📜 This Day in History

December 29

• 1812War of 1812: In a three-hour single-ship action, HMS Java was captured by USS Constitution off the coast of Brazil.
• 1860To 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.
• 1913Cecil B. DeMille started filming Hollywood's first feature film, The Squaw Man (featured).
• 1928The Northern Expedition, a military campaign by the National Revolutionary Army of the Kuomintang, ended with the complete control of the Republic of China.
• 1975Planted by unknown perpetrators, a bomb exploded at LaGuardia Airport in New York City, killing 11 people and seriously injuring 74 others.
• 2024Jeju Air Flight 2216 crashed at Muan International Airport while attempting to perform a belly-landing after losing engine thrust to a flock of Baikal teal.

Born on this day

• 1808Andrew Johnson, American general and politician, 17th President of the United States (died 1875)
• 1809William Ewart Gladstone, English lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (died 1898)
• 1938Jon Voight, American actor and producer
• 1962Carles Puigdemont, Catalan politician and journalist, former president