Today is Wednesday, December 29, the 363rd day of 2010. There are two days left in the year.
1852 ― Emma Snodgrass arrested in Boston for wearing pants
1857 ― Franz Liszt's ``Die Hunnenschlacht" premieres in Weimar
1862 ― Bowling ball invented
1891 ― Edison patents ``transmission of signals electrically" (radio)
1920 ― Yugoslav government bans communist party
1948 ― U.S. State Department announces work on placing objects into Earth orbit
1949 ― Hungary nationalized its industries
1955 ― Barbra Streisand's first recording, ``You'll Never Know," at age 13
1972 ― Life magazine ceases publication
1989 ― Wayne Gretzky and Martina Navratilova are named athletes of the decade by the Associated Press