In the present day is Sunday, Dec. 29, the 364th day of 2024. There are two days left within the 12 months.
In the present day in historical past:
On Dec. 29, 1890, the Wounded Knee bloodbath happened in South Dakota as greater than 250 Lakota folks have been killed by U.S. troops despatched to disarm them.
Additionally on this date:
In 1170, Thomas Becket, the Archbishop of Canterbury, was slain in Canterbury Cathedral by knights loyal to King Henry II.
In 1978, through the Gator Bowl, Ohio State soccer coach Woody Hayes punched Clemson participant Charlie Bauman, who had intercepted an Ohio State go. (Hayes was fired the following day.)
In 1989, dissident and playwright Vaclav Havel (VAHTS’-lahv HAH’-vel) assumed the presidency of Czechoslovakia.
In 2021, British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell was convicted in New York of serving to lure teenage women to be sexually abused by the late Jeffrey Epstein; the decision capped a monthlong trial that includes accounts of the sexual exploitation of women as younger as 14. (Maxwell could be sentenced to twenty years in jail.)
In the present day’s Birthdays:
Actor Jon Voight is 86.
Singer Marianne Faithfull is 78.
Actor Ted Danson is 77.
Actor Patricia Clarkson is 65.
Filmmaker Lilly Wachowski is 57.
Actor Jennifer Ehle is 55.
Actor Jude Legislation is 52.
Actor Mekhi Phifer (mih-KY’ FY’-fuhr) is 50.
Actor Diego Luna is 45.
Actor Jane Levy is 35.
