Historical Events on 28 Dec

Historical Events on 28 Dec

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.
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 - Spain recognizes the independence of Mexico.
1836 - South Australia and Adelaide are founded.
1846 - Iowa is admitted as the 29th U.S. state.
1867 - United States claims Midway Island, the first territory annexed outside Continental limits.
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.
1895 - The Lumière brothers have their first paying audience at the Grand Cafe in Boulevard des Capucines marking the debut of the cinema.
1908 - An earthquake rocks Messina, Sicily killing over 75,000.
1912 - The first municipally owned streetcars take to the streets in San Francisco, California.
1929 - "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]
1935 - Pravda publishes a letter by Pavel Postyshev, who revives New Year tree tradition in the Soviet Union.
1939 - First flight of the Consolidated XB-24 Liberator bomber prototype.
1945 - The Congress of the United States 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.
1973 - The Endangered Species Act is passed in the United States.
1974 - Senegalese marxist group Reenu-Rew founds the political movement And-Jëf at a clandestine congress.
1981 - The first American test-tube baby, Elizabeth Jordan Carr, is born in Norfolk, Virginia.
1989 - A magnitude 5.6 earthquake hits Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia, killing 13 people.
1999 - Saparmurat Niyazov is proclaimed President for Life in Turkmenistan.
2000 - U.S. retail giant Montgomery Ward announces it is going out of business after 128 years.
2005 - A U.S. immigration judge orders John Demjanjuk deported to Ukraine for crimes against humanity committed during World War II.
2007 - Nepal declared a federal democratic Republic by interim parliament, abolishing the monarchy.