December 28 - Wikipedia

December 28 is the 362nd day of the year (363rd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 3 days remaining.

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Events

418 - St. Boniface I becomes Pope
1065 - Westminster Abbey is consecrated.
1832 - John C. Calhoun becomes the first Vice President of the United States to resign.
1846 - Iowa is admitted as the 29th U.S. state.
1879 - 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 motion picture.
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.
1937 - The Irish Free State becomes the Republic of Ireland.
1945 - The United States Congress officially recognizes the Pledge of Allegiance
1950 - The Peak District becomes Great Britain's first National Park.
1973 - Alexander 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.
1995 - CompuServe sets a precedent by blocking access to sex-oriented newsgroups after being pressured by German prosecutors.

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