Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/December 29
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- 1170 - Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Becket (pictured) was slain in his own cathedral by four knights of 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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