December 29: Independence Day in Mongolia (1911)
Muhammad Iqbal
- 1170 – Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Becket was slain in his own cathedral by four knights of Henry II of England.
- 1890 – The United States Army killed over 150 members of the Great Sioux Nation at the Wounded Knee Massacre.
- 1930 – Muhammad Iqbal (pictured) introduced the two-nation theory outlining a vision for the creation of an independent state for Muslim-majority provinces in northwestern British India.
- 1937 – The Constitution of Ireland, the founding legal document of the state known today as the Republic of Ireland, came into force.
- 1997 – In order to prevent the spread of the H5N1 flu virus, the Hong Kong government slaughtered 1.3 million chickens.
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