29 December
Notable Births
Orkun Kökçü
b. 2000
Footballer (born 2000)
Julio Rodríguez
b. 2000
Dominican baseball player (born 2000)
Eliot Vassamillet
b. 2000
Belgian singer (born 2000)
Francisco Trincão
b. 1999
Portuguese footballer (born 1999)
Victor Osimhen
b. 1998
Nigerian footballer (born 1998)
Felix Keisinger
b. 1997
German skeleton racer (born 1997)
Sana (singer)
b. 1996
Japanese singer (born 1996)
Dylan Minnette
b. 1996
American actor and musician (born 1996)
Myles Garrett
b. 1995
American football player (born 1995)
Rina Ikoma
b. 1995
Japanese actress
Ross Lynch
b. 1995
American singer and actor (born 1995)
Princess Kako of Akishino
b. 1994
Japanese princess (born 1994)
Travis Head
b. 1993
Australian cricketer (born 1993)
Gabby May
b. 1993
Canadian artistic gymnast
Mislav Oršić
b. 1992
Croatian footballer (born 1992)
Steven Caulker
b. 1991
Sierra Leonean Footballer (born 1991)
Jane Levy
b. 1989
American actress (born 1989)
Kei Nishikori
b. 1989
Japanese tennis player (born 1989)
Harri Säteri
b. 1989
Finnish ice hockey player (born 1989)
Zainul Abedin
b. 1914
Bangladeshi painter and pioneer of the modern art movement
Notable Deaths
Aaron Brown (journalist)
d. 2024
American journalist (1948–2024)
Jimmy Carter
d. 2024
President of the United States from 1977 to 1981
Linda Lavin
d. 2024
American actress and singer (1937–2024)
Tomiko Itooka
d. 2024
Japanese supercentenarian (1908–2024)
Gil de Ferran
d. 2023
Brazilian racecar driver and team owner (1967–2023)
Pelé
d. 2022
Brazilian footballer (1940–2022)
Edgar Savisaar
d. 2022
Estonian politician (1950–2022)
Vivienne Westwood
d. 2022
British fashion designer (1941–2022)
Pierre Cardin
d. 2020
Italian-French fashion designer (1922–2020)
Alexi Laiho
d. 2020
Finnish musician (1979–2020)
Alasdair Gray
d. 2019
Scottish writer and artist (1934–2019)
Neil Innes
d. 2019
English writer, comedian, and musician (1944–2019)
Rosenda Monteros
d. 2018
Mexican actress (1935–2018)
Peggy Cummins
d. 2017
British actress (1925–2017)
John C. Portman Jr.
d. 2017
American architect (1924–2017)
LaVell Edwards
d. 2016
American football player and coach (1930–2016)
Om Prakash Malhotra
d. 2015
Indian Army general (1922–2015)
Pavel Srníček
d. 2015
Czech footballer (1968–2015)
Kim Yang-gon
d. 2015
North Korean politician (1942–2015)
William Osler
d. 1919
Canadian physician and co-founder of Johns Hopkins Hospital (1849–1919)
On This Day in History
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2024
Jeju Air Flight 2216 crashes into a wall in Muan, South Korea, killing 179 of the 181 occupants. It is the worst aircraft accident on South Korean soil in history.
Jeju Air Flight 2216
2023
South Africa files a genocide case against Israel at the International Court of Justice over Israeli conducts in the Gaza Strip.
South Africa
2020
A magnitude 6.4 earthquake hits near the town of Petrinja in Sisak-Moslavina County, Croatia, killing seven people.
2020 Petrinja earthquake
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.
December 2013 Volgograd bombings
2013
Seven-time Formula One champion Michael Schumacher suffers a massive head injury while skiing in the French Alps.
Formula One
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.
Tupolev Tu-204
2006
The UK settles its Anglo-American loan, post-WWII loan debt.
Anglo-American loan
2003
The last known speaker of Akkala Sami dies, rendering the language extinct.
Akkala Sámi
1998
Leaders of the Khmer Rouge apologize for the Cambodian genocide that claimed over one million lives.
Khmer Rouge
1996
Guatemala and leaders of Guatemalan National Revolutionary Unity sign a peace accord ending a 36-year civil war.
Guatemala
1994
Turkish Airlines Flight 278 (a Boeing 737-400) crashes on approach to Van Ferit Melen Airport in Van, Turkey, killing 57 of the 76 people on board.
Turkish Airlines Flight 278
1992
Fernando Collor de Mello, president of Brazil, tries to resign amidst corruption charges, but is then impeached.
Fernando Collor de Mello
1989
Czech writer, philosopher and dissident Václav Havel is elected the first post-communist President of Czechoslovakia.
Václav Havel
1989
The Nikkei 225 for the Tokyo Stock Exchange hits its all-time intra-day high of 38,957.44 and closing high at 38,915.87, serving as the apex of the Japanese asset price bubble.
Nikkei 225
1975
A bomb explodes at LaGuardia Airport in New York City, killing 11 people and injuring more than 75.
1975 LaGuardia Airport bombing
1972
Eastern Air Lines Flight 401 (a Lockheed L-1011 TriStar) crashes in the Florida Everglades on approach to Miami International Airport, Florida, killing 101 of the 176 people on board.
Eastern Air Lines Flight 401
1940
World War II: in the Second Great Fire of London, the Luftwaffe fire-bombs London, England, killing almost 200 civilians.
World War II
1937
The Irish Free State is replaced by a new state called Ireland with the adoption of a new constitution.
Irish Free State
1934
Japan renounces the Washington Naval Treaty of 1922 and the London Naval Treaty of 1930.
Washington Naval Treaty
1930
Sir Muhammad Iqbal's presidential address in Allahabad introduces the two-nation theory and outlines a vision for the creation of Pakistan.
Muhammad Iqbal