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December 29

Terminal at LaGuardia Airport after the 1975 bombing

1845 – The Republic of Texas was annexed by the United States, becoming the 28th state to be admitted to the Union.
1860 – To counter the French Navy's Gloire, the world's first ironclad warship, the Royal Navy launched HMS Warrior, the world's first iron-hulled armoured warship.
1890 – Sioux Wars: The United States Army killed 250 to 300 Lakota men, women and children at the Wounded Knee Massacre, beginning the Ghost Dance War.
1915 – First World War: The French parliament passed a law granting the land occupied by British war graves as "the free gift of the French people".
1975 – Planted by unknown perpetrators, a bomb exploded (aftermath pictured) at LaGuardia Airport in New York City, killing 11 people and seriously injuring 74 others.

Maria Margaretha Kirch (d. 1720)
Ezra Meeker (b. 1830)
Christina Rossetti (d. 1894)
Marie Menken (d. 1970)

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