December 28 facts for kids
December 28 is the 362nd day of the year (363rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; three days remain until the end of the year.
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Events
Up to 1900
- 418 – St. Boniface I becomes Pope.
- 457 - Majorian is crowned West Roman Emperor.
- 484 - Alaric II becomes King of the Visigoths.
- 856 - A Viking attack on Paris occurs.
- 893 - An earthquake destroys the city of Dvin, Armenia.
- 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 there is dispute as to whether he mistakenly catalogued it as a fixed star because of its extremely slow motion along the ecliptic at that time. Neptune was not officially discovered until 1846, about 234 years after Galileo first sighted it with his telescope.
- 1768 - Taksin is crowned King of Siam.
- 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.
- 1867 - The United States claims Midway Atoll in the Pacific Ocean, northwest of Hawaii. This is the first US annexation of territory outside the North American continent.
- 1879 – The Tay Rail Bridge Disaster: The central part of the Tay Rail Bridge in Dundee, Scotland collapses as a train passes over it, killing 75.
- 1885 - The Indian National Congress is founded.
- 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.
- 1895 - Wilhelm Roentgen publishes a paper detailing his discovery of a new type of radiation later known as X-Rays.
- 1897 – The play Cyrano de Bergerac, by Edmond Rostand, premieres in Paris.
1901 – 2000
- 1902 – The first indoor professional American football game is played in New York City at Madison Square Garden.
- 1904 - Alphonse Louis Nicolas Borrelly discovers a comet that is named after him.
- 1908 – An earthquake rocks Messina, Sicily, killing over 75,000 people.
- 1918 - Constance Markievicz, while detained at Holloway prison, becomes the first woman to be elected an MP in the British House of Commons.
- 1935 - Pravda publishes a letter by Pavel Postyshev, who revives the New Year tree tradition in the Soviet Union.
- 1944 - Maurice Richard becomes the first player to score eight goals in a single ice hockey match.
- 1945 – The U.S. Congress officially recognizes the Pledge of Allegiance.
- 1948 - The DC-3 airliner NC16002 disappears 50 miles south of Miami, Florida.
- 1950 – The Peak District becomes the United Kingdom's first National Park.
- 1958 - Greatest Game Ever Played: The Baltimore Colts win in overtime against the New York Giants.
- 1972 - Having already led the country since the late 1940s, Kim Il-Sung is declared President of North Korea.
- 1973 – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn publishes The Gulag Archipelago.
- 1973 - The US Endangered Species Act is passed in the US.
- 1974 - A magnitude 6.2 earthquake strikes Pakistan.
- 1978 - Heavy snowfall affects Northern Europe.
- 1981 – The first American test-tube baby, Elizabeth Jordan Carr, is born (Norfolk, Virginia).
- 1984 - The Indian National Congress wins elections in India.
- 1989 - A magnitude 5.6 earthquake strikes Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia.
- 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.
- 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.
From 2001
- 2007 – Nepal announces its intention to become a Republic.
- 2008 - War in Somalia: Militaries of Somalia's transitional federal government take Mogadishu unopposed.
- 2008 - The Detroit Lions become the first team with no wins and 16 losses after their loss to the Green Bay Packers in week 17.
- 2010 - Arab Spring: Protests begin in Algeria.
- 2011 - Turkish war planes bomb 34 Kurds of Turkish nationality in the district of Uludere.
- 2012 - Jiroemon Kimura surpasses Christian Mortensen's record as the oldest-recorded man ever.
- 2014 - Indonesia AirAsia Flight 8501 disappears on a flight from Surabaya, Java, Indonesia to Singapore, with 162 people on board. It is now known to have crashed with the loss of all of the people on board.
- 2014 - A ferry travelling from Patras, Greece to Ancona, Italy, catches fire in the Adriatic Sea west of the island of Corfu. Five people are killed, while hundreds are rescued in difficult weather conditions.
- 2015 - War in Iraq: Iraqi forces retake the city of Ramadi from Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant forces.
Births
Up to 1900
- 1164 – Emperor Rokujo, Japanese Emperor (d. 1176)
- 1522 - Margaret of Austria, regent of the Netherlands (d. 1583)
- 1550 - Vicente Espinel, Spanish writer, musician and priest (d. 1624)
- 1635 - Elizabeth Stuart, daughter of Charles I of England (d. 1650)
- 1651 - Johann Krieger, German composer and organist (d. 1735)
- 1655 - Charles Cornwallis, 3rd Baron Cornwallis, English politician (d. 1698)
- 1665 - George FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Northumberland, English general (d. 1716)
- 1789 - Thomas Ewing, American politician (d. 1871)
- 1798 - Thomas James Henderson, Scottish astronomer (d. 1844)
- 1818 - Carl Remigius Fresenius, German chemist (d. 1897)
- 1842 – Calixa Lavallée, Canadian composer (d. 1891)
- 1849 – Herbert von Bismarck, German politician (d. 1904)
- 1851 - Joseph Mackey Brown, American politician, Governor of Georgia (d. 1932)
- 1852 - Leonardo Torres y Quevedo, Spanish mathematician and inventor (d. 1936)
- 1856 – Woodrow Wilson, 28th President of the United States (d. 1924)
- 1865 – Félix Vallotton, Swiss-French artist (d. 1925)
- 1866 - Szymon Askenazy, Polish historian and diplomat (d. 1935)
- 1870 - Charles Bennett, British athlete (d. 1949)
- 1872 – Pio Baroja, Spanish writer (d. 1956)
- 1879 - Billy Mitchell, American military aviation pioneer (d. 1936)
- 1882 – Arthur Stanley Eddington, British astrophysicist (d. 1942)
- 1882 - Lili Elbe, Danish artist and model (d. 1931)
- 1888 – Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau, German-American movie director (d. 1931)
- 1890 – Gösta Ekman, Swedish actor (d. 1938)
- 1896 - Roger Sessions, American composer (d. 1985)
- 1898 – Carl-Gustaf Rossby, Swedish meteorologist (d. 1957)
- 1898 - Shigematsu Sakaibara, Japanese admiral (d. 1947)
- 1899 – Eugeniusz Bodo, Polish actor (d. 1943)
1901 – 1950
- 1902 - Mortimer Adler, American philosopher (d. 2001)
- 1902 - Shen Congwen, Chinese writer (d. 1988)
- 1903 – John von Neumann, Hungarian mathematician (d. 1957)
- 1903 – Earl Hines, American musician (d. 1983)
- 1904 - Sergei Yutkevich, Russian movie director (d. 1985)
- 1905 – Cliff Arquette, American actor (d. 1973)
- 1905 - Fulvio Bernardino, Italian footballer (d. 1984)
- 1907 – Erich Mielke, East German politician (d. 2000)
- 1908 – Lew Ayres, American actor (d. 1996)
- 1910 - Billy Williams, American singer (d. 1972)
- 1913 – Lou Jacobi, Canadian actor (d. 2009)
- 1915 - Pops Staples, American musician (d. 2000)
- 1917 – Ellis Clarke, 1st President of Trinidad and Tobago (d. 2010)
- 1920 - Steve Van Buren, American football player (d. 2012)
- 1921 – Johnny Otis, American songwriter (d. 2012)
- 1922 – Stan Lee, American comic writer
- 1924 – Milton Obote, President of Uganda (d. 2005)
- 1925 – Hildegard Knef, German actress (d. 2002)
- 1926 - Donna Hightower, American singer-songwriter (d. 2013)
- 1927 - Edward Babiuch, Polish politician
- 1929 – Terry Sawchuk, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1970)
- 1930 - Franzl Lang, German singer and musician (d. 2015)
- 1931 – Guy Debord, French writer (d. 1994)
- 1931 - Martin Milner, American actor (d. 2015)
- 1932 – Nichelle Nicholls, American actress
- 1932 – Manuel Puig, Argentine writer (d. 1990)
- 1932 - Roy Hattersley, British politician
- 1932 - Cornelius Gurlitt, German art collector (d. 2014)
- 1932 - Dorsey Burnette, American singer-songwriter (d. 1979)
- 1933 - John Y. Brown, Jr., 55th Governor of Kentucky
- 1934 - Alasdair Gray, Scottish writer and artist
- 1934 - Rudi Fassnacht, German football manager (d. 2000)
- 1934 – Maggie Smith, British actress
- 1936 - Lawrence Shiller, American journalist, director and producer
- 1936 - Jacques Mesrine, French criminal (d. 1979)
- 1937 – Ratan Tata, Indian industrialist
- 1938 – Lagumot Harris, Nauruan politician (d. 1999)
- 1938 - Dick Sudhalter, American jazz musician (d. 2008)
- 1938 - Charles Neville, American musician
- 1940 - Don Francisco, Chilean television presenter
- 1941 - Intikhab Alam, Indian-Pakistani cricketer and coach
- 1943 – Keith Floyd, British chef (d. 2009)
- 1943 – Richard Whiteley, British television presenter (d. 2005)
- 1943 - David Peterson, Canadian politician, 20th Premier of Ontario
- 1943 - Juan Luis Cipriani Thorne, Peruvian cardinal and Archbishop of Lima
- 1943 - Joan Ruddock, Welsh politician
- 1944 – Kary Mullis, American chemist
- 1944 - Johnny Isaksson, American politician
- 1945 – King Birendra of Nepal (d. 2001)
- 1946 – Edgar Winter, American rock musician
- 1946 – Mike Beebe, American politician
- 1946 - Tim Johnson, American politician
- 1946 - Barbara, Lady Judge, American-English lawyer and businesswoman
- 1947 - Mamphela Ramphele, South African politician
- 1950 – Alex Chilton, American musician (d. 2010)
- 1950 - Hugh McDonald, American bass player
1951 – 1975
- 1951 - Ian Buruma, English-Dutch author and scholar
- 1952 - Arun Jaitley, Indian lawyer and politician
- 1952 - Bridget Prentice, British politician
- 1953 - Richard Clayderman, French pianist
- 1954 - Gayle King, American magazine editor
- 1954 – Denzel Washington, American actor
- 1955 – Liu Xiaobo, Chinese human rights activist
- 1956 – Nigel Kennedy, English violinist
- 1958 – Terry Butcher, English footballer
- 1959 - Ana Torroja, Spanish singer
- 1960 – Ray Bourque, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1960 - James Caan, English entrepreneur
- 1961 - Kent Nielsen, Danish footballer
- 1962 - Michel Petrucciani, French pianist (d. 1999)
- 1962 – Rachel Z, American pianist
- 1962 - Abdi Bile, Somali athlete
- 1968 - Akihiko Hoshide, Japanese politician
- 1969 – Linus Torvalds, Finnish computer scientist, creator of Linux
- 1971 - Frank Sepe, American bodybuilder
- 1972 – Roberto Palacios, Peruvian footballer
- 1972 – Patrick Rafter, Australian tennis player
- 1972 – Adam Vinatieri, American football player
- 1973 – Seth Meyers, American actor
From 1976
- 1977 - Vanessa Ferlito, American actress
- 1977 - Keremcem, Turkish singer-songwriter and 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
- 1981 - Frank Turner, English singer
- 1981 - Mika Vayrynen, Finnish footballer
- 1982 - Cedric Benson, American football player
- 1984 – Martin Kaymer, German golfer
- 1984 – Leroy Lita, English footballer
- 1984 - Sean St. Ledger, Irish footballer
- 1985 - Kamani Hill, American soccer player
- 1986 – Tom Huddlestone, English footballer
- 1987 – Thomas Dekker, American actor
- 1988 - Ched Evans, Welsh footballer
- 1989 – Mackenzie Rosman, American actress
- 1990 – David Archuleta, American singer
- 1990 - Ayele Abshero, Ethiopian runner
- 1994 - Adam Peaty, English swimmer
- 2001 – Madison De La Garza, American actress
Deaths
Up to 1900
- 300 - Theonas, Patriarch of Alexandria
- 1367 – Ashikaga Yoshiakira, Japanese shogun (b. 1330)
- 1446 - Antipope Clement VIII
- 1503 – Piero di Lorenzo de' Medici, ruler of Florence (b. 1471)
- 1547 - Konrad Peutinger, German jurist and humanist (b. 1465)
- 1663 - Francesco Maria Grimaldi, Italian mathematician and physicist (b. 1618)
- 1694 – Queen Mary II of England (b. 1662)
- 1703 – Mustafa II, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1664)
- 1706 – Pierre Bayle, French philosopher (b. 1647)
- 1734 - Rob Roy MacGregor, Scottish folk hero (b. 1671)
- 1736 - Antonio Caldera, Italian composer (b. 1670)
- 1795 - Eugenio Espejo, Ecuadorean physician and lawyer (b. 1747)
- 1859 – Thomas Macaulay, British poet, historian, and politician (b. 1800)
- 1872 - James Van Ness, 7th Mayor of San Francisco (b. 1808)
- 1900 - Alexandre de Serpa Pinto, Portuguese soldier and explorer (b. 1846)
1901 – 2000
- 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)
- 1924 - Leon Bakst, Russian painter and costume designer (b. 1866)
- 1937 – Maurice Ravel, French composer (b. 1875)
- 1938 – Florence Lawrence, American actress (b. 1886)
- 1942 - Alfred Flatow, German gymnast (b. 1869)
- 1945 – Theodore Dreiser, American writer (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)
- 1960 - Philippe Panneton, Canadian physician, academic and diplomat (b. 1895)
- 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, movie 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 movie director (b. 1925)
- 1985 - Renato Castellani, Italian movie director (b. 1913)
- 1986 – Andrei Tarkovsky, Russian movie director (b. 1932)
- 1988 - Khin Kyi, Burmese politician and diplomat (b. 1912)
- 1989 – Hermann Oberth, German physicist (b. 1894)
- 1990 - Kiel Martin, American actor (b. 1944)
- 1991 – Cassandra Harris, Australian actress (b. 1952)
- 1993 - Howard Caine, American actor (b. 1926)
- 1993 – William L. Shirer, American writer and historian (b. 1904)
- 1999 – Clayton Moore, American actor (b. 1914)
From 2001
- 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)
- 2010 - Billy Taylor, American musician (b. 1921)
- 2012 - Vaclav Drobny, Czech footballer (b. 1980)
- 2012 - Emmanuel Scheffer, German-Israeli football coach and manager (b. 1924)
- 2013 - Halton Arp, German-American astronomer (b. 1927)
- 2013 - Andrew Jacobs, Jr., American politician (b. 1932)
- 2013 - Joseph Ruskin, American actor (b. 1924)
- 2013 - Ilya Tsymbalar, Ukrainian-Russian footballer (b. 1969)
- 2014 - Leopoldo Federico, Argentine bandoneon player, arranger, director and producer (b. 1927)
- 2014 - Vahan Hovhannisyan, Armenian politician (b. 1956)
- 2014 - Javier Fragoso, Mexican footballer (b. 1942)
- 2014 - Frankie Randall, American singer-songwriter, actor and dancer (b. 1938)
- 2014 - Merrill Womach, American gospel singer (b. 1927)
- 2015 - Eloy Inos, Governor of the Northern Marianas (b. 1949)
- 2015 - Lemmy, English musician (Motörhead) (b. 1945)
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
See also
In Spanish: 28 de diciembre para niños
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