Today is Monday, December 29, the 364th day of 2008. There are two days left in the year.
1862 _ Bowling ball invented
1867 _ First telegraph ticker used by a brokerage house, Groesbeck & Company, New York
1891 _ Edison patents ``transmission of signals electrically" (radio)
1934 _ Japan renounces Washington Naval Treaty of 1922 & London Treaty of 1930
1967 _ Star Trek's ``The Trouble With Tribbles" first airs
1967 _ Turkish-Cypriot government forms in Cyprus
1983 _ U.S. announces withdrawal from UNESCO
1989 _ Vaclav Havel becomes President of Czechoslovakia
1989 _ Wayne Gretzky and Martina Navratilova are named athletes of the decade by the Associated Press
1997 _ Hong Kong begins slaughtering all its chickens to prevent bird flu