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December 29th

1170 ~ Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, was murdered by knights acting under the orders of Henry II.

1845 ~ Texas became the 28th state of the United States.

1851 ~ The first Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) in the U.S. opened in Boston.

1890 ~ Defeat at the Battle of Wounded Knee effectively ended American Indian resistance to European settlement of the U.S.

1916 ~ Death of Grigori Rasputin, Russian monk.

1937 ~ The Constitution of Ireland, changing the Irish Free State into Eire, went into effect.

1940 ~ The Luftwaffe began dropping incendiary bombs on London.

1986 ~ Death of Harold Macmillan, former Prime Minister of the UK.

1989 ~ Vaclav Havel was elected president of Czechoslovakia.

1998 ~ Khmer Rouge leaders apologized for the 1970s genocide in Cambodia that claimed 1 million lives.