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What happened in history on this day: December 29?
Since 1995, I have been collecting information on a variety of topics,
creating several timelines of history.
Here you will find specific events from those databases
for this day, on the topics of personal computers, video games, the Walt Disney Company,
Chevrolet Corvettes, A&W Root Beer, Sweden, and Canadian coins.
On December 29 in ...
- 2004 - Tulip Computers of the Netherlands agrees to sell its Commodore International company to Yeahronimo Media Ventures for about US$32.7 million.
- 1926 - Disney ships the 46th Alice Comedy film, Alice's Auto Race, to Winkler Pictures.
- 1954 - The ABC TV network airs the Disneyland TV show, featuring the films Beaver Valley and Cameras in Africa.
- 1969 - In the case of the Sierra Club against the U.S. Forest Service over Disney's proposed Mineral King ski resort, the Forest Service asks the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco to overrule the injunction, allowing the project to proceed.
- 1974 - Attendance at the Magic Kingdom at Walt Disney World hits a record 74,597 for the day, forcing the park to close the entrance gates for four hours.
- 1995 - Buena Vista Pictures premieres the Hollywood Pictures live-action feature film Mr. Holland's Opus in Los Angeles, California.
- 1940 - American President Franklin Roosevelt gives a national radio address, suggesting that the US become "the arsenal of democracy".
- 1941 - Japanese forces begin an attack on Corregidor, Philippines.
- 1944 - British Bomber Command makes an air raid against Koblenz, Germany.
- 2010 - Russia releases a brass-plated steel 10-ruble coin to circulation, depicting the official emblem of the celebration of the 65th Anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945.
- 1995 - Sega releases the Sega Rally Championship 1995 video game for the Saturn in Japan.
- 1911 - A proclamation restores "Dei Gratia" to the legend of Canada's coins.
- 1981 - The Supply and Services Minister announces that the 1982 5c piece will be struck in cupronickel (75% copper, 25% nickel).
- 1941 - Eric P. Newman of Saint Louis purchases all five 1913 Liberty Head nickels for $2000 from the estate of Edward Green, along with a copper 1913 Indian Head nickel, and other rarities.
- 1965 - The US Mint begins striking 1-cent and 5-cent coins with 1965 date.
- 2005 - The Denver Mint makes first strikes of 2006 Jefferson, Return to Monticello 5-cent coins.
- 1862 - Bowling ball invented.
- 1906 - Montréal Wanderers beat New Glasgow (Nova Scotia) for Stanley Cup (second of 1906).
- 1926 - Victoria (1107) beat New South Wales (221 and 230) in cricket by an innings 656 runs.
- 1931 - Victoria scores 7 for 435 in second innings to beat New South Wales.
- 1933 - New York Yankees refuse to release Babe Ruth so he can manage the Cincinnati Reds.
- 1934 - First collegiate basketball doubleheader (Madison Square Garden).
- 1937 - Lou Thesz beats E Marshall in Saint Louis, Missouri, USA to become wrestling champion.
- 1940 - NFL Pro Bowl: Chicago Bears beats NFL All-Stars 28-14.
- 1957 - Detroit Lions beat Cleveland Browns 50-14 in NFL championship game.
- 1957 - Tom Richmond, cricket player (Notts leg-spinner took 2-86 in England Test), dies.
- 1958 - Baltimore Colts beat New York Giants 23-17 in NFL championship game.
- 1962 - Doug Walters makes first-class debut for New South Wales 17 years 8 days.
- 1963 - 52nd Davis Cup: USA beats Australia in Adelaide (3-2).
- 1965 - CBS purchases NFL TV rights for 1966-68 at US$18.8 million per year.
- 1968 - Baltimore Colts beat Cleveland Browns 34-0 in NFL championship game.
- 1968 - New York Jets beat Oakland Raiders 27-23 in AFL championship game.
- 1969 - New York Times reports Curt Flood will sue baseball and challenge the reserve clause.
- 1972 - Test Cricket debut of Jeff Thomson and Max Walker versus Pakistan at Melbourne Cricket Ground.
- 1978 - Test Cricket debut of Allan Robert Border, versus England at the Melbourne Cricket Ground.
- 1979 - Red Army beats New York Islanders 3-2 at Nassau Coliseum.
- 1982 - Coach Paul "Bear" Bryant ends his career with Alabama (323 wins).
- 1983 - Gavaskar makes the highest Test Cricket score by an Indian, 236 versus West Indies.
- 1983 - Graeme Yallop completes 268 versus Pakistan at cricket Melbourne Cricket Ground.
- 1984 - Saint Louis Blues take 27 shots against New York Islanders in one period.
- 1988 - Soviet Red Army hockey team edges New York Islanders, 3-2 at Nassau Coliseum.
- 1989 - Wayne Gretzky and Martina Navratilova are named athletes of the decade by the Associated Press.
- 1994 - Shane Warne takes a hat-trick versus England at cricket Melbourne Cricket Ground.
- 1997 - Carquest Bowl 8: Georgia Tech beats West Virginia, 35-30.
- 2002 - In Cincinnati, Ohio, the Cinergy Field stadium is demolished.
- 2005 - Agreeing to a US$60 million, five-year contract, Kevin Millwood joins the Texas Rangers American baseball team.
- 2007 - After defeating the New York Giants 38-35, the New England Patriots become the second team in NFL history to finish the regular season undefeated.
- 1948 - US State Department announces work on placing objects into Earth orbit.
- 1539 - Saint Jacobs Church burns after being hit by lightning.
- 1973 - In the New Hebrides Islands, a magnitude 7.2 earthquake occurs.
- 1845 - US President James Polk signs act admitting Texas into union.
- 1862 - Battle of Chichasaw Bayou: Confederate armies defeat Union Army General Tecumseh Sherman with loss of 1700 men.
- 1867 - First telegraph ticker used by a brokerage house, Groesbeck and Company, New York.
- 1876 - Eleven passenger cars crash in a ravine near Ashtabula, Ohio, USA; 92 die.
- 1890 - The U.S. 7th Cavalry massacres 146 Sioux Indians (nearly half women and children) at Wounded Knee Creek on the Pine Ridge reservation in South Dakota. 25 cavalry men are killed.
- 1908 - Patent granted for a 4-wheel automobile brake, Clintonville, Wisconsin.
- 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.
- 1938 - Construction on Lake Washington Floating Bridge, in Seattle, Washington, begins.
- 1941 - Japanese forces begin an attack on Corregidor, Philippines.
- 1948 - US State Department announces work on placing objects into Earth orbit.
- 1949 - First UHF television station operating regular basis (Bridgeport, Connecticut, USA).
- 1952 - First transistorized hearing aid offered for sale (Elmsford, New York).
- 1972 - Eastern Tristar Jumbo Jet crashes near Florida Everglades killing 101.
- 1972 - Life magazine ceases publication.
- 1975 - Eleven killed, 75 hurt by terrorist bomb at LaGuardia Airport in New York City, New York.
- 1983 - The Reverend Jesse Jackson travels to Syria to secure the release of U.S. Navy Lieutenant Robert Goodman, who has been in Syrian captivity after being shot down over the country on a reconnaissance mission.
- 1987 - Prozac anti-depressant drug makes its debut in the United States.
- 1992 - Governor Cuomo grants Jean Harris ("Scarsdale Diet" Murderess) clemency.
Other history:
- 1813 - British burn Buffalo, New York, during the War of 1812.
- 1845 - Texas admitted as the 28th state of USA.
- 1862 - Bowling ball invented.
- 1885 - Gottlieb Daimler patents first bike (Germany).
- 1891 - Edison patents "transmission of signals electrically" (radio).
- 1921 - William Lyon Mackenzie King succeeds Arthur Meighen as Canadian Prime Minister.
- 1952 - First transistorized hearing aid offered for sale (Elmsford, New York).
- 1972 - Life magazine ceases publication in the USA.
- 1989 - Wayne Gretzky and Martina Navratilova are named athletes of the decade by the Associated Press.
- 1997 - Hong Kong begins slaughtering all its chickens to prevent bird flu.
- 2011 - Samoa and Tokelau move from east to west of the International Date Line, thereby skipping December 30, in order to align their time zones better with their main trading partners.
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(this URL will automatically re-direct to the file containing the current day's events)
Or, visit my Timelines of History page.
Other web pages of interest:
Chronology of World History
What's Notable About this Year?
Ken P's Coin/Stamp/Bill Novelties
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