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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)