Today is Thursday, Dec. 29, the 363rd day of 2011. There are two days left in the year.
Today’s highlight:
On Dec. 29, 1851, the first U.S. Young Men’s Christian Association (YMCA) was founded in Boston.
On this date:
In 1170, Thomas Becket, the Archbishop of Canterbury, was slain in Canterbury Cathedral by knights loyal to King Henry II.
In 1845, Texas was admitted as the 28th state.
In 1890, the Wounded Knee massacre took place in South Dakota as an estimated 300 Sioux Indians were killed by U.S. troops sent to disarm them.
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