User:Hawkeye7/War/Selected anniversaries/December 29

December 29:

 * 1813 - War of 1812: British soldiers burn Buffalo, New York.
 * 1860 - The first British seagoing iron-clad warship, HMS Warrior is launched.
 * 1862 - American Civil War: End of the Battle of Chickasaw Bayou.
 * 1890 - Wounded Knee Massacre: The United States soldiers massacred over 400 men, women and children of the Great Sioux Nation at Wounded Knee, South Dakota.
 * 1934 - Japan renounces the Washington Naval Treaty of 1922 and the London Naval Treaty of 1930.
 * 1940 - Battle of Britain: Luftwaffe firebombs London, killing almost 3000 civilians.
 * 1996 - Guatemala and leaders of Guatemalan National Revolutionary Union sign a peace accord that ends a 36-year civil war.