December 28
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December 28 is the 363rd day of the year (364th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 2 days remaining after December 28 until the end of the year.
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[change] Births
- 1164 – Emperor Rokujo, Japanese Emperor (d. 1176)
- 1842 – Calixa Lavallee, Canadian composer (d. 1891)
- 1849 – Herbert von Bismarck, German politician (d. 1904)
- 1856 – Woodrow Wilson, 28th President of the United States (d. 1924)
- 1865 – Felix Vallotton, Swiss-French artist (d. 1925)
- 1872 – Pio Baroja, Spanish writer (d. 1956)
- 1882 – Arthur Stanley Eddington, British astrophysicist (d. 1942)
- 1888 – Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau, German-American film director (d. 1931)
- 1890 – Gosta Ekman, Swedish actor (d. 1938)
- 1898 – Carl-Gustaf Rossby, Swedish meteorologist (d. 1957)
- 1899 – Eugeniusz Bodo, Polish actor (d. 1943)
- 1903 – John von Neumann, Hungarian mathematician (d. 1957)
- 1903 – Earl Hines, American musician (d. 1983)
- 1905 – Cliff Arquette, American actor (d. 1973)
- 1907 – Erich Mielke, East German politician (d. 2000)
- 1908 – Lew Ayres, American actor (d. 1996)
- 1913 – Lou Jacobi, Canadian actor (d. 2009)
- 1917 – Ellis Clarke, 1st President of Trinidad and Tobago (d. 2010)
- 1922 – Stan Lee, American comic writer
- 1924 – Milton Obote, Ugandan President (d. 2005)
- 1925 – Hildegard Knef, German actress (d. 2002)
- 1929 – Terry Sawchuk, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1970)
- 1931 – Guy Debord, French writer (d. 1994)
- 1932 – Nichelle Nicholls, American actress
- 1932 – Manuel Puig, Argentine writer (d. 1990)
- 1934 – Maggie Smith, British actress
- 1937 – Ratan Tata, Indian industrialist
- 1938 – Lagumot Harris, Nauruan politician (d. 1999)
- 1943 – Keith Floyd, British chef (d. 2009)
- 1943 – Richard Whiteley, British television presenter (d. 2005)
- 1944 – Kary Mullis, American chemist
- 1945 – King Birendra of Nepal (d. 2001)
- 1946 – Edgar Winter, American rock musician
- 1946 – Mike Beebe, American politician
- 1950 – Alex Chilton, American musician (d. 2010)
- 1954 – Denzel Washington, American actor
- 1955 – Liu Xiaobo, Chinese human rights activist
- 1956 – Nigel Kennedy, British violinist
- 1958 – Terry Butcher, English footballer
- 1960 – Ray Bourque, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1962 – Rachel Z, American pianist
- 1969 – Linus Torvalds, Finnish computer scientist, creator of Linux
- 1972 – Roberto Palacios, Peruvian footballer
- 1972 – Patrick Rafter, Australian tennis player
- 1972 – Adam Vinatieri, American football player
- 1973 – Seth Meyers, American actor
- 1978 – John Legend, American musician
- 1979 – James Blake, American tennis player
- 1979 – Noomi Rapace, Swedish actress
- 1980 – Lomana LuaLua, Congolese footballer
- 1981 – Khalid Boulahrouz, Dutch footballer
- 1981 – Sienna Miller, English actress
- 1981 – Elizabeth Jordan Carr, American test-tube baby
- 1984 – Martin Kaymer, German golfer
- 1984 – Leroy Lita, English footballer
- 1986 – Tom Huddlestone, English footballer
- 1987 – Thomas Dekker, American actor
- 1989 – Mackenzie Rosman, American actress
- 1990 – David Archuleta, American singer
- 2001 – Madison De La Garza, American actress
[change] Deaths
- 1367 – Ashikaga Yoshiakira, Japanese shogun (b. 1330)
- 1503 – Piero di Lorenzo de' Medici, ruler of Florence (b. 1471)
- 1694 – Queen Mary II of England (b. 1662)
- 1703 – Mustafa II, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1664)
- 1706 – Pierre Bayle, French philosopher (b. 1647)
- 1859 – Thomas Macaulay, British poet, historian, and politician (b. 1800)
- 1916 – Eduard Strauss, composer (b. 1835)
- 1918 – Olavo Bilac, poet (b. 1865)
- 1919 – Johannes Rydberg, Swedish physicist (b. 1854)
- 1923 – Gustave Eiffel, French architect (b. 1832)
- 1937 – Maurice Ravel, French composer (b. 1875)
- 1938 – Florence Lawrence, American actress (b. 1886)
- 1945 – Theodore Dreiser, American author (b. 1871)
- 1947 – King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy (b. 1869)
- 1949 – Jack Lovelock, New Zealand athlete (b. 1910)
- 1952 – Queen Alexandrine of Denmark (b. 1879)
- 1952 – Fletcher Henderson, American jazz musician (b. 1897)
- 1959 – Ante Pavelic, Croatian leader (b. 1889)
- 1961 – Edith Bolling Wilson, First Lady of the United States (b. 1872)
- 1963 – Paul Hindemith, German composer (b. 1895)
- 1967 – Katharine McCormick, American women's rights activist (b. 1875)
- 1981 – Allan Dwan, film director (b. 1885)
- 1983 – William Demarest, actor (b. 1892)
- 1983 – Jimmy Demaret, golf champion (b. 1910)
- 1983 – Dennis Wilson, musician (The Beach Boys) (b. 1944)
- 1984 – Sam Peckinpah, American film director (b. 1925)
- 1986 – Andrei Tarkovsky, Russian film director (b. 1932)
- 1989 – Hermann Oberth, German physicist (b. 1894)
- 1991 – Cassandra Harris, Australian actress (b. 1952)
- 1993 – William L. Shirer, American writer and historian (b. 1904)
- 1999 – Clayton Moore, American actor (b. 1914)
- 2001 – William X. Kienzle, American novelist (b. 1928)
- 2003 – Benjamin Hacker, U.S. admiral (b. 1935)
- 2003 – Dinsdale Landen, British actor (b. 1932)
- 2004 – Jerry Orbach, American actor (b. 1935)
- 2004 – Susan Sontag, American writer, feminist, activist (b. 1933)
- 2009 – James "The Rev" Sullivan, American musician (Avenged Sevenfold) (b. 1981)
[change] Events
- 418 – St. Boniface I becomes Pope.
- 1065 – Westminster Abbey is consecrated.
- 1308 – The reign of Emperor Hanazono, the 95th imperial ruler of Japan, began.
- 1612 – Galileo Galilei was the first astronomer to observe the planet Neptune when it was in conjunction with Jupiter, yet he mistakenly catalogued it as a fixed star because of its extremely slow motion along the ecliptic at that time. Neptune was not truly discovered until 1846, about 234 years after Galileo first sighted it with his telescope.
- 1832 – John C. Calhoun becomes the first Vice President of the United States to resign.
- 1835 – Osceola led his Seminole warriors in Florida into the Second Seminole War against the U.S. Army.
- 1836 – South Australia and Adelaide are founded
- 1836 – Spain recognizes independence of Mexico.
- 1846 – Iowa is admitted as the 29th U.S. state.
- 1879 – The Tay Bridge Disaster: 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 cinema.
- 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.
- 1945 – The U.S. Congress officially recognizes the Pledge of Allegiance
- 1950 – The Peak District becomes the United Kingdom's first National Park.
- 1973 – Aleksandr 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.
- 1999 – Saparmurat Niyazov is proclaimed President for Life in Turkmenistan.
- 2000 – Adrian Năstase becomes the Prime Minister of Romania.
- 2000 – U.S. retail giant Montgomery Ward announces it is going out of business after 128 years.
- 2009 – 43 people are killed in a suicide bombing in Karachi.
[change] Observances
- Proclamation Day (South Australia)
- Christian feast day of the Holy Innocents, or Childermas, celebrated in Spain and parts of Latin America in a similar way to April Fools' Day
