WHAT HAPPENED ON 29. DECEMBER
Want to find out what all happened on 29. December

KC2XAK of Bridgeport, Connecticut becomes the first Ultra high frequency (UHF) television station to operate a daily schedule. (29. December 1949)

Physicist Richard Feynman gives a speech entitled "There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom", which is regarded as the birth of nanotechnology. (29. December 1959)

The Lisbon Metro begins operation. (29. December 1959)

An Eastern Air Lines Flight 401 (a Lockheed L-1011 TriStar) crashes on approach to Miami International Airport, Florida, killing 101. (29. December 1972)

A bomb explodes at LaGuardia Airport in New York, New York, killing 11 people and injuring 74. (29. December 1975)

Riots break-out after Hong Kong decides to forcibly repatriate Vietnamese refugees. (29. December 1989)

Fernando Collor de Mello, president of Brazil, tries to resign amidst corruption charges, but is then impeached. (29. December 1992)

Guatemala and leaders of Guatemalan National Revolutionary Unity sign a peace accord ending a 36-year civil war. (29. December 1996)

Hong Kong begins to kill all the nation's 1.25 million chickens to stop the spread of a potentially deadly influenza strain. (29. December 1997)

Leaders of the Khmer Rouge apologize for the 1970s genocide in Cambodia that claimed over 1 million lives. (29. December 1998)

A fire at the Mesa Redonda shopping center in Lima, Peru, kills at least 291. (29. December 2001)

The last known speaker of Akkala Sami dies, rendering the language extinct. (29. December 2003)

UK settles its Anglo-American loan - post WWII loan debt. (29. December 2006)

A Tupolev Tu-204 airliner crashes in a ditch between the airport fence and the M3 highway after overshooting a runway at Vnukovo International Airport in Moscow, Russia, killing five people and leaving three others critically injured. (29. December 2012)

A suicide bomb attack at the Volgograd-1 railway station in the southern Russian city of Volgograd kills at least 18 people and wounds 40 others. (29. December 2013)