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Events from History on December 29

1503 : Battle at Carigliano: Spanish army beats France
1539 : St Jacobs Church burns after being hit by lightning
1541 : Isabella of Poland & King Ferdinand of Austria sign Treaty of Gyalu
1558 : Charles V, German emperor, buried
1705 : Prosper Jolyot's "Idomen‚e," premieres in Paris
1708 : Great Alliance occupies Gent
1778 : English troops occupy Savannah, Georgia
1782 : 1st nautical almanac in US published by Samuel Stearns, Boston
1813 : British burn Buffalo, NY during War of 1812
1837 : Canadian militia destroy Caroline, a US steamboat docked at Buffalo
1837 : Steam-powered threshing machine patented, Winthrop, Maine
1841 : King/grand duke Willem II installs Order of Eikenkroon
1845 : Texas admitted as 28th state
1848 : Gas lights 1st installed at White House (Polk's administration)
1851 : 1st Young Men's Christian Association chapter opened (Boston)
1852 : Emma Snodgrass arrested in Boston for wearing pants
1857 : Franz Liszt's "Die Hunnenschlacht," premieres in Weimar
1862 : Battle of Chichasaw Bayou: confederate armies defeat Gen Sherman
1862 : Bowling ball invented
1864 : Fire Dept celebrates 1st annual ball
1867 : 1st telegraph ticker used by a brokerage house, Groesbeck & Co, NY
1876 : 11 passenger cars crash in a ravine near Ashtabula Ohio, 92 die
1876 : Fr‚d‚ric A Bartholdi (Statue of Liberty sculptor) weds Jeanne-Emilie
1885 : Gottlieb Daimler patents 1st bike (Germany)
1890 : US 7th Cavalry massacre 200+ captive Sioux at Wounded Knee, SD
1891 : Edison patents "transmission of signals electrically" (radio)
1895 : Dr L S Jameson begins failed raid on Johannesburg
1899 : English fleet brings German postschip Bundesrath up
1900 : General Viljoen surprise attack British garrison to Helvetia
1903 : French Equatorial Africa separates into Gabon, Chad & Ubangi-Shari
1903 : in Middle-Congo
1908 : Patent granted for a 4-wheel automobile brake, Clintonville, Wisc
1911 : Proclamation restores "Dei Gratia" from Canada's coins
1911 : SF Symphony formed
1913 : 1st movie serial, "Adventures of Kathlyn," premieres in Chicago
1920 : The netherlands/Venezuela recover diplomatic relations
1920 : Yugoslav govt bans communist party
1921 : William Lyon Mackenzie King succeeded Arthur Meighen as Canadian PM
1922 : Dutch Constitution proclaimed
1922 : Revised Netherlands Law proclaims suffrage
1926 : Vatican puts French fascist Charles Maurras' work on the index
1926 : Victoria (1107) beat NSW (221 & 230) by an innings 656 runs
1929 : Police arrest Sukarno & 100s PNI-leaders
1930 : Fred P Newton completes longest swim ever (1826 miles), when he swam
1930 : in the Mississippi River from Ford Dam, Minn, to New Orleans
1931 : Identification of heavy water publicly announced, HC Urey
1931 : Victoria score 7 for 435 in second innings to beat NSW
1933 : Yank refuses to release Babe Ruth so he can manage the Cin Reds
1934 : Federico Garc¡a Lorca's "Yerma," premieres in Madrid
1934 : Japan renounces Wash Naval Treaty of 1922 & London Treaty of 1930
1937 : 2nd Irish constitution goes into effect; Irish Free State renamed Erie
1937 : Ireland adopts constitution (Irish Free State becomes Eire)
1937 : Lou Thesz beats E Marshall in St Louis, to become wrestling champ
1937 : Pan Am starts San Francisco-to-Auckland, New Zealand service
1938 : Construction on Lake Washington Floating Bridge, Seattle, begins
1940 : Germany begins dropping incendiary bombs on London (WW II)
1944 : Belgian nazi L‚on Degrelle at default to the death sentenced
1944 : Gen Eisenhowers train returns to Versailles
1947 : Ship carrying Jewish immigrants driven away from Palestine
1948 : "Rape of Lucretia" opens at Ziegfeld Theater NYC for 23 performances
1948 : Canada recognizes Israel
1948 : US State Dept announces work on placing objects into Earth orbit
1949 : 1st UHF television station operating regular basis (Bridgeport Ct)
1949 : Hungary nationalized its industries
1951 : Flying Enterprise in difficulty in Canal
1952 : 1st transistorized hearing aid offered for sale (Elmsford NY)
1954 : Kingdom of Netherlands, with Netherlands & Netherlands Antilles
1954 : as autonomous parts, comes into being
1955 : Barbra Streisand's 1st recording "You'll Never Know" at age 13
1957 : Singers Steve Lawrence & Eydie Gorme wed in Las Vegas
1958 : TV soap "Young Dr Malone" debuts
1959 : Saul Levitt's "Andersonville Trial," premieres in NYC
1962 : Doug Walters makes 1st-class debut for NSW 17 yrs 8 days
1965 : "Thunderball" premieres in US
1965 : Supremes release "My World is Empty Without You"
1966 : Pirate Radio Phoenix, 1st transmission (Worcester, Mass)
1967 : Star Trek's "Trouble With Tribbles" 1st airs
1967 : Turkish-Cypriot government forms in Cyprus
1968 : Israeli commandos destroy 13 Lebanese airplanes
1968 : NY Jets beat Oakland Raiders 27-23 in AFL championship game
1969 : NY Times reports Curt Flood will sue baseball & challenge the
1969 : reserve clause
1972 : Eastern Tristar Jumbo Jet crashes near Everglades killing 101
1972 : Life magazine ceases publication
1974 : Murray Schisgal's "All Over Town," premieres in NYC
1975 : 11 killed, 75 hurt by terrorist bomb at LaGuardia Airport in NYC
1977 : Ronald Ribman's "Cold Storage," premieres in NYC
1978 : Shah of Iran, asks Shapour Bahktiar to form a civilian govt
1978 : Spain constitution goes into effect
1979 : Red Army beats NY Islanders 3-2 at Nassau Coliseum
1980 : Shuttle STS-1 moves from Vandenberg AFB to Launch Complex 39A
1982 : Bob Marley postage stamp issued in Jamaica
1982 : Coach Paul "Bear" Bryant ends his career with Alabama (323 wins)
1983 : US announced withdrawal from UNESCO
1984 : 5th United Negro College Fund
1984 : Blues took 27 shots against Islanders in 1 period
1984 : Indian PM Rajiv Gandhi claims victory in parlimetary elections
1988 : Soviet Red Army Team edges NY Islanders, 3-2 at Nassau Coliseum
1988 : Victorian Post Office Museum in Australia closes
1989 : Jane Pauley says goodbye to NBC's "Today" show
1989 : Vaclav Havel becomes president of Czechoslovakia
1989 : Wayne Gretzky & Martina Navratilova, named athletes of decade by AP
1990 : Olympic gymnist Mary Lou Retton weds Shannon Kelley
1991 : "Christmas Carol" closes at Eugene O'Neill Theater NYC after 14 perfs
1991 : 12th United Negro College Fund
1991 : Boeing 747-200F of China Airlines crash into mountain at Taipei
1992 : Gov Cuomo grants Jean Harris (Scarsdale Diet Dr killer) clemency
1993 : Courtney Love sues doctors for leaking news of her methadone treatment
1993 : Todd Bridges arrested for transporting methamphetamine (speed)
1994 : B737-400 flies into a mountain at Edremit East Turkey, 54 killed
1994 : Bangladesh govt of Zia resigns
1994 : Billionaire J Paul Getty Jr marries Victoria Holdsworth on Barbados
1994 : Last Dutch electro-magnetic telephone exchange shuts down
1996 : "Dreams & Nightmares" closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC
1996 : "Skylight" closes at Royale Theater NYC after
1996 : "Taking Sides" closes at Atkinson Theater NYC
1997 : Carquest Bowl 8: Georgia Tech beats West Virginia, 35-30
1997 : Hong Kong begins slaughtering all its chickens to prevent bird flu
1997 : Orville Lynn Majors, 36, arrested for many deaths under his care
1997 : Russia signs agreement to build a $3B nuclear power plant in China

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