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December 28 is the 362nd day of the year (363rd in Leap Year s) in the Gregorian Calendar , with 3 days remaining.
Events
- 418 - St. Boniface I becomes Pope .
- 1065 - Westminster Abbey is consecrated.
- 1308 - The reign of Emperor Hanazono , Emperor Of Japan , begins.
- 1612 - Galileo Galilei becomes the first Astronomer to observe the Planet Neptune when it was in Conjunction with Jupiter , yet he mistakenly catalogued it as a Fixed Star because of its extremely slow motion along the Ecliptic at that time. Neptune was not truly discovered until 1846 , about 234 years after Galileo first sighted it with his Telescope .
- 1832 - John C. Calhoun becomes the first Vice President Of The United States to resign.
- 1835 - Osceola led his Seminole warriors in Florida into the Second Seminole War against the U.S. Army .
- 1836 - South Australia and Adelaide are founded.
- 1836 - Spain recognizes independence of Mexico .
- 1846 - Iowa is admitted as the 29th U.S. State .
- 1869 - William E. Semple of Mt. Vernon, Ohio patents Chewing Gum .
- in Dundee, Scotland collapses as a train passed over it, killing 75.
- 1895 - The Lumière Brothers have their first paying audience at the Grand Cafe in ''Boulevard des Capucines'' marking 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.
- 1928 - The first municipally owned Streetcar s take to the streets in San Francisco .
- 1945 - The U.S. Congress officially recognizes the Pledge Of Allegiance .
- 1950 - The Peak District becomes the United Kingdom's first National Park .
- 1968 - Israeli commando troops destroy 13 civilian aircraft at Beirut International Airport .
- 1973 - Alexander Solzhenitsyn publishes Gulag Archipelago .
- 1974 - Senegal ese Marxist group '' Reenu-Rew '' founds the political movement And-Jëf at a clandestine congress.
- 1981 - The first American Test-tube Baby , Elizabeth Jordan Carr , is born in Norfolk, Virginia .
- 1981 - The HBO pay Cable Television service expanded its schedule offering to 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
- 1984 - After 28 seasons, Soap Opera The Edge Of Night broadcasts its final show.
- 1989 - A magnitude 5.6 Earthquake hits Newcastle, New South Wales , Australia , killing 13 people.
- 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.
- 1999 - Saparmurat Niyazov is proclaimed President For Life in Turkmenistan .
- 2000 - Adrian Năstase becomes the Prime Minister of Romania .
- 2000 - U.S. retail giant Montgomery Ward announces it is going out of business after 128 years.
- 2005 - A U.S. immigration judge orders John Demjanjuk deported to the Ukraine for crimes against humanity committed during World War II .
Births
- 1164 - Emperor Rokujo of Japan (d. 1176 )
- 1522 - Margaret Of Austria , regent of the Netherlands (d. 1583 )
- 1619 - Antoine Furetière , French writer (d. 1688 )
- 1655 - Charles Cornwallis, 3rd Baron Cornwallis , First Lord of the British Admiralty (d. 1698 )
- 1665 - George FitzRoy, 1st Duke Of Northumberland , British general (d. 1716 )
- 1856 - Woodrow Wilson , 28th President Of The United States , recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1924 )
- 1879 - Billy Mitchell , American military aviation pioneer (d. 1936 )
- 1882 - Arthur Eddington , British astronomer and physicist (d. 1944 )
- 1888 - Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau , German film director (d. 1931 )
- 1898 - Carl-Gustaf Rossby , Swedish meteorologist (b. 1957 )
- 1899 - Eugeniusz Bodo , Polish actor (d. 1943 )
- 1902 - Mortimer Adler , American philosopher (d. 2001 )
- 1902 - Shen Congwen , Chinese writer (d. 1988 )
- 1903 - Earl "Fatha" Hines , American musician (d. 1983 )
- 1903 - John Von Neumann , Hungarian-born mathematician (d. 1957 )
- 1905 - Cliff Arquette , American actor and comedian (d. 1974 )
- 1908 - Lew Ayres , American actor (d. 1996 )
- 1922 - Stan Lee , American comic book writer
- 1924 - Milton Obote , President Of Uganda (d. 2005 )
- 1925 - Hildegard Knef , German actress, singer and writer (d. 2002 )
- 1929 - Brian Redhead , British journalist and broadcaster (d. 1994 )
- 1929 - Terry Sawchuk , Canadian hockey player (d. 1970 )
- 1931 - Guy Debord , French writer and filmmaker (d. 1994 )
- 1932 - Dhirubhai Ambani , Indian businessman (d. 2002 )
- 1932 - Manuel Puig , Argentine writer (d. 1990 )
- 1932 - Roy Hattersley , British politician
- 1933 - Nichelle Nichols , American actress and singer
- 1934 - Maggie Smith , British actress
- 1934 - Yujiro Ishihara , Japanese actor (d. 1987 )
- 1937 - Ratan Tata , Indian industrialist
- 1938 - Charles Neville , American musician ( Neville Brothers )
- 1940 - Don Francisco , Chilean TV host
- 1943 - Richard Whiteley , British television presenter (d. 2005 )
- 1944 - Kary Mullis , American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1946 - Edgar Winter , American musician
- 1947 - Aurelio Rodríguez , Mexican baseball player (d. 2000 )
- 1953 - Richard Clayderman , French pianist
- 1954 - Denzel Washington , American actor
- 1954 - Michael B Borofsky , American director, producer hidden while there is no article here--->
- 1956 - Nigel Kennedy , British violinist
- 1960 - Raymond Bourque , Canadian Ice Hockey player
- 1967 - Chris Ware , American cartoonist
- 1969 - Linus Torvalds , Finnish computer programmer
- 1971 - Frank Sepe , American bodybuilder and model
- 1972 - Patrick Rafter , Australian tennis player
- 1972 - Adam Vinatieri , American Football player
- 1978 - John Legend , American singer, songwriter, and pianist
- 1981 - Sienna Miller , British actress
- 1982 - Cedric Benson , American football player
- 1982 - Kevin Pereira , American television host
Deaths
- 300 - Theonas , Patriarch Of Alexandria
- 1367 - Ashikaga Yoshiakira , Japanese shogun (b. 1330 )
- 1446 - Antipope Clement VIII
- 1503 - Piero Di Lorenzo De' Medici , ruler of Florence (b. 1471 )
- 1558 - Hermann Finck , German composer (b. 1527 )
- 1622 - Francis De Sales , Bishop of Geneva and saint (b. 1567 )
- 1663 - Francesco Maria Grimaldi , Italian mathematician and physicist (b. 1618 )
- 1671 - Johann Friedrich Gronovius , German classical scholar (b. 1611 )
- 1694 - Queen Mary II Of England (b. 1662 )
- 1703 - Mustafa II , Ottoman Sultan (b. 1664 )
- 1706 - Pierre Bayle , French philosopher (b. 1647 )
- 1708 - Joseph Pitton De Tournefort , French botanist (b. 1656 )
- 1715 - William Carstares , Scottish minister (b. 1649 )
- 1734 - Robert Roy MacGregor , Scottish folk hero (b. 1671 )
- 1736 - Antonio Caldara , Italian composer (b. 1670 )
- 1795 - Eugenio Espejo , Ecuadorian scientist (b. 1747 )
- 1829 - Jean-Baptiste Lamarck , French scientist (b. 1744 )
- 1859 - Thomas Macaulay , British poet, historian, and politician (b. 1800 )
- 1872 - James Van Ness , Mayor of San Francisco (1855-1856) (b. 1808 )
- 1900 - Alexandre Alberto Da Rocha De Serpa Pinto , Portuguese explorer (b. 1846 )
- 1916 - Eduard Strauss , Austrian composer (b. 1835 )
- 1918 - Olavo Bilac , Brazilian poet (b. 1865 )
- 1919 - Johannes Rydberg , Swedish physicist (b. 1854 )
- 1924 - Léon Bakst , Russian artist (b. 1866 )
- 1937 - Maurice Ravel , French composer (b. 1875 )
- 1938 - Florence Lawrence , American actress (b. 1886 )
- 1945 - Theodore Dreiser , American author (b. 1871 )
- 1947 - King Victor Emmanuel III Of Italy (b. 1869 )
- 1949 - Jack Lovelock , New Zealand athlete (b. 1910 )
- 1952 - Fletcher Henderson , American musician (b. 1897 )
- 1963 - Paul Hindemith , German composer (b. 1895 )
- 1967 - Katharine McCormick , American women's rights activist (b. 1875 )
- 1976 - Katharine Byron , U.S. Congresswoman (b. 1903 )
- 1981 - Allan Dwan , Canadian-born film director (b. 1885 )
- 1983 - William Demarest , American actor (b. 1892 )
- 1983 - Jimmy Demaret , American golfer (b. 1910 )
- 1983 - Dennis Wilson , American musician ( The Beach Boys ) (b. 1944 )
- 1984 - Sam Peckinpah , American film director (b. 1925 )
- 1986 - Andrei Tarkovsky , Russian film director (b. 1932 )
- 1989 - Hermann Oberth , German physicist (b. 1894 )
- 1991 - Cassandra Harris , Australian actress (b. 1952 )
- 1998 - Claudia Benton , Peruvian child psychologist (b. 1959 )
- 1999 - Clayton Moore , American actor (b. 1914 )
- 2001 - William X. Kienzle , American novelist (b. 1928 )
- 2003 - Benjamin Hacker , U.S. admiral (b. 1935 )
- 2004 - Jerry Orbach , American actor (b. 1935 )
- 2004 - Susan Sontag , American writer and activist (b. 1933 )
Holidays and observances
External links
December 27 - December 29 - November 28 - January 28 -- Listing Of All Days
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