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December 29

4 sourced moments from December 29 in history: Thomas Becket's murder in 1170 had a wounded eyewitness; Texas became the 28th U.S. state (1845); The Wounded Knee Massacre took place (1890), plus 1 more.

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4 things happened on December 29

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1959 Science · Physics

Feynman's 1959 nanotech talk was barely cited for 20 years

Feynman's 'Plenty of Room at the Bottom' is hailed as nanotechnology's founding vision, yet scientists almost ignored it until the 1980s.

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1890 History · War & Conflict

The Wounded Knee Massacre took place

U.S. cavalry killed hundreds of largely disarmed Lakota near a South Dakota creek, a slaughter long marked as the close of the Indian Wars.

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1845 Geography · Countries

Texas became the 28th U.S. state

After nearly a decade as an independent republic, Texas joined the Union in 1845 — a move that helped ignite war with Mexico.

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1170 History · Medieval

Thomas Becket's murder in 1170 had a wounded eyewitness

Four knights killed the Archbishop of Canterbury in his cathedral in 1170. A clerk who tried to shield him wrote down what he saw.

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