DECEMBER 29
1170: Archbishop Thomas Becket is murdered inside of Canterbury Cathedral by knights loyal to King Henry II, who had clashed with Becket over the power of the Church in England. Almost immediately, Becket is recognized as a martyr and will become a saint of the Catholic Church less than three years after his death.
1890: Over 200 men, women and children belonging to the Oglala Lakota people are massacred by the U.S. Army 7th Cavalry Regiment at Wounded Knee in South Dakota, sparked by a skirmish when the soldiers tried to disarm the Lakotas. It would be the last major confrontation between the Native Americans of the Great Plains and the U.S. military.
1940:WWII: Germany begins bombing London.
1916: Russian monk and alleged holy man Grigori Rasputin, who ingratiated himself with the family of Tsar Nicholas II, is lured to his death by a group of noblemen led by Prince Felix Yusopov at the Moika Palace in St. Petersburg. The Tsarist calendar listed the date as Dec. 16. Rasputin was shot several times sometime after midnight, but his death ultimately may have come from drowning in a river early on Dec. 30.
1982:Paul 'Bear' Bryant coaches the Alabama college football team for the final time.
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