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On December 29, 1777, Captain James Cook observed a solar eclipse at Cook Islet - "Eclipse Island".
http://www.confluenceproject.org/blog/plunge-into-darkness-earliest-recorded-solar-eclipses-in-the-pacific-northwest/

The winter eclipse season of 1944-45 begins with the penumbral lunar eclipse of 1944 December 29.
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1943PA.....51..354P

A total lunar eclipse occurred on December 29, 1 BC. (candidate to be Herod's eclipse)
http://www.asa3.org/ASA/PSCF/2012/PSCF12-12Nollet.pdf



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The Wounded Knee Massacre occurred on December 29, 1890
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t52060275/wounded-knee-massacre/

'St Paul's Survives' is a photograph taken in London during the night raid of 29/30 December 1940
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Paul%27s_Survives



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First flight of the Consolidated B-24 Liberator American heavy bomber on the 29th December 1939 
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t52060288/b-24-liberator/



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Shenzhou 4 was launched on December 29, 2002
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shenzhou_4

Nimiq 2, was launched on December 29, 2002 on a Proton Breeze M rocket
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nimiq#Nimiq_2

The E and B Experiment was launched on 29 December, 2012
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_E_and_B_Experiment

On 29 December 2013, ESA's Mars Express made a close flyby of Phobos
http://m.esa.int/spaceinvideos/Videos/2013/12/Mars_Express



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Nancy Jane Sherlock Currie (December 29, 1958) is an engineer, United States Army officer and a NASA astronaut.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_J._Currie

Magnus Alfred Pyke (29 December 1908 - 19 October 1992) was a British scientist
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t52060235/magnus-pyke-1908-1992/

Thomas Joannes Stieltjes (29 December 1856 - 31 December 1894) was a Dutch mathematician.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Joannes_Stieltjes

Jeanne Antoinette Poisson, Marquise de Pompadour, also known as Madame de Pompadour (29 December 1721 - 15 April 1764) was a member of the French court
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACz-gFib8zo

Johann Christian Poggendorff (29 December 1796 - 24 January 1877), was a German physicist
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Christian_Poggendorff

Jürgen Ehlers (December 29, 1929 - May 20, 2008) was a German physicist
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%BCrgen_Ehlers

Ibn al-Banna al-Marrakush al-Azdi also known as Abu'l-Abbas Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Uthman al-Azdi. (29 December 1256 - c. 1321) was a Moroccan mathematician, astronomer, Islamic scholar, Sufi, and a one time astrologer.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibn_al-Banna%27_al-Marrakushi

Georg Otto Hermann Struve (29 December 1886 - 10 June 1933) was a German astronomer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georg_Hermann_Struve

Carl Otto Lampland (December 29, 1873 - December 14, 1951) was an American astronomer 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Otto_Lampland



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There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom lecture given by Richard Feynman on December 29, 1959
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t52060265/theres-plenty-of-room-at-the-bottom/

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Star Trek: "The Trouble With Tribbles" was first broadcast on December 29, 1967.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Trouble_With_Tribbles

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Star Trek: "Shore Leave" was first broadcast on December 29, 1966
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shore_Leave_(Star_Trek:_The_Original_Series)
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NGC 257 was discovered by German-British astronomer William Herschel on the 29th December 1790.
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t56074268/ngc-257/

NGC 2645 was discovered by John Herschel on the 29th December 1834.
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t56074327/ngc-2645/

NGC 2660 was discovered by John Herschel on the 29th December 1834.
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t56073560/ngc-2660/

Arp 147 was discovered by Stéphane Javelle on the 29th December 1893.
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t41076752/arp-147/



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Simon Marius claimed to have first observed Jupiters moons on December 29, 1609
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidereus_Nuncius#Reception

Most consider Isaac Roberts' magnum opus to be a photograph showing the structure of M31, the Great Nebula in Andromeda (now known as the Andromeda Galaxy) taken on December 29, 1888. 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Roberts

The Great Comet of 1823 was discovered by Nell de Bréauté at Dieppe on December 29
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Comet_of_1823

The Cash-Landrum Incident was a reported Unidentified Flying Object sighting from the United States in 1980
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cash-Landrum_incident



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Meteorites

The Polonnaruwa meteorite is an alleged meteorite that fell in 29 December 2012 
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t52250741/polonnaruwa-meteorite/

The ALHA 77005 meteorite was discovered in 1977 at Allan Hills in the Antarctic. 
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t52060330/alha-77005-meteorite/

The Hachi-oji (H?) meteorite fell in Kanto, Japan, on the 29th December, 1817.
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t46979864/hachi-oji-meteorite/

The Rangala (L6) meteorite fell in Rajasthan, India, on the 29th December, 1937.
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t46979865/rangala-meteorite/

The Bawku (LL5) meteorite fell in Upper East, Ghana, on the 29th December, 1989.
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t46979875/bawku-meteorite/



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