Notable Historical Events on December 28th
December 28th Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
418 |
St Boniface I begins his reign as Catholic Pope |
801 |
Louis the Vrome occupies Barcelona |
1065 |
Westminister Abbey consecrated in London |
1308 |
The reign of Emperor Hanazono, emperor of Japan, begins. |
1612 |
First observation of Neptune - Galileo observes and records a "fixed star" without realising it is a planet |
1614 |
Sperm whale beached at Noordwijk |
1732 |
1st known ad for "Poor Richard's Almanack" (Pennsylvania Gazette) |
1767 |
King Taksin crowned King of Thailand and establishes Thonburi as his capital. |
1816 |
American Colonization Society organizes |
1821 |
Naples: Gioacchini Rossini moves to Bologna |
1828 |
6.8 earthquake strikes Echigo Japan, 30,000 killed |
1832 |
John C. Calhoun becomes 1st VP to resign (differences with President Jackson) |
1836 |
Spain recognizes independence of Mexico |
1846 |
Iowa becomes 29th state |
1849 |
M Jolly-Bellin discovers dry-cleaning, he accidentally upset lamp containing turpentine & oil on his clothing & sees cleaning effect |
1850 |
Rangoon Burma, destroyed by fire |
1860 |
Harriet Tubman arrives in Auburn NY, on her last mission to free slaves, evading capture for 8 years on the Underground Railroad |
1864 |
Battle of Egypt Station, MS |
1867 |
United States claims Midway Island, the first territory annexed outside Continental limits. |
1869 |
William Finley Semple of Mount Vernon, Ohio, patents chewing gum |
1877 |
John Stevens, applies for a patent for his flour rolling mill |
1878 |
Pope Leo XIII publishes encyclical Quod apostolici muneris (socialism) |
1879 |
North British Railway's train falls as Tay bridge collapses (Scot) |
1887 |
Sir John Layton Jarvis, 1st British race horse trainer knighted |
1893 |
French lieutenant Boiteux annexes Tumbuktu |
1895 |
Film makers the Lumiere brothers, hold the first commercial film screening at Salon Indien du Grand Café, Paris |
1897 |
Edmond Rostand's "Cyrano de Bergerac," premieres in Paris |
1902 |
1st indoor pro football game, Syracuse beats Phila 6-0 (Madison Square Garden, NYC) |
1902 |
Trans-Pacific cable links Hawaii to US |
1903 |
Clyde Fitch's "Glad of It," premieres in NYC |
1904 |
1st daily wireless weather forecasts published (London) |
1905 |
Intercollegiate Athletic Association of US founded (becomes NCAA in 1910) |
1905 |
NSW all out for 805 vs Victoria, win by innings & 253 |
1906 |
Ecuador adopts its constitution |
1908 |
Earthquake strikes Messina, Italy (nearly 80,000 died) |
1910 |
Opera "Konigskinder" is produced (NYC) |
1912 |
National Council of Young Israel convenes |
1912 |
SF Municipal Railway starts operation at Geary St (MUNI) |
1912 |
The first municipally owned streetcars take to the streets in San Francisco, California. |
1914 |
Turks are repulsed by the Russians after fighting in Armenia for weeks |
1915 |
SF City Hall dedicated by Mayor James Rolph |
1915 |
Today the British Cabinet recognizes the true nature of the war by deciding to institute compulsory military service, with single men to be conscripted before married ones |
1921 |
The beginning of the Rand Rebellion in Southern Africa; the rebellion started as a strike by white mineworkers on and became an open armed rebellion against the state |
1923 |
George Bernard Shaw's "St Joan," premieres in NYC |
1925 |
George/Ira Gershwin's musical "Tip-Toes," premieres in NYC |
1926 |
Arthur Mailey takes 4-362 off 64 overs (no maidens) NSW v Vic |
1926 |
Imperial Airways begins England-India mail & passenger service |
1926 |
Ponsford scores 352 & Ryder 295 against NSW |
1926 |
Victoria all out for 1107 against NSW at the MCG Crowd 22,348 |
1927 |
George Kaufman & Moss Hart's "Royal Family," premieres in NYC |
1928 |
Last recording of Ma Rainey, "Mother of the Blues," made |
1928 |
Louis Armstrong makes 78 recording of "West End blues" |
1931 |
Lin-Sen succeeds Chiang Kai-shek as president of Nanjing-China |
1935 |
W P A Federal Art Project Gallery opens in NYC |
1935 |
Pravda publishes a letter by Pavel Postyshev, who revives New Year tree tradition in the Soviet Union. |
1937 |
Fascist Octavian Goga becomes PM of Romania/begins spread of Judaism |
1938 |
Paul Gibb scores 106 on Test Cricket debut v South Africa |
1940 |
Arthur Morris scores 111 in 2nd innings of 1st game after 148 |
1941 |
State of siege goes into effect in Bohemia/Moravia |
1942 |
Oberkommando Wehrmacht orders strategist flight out of Kaukasus |
1942 |
Robert Sullivan becomes 1st pilot to fly Atlantic 100 times |
1943 |
All Kalmyk inhabitants of of the Russian Republic of Kalmukkie deported by the Soviet Union to Central Asia and Siberia. Many die on route |
1944 |
Eisenhower & Montgomery meet in Hasselt Belgium |
1944 |
Former Wash 3rd baseman Buddy Lewis wins Distinguished Flying Cross |
1944 |
Leonard Bernstein's musical "On the Town," premieres in NYC |
1945 |
Congress officially recognizes "Pledge of Allegiance" |
1947 |
Chic Cards beat Philadelphia Eagles 28-21 in NFL championship game |
1948 |
IDF crosses Egyptian border |
1948 |
Middel-Java as a whole in Dutch hands |
1948 |
US announced a study to launch an Earth satellite |
1948 |
The DC-3 airliner NC16002 disappears 50 miles south of Miami, Florida. |
1949 |
20th Century Fox announces it would produce TV programs |
1950 |
Chinese troops cross 38th Parallel, into South Korea |
1950 |
The Peak District becomes the United Kingdom's first National Park. |
1952 |
Detroit Lions beat Cleveland Browns 17-7 in NFL championship game |
1953 |
WLBT TV channel 3 in Jackson, MS (NBC) begins broadcasting |
1954 |
43rd Davis Cup: USA beats Australia in Sydney (3-2) |
1954 |
KEPR TV channel 19 in Pasco-Kennewick-Richl, WA (CBS) 1st broadcast |
1955 |
44th Davis Cup: Australia beats USA in New York (5-0) |
1956 |
Miss Frances [Horwich], last Ding Dong School on NBC-TV |
1957 |
CBS states it won't broadcast baseball where minor league games are on |
1957 |
USSR performs atmospheric nuclear test |
1957 |
46th Davis Cup: Australia beats USA in Melbourne (3-2) |
1958 |
Chipmunks (Alvin, Simon & Theodore with David Seville) hit #1 |
1958 |
"The Greatest Game Ever Played", Baltimore Colts beat New York Giants 23-17 in the first every sudden-death overtime game in NFL history (17 future members of the Pro Football Hall of Fame were involved in the game) |
1960 |
49th Davis Cup: Australia beats Italy in Sydney (4-1) |
1961 |
Tennessee Williams' "Night of the Iguana," premieres in NYC |
1961 |
50th Davis Cup: Australia beats Italy in Melbourne (5-0) |
1962 |
UN troops occupies Elizabethstad Katanga |
1962 |
51st Davis Cup: Australia beats Mexico in Brisbane (5-0) |
1963 |
"Double Dublin" closes at Little Theater NYC after 4 performances |
1963 |
"Jennie" closes at Majestic Theater NYC after 82 performances |
1963 |
Merle Haggard 1st appearance on country chart with "Sing a Sad Song" |
1964 |
Premier of Dmitri Sjostakovitch' Stefan Rasin |
1964 |
Principal filming of "Dr Zhivago," begins |
1966 |
13 die in a train crash in Everett Mass |
1966 |
China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor, PRC |
1966 |
55th Davis Cup: Australia beats India in Melbourne (4-1) |
1967 |
KTSB (now KSNT) TV channel 27 in Topeka, KS (NBC) begins broadcasting |
1967 |
Muriel Siebert is 1st women to own a seat on NY Stock Exchange |
1967 |
56th Davis Cup: Australia beats Spain in Brisbane (4-1) |
1968 |
100,000 attend Miami Pop Festival |
1968 |
57th Davis Cup: USA beats Australia in Adelaide (4-1) |
1968 |
Beatles' "Beatles-White Album," goes #1 & stays #1 for 9 weeks |
1968 |
Israeli assault on Beirut Airport |
1968 |
KVOF (KUDO, now KWBB) TV channel 38 in SF, CA (IND) 1st broadcast |
1969 |
Neil Simon's "Last of the Red Hot Lovers," premieres in NYC |
1969 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1969 |
Dallas Cowboy kicker Mike Clark, attempting an on-side kick against Cleveland, missed the ball |
1970 |
"Lovely Ladies, Kind Gentlemen" opens at Majestic NYC for 19 perfs |
1970 |
Yemen Arab Republic (North Yemen) adopts constitution |
1971 |
Hasj falls from now on under(neath) the Opiumwet |
1972 |
Kim Il-song, becomes president of North Korea |
1972 |
Martin Bormanns skeleton found in Berlin (Hitlers deputy) |
1972 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1972 |
2 people are killed in a Loyalist bomb attack on the village of Belturbet, County Cavan, Republic of Ireland |
1973 |
US President Nixon signs Endangered Species Act into law |
1973 |
Akron Ohio's Chamber of Commerce terminates itself from Soap Box Derby |
1973 |
Alexander Solzhenitsyn publishes "Gulag Archipelag" |
1973 |
Comet Kohoutek at perihelion |
1973 |
The 'The Gulag Archipelago', a literary investigation of the police-state system in the Soviet Union written by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, is published in the original Russian in Paris |
1974 |
6.3 earthquake strikes Pakistan: 5200 killed |
1974 |
Senegalese marxist group Reenu-Rew founds the political movement And-Jëf at a clandestine congress. |
1975 |
"Hail Mary Pass"-Cowboys beat Vikings 17-14 on last second pass |
1975 |
1st broadcast of radio Hilversum IV (classic music) |
1975 |
Earthquake in Pakistan, 4,000 die |
1975 |
Gary Cosier scores 109 v West Indies at MCG on Test Cricket debut |
1975 |
Red Army beats NY Rangers 7-3 at Madison Square Garden |
1975 |
"The Hail Mary", with 32 seconds left in the NFC Divisional Playoff Game, Cowboys quarterback Roger Staubach throws a desperate 50-yard winning touchdown pass to Drew Pearson to defeat the Minnesota Vikings, and the "Hail Mary" play is born |
1976 |
"Fiddler on the Roof" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 167 perfs |
1976 |
Genie Francis joind "General Hospital" as Laura Vining |
1976 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
1976 |
Winnie Mandela banished in South Africa |
1978 |
30th hat trick in Islander history (Mike Bossy) |
1980 |
Mexico terminated fishing agreements with US |
1981 |
Cleveland Metroparks Administrative offices move from downtown to Zoo |
1981 |
Warner-Elektra-Atlantic raises price of 45 records from $1.68 to $1.98 |
1981 |
The first American test-tube baby, Elizabeth Jordan Carr, is born in Norfolk, Virginia. |
1983 |
72nd Davis Cup: Australia beats Sweden in Melbourne (3-2) |
1983 |
Gavaskar achieves his 30th century, beating Bradman's 29 |
1983 |
US say they will leave UNESCO on Dec 31, 1984 |
1983 |
Warren Cromartie signs 3 year $2.5M contract with Yomiuri Giants |
1984 |
Creosote bush determined to be 11,700 years old |
1984 |
Rajiv Gandhi's Congress party wins election in India |
1984 |
TV soap "Edge of Night" ends 28 year run |
1984 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1985 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
1985 |
Warring Lebanese Moslem & Christian leaders sign peace agreement |
1986 |
75th Davis Cup: Australia beats Sweden in Melbourne (3-2), helped by Pat Davis ranked 412th in the world |
1987 |
In Arkansas R Gene Simmons kills 2, later bodies of 14 of his relatives are found at his home near Dover Ark |
1988 |
John Tarrant, 1st Aust born Zen teacher, receives Dharma Transmission |
1988 |
US 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals affirms Yonkers is guilty of racism |
1988 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1989 |
Alexander Dubček elected parliament chairman of Czech |
1989 |
Earthquake at Newcastle Australia, 11 die |
1990 |
2 die in a NYC subway accident |
1990 |
Blockbuster Bowl 1: Florida State beats Penn State, 24-17 |
1991 |
8 are crushed to death at a RAP basketball game at City College, NYC |
1991 |
Blockbuster Bowl 2: Alabama beats Colorado, 30-25 |
1991 |
Irene the Icon of Greek Orthodox church returns after being stolen |
1991 |
Ninibeth Beatriz Leal Jiminez, 20, of Venez, crowned 41st Miss World |
1991 |
Ted Turner is named Time Magazine Man of Year |
1993 |
Dow-Jones hits record 3793.49 |
1993 |
Dutch Antilles government of Yandi Paula forms |
1993 |
John Maclean passes Kirk Muller as all-time NJ Devils scorer (521 pts) |
1994 |
Boon completes his 20th Test Cricket century (131 v England, MCG) |
1994 |
Tammy Wynette admitted to the hospital with bile duct infection |
1996 |
India all out for 66 at Durban after making 100 in cricket 1st inning |
1997 |
Sting beats Hollywood Hogan for WCW Championship |
1999 |
Saparmurat Niyazov is proclaimed President for Life in Turkmenistan. |
2000 |
U.S. retail giant Montgomery Ward announces it is going out of business after 128 years. |
2001 |
OPEC oil ministers meeting in Cairo agree to reduce their crude oil output quotas by a combined 1.5 million barrels per day |
2005 |
A U.S. immigration judge orders John Demjanjuk deported to Ukraine for crimes against humanity committed during World War II. |
2007 |
Nepal declared a federal democratic Republic by interim parliament, abolishing the monarchy. |
2008 |
The Detroit Lions finished the season 0-16 with a 31-21 lost to the Green Bay Packers The first time in National Football League history that a team went winless in a 16-game season. |
2009 |
Scarlett Johansson makes her debut on Broadway in the Arthur Miller play "A View from the Bridge" |
2009 |
43 people die in a suicide bombing in Karachi, Pakistan, where Shia Muslims were observing the Day of Ashura. |
2012 |
13 people are killed and 19 are injured after a bus plunges into a river in western Nepal |
2012 |
Vladimir Putin signs into law a ban on US adoption of Russian children |
2013 |
Chris Weidman defeats Anderson Silva to retain the UFC Middleweight Championship |
2014 |
AirAsia Flight QZ8501, enroute from Surabaya to Singapore, crashes in the Java Sea killing all 162 people aboard. |
2015 |
Iraq military retakes Ramadi |
2015 |
South Korea and Japan reach deal on 'comfort women' |
2015 |
Boko Haram attacks in Nigeria leave 22 dead |
2016 |
Vera Rubin, 88, Dies; Opened Doors in Astronomy, and for Women |
2016 |
Japan's Abe offers condolences at Pearl Harbor for victims of war |
2016 |
Kevin Durant calls for NBA to toss Last Two Minute Report |
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