December 29 holidays, events, history
👉 HOLIDAYS:
🌏 International Cello Day.
🔹 NATIONAL HOLIDAYS:
🇲🇳 Mongolia – Independence Day.
🇮🇪 Ireland – Constitution Day.
🇺🇸 USA – Day of annexation of the state of Texas.
👉 EVENTS:
– 1503 – The Spaniards under the command of Gonzalo Fernandez de Cordoba defeated the French in the Battle of Garigliano.
– 1708 – By decree of Peter I, Russia was divided into 8 provinces.
– 1768 – Catherine II introduced paper money into circulation.
– 1845 – Texas became one of the US states.
– 1860 – The HMS Warrior – an armored ship was launched in Blackwall.
– 1911 – Igor Sikorsky sets a world record in his S-6 2-seater airplane, flying at a speed of 111 km / h.
– 1930 – Muhammad Iqbal proposes the creation of the state of Pakistan.
– 1977 – The Vityaz special unit of the Ministry of Internal Affairs is created.
– 1989 – Vaclav Havel becomes president of Czechoslovakia.
– 1991 – A referendum on the independence of the Republic of Uzbekistan and elections for the presidency of the Republic of Uzbekistan are held. I. Karimov is elected the first president of independent Uzbekistan.
– 1993 – The Convention on Biological Diversity enters into force.
– 1996 – The civil war in Guatemala ends.
– 1998 – The Khmer Rouge apologized for the genocide that killed 1 million people in the 1970s.
– 2012 – The crash of a Tu-204 plane at Vnukovo Airport.
– 2013 – The day Uzbek chess players participated in the World Youth Championship.
– 2013 – Explosion at the Volgograd railway station.
– 2021 – 17-year-old Nodirbek Abdusattorov became the youngest world champion in rapid chess.
