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On this day — December 29

A hand-curated thread of what happened on this date, across centuries.

2024

Sport

Jeju Air Flight 2216 crashes into a wall in Muan, South Korea, killing 179 of the 181 occupants

It is the worst aircraft accident on South Korean soil in history.

2023

Milestone

South Africa files a genocide case against Israel at the International Court of Justice over Israeli conducts in the Gaza Strip.

2020

Disaster

A magnitude 6.4 earthquake hits near the town of Petrinja in Sisak-Moslavina County

Croatia, killing seven people.

2013

Milestone

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.

2013

Milestone

Seven-time Formula One champion Michael Schumacher suffers a massive head injury while skiing in the French Alps.

2012

Milestone

A Tupolev Tu-204 airliner crashes in a ditch between the airport fence and the M3 highway after overshooting a runway at Vnukovo International Airport in Moscow, Russia, killing five people and leaving three others critically injured.

2006

Milestone

The UK settles its Anglo-American loan

post-WWII loan debt.

2003

Milestone

The last known speaker of Akkala Sami dies

rendering the language extinct.

1998

Milestone

Leaders of the Khmer Rouge apologize for the Cambodian genocide that claimed over one million lives.

1996

Politics

Guatemala and leaders of Guatemalan National Revolutionary Unity sign a peace accord ending a 36-year civil war.

1994

Milestone

Turkish Airlines Flight 278 (a Boeing 737-400) crashes on approach to Van Ferit Melen Airport in Van

Turkey, killing 57 of the 76 people on board.

1992

Politics

Fernando Collor de Mello

president of Brazil, tries to resign amidst corruption charges, but is then impeached.

1989

Politics

Czech writer

philosopher and dissident Václav Havel is elected the first post-communist President of Czechoslovakia.

1989

Milestone

The Nikkei 225 for the Tokyo Stock Exchange hits its all-time intra-day high of 38,957.44 and closing high at 38,915.87, serving as the apex of the Japanese asset price bubble.

1975

Milestone

A bomb explodes at LaGuardia Airport in New York City

killing 11 people and injuring more than 75.