It happened on this day, December 29
Events:
1778 – The British army, led by Archibald Campbell, occupies Savannah, Georgia, during the American Revolutionary War.
1786 – The Assembly of Notables meets during the French Revolution.
1874 – General Martínez Campos declares the rebellion of Sagunto in favor of the return of the Bourbon monarchy in the person of Don Alfonso de Bourbon, son of Isabel II.
1890 – The Wounded Knee Massacre occurred, in which at least 150 Lakota Indians were killed by the U.S. Army.
1930 – Muhammad Iqbal delivers a presidential address in Allahabad in which he presents the two-state theory and outlines the vision for the establishment of Pakistan.
1940 German planes bomb London with incendiary bombs, causing fires throughout the city and the Parliament building and leading to the deaths of around 3,600 British civilians during World War II.
1944 – Publication of the first issue of the French newspaper Le Monde.
1947 – The Jewish organization Irgun carries out a massacre at the Damascus Gate in Jerusalem, killing and injuring 41 Palestinians.
1975 – British law is passed, ending sex discrimination in pay. The law stipulates the right of women to receive equal pay with men and also grants them equal rights at work and in society. Sex discrimination by employers has become illegal. and punished by law.
1989 – Vaclav Havel is elected the first non-communist president of Czechoslovakia.
1992 – Al-Qaeda carries out its first attack by detonating two bombs in Aden, Yemen. The first targeted the Movenpick Hotel and the second targeted the Goldmore Hotel car park.
1993 – Israeli-Palestinian negotiations end in Cairo between Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres and Palestinian National Authority representative Mahmoud Abbas without resolving security obstacles.
1997 – Hong Kong begins killing 1,250,000 chickens to stop the spread of bird flu.
1998 – Khmer Rouge leaders in Cambodia apologize for massacres they committed against civilians in the 1970s, which left around one and a half million people dead.
2001 – A major fire in the historic central district of the Peruvian capital, Lima, kills 280 people and injures thousands.
2016 – Announcement of a Russian-Turkish ceasefire agreement in Syria with a view to a political solution ending the Syrian crisis.
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Births:
1709 – Empress Elizabeth, tenth Empress of the Russian Empire.
1800 – Charles Goodyear, American chemist and inventor.
1808 – Andrew Johnson, 17th President of the United States.
1809 – William Gladstone, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
1895 – Ahmed bin Abdullah Al-Sinan, Saudi mystic, mathematician, jurist and writer.
1925 – Ragaa Youssef, Egyptian actress.
1939 – Mohsen Tawfiq, Egyptian actress.
1942 – Rajesh Khanna, Indian actor.
1949 – Salima Labidi, Algerian actress.
1957 – Salah El Sharnouby, Egyptian composer.
1960 – Ashraf Zaki, Egyptian actor.
1979 – Zahoor Hussein, Bahraini actress.
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Death:
721 – Empress Geime, Empress of Japan.
1825 – Jacques-Louis David, French painter.
1903 – Muhammad Hadi Al-Tehrani, Iranian Muslim jurist, author and professor of religion.
1906 – Ibrahim Al-Yaziji, Lebanese linguist, critic and writer.
1986 – Andrei Tarkovsky – Russian director, actor and writer.
2003 – Ahmed Sidqi Al-Dajjani, Palestinian thinker.
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Holidays and Occasions:
⏪ Saint Thomas Becket Day.
