Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/December 29

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December 29:

Archbishop Thomas Becket

  • 1170 - Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas à Becket (pictured) was slain in his own cathedral on orders from Henry II of England.
  • 1845 - The Republic of Texas was annexed by the United States, becoming the state of Texas.
  • 1890 - The United States Army killed over 400 members of the Great Sioux Nation at the Wounded Knee Massacre.
  • 1911 - Sun Yat-sen was elected the first President of the Republic of China.
  • 1937 - The Irish Free State was replaced by a new state called Ireland when a new constitution was adopted.

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