Almanac of Absurdities 12/29

1170 AD, Following possibly misunderstood orders from Henry II, armed men attack and assassinate Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Becket. In 1966, at Abbey Road Studios in London, The Beatles begin the session that will yield “Penny Lane.” In 2003, Marja Sergina, an elderly resident of the Russian Kola Peninsula dies, and with her, dies the Akkala Sami language of the region, as she was its last speaker.