Vero - Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/December 29

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• HMS Warrior
  HMS Warrior
• Basketball shot
  Basketball shot
• A basketball game
  A basketball game
• Álvaro Arzú
  Álvaro Arzú
• Sun Yat-sen
  Sun Yat-sen
• Sun Yat-sen
  Sun Yat-sen
• Stained glass portrait of Archbishop Thomas Becket
  Stained glass portrait of Archbishop Thomas Becket
• Muhammad Iqbal
  Muhammad Iqbal
• The Squaw Man
  The Squaw Man

Ineligible

Blurb	Reason
Independence Day in Mongolia (1911)	outdated, lots of CN tags in History section
1170 – Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Becket was slain in his own cathedral by four knights of Henry II of England.	refimprove section
1778 – American Revolutionary War: Lieutenant Colonel Archibald Campbell led a contingent of British soldiers to capture the city of Savannah, Georgia.	Orange "no sources cited" banner
1835 – The United States signed the Treaty of New Echota with leaders of a minority Cherokee faction, which became the legal basis for the forcible removal known as the Trail of Tears.	refimprove
1891 – Physical education teacher James Naismith introduced a game in Springfield, Massachusetts, with thirteen rules and nine players on each team that he called "basket ball".	missing information
1911 – Sun Yat-sen was elected the provisional president of the Republic of China in Nanjing.	Too much uncited
1930 – Muhammad Iqbal introduced the two-nation theory outlining a vision for the creation of an independent state for Muslim-majority provinces in northwestern British India.	refimprove section
1937 – The Constitution of Ireland, the founding legal document of the state known today as the Republic of Ireland, came into force.	refimprove improve orange banner
1939 – The Consolidated B-24 Liberator, the most-produced American military aircraft, made its first flight.	refimprove sections
1992 – President of Brazil Fernando Collor de Mello resigned in an attempt to stop his impeachment proceedings from continuing, but the Senate of Brazil continued anyway, finding him guilty.	refimprove
1993 – The Big Buddha, at the time the world's tallest outdoor bronze statue of the seated Buddha, was completed.	too many Template:Tl tags (5)
1996 – Peace accords were signed under the leadership of President Álvaro Arzú and guerrilla leader Rolando Morán, ending the 36-year-long Guatemalan Civil War.	prose
1997 – In order to prevent the spread of the H5N1 flu virus, the Hong Kong government [[Global spread of H5N1|began the slaughter of Template:Nowrap chickens]].	prose
Empress Genmei |d|721|	Deathdate not cited
William Ewart Gladstone |b|1809|	Too much uncited

Eligible

• 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.

• 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.
• 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".
• 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".
• 1975 – Planted by unknown perpetrators, a bomb exploded at LaGuardia Airport in New York City, killing 11 people and seriously injuring 74 others.

• Born/died: | Stephen Bocskai |d|1606| Maria Margaretha Kirch |d|1720| Diogo de Carvalho e Sampayo |d|1807| Andrew Johnson |b|1808| Ezra Meeker |b|1830 Christina Rossetti |d|1894| Adele Zay |d|1928| Maumoon Abdul Gayoom |b|1937| Ashleigh Banfield |b|1967| Marie Menken |d|1970| Jude Law |b|1972| Diego Luna |b|1979| C. T. Hsia |d|2013

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• 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.
• 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.
• 1959 – American physicist Richard Feynman gave a speech entitled "There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom" at Caltech, anticipating the field of nanotechnology.
• 1994 – Turkish Airlines Flight 278 crashed on approach to Van Ferit Melen Airport in Van, Turkey, killing 57 of the 76 people on board.