Fernando Collor de Mello, president of Brazil, tries to resign amidst corruption charges, but is then impeached. Date: December 29, 1992 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on December 29 📅 Events on this day in 1992 📅 On This Day (Today)
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. Date: December 29, 1994 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on December 29 📅 Events on this day in 1994 📅 On This Day (Today)
Guatemala and leaders of Guatemalan National Revolutionary Unity sign a peace accord ending a 36-year civil war. Date: December 29, 1996 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on December 29 📅 Events on this day in 1996 📅 On This Day (Today)
Leaders of the Khmer Rouge apologize for the Cambodian genocide that claimed over one million lives. Date: December 29, 1998 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on December 29 📅 Events on this day in 1998 📅 On This Day (Today)
The last known speaker of Akkala Sami dies, rendering the language extinct. Date: December 29, 2003 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on December 29 📅 Events on this day in 2003 📅 On This Day (Today)
The UK settles its Anglo-American loan, post-WWII loan debt. Date: December 29, 2006 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on December 29 📅 Events on this day in 2006 📅 On This Day (Today)
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. Date: December 29, 2012 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on December 29 📅 Events on this…
Seven-time Formula One champion Michael Schumacher suffers a massive head injury while skiing in the French Alps. Date: December 29, 2013 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on December 29 📅 Events on this day in 2013 📅 On This Day (Today)
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. Date: December 29, 2013 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on December 29 📅 Events on this day in 2013 📅 On This Day (Today)
A magnitude 6.4 earthquake hits near the town of Petrinja in Sisak-Moslavina County, Croatia, killing seven people. Date: December 29, 2020 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on December 29 📅 Events on this day in 2020 📅 On This Day (Today)