December 29 birthdays & history

Famous people born on December 29

• 1808Andrew Johnson, American general and politician, 17th President of the United States
• 1938Jon Voight, American actor and producer
• 1972Jude Law, English actor
• 1936Mary Tyler Moore, American actress and producer
• 1910Ronald Coase, English-American economist, author, and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1876Pablo Casals, Catalan cellist and conductor
• 1998Victor Osimhen, Nigerian footballer
• 1996Dylan Minnette, American actor, musician and singer
• 1896David Alfaro Siqueiros, Mexican painter
• 1967Lilly Wachowski, American director, screenwriter and producer

What happened on December 29

• 1835The Treaty of New Echota is signed, ceding all the lands of the Cherokee east of the Mississippi River to the United States.
• 1911Mongolia gains independence from the Qing dynasty, enthroning 8th Jebtsundamba Khutughtu as Khagan of Mongolia.
• 1913Cecil B. DeMille started filming Hollywood's first feature film, The Squaw Man (featured).
• 1930Sir Muhammad Iqbal's presidential address in Allahabad introduces the two-nation theory and outlines a vision for the creation of Pakistan.
• 1937The Irish Free State is replaced by a new state called Ireland with the adoption of a new constitution.
• 1959American physicist Richard Feynman gave a speech entitled "There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom" at Caltech, anticipating the field of nanotechnology.
• 1989Czech writer, philosopher and dissident Václav Havel is elected the first post-communist President of Czechoslovakia.
• 1989The Nikkei 225 for the Tokyo Stock Exchange hits its all-time intra-day high of 38,957.44 and closing high at 38,915.87, serving as the apex of the Japanese asset price bubble.

Also observed on December 29

• Constitution Day (Ireland)
• Independence Day (Mongolia)
• The fifth day of Christmas (Western Christianity)
• The fourth day of Kwanzaa (United States)