Historical timeline for December 29

Jeju Air Flight 2216 crashes into a wall in Muan, South Korea, killing 179 of the 181 occupants. It is the worst aircraft accident on South Korean soil in history.

South Africa files a genocide case against Israel at the International Court of Justice over Israeli conducts in the Gaza Strip.

A magnitude 6.4 earthquake hits near the town of Petrinja in Sisak-Moslavina County, Croatia, killing seven people.

A suicide bomb attack at the Volgograd-1 railway station in the southern Russian city of Volgograd kills at least 18 people and wounds 40 others.

Seven-time Formula One champion Michael Schumacher suffers a massive head injury while skiing in the French Alps.

A Tupolev Tu-204 airliner crashes in a ditch between the airport fence and the M3 highway after overshooting a runway at Vnukovo International Airport in Moscow, Russia, killing five people and leaving three others critically injured.

The UK settles its Anglo-American loan, post-WWII loan debt.

The last known speaker of Akkala Sami dies, rendering the language extinct.

Leaders of the Khmer Rouge apologize for the Cambodian genocide that claimed over one million lives.

Guatemala and leaders of Guatemalan National Revolutionary Unity sign a peace accord ending a 36-year civil war.

Turkish Airlines Flight 278 (a Boeing 737-400) crashes on approach to Van Ferit Melen Airport in Van, Turkey, killing 57 of the 76 people on board.

Fernando Collor de Mello, president of Brazil, tries to resign amidst corruption charges, but is then impeached.

Czech writer, philosopher and dissident Václav Havel is elected the first post-communist President of Czechoslovakia.

The Nikkei 225 for the Tokyo Stock Exchange hits its all-time intra-day high of 38,957.44 and closing high at 38,915.87, serving as the apex of the Japanese asset price bubble.

A bomb explodes at LaGuardia Airport in New York City, killing 11 people and injuring more than 75.

Eastern Air Lines Flight 401 (a Lockheed L-1011 TriStar) crashes in the Florida Everglades on approach to Miami International Airport, Florida, killing 101 of the 176 people on board.

World War II: in the Second Great Fire of London, the Luftwaffe fire-bombs London, England, killing almost 200 civilians.

The Irish Free State is replaced by a new state called Ireland with the adoption of a new constitution.

Japan renounces the Washington Naval Treaty of 1922 and the London Naval Treaty of 1930.

Sir Muhammad Iqbal's presidential address in Allahabad introduces the two-nation theory and outlines a vision for the creation of Pakistan.