Today:
1170 – Archbishop Thomas Becket is murdered in Canterbury Cathedral by four knights, believed to have been acting on the orders of King Henry II of England.
1778 – British forces under Lieutenant Colonel Archibald Campbell capture Savannah, Georgia, during the American Revolutionary War.
1845 – Texas becomes the 28th state of the United States after being annexed by Congress.
1851 – The first American YMCA is established in Boston, Massachusetts.
1890 – The Wounded Knee Massacre occurs in South Dakota, where U.S. troops kill over 200 Lakota Sioux, marking the last major confrontation of the Indian Wars.
1937 – The Irish Free State is replaced by a new state called Ireland with the enactment of the Irish Constitution.
1940 – During World War II, the Luftwaffe bombs London in one of the major air raids of the Blitz.
1959 – Physicist Richard Feynman gives his famous lecture “There’s Plenty of Room at the Bottom,” laying the foundation for nanotechnology.
1975 – A bomb explodes at LaGuardia Airport in New York City, killing 11 people and injuring 74 in an unsolved act of terrorism.
1989 – Václav Havel is elected as the first non-communist President of Czechoslovakia since 1948, marking a key moment in the Velvet Revolution.
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