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Events on December 29

• 1165 Charles the Great is canonized by the Archbishop of Cologne, Rainald of Dassel, with the approval of the antipope Paschal III.
• 1845 Texas joins the USA as the 28th U.S. state.
• 1862 FC Sheffield and FC Hallam hold their first football match at Bramall Lane Stadium in Sheffield, the oldest football stadium still in use today.
• 1933 The Laurel and Hardy film Sons of the Desert premieres in the USA. It becomes one of the ten most successful films of 1934 in US cinemas.
• 1952 The first transistor-operated hearing aid is presented in Elmsford, New York.
• 1955 In Cologne, the feature film I Often Think of Piroschka, directed by Kurt Hoffmann and starring Liselotte Pulver in the title role, premieres.
• 1962 Graham Hill wins the South African Grand Prix on the Prince George Circuit in East London and thereby becomes Formula 1 World Champion for the first time.
• 1978 The Constitution of the Kingdom of Spain comes into force, definitively ending Francoism in Spain. Spain becomes a democracy with King Juan Carlos I as head of state.
• 1983 With the public almost completely excluded, Princess Caroline of Monaco and industrialist's son Stefano Casiraghi marry.
• 1989 The government of the GDR decides to make commercial use of the dismantling of the Berlin Wall and entrusts the state-owned foreign trade company Limex-Bau Export-Import with selling the original pieces of rubble.
• 1991 In Germany, the Stasi Records Act comes into force, regulating the complete opening of the files of the former State Security Service of the GDR.
• 2013 Seven-time Formula 1 World Champion Michael Schumacher has a serious crash while skiing in the Alps near Méribel. He sustains a severe traumatic brain injury and has since lived cut off from the public as part of his rehabilitation.

Born on December 29

• 1880 William Sylvester Harley, American businessman, co-founder of Harley-Davidson
• 1890 Käthe Dorsch, German actress
• 1911 Klaus Fuchs, German-British nuclear physicist and spy
• 1911 Marcel Prawy, Austrian dramaturge and opera critic
• 1940 Brigitte Kronauer, German writer and essayist
• 1953 Thomas Bach, German fencer, jurist, and sports official
• 1970 Holger Apfel, German politician
• 1980 Yvonne Bönisch, German judoka
• 1980 Annina Frey, Swiss television presenter
• 1980 Henrik Stehlik, German trampoline gymnast

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Source of events and birthdays: German Wikipedia article „29. Dezember“, licence CC BY-SA 4.0, selected, shortened and translated by Birthday Paper.

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