Today is Thursday, December 29, the 363rd day of 2011. There are two days left in the year.
1851 ― First Young Men's Christian Association chapter opened (Boston)
1852 ― Emma Snodgrass arrested in Boston for wearing pants
1862 ― Bowling ball invented
1885 ― Gottlieb Daimler patents first bike (Germany)
1891 ― Edison patents ``transmission of signals electrically" (radio)
1948 ― U.S. State Department announces work on placing objects into Earth orbit
1983 ― U.S. announces withdrawal from UNESCO
1989 ― Vaclav Havel becomes President of Czechoslovakia
1997 ― Hong Kong begins slaughtering all its chickens to prevent bird flu
1997 ― Russia signs agreement to build a $3-billion nuclear power plant in China