Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/December 29
This is a list of selected December 29 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article or picture of the day.
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Muhammad Iqbal
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Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
|---|---|
| Independence Day in Mongolia (1911) | outdated, lots of CN tags in History section |
| 1170 – Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Becket was slain in his own cathedral by four knights of Henry II of England. | refimprove section |
| 1835 – The United States signed the Treaty of New Echota with leaders of a minority Cherokee faction, which became the legal basis for the forcible removal known as the Trail of Tears. | refimprove |
| 1891 – Physical education teacher James Naismith introduced a game in Springfield, Massachusetts, with thirteen rules and nine players on each team that he called "basket ball". | multiple issues |
| 1930 – Muhammad Iqbal introduced the two-nation theory outlining a vision for the creation of an independent state for Muslim-majority provinces in northwestern British India. | refimprove section |
| 1937 – The Constitution of Ireland, the founding legal document of the state known today as the Republic of Ireland, came into force. | refimprove section |
| 1939 – The Consolidated B-24 Liberator, the most-produced American military aircraft, made its first flight. | refimprove sections |
| 1992 – President of Brazil Fernando Collor de Mello resigned in an attempt to stop his impeachment proceedings from continuing, but the Senate of Brazil continued anyway, finding him guilty. | refimprove |
| 1993 – The Tian Tan Buddha, at the time the world's tallest outdoor bronze statue of the seated Buddha, was completed. | too many {{cn}} tags |
| 1997 – In order to prevent the spread of the H5N1 flu virus, the Hong Kong government began the slaughter of 1.3 million chickens. | prose |
Eligible
- 1845 – The Republic of Texas was annexed by the United States, becoming the 28th state admitted into the union.
- 1860 – To counter the French Navy's Gloire, the world's first ironclad warship, the Royal Navy launched the world's first iron-hulled armoured warship, HMS Warrior.
- 1876 – A railway bridge over the Ashtabula River in Ohio collapsed when a Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway train was crossing over it, killing 92 people and injuring 64 others.
- 1890 – Sioux Wars: The United States Army killed 250 to 300 Lakota men, women and children at the Wounded Knee Massacre, beginning the Ghost Dance War.
- 1972 – While the crew of Eastern Air Lines Flight 401 were busy trying to solve an instrumentation problem, the aircraft crashed into the Florida Everglades, killing 101 people.
- 1975 – A bomb set by unknown perpetrators at LaGuardia Airport in New York City exploded, killing 11 people and seriously injuring 74 others.
- Born/died: Stephen Bocskai (d. 1606) · Maria Margaretha Kirch (d. 1720) · Womesh Chunder Bonnerjee (b. 1844) · Ashleigh Banfield (b. 1967) · Twinkle Khanna (b. 1974)
- 1779 – American Revolutionary War: Lieutenant Colonel Archibald Campbell led a contingent of British soldiers to capture the city of Savannah, Georgia.
- 1911 – Sun Yat-sen (pictured) was elected the provisional president of the Republic of China in Nanjing.
- 1940 – The Blitz: The Luftwaffe conducted a major night bombing raid on the British capital, beginning what was later called the "Second Great Fire of London".
- 1959 – Physicist Richard Feynman gave a speech entitled "There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom" at Caltech, anticipating the field of nanotechnology.
Christina Rossetti (d. 1894) · Adele Zay (d. 1928) · Ann Demeulemeester (b. 1959)