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Saturday December 29, 2012 6:41 AM

Today is Saturday, Dec. 29, the 364th day of 2012. There are two days left in the year.

Highlights in History

• On Dec. 29, 1972, Eastern Air Lines Flight 401, a Lockheed L-1011 TriStar, crashed into the Florida Everglades near Miami International Airport, killing 101 of the 176 people aboard. (Investigators determined that the crew was distracted by a burned-out indicator light and failed to notice that the autopilot had disengaged, sending the plane into a descent that led to the crash.)

• In 1170, Thomas Becket, the Archbishop of Canterbury, was slain in Canterbury Cathedral by knights loyal to King Henry II.

• In 1845, Texas was admitted as the 28th state.

• In 1890, the Wounded Knee massacre took place in South Dakota as an estimated 300 Sioux Indians were killed by U.S. troops sent to disarm them.

• In 1916, Grigori Rasputin, the “Mad Monk” who had wielded influence with Czar Nicholas II, was killed by a group of Russian noblemen in St. Petersburg.

• In 1940, during World War II, Germany dropped incendiary bombs on London, setting off what came to be known as “the Second Great Fire of London.”

Ten years ago: Secretary of State Colin Powell said there was still time to find a diplomatic resolution to North Korea’s development of nuclear weapons.

Five years ago: Australian David Hicks, the first person convicted at an American war-crimes trial since World War II, was freed from prison after completing a U.S.-imposed sentence.

One year ago: Voters in Jamaica threw out the ruling party and delivered a landslide triumph to the opposition People’s National Party and its leader, former Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller.

Thought for Today

“Ours is the age of substitutes: Instead of language, we have jargon; instead of principles, slogans; and instead of genuine ideas, bright suggestions.” — Eric Bentley, author and educator

Source: Associated Press

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