Name Day: Who Celebrates Today, December 29th

Today, December 29th, we commemorate Saint Benjamin. The name Benjamin is celebrated.

On This Day:

• 1890: The U.S. 7th Cavalry kills 400 men, women, and children at Wounded Knee Creek.
• 1940: The submarine «Proteus» sinks the Italian troop transport «Sardinia».
• 1958: OPAP is founded.
• 1971: Nacional Montevideo defeats Panathinaikos in the Intercontinental Cup.
• 1998: Greece and Cyprus decide to install the S-300 missiles in Crete.
• 2013: Michael Schumacher is seriously injured while skiing.

Births:

• 1800: Charles Goodyear, inventor of rubber.
• 1809: William Gladstone, British Prime Minister.
• 1946: Marianne Faithfull, English singer.

Deaths:

• 1877: Dimitrios Voulgaris, Greek politician.
• 1986: Andrei Tarkovsky, Russian film director.
• 2006: Marios Ploritis, Greek intellectual.