On This Day: December 29th

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.