Day of the year
December 29
Born on December 29? You're a Capricorn with the Turquoise birthstone.
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December 29 Zodiac Sign
Capricorn (December 22 – January 19)
Element: Earth
disciplinedresponsibleambitiouspatientresourceful
Birthstone
Turquoise
Birth Flower
Narcissus
Season
Winter
Numerology 5
A number of freedom, change, and restless adventure.
December 29: This Day in History
- 1170— Archbishop Thomas Becket was murdered in Canterbury Cathedral by knights acting on the orders of King Henry II of England.
- 1845— Texas was admitted to the Union as the 28th state, after the U.S. Congress accepted its annexation.
- 1851— The first YMCA in the United States opened in Boston, Massachusetts.
- 1890— U.S. Army troops massacred approximately 250–300 Lakota Sioux men, women, and children at Wounded Knee Creek in South Dakota.
- 1916— Grigori Rasputin, the mystic and advisor to Russia's Romanov royal family, was assassinated in Petrograd.
Famous Birthdays on December 29
- Jude Law (1972) — british actor
- Marianne Faithfull (1946) — british singer and actress
- Ted Danson (1947) — actor
- Andrew Johnson (1808) — 17th u.s. president
- Jon Voight (1938) — actor
Did You Know? December 29 Fun Facts
- The Wounded Knee Massacre on December 29, 1890 was one of the last major armed conflicts of the American Indian Wars.
- Rasputin proved remarkably difficult to kill on December 29, 1916 — he reportedly survived poison and gunshot wounds before finally dying from drowning.
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