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December 29th 1916

Noblemen in Russia murder Grigori Rasputin, a monk with powerful influence over the country's royal family. But Rasputin proves hard to kill. First, he's poisoned, then shot twice before he finally dies from drowning after being thrown into an icy river. The Russian Revolution [-----1-----] the following year.

1890
In South Dakota, the Wounded Knee massacre takes place as some three hundreds Sioux Indians are killed by US troops sent to disarm them.

1845
"[-----2-----]" Texas, a former Mexican territory turning [-----3-----], joins the United States as the 28th state for the dispute between US and Mexico over Texas, leads to war the following year.

1989
In what's then known as Czechoslovakia, a sign that [-----4-----] in Eastern Europe. [-----5-----] playwright Vaclav Havel is elected as his country's president, the first non-communist to [-----6-----] in more than four decades.

And 1851
The first American Young Men's Christian Association, the YMCA, is organized in Boston.

Today in history. December 29th. Ed Donahue. The Associated Press.
topples the monarchy There is a yellow rose in Texas that I'm going to see. an independent republic the Iron Curtain of the cold war is crumbling Dissident attain that post