On This Day in History

December 29

Historical Events

The Trail of Tears, painting by Robert Lindneux

1835 Treaty of New Echota is signed between the US government and representatives of a minority Cherokee political faction to cede all lands of the Cherokee east of the Mississippi River to the United States.

1845 Texas admitted as the 28th state of the Union.

1903 French Equatorial Africa separates into Gabon, Chad and Ubangi-Shari (Central African Republic).

1911 Chinese revolutionary Sun Yat-sen is elected the 1st President of the Republic of China.

1997 Hong Kong begins slaughtering all its chickens to prevent bird flu.

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Famous Birthdays

Elizabeth of Russia 1709 - 1762 Andrew Johnson 1808 - 1875

Klaus Fuchs 1911 - 1988 Carles Puigdemont 61st Birthday

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Famous Deaths

Harold Macmillan 1894 - 1986 Pele 1940 - 2022

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'Hitler Will Have to Break Us or Lose the War'

The German Luftwaffe were hammering the British RAF until a furious and frustrated Hitler changed the plan and possibly the outcome of the war.

Hitler’s Fateful Change