December 28 All Events |
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| December 28th, 2007 (December 28 2007) | Event | Nepal declared a federal democratic Republic by interim parliament, abolishing the monarchy. | |
| December 28th, 2007 (December 28 2007) | Death | Benazir Bhutto, Pakistani Prime Minister (born in 1953) | |
| December 28th, 2006 (December 28 2006) | Death | Jamal Karimi-Rad, Iranian Minister of Justice (born in 1956) | |
| December 28th, 2005 (December 28 2005) | Event | A U.S. immigration judge orders John Demjanjuk deported to Ukraine for crimes against humanity committed during World War II. | |
| December 28th, 2004 (December 28 2004) | Death | Jerry Orbach, American actor (born in 1935) | |
| December 28th, 2004 (December 28 2004) | Death | Susan Sontag, American writer (born in 1933) | Susan Sontag Quotes |
| December 28th, 2003 (December 28 2003) | Death | Benjamin Hacker, American admiral (born in 1935) | |
| December 28th, 2001 (December 28 2001) | Death | Samuel A. Goldblith, American food scientist (born in 1919) | |
| December 28th, 2001 (December 28 2001) | Death | William X. Kienzle, American novelist (born in 1928) | |
| December 28th, 2000 (December 28 2000) | Event | U.S. retail giant Montgomery Ward announces it is going out of business after 128 years. | |
| December 28th, 1999 (December 28 1999) | Event | Saparmurat Niyazov is proclaimed President for Life in Turkmenistan. | |
| December 28th, 1999 (December 28 1999) | Death | Clayton Moore, American actor (born in 1914) | |
| December 28th, 1994 (December 28 1994) | Death | Jean-Louis Levesque, French Canadian entrepreneur (born in 1911) | |
| December 28th, 1993 (December 28 1993) | Death | William L. Shirer, American journalist (born in 1904) | |
| December 28th, 1992 (December 28 1992) | Death | Sal Maglie, American baseball player (born in 1917) | |
| December 28th, 1991 (December 28 1991) | Death | Cassandra Harris, Australian actress (born in 1952) | |
| December 28th, 1990 (December 28 1990) | Birth | David Archuleta, runner-up of season 7 American Idol | |
| December 28th, 1989 (December 28 1989) | Event | A magnitude 5.6 earthquake hits Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia, killing 13 people. | |
| December 28th, 1989 (December 28 1989) | Birth | Mackenzie Rosman, American actress | |
| December 28th, 1989 (December 28 1989) | Death | Hermann Oberth, German physicist (born in 1894) | |
| December 28th, 1987 (December 28 1987) | Birth | Thomas Dekker, American actor | Thomas Dekker Quotes |
| December 28th, 1986 (December 28 1986) | Birth | Tom Huddlestone, English footballer | |
| December 28th, 1986 (December 28 1986) | Death | Andrei Tarkovsky, Russian film director (born in 1932) | |
| December 28th, 1985 (December 28 1985) | Birth | Kamani Hill, American footballer | |
| December 28th, 1984 (December 28 1984) | Birth | Leroy Lita, English footballer | |
| December 28th, 1984 (December 28 1984) | Birth | Alex Lloyd, British racing driver | |
| December 28th, 1984 (December 28 1984) | Birth | Beverly Mullins, American Wrestler/Model | |
| December 28th, 1984 (December 28 1984) | Death | Sam Peckinpah, American film director (born in 1925) | |
| December 28th, 1983 (December 28 1983) | Birth | Mike He, Taiwanese actor | |
| December 28th, 1983 (December 28 1983) | Death | William Demarest, American actor (born in 1892) | |
| December 28th, 1983 (December 28 1983) | Death | Jimmy Demaret, American golfer (born in 1910) | |
| December 28th, 1983 (December 28 1983) | Death | Dennis Wilson, American musician (The Beach Boys) (born in 1944) | |
| December 28th, 1982 (December 28 1982) | Birth | Cedric Benson, American footballer | |
| December 28th, 1982 (December 28 1982) | Birth | Francois Gourmet, Belgian decathlete | |
| December 28th, 1982 (December 28 1982) | Birth | Kevin Pereira, American television host | |
| December 28th, 1982 (December 28 1982) | Birth | Quinton Porter, American footballer | |
| December 28th, 1981 (December 28 1981) | Event | The first American test-tube baby, Elizabeth Jordan Carr, is born in Norfolk, Virginia. | |
| December 28th, 1981 (December 28 1981) | Birth | Elizabeth Jordan Carr, American Test-Tube Baby | |
| December 28th, 1981 (December 28 1981) | Birth | Sienna Miller, British actress | |
| December 28th, 1981 (December 28 1981) | Birth | Khalid Boulahrouz, Dutch footballer | |
| December 28th, 1981 (December 28 1981) | Birth | Mika Vayrynen, Finnish footballer | |
| December 28th, 1981 (December 28 1981) | Death | Allan Dwan, Canadian-born film director (born in 1885) | |
| December 28th, 1980 (December 28 1980) | Birth | Lomana LuaLua, Congo footballer | |
| December 28th, 1980 (December 28 1980) | Birth | Vanessa Ferlito, American actress | |
| December 28th, 1979 (December 28 1979) | Birth | James Blake, American tennis player | |
| December 28th, 1979 (December 28 1979) | Birth | Bill Hall, American baseball player | |
| December 28th, 1979 (December 28 1979) | Birth | Senna Guemmour, German Singer (Monrose) | |
| December 28th, 1978 (December 28 1978) | Birth | Chris Coyne, Australian footballer | |
| December 28th, 1978 (December 28 1978) | Birth | John Legend, American musician | |
| December 28th, 1977 (December 28 1977) | Birth | Shane Elford, Australian rugby league player | |
| December 28th, 1976 (December 28 1976) | Death | Katharine Byron, American politician (born in 1903) | |
| December 28th, 1976 (December 28 1976) | Death | Freddie King, American musician (born in 1934) | |
| December 28th, 1975 (December 28 1975) | Birth | B.J. Ryan, American baseball player | |
| December 28th, 1974 (December 28 1974) | Event | Senegalese marxist group Reenu-Rew founds the political movement And-Jef at a clandestine congress. | |
| December 28th, 1974 (December 28 1974) | Birth | Jason Ridge, American porn actor | |
| December 28th, 1974 (December 28 1974) | Birth | Rob Niedermayer, Canadian-born icehockey player. | |
| December 28th, 1973 (December 28 1973) | Event | The Endangered Species Act is passed in the United States. | |
| December 28th, 1973 (December 28 1973) | Birth | Alex Dimitriades, Australian actor | |
| December 28th, 1973 (December 28 1973) | Birth | Herborg Krakevik, Norwegian singer and actress | |
| December 28th, 1973 (December 28 1973) | Birth | Seth Meyers, American actor | |
| December 28th, 1972 (December 28 1972) | Birth | Patrick Rafter, Australian tennis player | |
| December 28th, 1972 (December 28 1972) | Birth | Roberto Palacios, Peruvian footballer | |
| December 28th, 1972 (December 28 1972) | Birth | Adam Vinatieri, American football player | |
| December 28th, 1972 (December 28 1972) | Birth | Kevin Walker, American soccer player | |
| December 28th, 1971 (December 28 1971) | Birth | Frank Sepe, American bodybuilder | |
| December 28th, 1971 (December 28 1971) | Birth | Benny Agbayani, American baseball player | |
| December 28th, 1971 (December 28 1971) | Death | Max Steiner, Austrian-born American film music composer (born in 1888) | |
| December 28th, 1970 (December 28 1970) | Birth | Francesca Le, American porn star | |
| December 28th, 1969 (December 28 1969) | Birth | Linus Torvalds, Finnish computer programmer | Linus Torvalds Quotes |
| December 28th, 1967 (December 28 1967) | Birth | Chris Ware, American cartoonist | |
| December 28th, 1967 (December 28 1967) | Death | Katharine McCormick, American women s rights activist (born in 1875) | |
| December 28th, 1967 (December 28 1967) | Death | Otis Redding, Black American soul singer (born in 1941) | |
| December 28th, 1964 (December 28 1964) | Birth | Maite Zuniga, Spanish athlete | |
| December 28th, 1963 (December 28 1963) | Death | Paul Hindemith, German composer (born in 1895) | |
| December 28th, 1962 (December 28 1962) | Birth | Rachel Z, American pianist | |
| December 28th, 1962 (December 28 1962) | Birth | Michel Petrucciani, French pianist (died in 1999) | |
| December 28th, 1962 (December 28 1962) | Birth | Melissa R. Kelly, former Maryland politician | |
| December 28th, 1962 (December 28 1962) | Death | Kathleen Clifford, American actress (born in 1887) | |
| December 28th, 1961 (December 28 1961) | Birth | Kent Nielsen, Danish footballer and football coach | |
| December 28th, 1960 (December 28 1960) | Birth | Raymond Bourque, Canadian hockey player | |
| December 28th, 1959 (December 28 1959) | Birth | Ana Torroja, Spanish singer (Mecano) | |
| December 28th, 1959 (December 28 1959) | Birth | Phil Abrams, American actor | |
| December 28th, 1959 (December 28 1959) | Death | Ante Pavelic, leader of Nazi Germany puppet Independent State of Croatia (born in 1889) | |
| December 28th, 1957 (December 28 1957) | Birth | Anne Sargeant, Australian netballer | |
| December 28th, 1956 (December 28 1956) | Birth | Nigel Kennedy, British violinist | |
| December 28th, 1954 (December 28 1954) | Birth | Denzel Washington, American actor | Denzel Washington Quotes |
| December 28th, 1953 (December 28 1953) | Birth | Richard Clayderman, French pianist | |
| December 28th, 1952 (December 28 1952) | Birth | Arun Jaitley, Indian Politician | |
| December 28th, 1952 (December 28 1952) | Death | Fletcher Henderson, American musician (born in 1897) | |
| December 28th, 1951 (December 28 1951) | Birth | Ian Buruma, Anglo-Dutch scholar and writer on Japan and the Far East. | |
| December 28th, 1950 (December 28 1950) | Event | The Peak District becomes the United Kingdom s first National Park. | |
| December 28th, 1950 (December 28 1950) | Birth | Alex Chilton, American musician (Box Tops) | |
| December 28th, 1950 (December 28 1950) | Birth | Oivind Blunck, Norwegian comedian and actor | |
| December 28th, 1949 (December 28 1949) | Death | Jack Lovelock, New Zealand athlete (born in 1910) | |
| December 28th, 1948 (December 28 1948) | Event | The DC-3 airliner NC16002 disappears 50 miles south of Miami, Florida. | |
| December 28th, 1947 (December 28 1947) | Birth | Aurelio Rodriguez, Mexican baseball player (died in 2000) | |
| December 28th, 1947 (December 28 1947) | Death | King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy (born in 1869) | |
| December 28th, 1946 (December 28 1946) | Birth | Edgar Winter, American musician | |
| December 28th, 1946 (December 28 1946) | Birth | Pierre Falardeau, Quebec film director | |
| December 28th, 1946 (December 28 1946) | Birth | Tim Johnson, American politician, senior senator from South Dakota | |
| December 28th, 1945 (December 28 1945) | Event | The Congress of the United States officially recognizes the Pledge of Allegiance. | |
| December 28th, 1945 (December 28 1945) | Death | Theodore Dreiser, American author (born in 1871) | Theodore Dreiser Quotes |
| December 28th, 1944 (December 28 1944) | Birth | Johnny Isakson, American politician | |
| December 28th, 1944 (December 28 1944) | Birth | Kary Mullis, American chemist, Nobel laureate | |
| December 28th, 1943 (December 28 1943) | Birth | Richard Whiteley, British television presenter (died in 2005) | |
| December 28th, 1943 (December 28 1943) | Birth | David Peterson, Canadian politician | |
| December 28th, 1943 (December 28 1943) | Death | Steve Evans, American baseball player (born in 1885) | Evans Quotes |
| December 28th, 1940 (December 28 1940) | Birth | Don Francisco, Chilean television host | |
| December 28th, 1939 (December 28 1939) | Event | First flight of the Consolidated XB-24 Liberator bomber prototype. | |
| December 28th, 1939 (December 28 1939) | Birth | Philip Anschutz, American businessman | |
| December 28th, 1938 (December 28 1938) | Birth | Dick Sudhalter, American jazz musician | |
| December 28th, 1938 (December 28 1938) | Death | Florence Lawrence, American actress (born in 1886) | |
| December 28th, 1937 (December 28 1937) | Birth | Ratan Tata, Indian industrialist | |
| December 28th, 1937 (December 28 1937) | Death | Maurice Ravel, French composer (born in 1875) | |
| December 28th, 1936 (December 28 1936) | Birth | Jacques Mesrine, French criminal (died in 1979) | |
| December 28th, 1936 (December 28 1936) | Birth | Lawrence Schiller, American journalist | |
| December 28th, 1935 (December 28 1935) | Event | Pravda publishes a letter by Pavel Postyshev, who revives New Year tree tradition in the Soviet Union. | |
| December 28th, 1934 (December 28 1934) | Birth | Dame Maggie Smith, British actress | |
| December 28th, 1934 (December 28 1934) | Birth | Yujiro Ishihara, Japanese actor (died in 1987) | |
| December 28th, 1933 (December 28 1933) | Birth | John Y. Brown, Jr., American politician | |
| December 28th, 1932 (December 28 1932) | Birth | Dhirubhai Ambani, Indian businessman (died in 2002) | |
| December 28th, 1932 (December 28 1932) | Birth | Dorsey Burnette, American singer (died in 1979) | |
| December 28th, 1932 (December 28 1932) | Birth | Roy Hattersley, British politician | Roy Hattersley Quotes |
| December 28th, 1932 (December 28 1932) | Birth | Harry Howell, Canadian hockey player | |
| December 28th, 1932 (December 28 1932) | Birth | Nichelle Nichols, American actress and singer | |
| December 28th, 1932 (December 28 1932) | Birth | Manuel Puig, Argentine writer (died in 1990) | |
| December 28th, 1932 (December 28 1932) | Death | Jack Blackham, Australian cricketer (born in 1854) | |
| December 28th, 1931 (December 28 1931) | Birth | Guy Debord, French writer (died in 1994) | |
| December 28th, 1929 (December 28 1929) | Event | "Black Saturday" in Samoa: New Zealand colonial police kill 11 unarmed demonstrators, an event which leads the Mau movement to demand independence for Samoa.[1] | |
| December 28th, 1929 (December 28 1929) | Birth | Brian Redhead, British journalist (died in 1994) | |
| December 28th, 1929 (December 28 1929) | Birth | Terry Sawchuk, Canadian hockey player (died in 1970) | |
| December 28th, 1928 (December 28 1928) | Birth | Moe Koffman, Canadian musician (died in 2001) | |
| December 28th, 1925 (December 28 1925) | Birth | Hildegard Knef, German actress (died in 2002) | |
| December 28th, 1924 (December 28 1924) | Birth | Milton Obote, President of Uganda (died in 2005) | |
| December 28th, 1924 (December 28 1924) | Death | Leon Bakst, Russian artist (born in 1866) | |
| December 28th, 1922 (December 28 1922) | Birth | Stan Lee, American comic book writer | Stan Lee Quotes |
| December 28th, 1919 (December 28 1919) | Death | Johannes Rydberg, Swedish physicist (born in 1854) | |
| December 28th, 1918 (December 28 1918) | Death | Olavo Bilac, Brazilian poet (born in 1865) | |
| December 28th, 1917 (December 28 1917) | Death | Alfred Edwin McKay, Canadian World War One flying ace (born in 1892) | |
| December 28th, 1916 (December 28 1916) | Death | Eduard Strauss, Austrian composer (born in 1835) | |
| December 28th, 1915 (December 28 1915) | Birth | Pops Staples, American musician (The Staple Singers) (died in 2000) | |
| December 28th, 1914 (December 28 1914) | Birth | Bernard Youens, English actor (died in 1984) | |
| December 28th, 1913 (December 28 1913) | Birth | Lou Jacobi, Canadian actor | |
| December 28th, 1912 (December 28 1912) | Event | The first municipally owned streetcars take to the streets in San Francisco, California. | |
| December 28th, 1910 (December 28 1910) | Birth | Billy Williams, American singer (died in 1972) | |
| December 28th, 1908 (December 28 1908) | Event | An earthquake rocks Messina, Sicily killing over 75,000. | |
| December 28th, 1908 (December 28 1908) | Birth | Lew Ayres, American actor (died in 1996) | |
| December 28th, 1905 (December 28 1905) | Birth | Cliff Arquette, American actor (died in 1974) | |
| December 28th, 1903 (December 28 1903) | Birth | Earl Hines, American musician (died in 1983) | |
| December 28th, 1903 (December 28 1903) | Birth | John von Neumann, Hungarian-born mathematician (died in 1957) | |
| December 28th, 1902 (December 28 1902) | Birth | Mortimer Adler, American philosopher (died in 2001) | Philo Quotes |
| December 28th, 1902 (December 28 1902) | Birth | Shen Congwen, Chinese writer (died in 1988) | |
| December 28th, 1900 (December 28 1900) | Death | Alexandre Alberto da Rocha de Serpa Pinto, Portuguese explorer (born in 1846) | |
| December 28th, 1899 (December 28 1899) | Birth | Eugeniusz Bodo, Polish actor (died in 1943) | |
| December 28th, 1898 (December 28 1898) | Birth | Carl-Gustaf Rossby, Swedish meteorologist (died in 1957) | |
| December 28th, 1898 (December 28 1898) | Birth | Shigematsu Sakaibara, Japanese admiral (died in 1947) | |
| December 28th, 1897 (December 28 1897) | Death | Rev. William Corby, American Catholic priest (born in 1833) | |
| December 28th, 1895 (December 28 1895) | Event | The Lumiere brothers have their first paying audience at the Grand Cafe in Boulevard des Capucines marking the debut of the cinema. | |
| December 28th, 1888 (December 28 1888) | Birth | Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau, German film director (died in 1931) | |
| December 28th, 1882 (December 28 1882) | Birth | Arthur Stanley Eddington, British astronomer (died in 1944) | Arthur Stanley Eddington Quotes |
| December 28th, 1879 (December 28 1879) | Event | The Tay Bridge Disaster: The central part of the Tay Rail Bridge in Dundee, Scotland collapses as a train passed over it, killing 75. | |
| December 28th, 1879 (December 28 1879) | Birth | Billy Mitchell, American military aviation pioneer (died in 1936) | |
| December 28th, 1877 (December 28 1877) | Death | Nikolai Alekseevich Nekrasov, Russian poet (born in 1821) | |
| December 28th, 1872 (December 28 1872) | Death | James Van Ness, Mayor of San Francisco (1855-1856) (born in 1808) | |
| December 28th, 1867 (December 28 1867) | Event | United States claims Midway Island, the first territory annexed outside Continental limits. | |
| December 28th, 1866 (December 28 1866) | Birth | Szymon Askenazy, Polish historian and diplomat (died in 1935) | |
| December 28th, 1859 (December 28 1859) | Death | Thomas Macaulay, British poet (born in 1800) | |
| December 28th, 1856 (December 28 1856) | Birth | Woodrow Wilson, 28th President of the United States, Nobel laureate (died in 1924) | |
| December 28th, 1846 (December 28 1846) | Event | Iowa is admitted as the 29th U.S. state. | |
| December 28th, 1842 (December 28 1842) | Birth | Calixa Lavallee, French-Canadian composer (O Canada) (died in 1891) | |
| December 28th, 1836 (December 28 1836) | Event | South Australia and Adelaide are founded. | |
| December 28th, 1836 (December 28 1836) | Event | Spain recognizes the independence of Mexico. | |
| December 28th, 1835 (December 28 1835) | Event | Osceola leads his Seminole warriors in Florida into the Second Seminole War against the United States Army. | |
| December 28th, 1832 (December 28 1832) | Event | John C. Calhoun becomes the first Vice President of the United States to resign. | John C. Calhoun Quotes |
| December 28th, 1795 (December 28 1795) | Death | Eugenio Espejo, Ecuadorian scientist (born in 1747) | |
| December 28th, 1778 (December 28 1778) | Birth | Franciszek Ksawery Drucki-Lubecki, Polish politician (died in 1846) | |
| December 28th, 1763 (December 28 1763) | Birth | John Molson, English-born Canadian brewer (died in 1836) | |
| December 28th, 1736 (December 28 1736) | Death | Antonio Caldara, Italian composer (born in 1670) | |
| December 28th, 1734 (December 28 1734) | Death | Robert Roy MacGregor, Scottish folk hero (born in 1671) | Robert Roy MacGregor Quotes |
| December 28th, 1715 (December 28 1715) | Death | William Carstares, Scottish minister (born in 1649) | |
| December 28th, 1708 (December 28 1708) | Death | Joseph Pitton de Tournefort, French botanist (born in 1656) | |
| December 28th, 1706 (December 28 1706) | Death | Pierre Bayle, French philosopher (born in 1647) | Philo Quotes |
| December 28th, 1703 (December 28 1703) | Death | Mustafa II, Ottoman Sultan (born in 1664) | |
| December 28th, 1694 (December 28 1694) | Death | Queen Mary II of England (born in 1662), of the famed joint monarchy William and Mary. | |
| December 28th, 1671 (December 28 1671) | Death | Johann Friedrich Gronovius, German classical scholar (born in 1611) | |
| December 28th, 1665 (December 28 1665) | Birth | George FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Northumberland, British general (died in 1716) | |
| December 28th, 1663 (December 28 1663) | Death | Francesco Maria Grimaldi, Italian mathematician and physicist (born in 1618) | |
| December 28th, 1655 (December 28 1655) | Birth | Charles Cornwallis, 3rd Baron Cornwallis, First Lord of the British Admiralty (died in 1698) | |
| December 28th, 1635 (December 28 1635) | Birth | Princess Elizabeth of England (died in 1650) | |
| December 28th, 1622 (December 28 1622) | Death | Francis de Sales, Bishop of Geneva and saint (born in 1567) | Francis de Sales Quotes |
| December 28th, 1619 (December 28 1619) | Birth | Antoine Furetiere, French writer (died in 1688) | |
| December 28th, 1612 (December 28 1612) | Event | Galileo Galilei becomes the first astronomer to observe the planet Neptune, although he mistakenly catalogued it as a fixed star. | Galileo Galilei Quotes |
| December 28th, 1558 (December 28 1558) | Death | Hermann Finck, German composer (born in 1527) | |
| December 28th, 1522 (December 28 1522) | Birth | Margaret of Austria, regent of the Netherlands (died in 1583) | |
| December 28th, 1503 (December 28 1503) | Death | Piero di Lorenzo de Medici, ruler of Florence (born in 1471) | |
| December 28th, 1446 (December 28 1446) | Death | Antipope Clement VIII | |
| December 28th, 1367 (December 28 1367) | Death | Ashikaga Yoshiakira, Japanese shogun (born in 1330) | |
| December 28th, 1308 (December 28 1308) | Event | The reign of Emperor Hanazono, emperor of Japan, begins. | |
| December 28th, 1164 (December 28 1164) | Birth | Emperor Rokujo of Japan (died in 1176) | |
| December 28th, 1065 (December 28 1065) | Event | Westminster Abbey is consecrated. | |
| December 28th, 0300 (December 28 0300) | Death | Theonas, Patriarch of Alexandria | |
