Historical Events In December - 29
Monday, 20 September 2021
1862 Battle of Chichasaw Bayou: confederate armies defeat Gen Sherman on this day in history.
1864 On December - 29 fire Dept celebrates 1st annual ball
1866 Joseph Limburg, liberal Second-Member of parliament (1905-19) on this day in history.
1867 On this day in history first telegraph ticker used by a brokerage house, Groesbeck and Co, New York
1867 1st telegraph ticker used by a brokerage house, Groesbeck & Co, NY on this day in history.
1869 On this day in history bill Howell, cricketer (Australian bowler at turn of century)
1871 Ferdinand Marcucci, composer, dies at 71 on December - 29.
1876 On December - 29 11 passenger cars crash in a ravine near Ashtabula OH
1876 On this day in history 11 passenger cars crash in a ravine near Ashtabula Ohio, 92 die
1876 On this day in history pablo Casals, Vendrell Catalonia Spain, violinist/conductor/composer
1877 On December - 29 grand Trunk Railroad workers strike to support fired members of Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers; strike broken by use of militia and unorganized workers.
1877 On this day in history willem Sassen, Dutch attorney general on Curacao (Affair-S), dies
1879 Billy Mitchell, aviation hero Gen (WW I) on this day in history.
1880 On December - 29 jean-Fernand Vaubourgoin, composer
1885 On this day in history gottlieb Daimler patents 1st bike (Germany)
1887 Kiyoshi Nobutoki, composer on this day in history.
1888 On December - 29 joseph Beran, Czech archbishop of Prague/cardinal
1890 On this day in history 300 Sioux Indians are killed by US troops at Wounded Knee, South Dakota.
1890 Federal troops massacre 200+ captive Sioux at Wounded Knee, SD; Indian "war" in the west on December - 29.
1890 The "Battle of Wounded Knee" ends the last major Indian resistance to white settlement in America on December - 29.
1890 On December - 29 the last ever battle between American natives and US troops takes place
1890 US 7th Cavalry massacre 200+ captive Sioux at Wounded Knee, SD on this day in history.
1890 On this day in history big Foot, Sioux indian chief, dies at Wounded Knee
1891 On this day in history edison patents "transmission of signals electrically" (radio)
1891 Leopold Kronecker, German mathematician, dies at 68 on December - 29.
1892 Emory Parnell, St Paul MN, actress (Rocket Man, County Fair) on December - 29.
1894 Chris Rossetti, writer, dies at 64 on this day in history.
1895 Dr L S Jameson begins failed raid on Johannesburg on this day in history.
1896 On this day in history first issue of newspaper Le Soleil is published.
1896 On this day in history david Alfaro Siqueiros, Mexico, painter/muralist (Lib of Chile)
1897 On December - 29 hermann Heiss, composer
1898 Jeanne Leleu, composer on December - 29.
1898 Georg Goltermann, composer, dies at 74 on this day in history.
1899 English fleet brings German postschip Bundesrath up on December - 29.
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