December 28

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Holidays & Observances King Taksin Memorial Day (Thailand), Republic Day (South Sudan) Events UFC 168, 1958 NFL Championship Game Famous birthdays Denzel Washington, Larissa Manoela, John Legend, Stan Lee, Maggie Smith

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December 28 is the 362nd day of the year (363rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are three days remaining until the end of the year. This date is slightly more likely to fall on a Monday, Wednesday or Friday (58 in 400 years each) than on Saturday or Sunday (57), and slightly less likely to occur on a Tuesday or Thursday (56).

Events

418 – Pope Boniface I is elected.

457 – Majorian is acclaimed emperor of the Western Roman Empire and recognized by Emperor Leo I the Thracian.

484 – Alaric II succeeds his father Euric and becomes king of the Visigoths. He establishes his capital at Aire-sur-l'Adour (Southern Gaul).

893 – An earthquake destroys the city of Dvin, Armenia.

1065 – Westminster Abbey is consecrated.

1308 – The reign of Emperor Hanazono of Japan begins.

1768 – King Taksin's coronation achieved through conquest as a king of Thailand and established Thonburi as a capital.

1795 – Construction of Yonge Street, formerly recognized as the longest street in the world, begins in York, Upper Canada (present-day Toronto).

1832 – John C. Calhoun becomes the first Vice President of the United States to resign.

1835 – Osceola leads his Seminole warriors in Florida into the Second Seminole War against the United States Army.

1836 – South Australia and Adelaide are founded.

1836 – Spain recognizes the independence of Mexico with the signing of the Santa María–Calatrava Treaty.

1846 – Iowa is admitted as the 29th U.S. state.

1867 – United States claims Midway Atoll, the first territory annexed outside Continental limits.

1879 – Tay Bridge disaster: The central part of the Tay Rail Bridge in Dundee, Scotland, United Kingdom collapses as a train passes over it, killing 75.

1885 – Indian National Congress, a political party of India is founded in Bombay Presidency, British India.

1895 – The Lumière brothers perform for their first paying audience at the Grand Cafe in Boulevard des Capucines.

1895 – Wilhelm Röntgen publishes a paper detailing his discovery of a new type of radiation, which later will be known as x-rays.

1902 – The Syracuse Athletic Club defeated the New York Philadelphians, 5–0, in the first indoor professional football game, which was held at Madison Square Garden.

1908 – The 7.1 Mw Messina earthquake shakes Southern Italy with a maximum Mercalli intensity of XI (Extreme), killing between 75,000 and 200,000.

1912 – The first municipally owned streetcars take to the streets in San Francisco.

1918 – Constance Markievicz, while detained in Holloway prison, became the first woman to be elected MP to the British House of Commons.

1941 – World War II: Operation Anthropoid, the plot to assassinate high-ranking Nazi officer Reinhard Heydrich, commences.

1943 – World War II: After eight days of brutal house-to-house fighting, the Battle of Ortona concludes with the victory of the 1st Canadian Infantry Division over the German 1st Parachute Division and the capture of the Italian town of Ortona.

1944 – Maurice Richard becomes the first player to score eight points in one game of NHL ice hockey.

1948 – The DC-3 airliner NC16002 disappears 50 miles south of Miami.

1956 – Chin Peng, David Marshall and Tunku Abdul Rahman meet in Baling, Malaya to try and resolve the Malayan Emergency situation.

1958 – "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.

1972 – Kim Il-sung, already Prime Minister of North Korea and First Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea, becomes the first President of North Korea.

1973 – The Endangered Species Act is passed in the United States.

1989 – A magnitude 5.6 earthquake hits Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia, killing 13 people.

2006 – War in Somalia: The militaries of Somalia's Transitional Federal Government and Ethiopian troops capture Mogadishu unopposed.

2009 – Forty-three people die in a suicide bombing in Karachi, Pakistan, where Shia Muslims are observing the Day of Ashura.

2014 – Indonesia AirAsia Flight 8501 crashes into the Karimata Strait en route from Surabaya to Singapore, killing all 162 people aboard.

Births

1164 – Emperor Rokujō of Japan (d. 1176)

1461 – Louise of Savoy, French nun (d. 1503)

1522 – Margaret of Parma (d. 1583)

1619 – Antoine Furetière, French author and scholar (d. 1688)

1651 – Johann Krieger, German organist and composer (d. 1735)

1655 – Charles Cornwallis, 3rd Baron Cornwallis, English politician, Lord Lieutenant of Suffolk (d. 1698)

1665 – George FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Northumberland, English general and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Berkshire (d. 1716)

1722 – Eliza Lucas, Caribbean-American agriculturalist (d. 1793)

1763 – John Molson, English-Canadian brewer, founded the Molson Brewery (d. 1836)

1775 – Jean-Gabriel Eynard, Swiss banker and photographer (d. 1863)

1798 – Thomas Henderson, Scottish astronomer and mathematician (d. 1844)

1818 – Carl Remigius Fresenius, German chemist and academic (d. 1897)

1842 – Calixa Lavallée, Canadian-American lieutenant and composer (d. 1891)

1856 – Woodrow Wilson, American historian and politician, 28th President of the United States, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1924)

1865 – Félix Vallotton, Swiss/French painter (d. 1925)

1870 – Charles Bennett, English runner (d. 1949)

1882 – Arthur Eddington, English astronomer, physicist, and mathematician (d. 1944)

1882 – Lili Elbe, Danish model and painter (d. 1931)

1887 – Werner Kolhörster, German physicist and academic (d. 1946)

1888 – F. W. Murnau, German-American director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1931)

1890 – Quincy Wright, American political scientist, historian, and academic (d. 1970)

1895 – Carol Ryrie Brink, American author and playwright (d. 1981)

1898 – Carl-Gustaf Rossby, Swedish-American meteorologist and academic (d. 1957)

1898 – Shigematsu Sakaibara, Japanese admiral (d. 1947)

1902 – Mortimer J. Adler, American philosopher and author (d. 2001)

1902 – Shen Congwen, Chinese author and educator (d. 1988)

1903 – Earl Hines, American pianist and bandleader (d. 1983)

1903 – John von Neumann, Hungarian-American mathematician and physicist (d. 1957)

1907 – Ze'ev Ben-Haim, Ukrainian-Israeli linguist and academic (d. 2013)

1908 – Lew Ayres, American actor (d. 1996)

1910 – Billy Williams, American singer (d. 1972)

1911 – Wil van Beveren, Dutch sprinter and journalist (d. 2003)

1913 – Lou Jacobi, Canadian-American actor (d. 2009)

1914 – Bidia Dandaron, Russian author and educator (d. 1974)

1914 – Pops Staples, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2000)

1919 – Emily Cheney Neville, American author (d. 1997)

1920 – Tufty Mann, South African cricketer (d. 1952)

1920 – Bruce McCarty, American architect, designed the Knoxville City-County Building (d. 2013)

1920 – Steve Van Buren, Honduran-American football player (d. 2012)

1920 – Al Wistert, American football player and coach (d. 2016)

1921 – Johnny Otis, American singer-songwriter and producer (d. 2012)

1922 – Stan Lee, American publisher, producer, and actor

1925 – Hildegard Knef, German actress and singer (d. 2002)

1925 – Milton Obote, Ugandan engineer and politician, 2nd President of Uganda (d. 2005)

1926 – Donald Carr, German-English cricketer and referee (d. 2016)

1928 – Moe Koffman, Canadian flute player, saxophonist, and composer (d. 2001)

1929 – Brian Redhead, English journalist and author (d. 1994)

1929 – Terry Sawchuk, Canadian-American ice hockey player (d. 1970)

1930 – Mariam A. Aleem, Egyptian illustrator and academic (d. 2010)

1931 – Guy Debord, French theorist and author (d. 1994)

1931 – Martin Milner, American actor (d. 2015)

1932 – Dhirubhai Ambani, Indian businessman, founded Reliance Industries (d. 2002)

1932 – Dorsey Burnette, American singer-songwriter (d. 1979)

1932 – Roy Hattersley, English journalist and politician, Shadow Home Secretary

1932 – Harry Howell, Canadian ice hockey player and coach

1932 – Nichelle Nichols, American actress

1932 – Manuel Puig, Argentinian author and playwright (d. 1990)

1933 – John Y. Brown Jr., American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 55th Governor of Kentucky

1934 – Rudi Faßnacht, German footballer and manager (d. 2000)

1934 – Maggie Smith, English actress

1936 – Alan Coleman, English-Australian director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2013)

1936 – Lawrence Schiller, American journalist, director, and producer

1937 – Ratan Tata, Indian businessman and philanthropist

1938 – Dick Sudhalter, American trumpet player, scholar, and critic (d. 2008)

1939 – Philip Anschutz, American businessman, founded Anschutz Entertainment Group

1939 – Frank McLintock, Scottish footballer and manager

1939 – Michelle Urry, American journalist and illustrator (d. 2006)

1940 – A. K. Antony, Indian lawyer and politician, Indian Minister of Defence

1940 – Don Francisco, Chilean-American journalist and talk show host

1941 – Intikhab Alam, Indian-Pakistani cricketer and coach

1942 – Roger Swerts, Belgian cyclist

1943 – Juan Luis Cipriani Thorne, Peruvian cardinal

1943 – David Peterson, Canadian lawyer and politician, 20th Premier of Ontario

1943 – Joan Ruddock, Welsh politician

1944 – Sandra Faber, American astronomer and academic

1944 – Johnny Isakson, American sergeant and politician

1944 – Kary Mullis, American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate

1944 – Gordon Taylor, English footballer

1945 – Max Hastings, English journalist, historian, and author

1945 – Birendra of Nepal (d. 2001)

1946 – Mike Beebe, American lawyer and politician, 45th Governor of Arkansas

1946 – Pierre Falardeau, Canadian director, screenwriter, and activist (d. 2009)

1946 – Hubert Green, American golfer

1946 – Tim Johnson, American lawyer and politician

1946 – Barbara, Lady Judge, American-English lawyer and businesswoman

1946 – Bill Lee, American baseball player and author

1946 – Laffit Pincay Jr., Panamanian jockey

1946 – Edgar Winter, American singer-songwriter, keyboard player, and producer

1947 – Dick Diamonde, Dutch-Australian rock bass player

1947 – Aurelio Rodríguez, Mexican baseball player, coach, and manager (d. 2000)

1948 – Ziggy Modeliste, American drummer

1950 – Alex Chilton, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2010)

1950 – Clifford Cocks, English mathematician and cryptographer

1950 – Rainer Maria Latzke, German-American painter and academic

1952 – Arun Jaitley, Indian lawyer and politician, 9th Indian Minister of Law and Justice

1952 – Bridget Prentice, Scottish educator and politician

1953 – Richard Clayderman, French pianist

1953 – Tatsumi Fujinami, Japanese wrestler and promoter, founded Dradition wrestling promotion

1953 – Charlie Pierce, American journalist and author

1953 – Martha Wash, American singer-songwriter

1954 – Gayle King, American television journalist

1954 – Denzel Washington, American actor, director, and producer

1955 – Stephen Frost, English comedian, actor, and screenwriter

1955 – Liu Xiaobo, Chinese author, academic, and activist, Nobel Prize laureate

1956 – Nigel Kennedy, English violinist

1958 – Terry Butcher, English footballer and manager

1958 – Curt Byrum, American golfer

1959 – Hansjörg Kunze, German runner and sportscaster

1959 – Daniel Léo Simpson, American composer

1959 – Ana Torroja, Spanish singer-songwriter

1960 – Ray Bourque, Canadian ice hockey player

1960 – John Fitzgerald, Australian tennis player, coach, and sportscaster

1960 – Melvin Turpin, American basketball player (d. 2010)

1961 – Kent Nielsen, Danish footballer and manager

1964 – Tex Perkins, Australian singer-songwriter

1964 – Maite Zúñiga, Spanish runner

1965 – Allar Levandi, Estonian skier

1967 – Chris Ware, American illustrator

1968 – Akihiko Hoshide, Japanese engineer and astronaut

1969 – Linus Torvalds, Finnish-American computer programmer, developed Linux kernel

1970 – Elaine Hendrix, American actress

1970 – James Jett, American sprinter and football player

1970 – Brenda Schultz-McCarthy, Dutch tennis player

1971 – Benny Agbayani, American baseball player

1971 – Anita Doth, Dutch singer-songwriter

1971 – William Gates, American basketball player

1972 – Roberto Palacios, Peruvian footballer

1972 – Patrick Rafter, Australian-Bermudian tennis player and model

1972 – Adam Vinatieri, American football player

1973 – Holger Blume, German sprinter

1973 – Marc Blume, German sprinter

1973 – Seth Meyers, American actor, producer, screenwriter, and talk show host

1973 – Ids Postma, Dutch speed skater

1974 – Rob Niedermayer, Canadian ice hockey player

1974 – Markus Weinzierl, German footballer and manager

1975 – B. J. Ryan, American baseball player

1976 – Ben Tune, Australian rugby player

1976 – Igor Žiković, Croatian footballer

1976 – Trond Nymark, Norwegian race walker

1977 – Derrick Brew, American sprinter

1977 – Shane Elford, Australian rugby league player

1977 – Seun Ogunkoya, Nigerian sprinter

1978 – Chris Coyne, Australian footballer and manager

1978 – John Legend, American singer-songwriter, pianist, and actor

1979 – James Blake, American tennis player

1979 – Senna Guemmour, German singer-songwriter

1979 – Bill Hall, American baseball player

1979 – Noomi Rapace, Swedish actress

1980 – Lomana LuaLua, Congolese footballer

1980 – Ryta Turava, Belarusian race walker

1981 – Narsha, South Korean singer and dancer

1981 – Khalid Boulahrouz, Dutch footballer

1981 – Elizabeth Jordan Carr, American journalist

1981 – Sienna Miller, American-born British actress and fashion designer

1981 – Frank Turner, English singer-songwriter and guitarist

1981 – Mika Väyrynen, Finnish footballer

1982 – Cedric Benson, American football player

1982 – François Gourmet, Belgian decathlete

1982 – Ferry Rotinsulu, Indonesian footballer

1982 – Curtis Glencross, Canadian hockey player

1984 – Martin Kaymer, German golfer

1984 – Leroy Lita, English footballer

1984 – Alex Lloyd, English race car driver

1984 – Duane Solomon, American runner

1985 – Kamani Hill, American soccer player

1986 – Tom Huddlestone, English footballer

1987 – Matthias Schwarz, German footballer

1990 – Ayele Abshero, Ethiopian runner

1990 – Bastiaan Lijesen, Dutch swimmer

1994 – Adam Peaty, English swimmer

Deaths

925 – Wang Zongbi, general of the Chinese state of Former Shu

1218 – Robert II, Count of Dreux (b. 1154)

1297 – Hugh Aycelin, French cardinal (b. 1230)

1326 – Sir David II Strathbogie, Earl of Atholl, Constable of Scotland, and Chief Warden of Northumberland

1367 – Ashikaga Yoshiakira, Japanese shogun (b. 1330)

1394 – Maria Angelina Doukaina Palaiologina, queen of Epirus (b. 1350)

1446 – Antipope Clement VIII (b. 1369)

1491 – Bertoldo di Giovanni, Italian sculptor (b. c. 1435)

1503 – Piero the Unfortunate, Italian ruler (b. 1471)

1558 – Hermann Finck, German organist and composer (b. 1527)

1622 – Francis de Sales, French bishop and saint (b. 1567)

1663 – Francesco Maria Grimaldi, Italian mathematician and physicist (b. 1618)

1671 – Johann Friedrich Gronovius, German scholar and critic (b. 1611)

1694 – Mary II of England (b. 1662)

1706 – Pierre Bayle, French philosopher and author (b. 1647)

1708 – Joseph Pitton de Tournefort, French botanist and mycologist (b. 1656)

1715 – William Carstares, Scottish minister and academic (b. 1649)

1734 – Rob Roy MacGregor, Scottish outlaw (b. 1671)

1736 – Antonio Caldara, Italian composer (b. 1670)

1785 – Peter Ernst Wilde, Polish-Estonian physician and journalist (b. 1732)

1795 – Eugenio Espejo, Ecuadorian physician and lawyer (b. 1747)

1859 – Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay, English historian and politician, Secretary at War (b. 1800)

1872 – James Van Ness, American lawyer and politician, 7th Mayor of San Francisco (b. 1808)

1890 – Dennis Miller Bunker, American painter (b. 1861)

1897 – William Corby, American priest and academic (b. 1833)

1900 – Alexandre de Serpa Pinto, Portuguese soldier and explorer (b. 1846)

1913 – Ahmet Mithat Efendi, Turkish journalist and translator (b. 1844)

1916 – Eduard Strauss, Austrian violinist and composer (b. 1835)

1917 – Alfred Edwin McKay, Canadian captain and pilot (b. 1892)

1918 – Olavo Bilac, Brazilian poet and journalist (b. 1865)

1919 – Johannes Rydberg, Swedish physicist and academic (b. 1854)

1924 – Léon Bakst, Russian painter and costume designer (b. 1866)

1932 – Jack Blackham, Australian cricketer (b. 1854)

1935 – Clarence Day, American author and illustrator (b. 1874)

1937 – Maurice Ravel, French pianist and composer (b. 1875)

1938 – Florence Lawrence, Canadian actress (b. 1886)

1942 – Alfred Flatow, German gymnast (b. 1869)

1943 – Steve Evans, American baseball player (b. 1885)

1945 – Theodore Dreiser, American novelist and journalist (b. 1871)

1946 – Elie Nadelman, Polish-American sculptor (b. 1882)

1947 – Victor Emmanuel III of Italy (b. 1869)

1949 – Jack Lovelock, New Zealand runner and soldier (b. 1910)

1959 – Ante Pavelić, Croatian war criminal, Holocaust/Porajmos perpetrator; Prime Minister of the Independent State of Croatia (b. 1889)

1960 – Philippe Panneton, Canadian physician, academic, and diplomat (b. 1895)

1963 – Paul Hindemith, German violinist, composer, and conductor (b. 1895)

1967 – Katharine McCormick, American biologist and philanthropist (b. 1875)

1968 – David Ogilvy, 12th Earl of Airlie, Scottish peer, soldier and courtier (b. 1893)

1971 – Max Steiner, Austrian-American pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1888)

1976 – Katharine Byron, American politician (b. 1903)

1981 – Allan Dwan, Canadian-American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1885)

1983 – William Demarest, American actor (b. 1892)

1983 – Dennis Wilson, American drummer, songwriter, and producer (b. 1944)

1984 – Sam Peckinpah, American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1925)

1986 – John D. MacDonald, American colonel and author (b. 1916)

1986 – Jan Nieuwenhuys, Dutch painter (b. 1922)

1989 – Hermann Oberth, Romanian-German physicist and engineer (b. 1894)

1990 – Warren Skaaren, American screenwriter and producer (b. 1946)

1992 – Sal Maglie, American baseball player and coach (b. 1917)

1993 – William L. Shirer, American journalist and historian (b. 1904)

1994 – Jean-Louis Lévesque, Canadian businessman and philanthropist (b. 1911)

1999 – Clayton Moore, American actor (b. 1914)

2001 – Samuel Abraham Goldblith, American lieutenant, biologist, and engineer (b. 1919)

2001 – William X. Kienzle, American priest and author (b. 1928)

2003 – Benjamin Thurman Hacker, American admiral (b. 1935)

2004 – Jerry Orbach, American actor and singer (b. 1935)

2004 – Susan Sontag, American novelist, essayist, critic, and playwright (b. 1933)

2006 – Jamal Karimi-Rad, Iranian politician, Iranian Minister of Justice (b. 1956)

2008 – Irene Lieblich, Polish-American painter and illustrator (b. 1923)

2010 – Billy Taylor, American pianist and composer (b. 1921)

2012 – Nicholas Ambraseys, Greek-English seismologist and engineer (b. 1929)

2012 – Mark Crispin, American computer scientist and academic, designed the IMAP (b. 1956)

2012 – Václav Drobný, Czech footballer (b. 1980)

2012 – Frankie Walsh, Irish hurler and manager (b. 1936)

2013 – Halton Arp, American-German astronomer and critic (b. 1927)

2013 – Esther Borja, Cuban soprano and actress (b. 1913)

2013 – Harry C. Goode Jr., American soldier and politician, 51st Mayor of Melbourne, Florida (b. 1938)

2013 – Andrew Jacobs, Jr., American soldier, lawyer, and politician (b. 1932)

2013 – Alfred Marshall, American businessman, founded Marshalls (b. 1919)

2013 – Joseph Ruskin, American actor and producer (b. 1924)

2013 – Ilya Tsymbalar, Ukrainian-Russian footballer and manager (b. 1969)

2014 – Vahan Hovhannisyan, Armenian politician (b. 1956)

2014 – Frankie Randall, American singer-songwriter (b. 1938)

2015 – John Bradbury, English drummer and songwriter (b. 1953)

2015 – Eloy Inos, Mariana Islander businessman and politician, 8th Governor of the Northern Mariana Islands (b. 1949)

2016 – Debbie Reynolds, American actress, singer and dancer (b. 1932)

2016 – Jean-Christophe Victor, French political scientist (b. 1947)

Holidays and observances

Christian feast day:

Abel (Coptic Church)

Caterina Volpicelli

Feast of the Holy Innocents or Childermas; in Spain and Latin American countries the festival is celebrated with pranks (inocentadas), similar to April Fools' Day (Catholic Church, Church of England, Lutheran Church), and its related observances:

Els Enfarinats (Ibi, Spain)

December 28 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

King Taksin Memorial Day (Thailand)

Proclamation Day (South Australia), celebration started on the day following Christmas (South Australia)

Republic Day (South Sudan)

The fourth of the Twelve Days of Christmas (Western Christianity)

The third day of Kwanzaa

References

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