December
28
Events
December 28
457 – Majorian
is crowned emperor of the Western Roman Empire and recognized
by pope Leo I.
484 – Alaric II succeeds his father Euric and becomes king of
the Visigoths. He establishes his capital at Aire-sur-l'Adour
(Southern Gaul).
893 – An earthquake destroys the city of Dvin, Armenia.
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, although he mistakenly catalogued it as
a fixed star.
1768 – King Taksin's coronation achieved through conquest as
a king of Thailand and established Thonburi as a capital.
1795 – Construction of Yonge Street, formerly recognized as
the longest street in the world, begins in York, Upper Canada
(present-day Toronto, Ontario).
1832 – John C. Calhoun becomes the first Vice President of the
United States to resign.
1835 – Osceola leads his Seminole warriors in Florida into the
Second Seminole War against the United States Army.
1836 – South Australia and Adelaide are founded.
1836 – Spain recognizes the independence of Mexico.
1846 – Iowa is admitted as the 29th U.S. state.
1867 – United States claims Midway Atoll, the first territory
annexed outside Continental limits.
1879 – The Tay Bridge Disaster: The central part of the Tay
Rail Bridge in Dundee, Scotland collapses as a train passes
over it, killing 75.
1885 – Indian National Congress a political party of India is
founded in Bombay, British India.
1895 – The Lumière brothers perform for their first paying audience
at the Grand Cafe in Boulevard des Capucines, marking the debut
of the cinema.
1895 – Wilhelm Röntgen publishes a paper detailing his discovery
of a new type of radiation, which later will be known as x-rays.
1908 – A magnitude 7.2 earthquake rocks Messina, Sicily killing
over 75,000.
1912 – The first municipally owned streetcars take to the streets
in San Francisco, California.
1918 – Constance Markievicz while detained in Holloway prison,
became the first woman to be elected MP to the British House
of Commons.
1935 – Pravda publishes a letter by Pavel Postyshev, who revives
New Year tree tradition in the Soviet Union.
1943 – World War II – After eight days of brutal house-to-house
fighting, the battle of Ortona concludes with the victory of
the 1st Canadian Infantry Division over the German 1st Parachute
Division and the capture of the Italian town of Ortona.
1944 – Maurice Richard becomes the first player to score 8 points
in one game of NHL ice hockey.
1948 – The DC-3 airliner NC16002 disappears 50 miles south of
Miami, Florida.
1956 – Chin Peng, David Marshall and Tunku Abdul Rahman meet
in Baling to try and resolve the Malayan Emergency situation.
1958 – "Greatest Game Ever Played" – Baltimore Colts
defeat the New York Giants in the first ever National Football
League sudden death overtime game at New York's Yankee Stadium.
1972 – Kim Il-sung, already Prime Minister of North Korea and
General Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea, became the
first President of North Korea.
1973 – The Endangered Species Act is passed in the United States.
1974 – Senegalese marxist group Reenu-Rew founds the political
movement And-Jëf at a clandestine congress.
1978 – With the crew investigating a problem with the landing
gear, United Airlines Flight 173 runs out of fuel and crashes
in Portland, Oregon, killing 10. As a result, United Airlines
instituted the industry's first crew resource management program.
1989 – A magnitude 5.6 earthquake hits Newcastle, New South
Wales, Australia, killing 13 people.
2000 – U.S. retail giant Montgomery Ward announces it is going
out of business after 128 years.
2008 – War in Somalia: The militaries of Somalia's Transitional
Federal Government and Ethiopian troops capture Mogadishu unopposed.
2009 – 43 people die in a suicide bombing in Karachi, Pakistan,
where Shia Muslims are observing the Day of Ashura.
2010 – Arab Spring: Popular protests begin in Algeria against
the government.
Holidays
and observances
Christian
Feast Day:
Abel (Coptic Church)
Caterina Volpicelli
Feast of the Holy Innocents or Childermas. In Spain and Latin
American countries the festival is celebrated with pranks (inocentadas),
similar to April Fools' Day. (Roman Catholic Church, Church
of England, Lutheran Church)
King Taksin Memorial Day (Thailand)
Proclamation Day, celebration started on the day following Christmas.
(South Australia)
The fourth day of Christmas. (Western Christianity)
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