December 28

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December 28 is the 362nd day of the year (363rd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 3 days remaining.

Table of contents

1 Events

2 Births

3 Deaths

4 Holidays and observances

Events

418 - St. Boniface I becomes Pope
1065 - Westminster Abbey is consecrated.
1832 - John C. Calhoun becomes the first Vice President of the United States to resign.
1836 - South Australia and Adelaide are founded
1836 - Spain recognizes independence of Mexico.
1846 - Iowa is admitted as the 29th U.S. state.
1879 - The central part of the Tay Rail Bridge in Dundee, Scotland collapses as a train passed over it, killing 75.
1895 - The Lumiere brothers have their first paying audience at the Grand Cafe in Boulevard des Capucines -- this date is commonly considered the debut of the cinema.
1897 - The play Cyrano de Bergerac, by Edmond Rostand, premieres in Paris.
1902 - The first indoor professional American football game is played in New York City at Madison Square Garden.
1908 - An earthquake rocks Messina, Sicily killing over 75,000.
1937 - The Irish Free State becomes the Republic of Ireland.
1945 - The United States Congress officially recognizes the Pledge of Allegiance
1950 - The Peak District becomes the United Kingdom's first National Park.
1973 - Alexander Solzhenitsyn publishes Gulag Archipelago.
1981 - The first American test-tube baby, Elizabeth Jordan Carr, is born (Norfolk, Virginia).
1991 - Nine are crushed while a crowd pushes their way into a basketball game at City College of New York.
1991 - Sonic the Hedgehog Game Gear version is released in Japan.
1995 - CompuServe sets a precedent by blocking access to sex-oriented newsgroups after being pressured by German prosecutors.
1998 - Claudia Benton of West University Place, Texas is murdered in her home by Angel Maturino Resendiz. This is Angel's third victim in his third incident.

Births

1856 - Woodrow Wilson, 28th President of the United States (d. 1924)
1879 - Billy Mitchell, military aviation pioneer (d. 1936)
1882 - Arthur Eddington, astronomer and physicist (d. 1944)
1888 - Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau, film director (d. 1931)
1899 - Eugeniusz Bodo, famous Polish actor (killed in 1943)
1902 - Mortimer Adler, philosopher (d. 1902)
1903 - John von Neumann, mathematician (d. 1957)
1903 - Earl "Fatha" Hines, jazz musician (d. 1983)
1905 - Cliff Arquette, actor, comedian ("Charley Weaver") (d. 1974)
1908 - Lew Ayres, actor (d. 1996)
1922 - Stan Lee, comic book writer
1925 - Hildegard Knef, actress, singer and writer (d. 2002)
1929 - Owen Bieber, labor leader
1929 - Brian Redhead, journalist and broadcaster (d. 1994)
1932 - Roy Hattersley, British politician
1932 - Manuel Puig, writer (d. 1990)
1933 - Nichelle Nichols, actress and singer
1934 - Maggie Smith, actress
1946 - Edgar Winter, musician
1949 - Jack Lovelock, New Zealand athlete
1953 - Richard Clayderman, pianist
1954 - Denzel Washington, actor
1969 - Linus Torvalds, programmer and initiator of Linux
1971 - Frank Sepe, bodybuilder and male model

Deaths

1694 - Queen Mary II of England (b. 1662)
1916 - Eduard Strauss, composer (b. 1835)
1918 - Olavo Bilac, poet (b. 1865)
1937 - Maurice Ravel, composer (b. 1875)
1938 - Florence Lawrence, Hollywood's first "star" (b. 1886)
1945 - Theodore Dreiser, author (b. 1871)
1947 - King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy (b. 1869)
1952 - Fletcher Henderson, jazz musician (b. 1897)
1963 - Paul Hindemith, German composer (b. 1895)
1967 - Katharine McCormick, U.S. women's rights activist
1981 - Allan Dwan, pioneer film director (b. 1885)
1983 - William Demarest, actor
1983 - Jimmy Demaret, golf champion (b. 1910)
1983 - Dennis Wilson, musician ("The Beach Boys") (b. 1944)
1984 - Sam Peckinpah, film director (b. 1925)
1986 - Andrei Tarkovsky, Russian movie director (b. 1932)
1998 - Claudia Benton, Child Psychologist
1999 - Clayton Moore, actor (The Lone Ranger)
2001 - William X. Kienzle, novelist
2003 - Dinsdale Landen, actor (b. 1932)

Holidays and observances

The fourth day of Christmas in Western Christianity.
Massacre of the Saint Innocents Catholic, Anglican; in Mexico and Spain el D�a de los Santos Inocentes is a day of practical jokes, in the same spirit as April Fool's Day.
Proclamation Day (South Australian public holiday), for the foundation of the Australian state of South Australia

December 27 - December 29 - November 28 - January 28 -- listing of all days

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