 and the London Naval Treaty of 1930.
- 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.
- 1975 –A bomb explodes at LaGuardia Airport in New York, New York, killing 11 people and injuring 74.
- 1996 –Guatemala and leaders of Guatemalan National Revolutionary Union sign a peace accord ending a 36-year civil war.
- 1997 –Hong Kong begins to kill all the nation’s 1.25 million chickens to stop the spread of a potentially deadly influenza strain.
- 1998 –Leaders of the Khmer Rouge apologize for the 1970s genocide in Cambodia that claimed over 1 million lives.
- 2003 –The last known speaker of Akkala Sami dies, rendering the language extinct.
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