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December 29
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Havel elected president
37 years ago
Czechoslovakia's parliament elects dissident playwright Václav Havel as president in 1989, weeks after the Velvet Revolution.
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Thomas Becket murdered
856 years ago
Four of Henry II's knights kill the Archbishop of Canterbury in his own cathedral in 1170; he is made a saint within three years.
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