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- 0418 St Boniface I begins his reign as Catholic Pope
- 1065 Westminster Abbey is consecrated.
- 1308 The reign of Emperor Hanazono, emperor of Japan, begins.
- 1612 Galileo Galilei becomes the first astronomer to observe the planet Neptune, although he mistakenly catalogued it as a fixed star.
- 1694 Queen Mary II of England dies of smallpox after five years of joint rule with her husband, King William III.
- 1816 American Colonization Society organizes
- 1832 John C. Calhoun becomes the first Vice President of the United States to resign.
- 1832 John Calhoun becomes first VP to resign (differences with President Jackson)
- 1835 Osceola leads 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 the independence of Mexico.
- 1837 Upper Canada Governor Francis Bond Head 1793-1875 approves raising of six regiments of incorporated militia to head off potential rebellion
- 1846 Iowa becomes 29th state
- 1846 Iowa is admitted as the 29th U.S. state.
- 1849 M Jolly-Bellin discovers dry-cleaning, he accidentally upset lamp containing turpentine & oil on his clothing & sees cleaning effect
- 1850 Rangoon, Burma, destroyed by fire
- 1859 William Coldwell and William Buckingham publish first issue of The Nor'Wester at Fort Garry
- 1867 United States claims Midway Island, first territory annexed outside Continental limits.
- 1869 The Knights of Labor, a union of Philadelphia, PA tailors, hold the first Labor Day ceremonies in the US.
- 1869 William E. Semple of Mount Vernon, Ohio patents chewing gum.
- 1869 William Finley Semple of Mount Vernon OH, patents chewing gum
- 1877 John Stevens, WI, applies for patent on flour rolling mill
- 1879 North British Railway's train falls as Firth bridge collapses (Scot)
- 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.
- 1887 Sir John Layton Jarvis, first British race horse trainer knighted
- 1895 The Lumire brothers have their first paying audience at the Grand Cafe in Boulevard des Capucines marking the debut of the cinema.
- 1897 Edmond Rostand's play, Cyrano de Bergerac, premieres in Paris.
- 1902 The first indoor professional American football game is played in New York City at Madison Square Garden.
- 1902 Trans-Pacific cable links Hawaii to US
- 1906 Ecuador adopts its constitution
- 1908 An earthquake rocks Messina, Sicily killing over 75,000.
- 1908 Over 100,000 people die when a massive earthquake and resulting tsunami flattens Messina, Italy.
- 1912 San Francisco Municipal Railway starts operation at Geary St (MUNI)
- 1912 The first municipally owned streetcars take to the streets in San Francisco.
- 1915 San Francisco City Hall dedicated by Mayor James Rolph
- 1926 Imperial Airways begins England-India mail & passenger service
- 1929 Wilfred Wop May 1896-1952 flies first official air mail north to Aklavik NWT
- 1932 Henry Vernon 'Harry' Howell hockey player, defenseman, was born at Hamilton, Ontario
- 1934 Stalin used the assassination of an aide as an opportunity to execute more than one hundred officials, beginning a series of purges that eliminated most of the old Bolsheviks
- 1935 Pravda publishes a letter by Pavel Postyshev, who revives New Year tree tradition in the Soviet Union.
- 1935 W.P.A. Federal Art Project Gallery opens in NYC
- 1942 Robert Sullivan becomes first pilot to fly the Atlantic 100 times
- 1943 Canadian troops enter the medieval town of Ortona after a week of battling enemy paratroopers in house to house fighting; Germans moved out quickly the night before when they were in danger of being cut off
- 1944 The Broadway musical On the Town opens in New York City.
- 1945 Congress officially recognizes "Pledge of Allegiance"
- 1945 The President directed that the Coast Guard be transferred from the Navy and returned to the jurisdiction of the Treasury Department.
- 1945 The U.S. Congress officially recognizes the Pledge of Allegiance.
- 1948 The DC-3 airliner NC16002 disappears 50 miles south of Miami, Florida.
- 1948 The IDF crosses the Egyptian border
- 1949 Visitor posting - Famous Nurse Practitioner Christopher Mark Johnson RN, FNP born this date. - USA
- 1949 Visitor posting - John Wesley Wright Jr was born in Philadelphia Pa, USA
- 1950 Chinese troops cross 38th Parallel, into South Korea
- 1950 The Peak District becomes the United Kingdom's first National Park.
- 1957 The two-millionth Volkswagen was finished on this day in 1957
- 1959 Jazz pianist Bill Evans records the album Portrait in Jazz with his newly formed Bill Evans Trio.
- 1959 Visitor posting - Everett Gaynor Hart Jr. was born
- 1960 Raymond Bourque hockey player, was born at Montreal, Quebec
- 1961 Number one hit on UK music charts - Danny Williams - Moon River
- 1966 13 die in a train crash in Everett Mass
- 1968 100,000 attend Miami Pop Festival
- 1968 Beatles' "Beatles-The White Album," goes #1 & stays #1 for 9 weeks
- 1969 Visitor posting - Dec. 28, 1969 Elva Altizer was born in Cleveland Ohio - USA
- 1970 Paul Rose, his brother Jacques Rose, and Francis Simard captured at 4;30 am in tunnel under farmhouse near Montreal; suspected FLQ terrorists, kidnappers and murderers of Quebec Labour Minister Pierre Laporte
- 1971 Visitor posting - Musician Alex Vieira was born on this day! - USA
- 1973 Gulag Archipelago, an expose' of the Soviet prison system, is published by Alexander Solzhenitsyn.
- 1973 The Endangered Species Act is passed in the United States.
- 1974 More than 5,200 people killed in Pakistan earthquake
- 1974 Senegalese marxist group Reenu-Rew founds the political movement And-Jf at a clandestine congress.
- 1975 Rob Niedermayer hockey player, was born at Cassiar, British Columbia
- 1981 Elizabeth Jordan Carr, the first US test-tube baby, is born in Norfolk, Virginia.
- 1981 The first American test-tube baby, Elizabeth Jordan Carr, is born in Norfolk, Virginia.
- 1983 Visitor posting - Bryan Christopher Leigh was born - USA
- 1984 TV soap "The Edge of Night" ends 28 year run
- 1985 Number one hit on UK music charts - Shakin' Stevens - Merry Christmas Everyone
- 1985 Visitor posting - Kevin & Tony Cockerell Born Bracknell UK
- 1985 Warring Lebanese Moslem & Christian leaders sign peace agreement
- 1987 In Arkansas R Gene Simmons kills 16
- 1988 US 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals affirms Yonkers is guilty of racism
- 1989 A magnitude 5.6 earthquake hits Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia, killing 13 people.
- 1990 2 die in a NYC subway accident
- 1991 Irene the Icon of the Greek Orthodox church returns after being stolen
- 1991 Ted Turner is named Time Magazine Man of the Year
- 1993 Timmins, Ontario country singer Shania Twain marries her producer Robert John "Mutt& Lang.
- 1998 Visitor posting - michael kelly in st.aidan's was born on the 28 december - Ireland
- 1999 Clayton Moore, star of the 1950s TV show The Lone Ranger, dies in Los Angeles at age 85.dec29
- 1999 Saparmurat Niyazov is proclaimed President for Life in Turkmenistan.
- 2000 Montgomery Ward announces it is closing 250 stores and laying off 37,000 workers
- 2000 U.S. retail giant Montgomery Ward announces it is going out of business after 128 years.
- 2003 Visitor posting - Jaci A. Doucet was born
- 2005 A U.S. immigration judge orders John Demjanjuk deported to Ukraine for crimes against humanity committed during World War II
- 2006 Visitor posting - December 28 2006 Kaya Faith was born
- 2009 25 dead and dozens injured in a suicide bombing on a Shia procession on the day of Ashura, in Karachi, Pakistan.
- 2009 77-year-old Japanese Finance Minister Hirohisa Fujii is hospitalised after suffering from high blood pressure and fatigue.
- 2009 A Vietnamese court sentences a former dissident army officer, Tran Anh Kim, to five years in prison on charges of subverting the government.
- 2009 A mine explosion in Shuangbai County, Yunnan causes more deaths to add to those from a similar incident in Jiexiu, Shanxi yesterday, bringing the total deaths for the two incidents to 17, with six other people still trapped.
- 2009 At least 10 people die and 19 others are injured when more than 100 vehicles smash into each other near Poyang Lake in Jiangxi, China.
- 2009 At least 2,000 hectares and 20 homes are destroyed and hundreds of people are evacuated after a suspected arson causes forest fires in Valparaíso, Chile.
- 2009 At least 25 people are confirmed wounded after battles over a fatal stabbing between local people and gold miners from Brazil in Albina, Suriname.
- 2009 Authorities in Guangdong, China shut down a battery factory and commence health checks of all children in the region after it is discovered that dozens of poisoned children had high levels of lead in their blood.
- 2009 China donates 1.1 million dollars to an irrigation project in Guantánamo Province, Cuba.
- 2009 Clashes between joint military-police forces and an Islamic sect in Bauchi, Nigeria, result in at least 35 deaths.
- 2009 Construction begins on China's largest civil aircraft final assembly base in Shanghai.
- 2009 Iran declares martial law in Najafabad following a week of protest and 2 days of violence.
- 2009 Ireland's most senior Cardinal, Cahal Daly, is reported to be "seriously ill" in hospital.
- 2009 One woman dies and at least 18 people are injured after a bus overturns in Gorey, Ireland. An ambulance also overturns.
- 2009 President of Venezuela Hugo Chávez quotes Mary and Karl Marx in a New Year message broadcast by state media, describing an end to the "illusion" of Barack Obama and predicting a global ecological disaster.
- 2009 Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin opens the Eastern Siberia – Pacific Ocean oil pipeline.
- 2009 Security forces in Iran arrest several opposition figures after recent demonstrations.
- 2009 Seven people die in a series of avalanche incidents in Italy.
- 2009 Thailand begins repatriating 4,000 Hmong to Laos against their will, despite international protest.
- 2009 Three people are dead and two are seriously injured following a fuel tanker crash and explosion near Batemans Bay, on the south coast of New South Wales, Australia.
- 2009 Three people die and two others are injured when a bomb suspected to have come from Nepal's civil war explodes in Chitwan, southwest of Kathmandu.
- 2009 Two Argentine men become the first gay couple to legally marry in Latin America at a civil ceremony.
- 2009 Xinhua News Agency says China has rescued 25 sailors and the De Xin Hai, the hijacked Chinese cargo ship, two months after they were seized off Somalia.
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