Are you asking the question “What day of the week was I born?” Continue reading to find out what day of the week you were born.
Day Of The Week: December 29
December 29, 2024 is the 364th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 2 days remaining until the end of 2024. The day of the week is Sunday.
If you are into daily horoscope then Capricorn is your zodiac sign. Turquoise is your modern birthstone. Onyx is your mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
Historical Events: December 29
- 1845 –In accordance with International Boundary delimitation, United States annexes the Mexican state of Texas, following the Manifest Destiny doctrine. The Republic of Texas, which had been independent since the Texas Revolution of 1836, is thereupon admitted as the 28th U.S. state.
- 1890 –United States soldiers kill more than 200 Oglala Lakota people with four Hotchkiss guns in the Wounded Knee Massacre.
- 1914 –A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, the first novel by James Joyce, is serialised in The Egoist.
- 1934 –Japan renounces the Washington Naval Treaty of 1922 and the London Naval Treaty of 1930.
- 1949 –KC2XAK of Bridgeport, Connecticut becomes the first Ultra high frequency (UHF) television station to operate a daily schedule.
- 1959 –Physicist Richard Feynman gives a speech entitled “There’s Plenty of Room at the Bottom”, which is regarded as the birth of nanotechnology.
- 1972 –An Eastern Air Lines Flight 401 (a Lockheed Tristar) crashes on approach to Miami International Airport, Florida, killing 101.
- 1996 –Guatemala and leaders of Guatemalan National Revolutionary Union sign a peace accord ending a 36-year civil war.
- 1997 –Hong Kong begins to kill all the nation’s 1.25 million chickens to stop the spread of a potentially deadly influenza strain.
- 1998 –Leaders of the Khmer Rouge apologize for the 1970s genocide in Cambodia that claimed over 1 million lives.
Who were born on December 29?
- 1816 –Carl Ludwig, German physician (d. 1895)
- 1859 –Venustiano Carranza, 54th President of Mexico (d. 1920)
- 1896 –David Alfaro Siqueiros, Mexican painter (d. 1974)
- 1904 –Kuvempu aka Kuppali Venkatappagowda Puttappa, Indian writer and poet (d. 1994)
- 1942 –Rick Danko, Canadian musician (The Band) (d. 1999)
- 1953 –Stanley Tookie Williams, American murderer (d. 2005)
- 1959 –Paula Poundstone, American comedian
- 1967 –Andy Wachowski, American director
- 1972 –Jason Kreis, American soccer player
- 1975 –Shawn Hatosy, American actor
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