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Events on the 28th of December in history

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28 Dec 0418 St Boniface I begins his reign as Catholic Pope
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28 Dec 0457 Majorian is acclaimed emperor of the Western Roman Empire and recognized by Emperor Leo I the Thracian.
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28 Dec 0484 Alaric II succeeds his father Euric and becomes king of the Visigoths. He establishes his capital at Aire-sur-l'Adour (Southern Gaul).
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28 Dec 0801 Louis the Vrome occupies Barcelona
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28 Dec 0893 An earthquake destroys the city of Dvin, Armenia.
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28 Dec 1065 Westminster Abbey is consecrated.
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28 Dec 1065 Westminister Abbey opens in London
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28 Dec 1308 The reign of Emperor Hanazono of Japan begins.
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28 Dec 1612 Galileo Galilei becomes the first astronomer to observe the planet Neptune, although he mistakenly catalogued it as a fixed star.
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28 Dec 1614 Sperm whale beached at Noordwijk
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28 Dec 1732 1st known ad for "Poor Richard's Almanack" (Pennsylvania Gazette)
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28 Dec 1768 King Taksin's coronation achieved through conquest as a king of Thailand and established Thonburi as a capital.
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28 Dec 1795 Construction of Yonge Street, formerly recognized as the longest street in the world, begins in York, Upper Canada (present-day Toronto).
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28 Dec 1816 American Colonization Society organizes
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28 Dec 1821 Naples: Gioacchini Rossini moves to Bologna
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28 Dec 1824 The Bathurst War comes to an end with the surrender of the Wiradjuri.
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28 Dec 1828 6.8 earthquake strikes Echigo Japan, 30,000 killed
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28 Dec 1832 John C. Calhoun becomes the first Vice President of the United States to resign.
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28 Dec 1832 John Calhoun becomes 1st Vice-President to resign (differences with President Jackson)
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28 Dec 1835 Osceola leads his Seminole warriors in Florida into the Second Seminole War against the United States Army.
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28 Dec 1836 South Australia and Adelaide are founded.
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28 Dec 1836 Spain recognizes the independence of Mexico.
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28 Dec 1846 Iowa is admitted as the 29th U.S. state.
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28 Dec 1846 Iowa becomes 29th state
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28 Dec 1849 M Jolly-Bellin discovers dry-cleaning, he accidentally upset lamp containing turpentine and oil on his clothing and sees cleaning effect
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28 Dec 1850 Rangoon Burma destroyed by fire
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28 Dec 1864 Battle of Egypt Station, Mississippi
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28 Dec 1867 United States claims Midway Atoll, the first territory annexed outside Continental limits.
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28 Dec 1869 William Finley Semple of Mount Vernon, Ohio, patents chewing gum
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28 Dec 1877 John Stevens, Wisconsin, applies for a patent on his flour rolling mill
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28 Dec 1878 Pope Leo XIII publishes encyclical Quod apostolici muneris (socialism)
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28 Dec 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.
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28 Dec 1879 North British Railway's train falls as Firth bridge collapses (Scotland)
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28 Dec 1885 Indian National Congress, a political party of India is founded in Bombay Presidency, British India.
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28 Dec 1887 Sir John Layton Jarvis, 1st British race horse trainer knighted
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28 Dec 1893 French lieutenant Boiteux annexes Tumbuktu
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28 Dec 1895 The Lumière brothers perform for their first paying audience at the Grand Cafe in Boulevard des Capucines, marking the debut of the cinema.
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28 Dec 1895 Wilhelm Röntgen publishes a paper detailing his discovery of a new type of radiation, which later will be known as x-rays.
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28 Dec 1895 World's 1st movie theater opens in Paris
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28 Dec 1897 Edmond Rostand's "Cyrano de Bergerac" premieres in Paris
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28 Dec 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.
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28 Dec 1902 1st indoor pro football game, Syracuse beats Philadelphia 6-0 (Madison Square Garden, NYC)
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28 Dec 1902 Trans-Pacific cable links Hawaii to US
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28 Dec 1903 Clyde Fitch's "Glad of It" premieres in New York NY
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28 Dec 1903 Electric lamp sets fire to Iroquois theater in Chicago; 602 die
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28 Dec 1904 1st daily wireless weather forecasts published (London)
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28 Dec 1905 New South Wales all out for 805 vs. Victoria, win by innings and 253
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28 Dec 1905 Intercollegiate Athletic Association of US founded (becomes NCAA in 1910)
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28 Dec 1906 Ecuador adopts its constitution
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28 Dec 1908 Earthquake strikes Messina, Italy; 80,000 die
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28 Dec 1908 A magnitude 7.2 earthquake rocks Messina, Sicily, Italy killing over 75,000.
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28 Dec 1908 Messina, Italy struck by an earthquake (nearly 80,000 died)
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28 Dec 1910 The opera "K
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28 Dec 1912 The first municipally owned streetcars take to the streets in San Francisco.
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28 Dec 1912 San Francisco Municipal Railway starts operation at Geary St (MUNI)
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28 Dec 1912 National Council of Young Israel convenes
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28 Dec 1915 San Francisco City Hall dedicated by Mayor James Rolph
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28 Dec 1918 Constance Markievicz, while detained in Holloway prison, became the first woman to be elected MP to the British House of Commons.
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28 Dec 1923 George Bernard Shaw's "St Joan" premieres in New York NY
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28 Dec 1925 George/Ira Gershwin's musical "Tip-Toes" premieres in New York NY
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28 Dec 1926 Imperial Airways begins England-India mail & passenger service
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28 Dec 1926 Arthur Mailey takes 4-362 off 64 overs (no maidens) New South Wales vs Victoria
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28 Dec 1926 Ponsford scores 352 & Ryder 295 against New South Wales
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28 Dec 1926 Victoria all out for 1107 against New South Wales at the MCG Crowd 22,348
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28 Dec 1927 George Kaufman & Moss Hart's "Royal Family" premieres in New York NY
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28 Dec 1928 Last recording of Ma Rainey, "Mother of the Blues, " made
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28 Dec 1928 Louis Armstrong makes 78 recording of "West End blues"
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28 Dec 1931 Lin-Sen succeeds Chiang Kai-shek as President of Nanjing-China
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28 Dec 1935 Pravda publishes a letter by Pavel Postyshev, who revives New Year tree tradition in the Soviet Union.
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28 Dec 1935 W P A Federal Art Project Gallery opens in New York NY
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28 Dec 1937 Fascist Octavian Goga becomes Prime Minister of Romania / begins spread of Judaism
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28 Dec 1938 Paul Gibb scores 106 on Test Cricket debut vs South Africa
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28 Dec 1940 Arthur Morris scores 111 in 2nd innings of 1st game after 148
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28 Dec 1941 World War II: Operation Anthropoid, the plot to assassinate high-ranking Nazi officer Reinhard Heydrich, commences.
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28 Dec 1941 State of siege goes into effect in Bohemia/Moravia
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28 Dec 1942 Robert Sullivan becomes 1st pilot to fly the Atlantic 100 times
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28 Dec 1942 Oberkommando Wehrmacht orders strategist flight out of Kaukasus
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28 Dec 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.
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28 Dec 1943 All inhabitants of Kalmukkie deported, about 70,000 killed
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28 Dec 1944 Maurice Richard becomes the first player to score eight points in one game of NHL ice hockey.
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28 Dec 1944 Eisenhower & Montgomery meet in Hasselt Belgium
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28 Dec 1944 Former Washington 3rd baseman Buddy Lewis wins Distinguished Flying Cross
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28 Dec 1944 Leonard Bernstein's musical "On the Town" premieres in New York NY
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28 Dec 1945 Congress officially recognizes "Pledge of Allegiance"
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28 Dec 1947 Chicago Cardinals beat Philadelphia Eagles 28-21 in NFL championship game
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28 Dec 1948 The DC-3 airliner NC16002 disappears 50 miles south of Miami.
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28 Dec 1948 The IDF crosses the Egyptian border
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28 Dec 1948 Middel-Java as a whole in Dutch hands
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28 Dec 1948 US announced a study to launch an Earth satellite
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28 Dec 1949 20th Century Fox announces it will produce TV programs
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28 Dec 1950 Chinese troops cross 38th Parallel, into South Korea
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28 Dec 1952 Detroit Lions beat Cleveland Browns 17-7 in NFL championship game
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28 Dec 1953 WLBT TV channel 3 in Jackson MS (NBC) begins broadcasting
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28 Dec 1954 43rd Davis Cup: USA beats Australia in Sydney (3-2)
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28 Dec 1954 KEPR TV channel 19 in Pasco-Kennewick-Richl WA (CBS) 1st broadcast
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28 Dec 1955 44th Davis Cup: Australia beats USA in New York (5-0)
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28 Dec 1956 Miss Frances [Horwich], last Ding Dong School on NBC-TV
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28 Dec 1956 Chin Peng, David Marshall and Tunku Abdul Rahman meet in Baling, Malaya to try and resolve the Malayan Emergency situation.
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28 Dec 1956 Dr. Frances Horwich [Miss Frances], Ding Dong School on NBC-TV
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28 Dec 1957 CBS states it won't broadcast baseball where minor league games are on
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28 Dec 1957 USSR performs atmospheric nuclear test
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28 Dec 1958 Chipmunks (Alvin, Simon & Theodore with David Seville) hit #1
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28 Dec 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.
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28 Dec 1958 What might be called greatest NFL game, Colts beat Giants 23-17
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28 Dec 1961 Tennessee Williams' "Night of the Iguana" premieres in New York NY
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28 Dec 1962 UN troops occupy Elizabethstad Katanga
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28 Dec 1963 "Double Dublin" closes at Little Theater NYC after 4 performances
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28 Dec 1963 "Jennie" closes at Majestic Theater NYC after 82 performances
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28 Dec 1963 Merle Haggard 1st appearance on country chart with "Sing a Sad Song"
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28 Dec 1964 Principal filming of "Dr Zhivago, " begins
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28 Dec 1964 Premier of Dmitri Shostakovich's Stefan Rasin
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28 Dec 1964 Principal filming of "Dr Zhivago" begins
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28 Dec 1966 13 die in a train crash in Everett, Massachusetts
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28 Dec 1966 China People's Republic performs nuclear test at Lop Nor People's Rebublic of China
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28 Dec 1967 KTSB (now KSNT) TV channel 27 in Topeka KS (NBC) begins broadcasting
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28 Dec 1967 Muriel Siebert is 1st women to own a seat on New York Stock Exchange
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28 Dec 1968 100,000 attend Miami Pop Festival
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28 Dec 1968 Beatles' "Beatles-The White Album" goes #1 & stays #1 for 9 weeks
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28 Dec 1968 57th Davis Cup: USA beats Australia in Adelaide (4-1)
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28 Dec 1968 Israeli assault on Beirut Airport
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28 Dec 1968 KVOF (KUDO, now KWBB) TV channel 38 in San Francisco CA (IND) 1st broadcast
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28 Dec 1969 Dallas Cowboy kicker Mike Clark, attempting an on-side kick against Cleveland, misses the ball
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28 Dec 1969 Neil Simon's "Last of the Red Hot Lovers" premieres in New York NY
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28 Dec 1970 "Lovely Ladies, Kind Gentlemen" opens at Majestic NYC for 19 performances
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28 Dec 1970 Yemen Arab Republic (North Yemen) adopts constitution
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28 Dec 1971 Hasj falls from now on under(neath) the Opiumwet
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28 Dec 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.
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28 Dec 1972 Kim Il-song, becomes President of North Korea
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28 Dec 1972 Martin Bormann's skeleton found in Berlin (Hitlers deputy)
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28 Dec 1973 Alexander Solzhenitsyn publishes "Gulag Archipelag"
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28 Dec 1973 The Endangered Species Act is passed in the United States.
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28 Dec 1973 Akron OH's Chamber of Commerce terminates itself from Soap Box Derby
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28 Dec 1973 Comet Kohoutek at perihelion
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28 Dec 1974 6.3 earthquake strikes Pakistan: 5200 killed
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28 Dec 1975 "Hail Mary Pass"-Cowboys beat Vikings 17-14 on last second pass
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28 Dec 1975 Earthquake in Pakistan, 4,000 die
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28 Dec 1975 Red Army beats New York Rangers 7-3 at Madison Square Garden
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28 Dec 1975 1st broadcast of radio Hilversum IV (classic music)
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28 Dec 1975 Gary Cosier scores 109 vs West Indies at MCG on Test Cricket debut
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28 Dec 1976 "Fiddler on the Roof" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 167 performances
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28 Dec 1976 Genie Francis joind "General Hospital" as Laura Vining
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28 Dec 1976 Winnie Mandela banished in South Africa
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28 Dec 1978 With the crew investigating a problem with the landing gear, United Airlines Flight 173 runs out of fuel and crashes in Portland, Oregon, killing ten. As a result, United Airlines instituted the industry's first crew resource management program.
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28 Dec 1978 30th hat trick in Islander history (Mike Bossy)
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28 Dec 1980 Mexico terminated fishing agreements with US
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28 Dec 1980 M
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28 Dec 1981 Cleveland Metroparks Administrative offices move from downtown to Zoo
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28 Dec 1981 Warner-Elektra-Atlantic raises price of 45 records from $1.68 to $1.98
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28 Dec 1983 72nd Davis Cup: Australia beats Sweden in Melbourne (3-2)
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28 Dec 1983 Gavaskar achieves his 30th century, beating Bradman's 29
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28 Dec 1983 US says they will leave UNESCO on Dec 31, 1984
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28 Dec 1983 Warren Cromartie signs 3 year $2.5 million contract with Yomiuri Giants
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28 Dec 1984 TV soap "Edge of Night" ends 28 year run
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28 Dec 1984 TV soap "The Edge of Night" ends 28 year run
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28 Dec 1984 Creosote bush determined to be 11,700 years old
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28 Dec 1984 Rajiv Gandhi's Congress party wins election in India
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28 Dec 1985 Warring Lebanese Moslem & Christian leaders sign peace agreement
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28 Dec 1985 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
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28 Dec 1986 Pat Davis, ranked 412th among world tennis competitors, wins Davis Cup
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28 Dec 1987 In Arkansas R Gene Simmons kills 2, later bodies of 14 of his relatives are found at his home near Dover AR
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28 Dec 1988 US 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals affirms Yonkers is guilty of racism
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28 Dec 1988 John Tarrant, 1st Australian born Zen teacher, receives Dharma Transmission
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28 Dec 1988 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR
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28 Dec 1989 A magnitude 5.6 earthquake hits Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia, killing 13 people.
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28 Dec 1989 Alexander Dubcek elected parliament chairman of Czechoslovakia
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28 Dec 1989 Earthquake at Newcastle Australia, 11 die
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28 Dec 1990 2 die in a NYC subway accident
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28 Dec 1990 Blockbuster Bowl 1: Florida State beats Penn State, 24-17
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28 Dec 1991 8 are crushed to death at a RAP basketball game at City College, New York NY
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28 Dec 1991 Irene the Icon of the Greek Orthodox church returns after being stolen
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28 Dec 1991 Ted Turner is named Time Magazine Man of the Year
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28 Dec 1991 Blockbuster Bowl 2: Alabama beats Colorado, 30-25
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28 Dec 1991 Ninibeth Beatriz Leal Jiminez, 20, of Venez, crowned 41st Miss World
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28 Dec 1993 Dow-Jones hits record 3793.49
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28 Dec 1993 Dutch Antilles government of Yandi Paula forms
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28 Dec 1993 John Maclean passes Kirk Muller as all-time New Jersey Devils scorer (521 points)
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28 Dec 1994 Billy Ray Cyrus (Achy Breaky Heart) weds Leticia Finley
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28 Dec 1994 Boon completes his 20th Test Cricket century (131 vs England, MCG)
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28 Dec 1994 Tammy Wynette admitted to the hospital with bile duct infection
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28 Dec 1996 India all out for 66 at Durban after making 100 in cricket 1st inning
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28 Dec 1997 Sting beats Hollywood Hogan for WCW Championship
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28 Dec 2000 U.S. retail giant Montgomery Ward announces it is going out of business after 128 years.
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28 Dec 2006 War in Somalia: The militaries of Somalia's Transitional Federal Government and Ethiopian troops capture Mogadishu unopposed.
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28 Dec 2009 Forty-three people die in a suicide bombing in Karachi, Pakistan, where Shia Muslims are observing the Day of Ashura.
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28 Dec 2010 Arab Spring: Popular protests begin in Algeria against the government.
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28 Dec 2011 Roboski airstrike: Turkish warplanes bomb 34 Kurds of Turkish nationality in the district of Uludere.
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28 Dec 2014 Indonesia AirAsia Flight 8501 crashes into the Karimata Strait en route from Surabaya to Singapore, killing all 162 people aboard.
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