On This Day in History December 29, 2018

Historical Events 1835  The Treaty of New Echota is signed, ceding all the lands of the Cherokee east of the Mississippi River to the United States 1845  Texas admitted as 28th state of the Union 1903  French Equatorial Africa separates into Gabon, Chad and Ubangi-Shari 1911  Sun Yat-sen elected 1st President of the Republic of China 1940  Germany drops its 1st incendiary bombs on London during the Blitz 1997  Hong Kong begins slaughtering all its chickens to prevent bird flu More Historical Events Famous Birthdays Andrew Johnson (1808 - 1875) Charles Goodyear (1800 - 1860) Mary Tyler Moore (1936 - 2017) William Gladstone (1809 - 1898) More Famous Birthdays Famous Deaths Grigori Rasputin (1869 - 1916) Thomas Becket (1117 - 1170)