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| December 29th |
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| About December 29th is the 363rd day of the year (364th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are two days remaining until the end of the calendar year. Births 1800 - Charles Goodyear, inventor 1808 - Andrew Johnson, 17th U.S. President 1919 - Clarence Swensen, actor (The Wizard of Oz) 1923 - Sam Sheppard, physician, involved in controversial murder trial 1936 - Ray Nitschke, Hall of Fame linebacker 1936 - Mary Tyler Moore, actress (The Mary Tyler Moore Show) 1942 - Jack Keller, Hall of Fame poker player 1947 - Ted Danson, actor (Cheers) 1972 - Jude Law, actor, producer, director (The Talented Mr. Ripley) Deaths 2004 - Julius Axelrod, biochemist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine recipient Events 1813 - Buffalo, New York is set ablaze by British soldiers during the War of 1812. 1845 - Texas becomes the twenty-eighth state of the United States. 1851 - The first YMCA opens up in Boston, Massachusetts. 1878 - Cuba holds their first professional baseball game in what would become the Cuban League. 1890 - The Wounded Knee Massacre takes place as 300 Lakota Sioux are killed by the U.S. Cavalry. 1946 - KC2XAK in Bridgeport, CT becomes the world's first UHF television station to operate on a daily basis. 1975 - A bomb explodes at La Guardia Airport in New York City, killing 11 people and injuring 74. |
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