Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/December 29

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 * 1778 – American Revolutionary War: Lieutenant Colonel Archibald Campbell led a contingent of British soldiers to capture the city of Savannah, Georgia.
 * 1812 – War of 1812: In a three-hour single-ship action, HMS Java (drawing shown) was captured by USS Constitution off the coast of Brazil.
 * 1876 – A railway bridge collapsed over the Ashtabula River in Ohio, killing 92 people and injuring 64 others on a Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway train.
 * 1890 – Sioux Wars: The United States Army killed 250 to 300 Lakota men, women and children at the Wounded Knee Massacre, beginning the Ghost Dance War.
 * 1928 – The Northern Expedition, a military campaign by the National Revolutionary Army of the Kuomintang, ended with the complete control of the Republic of China.
 * 1937 – The Constitution of Ireland, the founding legal document of the state known today as the Republic of Ireland, came into force.
 * 1940 – Second World War: The Luftwaffe began a major night bombing raid on the British capital as part of the Blitz, beginning what was later called the "Second Great Fire of London".
 * 1959 – American physicist Richard Feynman gave a speech entitled "There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom" at Caltech, anticipating the field of nanotechnology.


 * Born/died: | Maria Margaretha Kirch |d|1720| Diogo de Carvalho e Sampayo |d|1807| William Ewart Gladstone |b|1809|  Ezra Meeker |b|1830 Womesh Chunder Bonnerjee |b|1844| Christina Rossetti |d|1894|  Jürgen Ehlers |b|1929| Ann Demeulemeester |b|1959| Ashleigh Banfield |b|1967| Marie Menken |d|1970|  Jude Law |b|1972| Twinkle Khanna |b|1974|

December 29


 * 1845 – The Republic of Texas was annexed by the United States, becoming the 28th state to be admitted to the Union.
 * 1860 – To counter the French Navy's Gloire, the world's first ironclad warship, the Royal Navy launched HMS Warrior, the world's first iron-hulled armoured warship.
 * 1913 – Cecil B. DeMille started filming Hollywood's first feature film, The Squaw Man (featured).
 * 1915 – First World War: The French parliament passed a law granting the land occupied by British war graves as "the free gift of the French people".
 * 1975 – Planted by unknown perpetrators, a bomb exploded at LaGuardia Airport in New York City, killing 11 people and seriously injuring 74 others.