December 29: What Happened on This Day in History (High_school Level)?

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1. 1812 - The USS Constitution under the command of Captain William Bainbridge, captures the HMS Java off the coast of Brazil after a three hour battle.
2. 1813 - British soldiers burn Buffalo, New York during theWar of 1812.
3. 1835 - The Treaty of New Echota is signed, ceding all the lands of the Cherokee east of the Mississippi River to the United States.
4. 1845 - In accordance with International Boundary delimitation, United States annexes theRepublic of Texas, following the manifest destiny doctrine. The Republic of Texas, which had been independent since the Texas Revolution of 1836, is thereupon admitted as the 28thU.S. state.
5. 1851 - The first American YMCA opens in Boston, Massachusetts.
6. 1911 - Mongolia gains independence from the Qing Dynasty.
7. 1914 - A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, the first novel by James Joyce, is serialized in The Egoist.
8. 1937 - The Irish Free State is replaced by a new state called Ireland with the adoption of a new constitution.
9. 1959 - Physicist Richard Feynman gives a speech entitled "There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom", which is regarded as the birth of nanotechnology.
10. 2003 - The last known speaker of Akkala Sami dies, rendering the language extinct.
11. Famous Birthdays: Charles Goodyear (American inventor), Andrew Johnson (American politician, 17th President of the United States), Carl Ludwig (German physician), Pau Casals (Catalan cellist and conductor), Shlomo Venezia (Greek-Italian author and holocaust survivor)

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