29th December

EVENTS:

• 1786 – French Revolution: The Assembly of Notables is convened.
• 1911 – Mongolia gains independence from the Qing dynasty, enthroning 9th Jebtsundamba Khutughtu as Khagan of Mongolia.
• 1930 – Sir Muhammad Iqbal’s presidential address in Allahabad introduces the two-nation theory and outlines a vision for the creation of Pakistan.
• 1937 – The Irish Free State is replaced by a new state called Ireland with the adoption of a new constitution.
• 1959 – Physicist Richard Feynman gives a speech entitled “There’s Plenty of Room at the Bottom“, which is regarded as the birth of nanotechnology.
• 2013 – 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.
• 2017 – An accidental fire started by a three-year-old boy, kills 12 people in an apartment building in the Bronx, New York.

BIRTHS:

• 1904 – Kuvempu, Indian author and poet (d. 1994)
• 1910 – Ronald Coase, English-American economist, author, and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2013)
• 1915 – Bill Osmanski, American football player and coach (d. 1996)
• 1917 – Ramanand Sagar, Indian director and producer (d. 2005)
• 1936 – Ray Nitschke, American football player and actor (d. 1998)
• 1942 – Rajesh Khanna, Indian actor, singer, and producer (d. 2012)
• 1949 – Syed Kirmani, Indian cricketer and actor
• 1960 – David Boon, Australian cricketer and referee
• 1963 – Sean Payton, American football player and coach
• 1974 – Twinkle Khanna, Indian actress and producer
• 1978 – Kieron Dyer, English footballer and coach
• 1978 – Danny Higginbotham, English footballer
• 1982 – Dale Morris, Australian footballer
• 1983 – James Kelly, Australian footballer

HOLIDAYS and OBSERVANCES:

• Constitution Day (Ireland)
• Independence Day (Mongolia)
• The fifth day of Christmas (Western Christianity)