December 29: Independence Day in Mongolia (1911)
Tian Tan Buddha
- 1170 – Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Becket was slain in his own cathedral by four knights of Henry II of England.
- 1891 – Physical education teacher James Naismith introduced a game in Springfield, Massachusetts, with thirteen rules and nine players on each team that he called "Basket Ball".
- 1911 – Sun Yat-sen was elected in Nanjing as the Provisional President of the Republic of China.
- 1959 – Physicist Richard Feynman gave a speech entitled "There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom", which is considered the birth of nanotechnology.
- 1993 – The Tian Tan Buddha (pictured), at the time the world's tallest outdoor bronze statue of the seated Buddha, was completed.
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