DECEMBER 29
1989:Concluding the Velvet Revolution’s nonviolent overthrow of the communist government, playwright Václav Havel is elected president in Czechoslovakia’s first democratic elections in over 40 years.
1170: Archbishop Thomas Becket is murdered in Canterbury Cathedral by four knights possibly under the orders of King Henry II, who disagreed with Becket about the role of the church. Pope Alexander III will canonize Becket as a saint in 1173.
1890: Two weeks after the murder of Sioux chief Sitting Bull, the U.S. Army’s 7th Cavalry, led by Col. James Forsyth, massacres some 300 unarmed Native Americans, mostly women and children, on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in Wounded Knee, S.D.
1170: Archbishop Thomas Becket is murdered in Canterbury Cathedral by four knights possibly under the orders of King Henry II, who disagreed with Becket about the role of the church. Pope Alexander III will canonize Becket as a saint in 1173.
1890: Two weeks after the murder of Sioux chief Sitting Bull, the U.S. Army’s 7th Cavalry, led by Col. James Forsyth, massacres some 300 unarmed Native Americans, mostly women and children, on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in Wounded Knee, S.D.
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