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| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 28th of December 1065 | EVENT | Westminster Abbey is consecrated. |
| 28th of December 1308 | EVENT | The reign of Emperor Hanazono, emperor of Japan, begins. |
| 28th of December 1612 | EVENT | Galileo Galilei becomes the first astronomer to observe the planet Neptune, although he mistakenly catalogued it as a fixed star. |
| 28th of December 1768 | EVENT | King Taksin's coronation achieved through conquest as a king of Thailand and established Thonburi as a capital. |
| 28th of December 1795 | EVENT | Construction of Yonge Street, formerly recognized as the longest street in the world, begins in York, Upper Canada (present-day Toronto, Ontario). |
| 28th of December 1832 | EVENT | John C. Calhoun becomes the first Vice President of the United States to resign. |
| 28th of December 1835 | EVENT | Osceola leads his Seminole warriors in Florida into the Second Seminole War against the United States Army. |
| 28th of December 1836 | EVENT | South Australia and Adelaide are founded. |
| 28th of December 1836 | EVENT | Spain recognizes the independence of Mexico. |
| 28th of December 1846 | EVENT | Iowa is admitted as the 29th U.S. state. |
| 28th of December 1867 | EVENT | United States claims Midway Atoll, the first territory annexed outside Continental limits. |
| 28th of December 1879 | EVENT | The Tay Bridge Disaster: The central part of the Tay Rail Bridge in Dundee, Scotland collapses as a train passes over it, killing 75. |
| 28th of December 1885 | EVENT | Indian National Congress a political party of India is founded in Bombay, British India. |
| 28th of December 1895 | EVENT | Wilhelm Rontgen publishes a paper detailing his discovery of a new type of radiation, which later will be known as x-rays. |
| 28th of December 1895 | EVENT | The Lumiere brothers perform for their first paying audience at the Grand Cafe in Boulevard des Capucines, marking the debut of the cinema. |
| 28th of December 1908 | EVENT | A magnitude 7.2 earthquake rocks Messina, Sicily killing over 75,000. |
| 28th of December 1912 | EVENT | The first municipally owned streetcars take to the streets in San Francisco, California. |
| 28th of December 1918 | EVENT | Constance Markiewicz while detained in Holloway prison, became the first woman to be elected MP to the British House of Commons. |
| 28th of December 1935 | EVENT | Pravda publishes a letter by Pavel Postyshev, who revives New Year tree tradition in the Soviet Union. |
| 28th of December 1943 | EVENT | World War II : After eight days of brutal house-to-house fighting, the battle of Ortona concludes with the victory of the1st Canadian Infantry Division over the German 1st Parachute Division and the capture of the Italian town of Ortona. |
| 28th of December 1944 | EVENT | Maurice Richard becomes the first player to score 8 points in one game of NHL ice hockey. |
| 28th of December 1945 | EVENT | The United States Congress officially recognizes the Pledge of Allegiance. |
| 28th of December 1948 | EVENT | The DC-3 airliner NC16002 disappears 50 miles south of Miami, Florida. |
| 28th of December 1950 | EVENT | The Peak District becomes the United Kingdom's first National Park. |
| 28th of December 1958 | EVENT | "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. |
| 28th of December 1973 | EVENT | The Endangered Species Act is passed in the United States. |
| 28th of December 1974 | EVENT | Senegalese marxist group Reenu-Rew founds the political movement And-Jef at a clandestine congress. |
| 28th of December 1978 | EVENT | 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. |
| 28th of December 1989 | EVENT | A magnitude 5.6 earthquake hits Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia, killing 13 people. |
| 28th of December 1990 | EVENT | Probotector for the NES is released. |
| 28th of December 2000 | EVENT | U.S. retail giant Montgomery Ward announces it is going out of business after 128 years. |
| 28th of December 2009 | EVENT | 43 people die in a suicide bombing in Karachi, Pakistan, where Shia Muslims are observing the Day of Ashura. |
| 28th of December 1164 | BIRTHDAY | Emperor Rokujo of Japan (d. 1176) |
| 28th of December 1522 | BIRTHDAY | Margaret of Austria, regent of the Netherlands (d. 1583) |
| 28th of December 1619 | BIRTHDAY | Antoine Furetiere, French writer (d. 1688) |
| 28th of December 1635 | BIRTHDAY | Princess Elizabeth of England (d. 1650) |
| 28th of December 1655 | BIRTHDAY | Charles Cornwallis, 3rd Baron Cornwallis, First Lord of the British Admiralty (d. 1698) |
| 28th of December 1665 | BIRTHDAY | George FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Northumberland, British general (d. 1716) |
| 28th of December 1763 | BIRTHDAY | John Molson, English-born Canadian brewer (d. 1836) |
| 28th of December 1778 | BIRTHDAY | Franciszek Ksawery Drucki-Lubecki, Polish politician (d. 1846) |
| 28th of December 1842 | BIRTHDAY | Calixa Lavallee, French-Canadian composer (O Canada) (d. 1891) |
| 28th of December 1856 | BIRTHDAY | Woodrow Wilson, 28th President of the United States, Nobel laureate, and 34th Governor of New Jersey (d. 1924) |
| 28th of December 1866 | BIRTHDAY | Szymon Askenazy, Polish historian and diplomat (d. 1935) |
| 28th of December 1879 | BIRTHDAY | Billy Mitchell, American military aviation pioneer (d. 1936) |
| 28th of December 1882 | BIRTHDAY | Arthur Stanley Eddington, British astronomer (d. 1944) |
| 28th of December 1888 | BIRTHDAY | Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau, German film director (d. 1931) |
| 28th of December 1898 | BIRTHDAY | Carl-Gustaf Rossby, Swedish meteorologist (d. 1957) |
| 28th of December 1898 | BIRTHDAY | Shigematsu Sakaibara, Japanese admiral (d. 1947) |
| 28th of December 1899 | BIRTHDAY | Eugeniusz Bodo, Polish actor (d. 1943) |
| 28th of December 1902 | BIRTHDAY | Mortimer Adler, American philosopher (d. 2001) |
| 28th of December 1902 | BIRTHDAY | Shen Congwen, Chinese writer (d. 1988) |
| 28th of December 1903 | BIRTHDAY | Earl Hines, American musician (d. 1983) |
| 28th of December 1903 | BIRTHDAY | John von Neumann, Hungarian-born mathematician (d. 1957) |
| 28th of December 1905 | BIRTHDAY | Cliff Arquette, American actor (d. 1974) |
| 28th of December 1908 | BIRTHDAY | Lew Ayres, American actor (d. 1996) |
| 28th of December 1910 | BIRTHDAY | Billy Williams, American singer (d. 1972) |
| 28th of December 1913 | BIRTHDAY | Lou Jacobi, Canadian actor (d. 2009) |
| 28th of December 1914 | BIRTHDAY | Bernard Youens, English actor (d. 1984) |
| 28th of December 1914 | BIRTHDAY | Bidia Dandaron, Buddhist author and teacher in the USSR (d. 1974) |
| 28th of December 1915 | BIRTHDAY | Pops Staples, American musician (The Staple Singers) (d. 2000) |
| 28th of December 1921 | BIRTHDAY | Johnny Otis, American musician |
| 28th of December 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Stan Lee, American comic book writer |
| 28th of December 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Milton Obote, President of Uganda (d. 2005) |
| 28th of December 1925 | BIRTHDAY | Hildegard Knef, German actress (d. 2002) |
| 28th of December 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Moe Koffman, Canadian musician (d. 2001) |
| 28th of December 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Brian Redhead, British journalist (d. 1994) |
| 28th of December 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Terry Sawchuk, Canadian hockey player (d. 1970) |
| 28th of December 1931 | BIRTHDAY | Guy Debord, French writer (d. 1994) |
| 28th of December 1932 | BIRTHDAY | Dhirubhai Ambani, Indian businessman (d. 2002) |
| 28th of December 1932 | BIRTHDAY | Dorsey Burnette, American singer (d. 1979) |
| 28th of December 1932 | BIRTHDAY | Harry Howell, Canadian hockey player |
| 28th of December 1932 | BIRTHDAY | Roy Hattersley, British politician |
| 28th of December 1932 | BIRTHDAY | Manuel Puig, Argentine writer (d. 1990) |
| 28th of December 1932 | BIRTHDAY | Nichelle Nichols, American actress and singer |
| 28th of December 1933 | BIRTHDAY | John Y. Brown, Jr., American politician and 55th Governor of Kentucky |
| 28th of December 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Dame Maggie Smith, British actress |
| 28th of December 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Rudi Fassnacht, German football manager (d. 2000) |
| 28th of December 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Yujiro Ishihara, Japanese actor (d. 1987) |
| 28th of December 1936 | BIRTHDAY | Lawrence Schiller, American journalist |
| 28th of December 1936 | BIRTHDAY | Jacques Mesrine, French criminal (d. 1979) |
| 28th of December 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Ratan Tata, Indian industrialist |
| 28th of December 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Lagumot Harris, Nauruan politician and former President (d. 1999) |
| 28th of December 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Dick Sudhalter, American jazz musician (d. 2008) |
| 28th of December 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Philip Anschutz, American businessman |
| 28th of December 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Don Francisco, Chilean television host |
| 28th of December 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Roger Swerts, Belgian cyclist |
| 28th of December 1943 | BIRTHDAY | David Peterson, Canadian politician |
| 28th of December 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Juan Luis Cipriani Thorne, Peruvian cardinal |
| 28th of December 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Richard Whiteley, British television presenter (d. 2005) |
| 28th of December 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Keith Floyd, British chef (d. 2009) |
| 28th of December 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Johnny Isakson, American politician |
| 28th of December 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Kary Mullis, American chemist, Nobel laureate |
| 28th of December 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Birendra of Nepal (d. 2001) |
| 28th of December 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Edgar Winter, American musician |
| 28th of December 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Mike Beebe, American politician and 45th Governor of Arkansas |
| 28th of December 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Tim Johnson, American politician, senior senator from South Dakota |
| 28th of December 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Pierre Falardeau, Quebec film director |
| 28th of December 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Aurelio Rodriguez, Mexican baseball player (d. 2000) |
| 28th of December 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Mary Weiss, American Singer (The Shangri-Las) |
| 28th of December 1950 | BIRTHDAY | ?ivind Blunck, Norwegian comedian and actor |
| 28th of December 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Alex Chilton, American musician (The Box Tops, Big Star) (d. 2010) |
| 28th of December 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Hugh McDonald, American musician (Bon Jovi) |
| 28th of December 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Rainer Maria Latzke, German mural artist |
| 28th of December 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Ian Buruma, Anglo-Dutch scholar and writer on Japan and the Far East |
| 28th of December 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Arun Jaitley, Indian Politician |
| 28th of December 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Richard Clayderman, French pianist |
| 28th of December 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Tatsumi Fujinami, Japanese professional wrestler |
| 28th of December 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Charlie Pierce, American writer |
| 28th of December 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Denzel Washington, American actor |
| 28th of December 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Lanny Poffo, American professional wrestler |
| 28th of December 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Gayle King, American magazine editor |
| 28th of December 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Liu Xiaobo, Chinese human rights activist, Nobel laureate |
| 28th of December 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Nigel Kennedy, British violinist |
| 28th of December 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Anne Sargeant, Australian netballer |
| 28th of December 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Twila Paris, American singer |
| 28th of December 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Ana Torroja, Spanish singer (Mecano) |
| 28th of December 1960 | BIRTHDAY | James Caan, British-Pakistani entrepreneur |
| 28th of December 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Raymond Bourque, Canadian hockey player |
| 28th of December 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Melvin Turpin, American basketball player (d. 2010) |
| 28th of December 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Kent Nielsen, Danish footballer and football coach |
| 28th of December 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Melissa R. Kelly, former Maryland politician |
| 28th of December 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Michel Petrucciani, French pianist (d. 1999) |
| 28th of December 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Choi Soo Jong, South Korean actor |
| 28th of December 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Rachel Z, American pianist |
| 28th of December 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Niel van der Watt, South African composer |
| 28th of December 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Maite Zuniga, Spanish athlete |
| 28th of December 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Allar Levandi, Estonian Nordic combined skier |
| 28th of December 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Chris Ware, American cartoonist |
| 28th of December 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Linus Torvalds, Finnish computer programmer |
| 28th of December 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Elaine Hendrix, American actress |
| 28th of December 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Francesca Le, American porn star |
| 28th of December 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Frank Sepe, American bodybuilder |
| 28th of December 1971 | BIRTHDAY | William Gates, American basketball player |
| 28th of December 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Benny Agbayani, American baseball player |
| 28th of December 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Roberto Palacios, Peruvian footballer |
| 28th of December 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Patrick Rafter, Australian tennis player |
| 28th of December 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Adam Vinatieri, American football player |
| 28th of December 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Alex Dimitriades, Australian actor |
| 28th of December 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Seth Meyers, American actor |
| 28th of December 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Herborg Krakevik, Norwegian singer and actress |
| 28th of December 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Rob Niedermayer, Canadian-born ice-hockey player |
| 28th of December 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Jason Ridge, American porn actor |
| 28th of December 1975 | BIRTHDAY | B.J. Ryan, American baseball player |
| 28th of December 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Igor Zikovic, Croatian footballer |
| 28th of December 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Shane Elford, Australian rugby league player |
| 28th of December 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Chris Coyne, Australian footballer |
| 28th of December 1978 | BIRTHDAY | John Legend, American musician |
| 28th of December 1979 | BIRTHDAY | James Blake, American tennis player |
| 28th of December 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Senna Guemmour, German Singer (Monrose) |
| 28th of December 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Bill Hall, American baseball player |
| 28th of December 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Noomi Rapace, Swedish actress |
| 28th of December 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Vanessa Ferlito, American actress |
| 28th of December 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Lomana LuaLua, Congo footballer |
| 28th of December 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Khalid Boulahrouz, Dutch footballer |
| 28th of December 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Elizabeth Jordan Carr, first American test-tube baby |
| 28th of December 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Sienna Miller, British actress |
| 28th of December 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Narsha, Korean pop singer (Brown Eyed Girls) |
| 28th of December 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Frank Turner, English Singer-Songwriter |
| 28th of December 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Mika Vayrynen, Finnish footballer |
| 28th of December 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Cedric Benson, American football player |
| 28th of December 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Kevin Pereira, American television host |
| 28th of December 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Francois Gourmet, Belgian decathlete |
| 28th of December 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Mike He, Taiwanese actor |
| 28th of December 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Leroy Lita, English footballer |
| 28th of December 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Alex Lloyd, British racing driver |
| 28th of December 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Kamani Hill, American footballer |
| 28th of December 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Taryn Terrell, American wrestler/model |
| 28th of December 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Tom Huddlestone, English footballer |
| 28th of December 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Thomas Dekker, American actor |
| 28th of December 1989 | BIRTHDAY | Mackenzie Rosman, American actress |
| 28th of December 1990 | BIRTHDAY | David Archuleta, American Idol runner-up, American singer |
| 28th of December 2001 | BIRTHDAY | Madison De La Garza, American child actress |
| 28th of December 2002 | BIRTHDAY | Kelsey Smith-Briggs, American murder victim (d. 2005) |
| 28th of December 0300 | DEATH | Theonas, Patriarch of Alexandria |
| 28th of December 1367 | DEATH | Ashikaga Yoshiakira, Japanese shogun (Born 1330) |
| 28th of December 1446 | DEATH | Antipope Clement VIII |
| 28th of December 1503 | DEATH | Piero di Lorenzo de' Medici, ruler of Florence (Born 1471) |
| 28th of December 1558 | DEATH | Hermann Finck, German composer (Born 1527) |
| 28th of December 1622 | DEATH | Francis de Sales, Bishop of Geneva and saint (Born 1567) |
| 28th of December 1663 | DEATH | Francesco Maria Grimaldi, Italian mathematician and physicist (Born 1618) |
| 28th of December 1671 | DEATH | Johann Friedrich Gronovius, German classical scholar (Born 1611) |
| 28th of December 1694 | DEATH | Queen Mary II of England (Born 1662), of the joint monarchy William and Mary |
| 28th of December 1703 | DEATH | Mustafa II, Ottoman Sultan (Born 1664) |
| 28th of December 1706 | DEATH | Pierre Bayle, French philosopher (Born 1647) |
| 28th of December 1708 | DEATH | Joseph Pitton de Tournefort, French botanist (Born 1656) |
| 28th of December 1715 | DEATH | William Carstares, Scottish minister (Born 1649) |
| 28th of December 1734 | DEATH | Robert Roy MacGregor, Scottish folk hero (Born 1671) |
| 28th of December 1736 | DEATH | Antonio Caldara, Italian composer (Born 1670) |
| 28th of December 1795 | DEATH | Eugenio Espejo, Ecuadorian scientist (Born 1747) |
| 28th of December 1859 | DEATH | Thomas Macaulay, British poet (Born 1800) |
| 28th of December 1872 | DEATH | James Van Ness, Mayor of San Francisco (1855 : 1856) (Born 1808) |
| 28th of December 1877 | DEATH | Nikolay Nekrasov, Russian poet (Born 1821) |
| 28th of December 1897 | DEATH | Rev. William Corby, American Catholic priest (Born 1833) |
| 28th of December 1900 | DEATH | Alexandre de Serpa Pinto, Portuguese explorer (Born 1846) |
| 28th of December 1916 | DEATH | Eduard Strauss, Austrian composer (Born 1835) |
| 28th of December 1917 | DEATH | Alfred Edwin McKay, Canadian World War One flying ace (Born 1892) |
| 28th of December 1918 | DEATH | Olavo Bilac, Brazilian poet (Born 1865) |
| 28th of December 1919 | DEATH | Johannes Rydberg, Swedish physicist (Born 1854) |
| 28th of December 1924 | DEATH | Leon Bakst, Russian artist (Born 1866) |
| 28th of December 1932 | DEATH | Jack Blackham, Australian cricketer (Born 1854) |
| 28th of December 1937 | DEATH | Maurice Ravel, French composer (Born 1875) |
| 28th of December 1938 | DEATH | Florence Lawrence, Canadian actress (Born 1886) |
| 28th of December 1943 | DEATH | Steve Evans, American baseball player (Born 1885) |
| 28th of December 1945 | DEATH | Theodore Dreiser, American author (Born 1871) |
| 28th of December 1947 | DEATH | King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy (Born 1869) |
| 28th of December 1949 | DEATH | Jack Lovelock, New Zealand athlete (Born 1910) |
| 28th of December 1952 | DEATH | Fletcher Henderson, American musician (Born 1897) |
| 28th of December 1959 | DEATH | Ante Pavelic, leader of Nazi Germany puppet Independent State of Croatia (Born 1889) |
| 28th of December 1962 | DEATH | Kathleen Clifford, American actress (Born 1887) |
| 28th of December 1963 | DEATH | Paul Hindemith, German composer (Born 1895) |
| 28th of December 1967 | DEATH | Katharine McCormick, American women's rights activist (Born 1875) |
| 28th of December 1971 | DEATH | Max Steiner, Austrian-born American film music composer (Born 1888) |
| 28th of December 1976 | DEATH | Katharine Byron, American politician (Born 1903) |
| 28th of December 1976 | DEATH | Freddie King, American musician (Born 1934) |
| 28th of December 1981 | DEATH | Allan Dwan, Canadian-born film director (Born 1885) |
| 28th of December 1983 | DEATH | Jimmy Demaret, American golfer (Born 1910) |
| 28th of December 1983 | DEATH | Dennis Wilson, American musician (The Beach Boys) (Born 1944) |
| 28th of December 1983 | DEATH | William Demarest, American actor (Born 1892) |
| 28th of December 1984 | DEATH | Sam Peckinpah, American film director (Born 1925) |
| 28th of December 1986 | DEATH | Andrei Tarkovsky, Russian film director (Born 1932) |
| 28th of December 1986 | DEATH | Jan Nieuwenhuys, Dutch painter (Born 1922) |
| 28th of December 1989 | DEATH | Hermann Oberth, German physicist (Born 1894) |
| 28th of December 1991 | DEATH | Cassandra Harris, Australian actress (Born 1952) |
| 28th of December 1992 | DEATH | Sal Maglie, American baseball player (Born 1917) |
| 28th of December 1993 | DEATH | William L. Shirer, American journalist (Born 1904) |
| 28th of December 1994 | DEATH | Jean-Louis Levesque, French Canadian entrepreneur (Born 1911) |
| 28th of December 1999 | DEATH | Clayton Moore, American actor (Born 1914) |
| 28th of December 2001 | DEATH | Samuel A. Goldblith, American food scientist (Born 1919) |
| 28th of December 2001 | DEATH | William X. Kienzle, American novelist (Born 1928) |
| 28th of December 2003 | DEATH | Benjamin Hacker, American admiral (Born 1935) |
| 28th of December 2004 | DEATH | Jerry Orbach, American actor (Born 1935) |
| 28th of December 2004 | DEATH | Susan Sontag, American writer (Born 1933) |
| 28th of December 2006 | DEATH | Jamal Karimi-Rad, Iranian Minister of Justice (Born 1956) |
| 28th of December 2007 | DEATH | Aidin Nikkhah Bahrami, Iran national basketball team player (Born 1982) |
| 28th of December 2008 | DEATH | Irene Lieblich, Polish-born painter (Born 1923) |
| 28th of December 2009 | DEATH | James Owen "The Rev" Sullivan, American musician drummer and back-up vocalist of Avenged Sevenfold (Born 1981) |
| 28th of December 2010 | DEATH | Billy Taylor, American musician (Born 1921) |