December 29 Holidays

🕰️ On This Day in History

• 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. ↗
• 2012 — A Tupolev Tu-204 airliner crashes in a ditch between the airport fence and the M3 highway after overshooting a runway at Vnukovo... ↗
• 2011 — Samoa and Tokelau skip straight to December 31 when moving from one side of the International Date Line to another. ↗
• 2006 — UK settles its Anglo-American loan, post-WWII loan debt. ↗
• 2003 — The last known speaker of Akkala Sami dies, rendering the language extinct. ↗

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🎂 Notable Births

• 1989 — Kei Nishikori, Japanese tennis player
• 1988 — Eric Berry, American football player
• 1988 — Christen Press, American footballer
• 1988 — Ágnes Szávay, Hungarian tennis player
• 1987 — Yuhi Sekiguchi, Japanese race car driver