Today in history: December 29, 2023

Mondo History Updated on 2024-01-31

Hello everyone, today is December 29, 2023, and here are some of the major events that happened today in history:

Domestic: 1On December 29, 1773, Liu Tongxun, a politician during the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, the chief military minister and a cabinet scholar, passed away

2.On December 29, 1857, British and French troops captured Guangzhou, China, and Ye Mingchen, a minister at the end of the Qing Dynasty, was captured and sent to Calcutta, India

3.On December 29, 1899, the Chinese politician, military strategist, and one of the top ten marshals was born

4.On December 29, 1911, the rebel army reached an agreement with Yuan Shikai**, and Sun Yat-sen was elected as the provisional great**;

5.On December 29, 1920, the Cantonese and Hanzhou railway workers went on strike;

6.On December 29, 1950, **'s "Theory of Practice" was published

7.On December 29, 1968, the Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge was fully completed and opened to traffic ahead of schedule

8.On December 29, 1975, Yunmeng Qin Jian was discovered, also known as Qin Jian of Sleeping Tiger Land;

9.On December 29, 1979, the first large-scale cascade power station in the upper reaches of the Yellow River, the Longyangxia Hydropower Station, cut off the Yellow River and successfully intercepted the flow.

Abroad: 1On December 29, 418 A.D., Bonifa I became Pope;

2.On December 29, 1503, the Spanish completely conquered Naples;

3.On December 29, 1709, Elizabeth Petrovna, the tenth Tsar of the Russian Romanov dynasty and the sixth emperor of the Russian Empire, was born

4.On December 29, 1800, Charles Goodyer, an American businessman and inventor of vulcanized rubber, was born

5.On December 29, 1856, Steergeus, a Dutch mathematician known for Riemann Stillgers integrals, was born

6.On December 29, 1892, Thomas Edison obtained the patent for the radio

7.On December 29, 1910, the British economist, winner of the 1991 Nobel Prize in Economics, Ronald Coase was born;

8.On December 29, 1919, the solar eclipse test proved Einstein's theory;

9.On December 29, 1934, Japan withdrew from the Washington Naval Treaty and the London Naval Treaty

10.On December 29, 2022, Arata Isozaki, a master of Japanese postmodernist architecture and winner of the 2019 Pritzker Architecture Prize, passed away.

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