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. 1832 - John C. Calhoun becomes the first Vice President of the United States to resign. 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 motion picture. 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 Great Britain'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 († 1924) 1879 - Billy Mitchell, military aviation pioneer († 1936) 1882 - Arthur Eddington, astronomer and physicist († 1944) 1888 - Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau, film director († 1931) 1902 - Mortimer Adler, philosopher 1903 - John von Neumann, mathematician († 1957) 1903 - Earl "Fatha" Hines, jazz musician († 1983) 1905 - Cliff Arquette, actor, comedian ("Charley Weaver") († 1974) 1908 - Lew Ayres, actor († 1996) 1922 - Stan Lee, comic book writer 1925 - Hildegard Knef, actress, singer and writer 1929 - Owen Bieber, labor leader 1932 - Roy Hattersley, British politician 1932 - Manuel Puig, writer († 1990) 1934 - Maggie Smith, actress 1946 - Edgar Winter, musician 1953 - Richard Clayderman, pianist 1954 - Denzel Washington, actor 1969 - Linus Torvalds, programmer and initiator of Linux Deaths 1694 - Queen Mary II of England 1918 - Olavo Bilac, poet 1937 - Maurice Ravel, composer 1938 - Florence Lawrence, Hollywood's first "star" 1945 - Theodore Dreiser, author 1947 - King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy 1963 - Paul Hindemith, German composer 1981 - Allan Dwan, pioneer film director 1983 - William Demarest, actor 1983 - Jimmy Demaret, golf champion 1983 - Dennis Wilson, musician ("The Beach Boys") 1984 - Sam Peckinpah, film director 1986 - Andrei Tarkovsky, Russian movie director 1998 - Claudia Benton, Child Psychologist 1999 - Clayton Moore, actor (The Lone Ranger) 2001 - William X. Kienzle, novelist 2003 - Dinsdale Landen, actor Holidays and observances The fourth day of Christmas in Western Christianity. Massacre of the Saint Innocents Catholic, Anglican; in Mexico and Spain el Día de los Santos Inocentes is a day of practical jokes, in the same spirit as April Fool's Day. See Also: December 27 - December 29 - November 28 - January 28 -- listing of all days January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December
December 27 - December 29 - November 28 - January 28 -- listing of all days
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