MONDAY, Dec. 29, 2025

1835-Treaty of New Echota is signed between the US government and representatives of a minority Cherokee political faction to cede all lands of the Cherokee east of the Mississippi River to the United States

1845-Texas is admitted as the 28th state of the Union

1903-French Equatorial Africa separates into Gabon, Chad and Ubangi-Shari (Central African Republic)

1911-Chinese revolutionary Sun Yat-sen is elected the 1st President of the Republic of China

1940-Worst German air raid on London as over 10,000 bombs including the 1st incendiary bombs are dropped on the city as part of the Blitz

1967-Turkish-Cypriot government forms in Cyprus

1989-Václav Havel is selected to be president of Czechoslovakia by the Federal Assembly shortly after the Velvet Revolution

1995-CNNfn, a financial network by Turner Enterprises, launches

1997-Hong Kong begins slaughtering all its chickens to prevent bird flu

1998-Leaders of the Khmer Rouge apologize for the 1970s genocide in Cambodia that claimed over a million people

2015-Ebola epidemic in Guinea declared over by WHO, 2,500 died over 2 years