What happend on 29th December

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1998

Leaders of the Khmer Rouge apologize for the genocide in Cambodia that claimed over 1 million in the 1970s.

1997

Hong Kong begins to kill all the nation's chickens (1.25 million) to stop the spread of a potentially deadly influenza strain.

1996

Guatemala and leaders of Guatemalan National Revolutionary Union sign a peace accord that ends a 36 year civil war.

1993

Construction of the Tian Tan Buddha, the world's tallest outdoor bronze statue of the seated Buddha, was completed.

1992

Fernando Collor de Mello, president of Brazil, resigned.

1989

Riots break-out after Hong Kong decides to forcibly repatriate Vietnamese refugees.

1989

Václav Havel becomes President of Czechoslovakia

1989

On the final day of trading for the year and decade, the Japanese Nikkei 225 Average closes at an all-time high of 38,915.87.

1987

Yuri Romanenko of USSR remained in space for 326 days and came back to Earth on this day that year.

1975

A bomb explodes at New York City's LaGuardia Airport killing 11.