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.
Events
418 - St. Boniface I becomes Pope
1065 - Westminster Abbey is consecrated.
1308 - The reign of Emperor Hanazono , the 95th imperial ruler of Japan , began.
1612 - Galileo Galilei was 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 .
1879 - The Tay Bridge Disaster : 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.
1945 - The U.S. 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.
1999 - Saparmurat Niyazov was proclaimed President for Life in Turkmenistan .
2000 - Adrian Năstase became the Prime Minister of Romania .
2000 - U.S. retail giant Montgomery Ward announces it is going out of business after 128 years.
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 :
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
1931 - Guy Debord , situationist (d. 1994 )
1932 :
1933 - Nichelle Nichols , actress and singer
1934 - Maggie Smith , actress
1943 - Richard Whiteley , UK television presenter
1946 - Edgar Winter , musician
1947 - Aurelio Rodríguez , Major League Baseball player (d. 2000 )
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
1367 - Ashikaga Yoshiakira , Ashikaga shogun (b. 1330 )
1503 - Piero di Lorenzo de' Medici , ruler of Florence (b. 1471 )
1694 - Queen Mary II of England (b. 1662 )
1706 - Pierre Bayle , French philosopher (b. 1647 )
1859 - Thomas Macaulay , British poet, historian, politician
1916 - Eduard Strauss , composer (b. 1835 )
1918 - Olavo Bilac , poet (b. 1865 )
1937 - Maurice Ravel , French composer (b. 1875 )
1938 - Florence Lawrence , Hollywood's first "star" (b. 1886 )
1945 - Theodore Dreiser , American 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 )
1991 - Cassandra Harris , Australian actress (b. 1952 )
1998 - Claudia Benton , child psychologist
1999 - Clayton Moore , American actor
2001 - William X. Kienzle , novelist
2003 - Benjamin Hacker , U.S. Naval Admiral, (b. 1935 )
2003 - Dinsdale Landen , British actor (b. 1932 )
2004 - Jerry Orbach , actor (Law & Order 1935 )
2004 - Susan Sontag , American writer, feminist, activist (b. 1933 )
Holidays and observances
External links
December 27 - December 29 - November 28 - January 28 -- listing of all days
