December 29: Zodiac, Trivia, Birthdays and Holidays

December 29th marks the 363rd day of the Gregorian calendar year (or the 364th in case of leap years). There are 2 days remaining until the end of the year. People born on this day are under the sign of Capricorn. Famous birthdays on this day include Jude Law (1972), Laurent Gerra (1967) and Katherine Moennig (1977).
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Events

2018 Egyptian police have killed 40 militants in a retaliation to the roadside bombing that left three Vietnamese tourists dead and one Egyptian tour guide injured.
2017 Attack on Saint Menas Church: Nine people are killed by two coordinated attacks against Coptic Christians in Egypt. A gunman kills two victims in an appliance store owned by Coptic Christians in Cairo's Helwan district. After killing two victims, the gunman moves on to a church and kills six more civilians and a cop before being arrested.
2016 Russian President Vladimir Putin announces that a ceasefire was reached between the government of Syria and rebel forces. Russia and Turkey are said to have guaranteed the ceasefire, which would not include UN-denominated terrorist organizations like ISIL and al-Nusra. While the FSA states it will abide by this truce, Ahrar al Sham expresses "reservations".
2015 War in North-West Pakistan. A suicide bomb attack on the NADA Regional Office in Mardan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in northwestern Pakistan leaves at least 26 dead and 45 others injured. The attack was claimed by Jamaat-ul-Ahrar militant Islamist group. This is a Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan splinter.
2014 War in Somalia: The latest advance in Operation Indian Ocean saw the Somali government forces, assisted by AMISOM troops, capture seven towns from Al-Shabaab's central Hiran province.
2013 At least 16 people are killed and 40 more injured in a suicide bombing attack on the Volgograd-1 railway station, which is located in southern Russia's city of Volgograd. (BBC), (CNN),
2012 Syrian civil war: LCC reports that 400 people were killed in Syria's civil war on Saturday. This includes about 200 executions by the Syrian Army at Deir Ballba, Homs.
2011 Tokelau and Samoa move east to west along the International Date Line. This allows them to skip December 30 in order to better align their time zones with their main trading partners.
2010 South Thailand insurgency: Seven people were injured in a bomb attack by suspected Islamist insurgents in southern Thailand.
2009 The Sudanese parliament approves legislation to hold a referendum on South Sudan's independence.
2008 After two years of political unrest, Bangladesh holds its general election.
2007 The United Kingdom government has announced its New Year's Honours List. Broadcaster Michael Parkinson, Kylie Minogue, chief executive at Marks Spencer Stuart Rose and embryologist Ian Wilmut are among those being honored. Sir Ian McKellen is also on the list.
2006 Police in India discover skulls and bodies of 15 children missing from Noida.
2005 A large landslide that occurred in a village near Sanaa, Yemen has resulted in the deaths of at least 30 people.
2004 Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine announces support for Mustafa Al-Barghouti during the 2005 Palestinian presidential elections.
2003 Akkala Sami's last speaker dies, making the language extinct.
2002 According to Kenya's electoral commission, the National Rainbow Coalition (NARC), an opposition party, won a landslide victory over the ruling KANU party in Friday’s elections. This brings an end to 40 years of single-party rule and 24 years under Daniel arap Moi. Mwai Kibaki (NARC's presidential candidate) led the KANU's official candidate by more than 30%.
2001 At least 291 people are killed in a fire at the Mesa Redonda shopping centre in Lima, Peru.
1999 Former Beatle George Harrison is stabbed several times in the chest by Michael Anram, who had broken into his home. Harrison's wife wrestles the knife out the assailant's hand before the police arrives. The man apparently believed that Harrison was the devil. He was later charged with attempted murder
1998 Leaders of the Khmer Rouge apologize for the 1970s genocide in Cambodia that claimed over 1 million lives.
1997 Orville Lynn Majors, 36, arrested for many deaths under his care
1996 Dreams & Nightmares closes at Martin Beck Theater, New York City
1994 B737-400 flies into a mountain at Edremit East Turkey, 54 killed.
1993 Courtney Love sues doctors for leaking news of her methadone treatment
1992 Governor Cuomo grants Jean Harris ("Scarsdale Diet" Murderess) clemency.
1991 12th United Negro College Fund
1990 Olympic gymnast Mary Lou Retton weds Shannon Kelley.
1989 Riots break-out after Hong Kong decides to forcibly repatriate Vietnamese refugees.
1988 Soviet Red Army hockey team edges New York Islanders, 3-2 at Nassau Coliseum.
1987 Prozac anti-depressant drug makes its debut in the United States.
1984 5th United Negro College Fund
1983 US announced withdrawal from UNESCO
1982 Bob Marley postage stamp issued in Jamaica
1980 Shuttle STS-1 moves from Vandenberg AFB to Launch Complex 39A
1979 Red Army beats New York Islanders 3-2 at Nassau Coliseum.
1978 Spain constitution goes into effect.
1975 Eleven killed, 75 hurt by terrorist bomb at LaGuardia Airport in New York City, New York.
1972 Life magazine ceases publication.
1971 The United Kingdom gives up its military bases in Malta.
1970 U.S. President Richard Nixon signs into law the Occupational Safety and Health Act.
1969 New York Times reports Curt Flood will sue baseball and challenge the reserve clause
1968 New York Jets beat Oakland Raiders 27-23 in AFL championship game.
1967 Turkish-Cypriot government forms in Cyprus.
1966 Pirate Radio Phoenix, 1st transmission
1965 Thunderball premieres in US
1963 52nd Davis Cup: USA beats Australia in Adelaide (3-2).
1962 Doug Walters makes first-class debut for New South Wales 17 years 8 days.
1959 Physicist Richard Feynman gives a speech entitled ''There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom'', which is regarded as the birth of nanotechnology; the Lisbon Metro begins operation.
1958 Baltimore Colts beat the New York Giants 23-17 in NFL championship game
1957 Singers Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gorme wed in Las Vegas
1954 Kingdom of the Netherlands, with Netherlands and Netherlands Antilles as autonomous parts, comes into being.
1952 First transistorized hearing aid offered for sale (Elmsford, New York).
1951 Flying Enterprise in difficulty in Canal
1949 1st UHF television station operating regular basis (Bridgeport Ct)
1948 Rape of Lucretia opens at Ziegfeld Theater NYC for 23 performances
1947 Ship carrying Jewish immigrants driven away from Palestine.
1944 Gen Eisenhowers train returns to Versailles
1941 Japanese forces begin an attack on Corregidor, Philippines.
1940 Germany begins dropping incendiary bombs on London, England.
1939 First flight of the Consolidated B-24.
1938 Construction on Lake Washington Floating Bridge, in Seattle, Washington, begins.
1937 Pan Am starts San Francisco-to-Auckland, New Zealand service
1936 The United Auto Workers begins the Flint Sit-Down Strike in Flint, Michigan.
1934 Japan renounces the Washington Naval Treaty of 1922 and the London Naval Treaty of 1930.
1933 Members of the Iron Guard assassinate Ion Gheorghe Duca, prime minister of Romania.
1931 Victoria scores 7 for 435 in second innings to beat New South Wales.
1930 Fred P Newton completes longest swim ever (1826 miles), when he swam in the Mississippi River from Ford Dam, Minnesota, to New Orleans, Louisiana.
1929 The All India Congress in Lahore demands Indian independence.
1926 Victoria (1107) beat New South Wales (221 and 230) in cricket by an innings 656 runs.
1923 Vladimir K. Zworykin files his first patent (in the United States) for quottelevision systemsquot.
1922 Dutch Constitution proclaimed
1920 The netherlands / Venezuela recover diplomatic relations
1914 A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, the first novel by James Joyce, is serialised in The Egoist.
1911 San Francisco Symphony is formed.
1908 Patent granted for a 4-wheel automobile brake, Clintonville Wisconsin.
1903 French Equatorial Africa separates into Gabon, Chad and Ubangi-Shari.
1900 General Viljoen surprise attack British garrison to Helvetia.
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