1. The Arkansas Razorbacks football team won the Cotton Bowl Classic on December 29, 1964, defeating Nebraska 10-7. The victory marked the school's first major bowl win.

2. On December 29, 1862, Union troops under General Frederick Steele clashed with Confederate forces under General Thomas Hindman at the Battle of Mount Elba near modern-day Rison, Arkansas. The Union forces were eventually victorious.

3. January Jones, who went on to star in the TV series "Mad Men" and the X-Men film franchise, was born in Sioux Falls, South Dakota on December 29, 1978, but spent part of her childhood in Heber Springs, Arkansas.

4. The Arkansas State Capitol building in Little Rock was completed on December 29, 1915, after over a decade of planning and construction. The building is now a National Historic Landmark.

5. Folk musician Almeda Riddle, born in Cleburne County, Arkansas on December 21, 1898, recorded several albums of traditional folk songs in the 1960s and 1970s. She was known for her distinctive style of singing and her vast repertoire of songs passed down through generations of her family.