Historical Events In December - 28

1924  On December - 28 johnny Otis, [Veliotes], composer (Every Beat of My Heart)  

1925  George/Ira Gershwin's musical "Tip-Toes," premieres in NYC on this day in history.  

1925  On this day in history bill [William] Westwood, British bishop of Peterborough  

1926  On December - 28 imperial Airways begins England-India mail & passenger service  

1926  Arthur Mailey takes 4-362 off 64 overs (no maidens) NSW v Vic on this day in history.  

1926  On this day in history donald Carr, cricketer (England player in 50's, later MCC honcho)  

1927  George Kaufman & Moss Hart's "Royal Family," premieres in NYC on December - 28.  

1927  On this day in history anne Legendre Armstrong, ambassador (to UK)  

1928  Last recording of Ma Rainey, "Mother of the Blues," made on December - 28.  

1928  On this day in history kamillo Lendvay, composer  

1929  Wilfred Wop May 1896-1952 flies first official air mail north to Aklavik NWT on this day in history.  

1929  On December - 28 maarten Schmidt, Neth/US astronomer (quasars)  

1931  On this day in history lin-Sen succeeds Chiang Kai-shek as president of Nanjing-China  

1931  Georg "Org" Marais, South African economist/underminister of Finance on this day in history.  

1932  On this day in history henry Vernon 'Harry' Howell hockey player, defenseman, was born at Hamilton, Ontario  

1932  On this day in history john Blackham, cricketer (35 Tests as Aust WK, caught 37), dies  

1934  On this day in history 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  On this day in history w.P.A. Federal Art Project Gallery opens in NYC  

1935  On this day in history w P A Federal Art Project Gallery opens in NYC  

1935  On December - 28 clarence Day, writer (Life with Father), dies  

1937  On December - 28 fascist Octavian Goga becomes PM of Romania/begins spread of Judaism  

1937  Maurice J Ravel, Swiss/French composer (Bolero), dies in Paris at 62 on this day in history.  

1938  Paul Gibb scores 106 on Test Cricket debut v South Africa on this day in history.  

1938  Florence Lawrence, silent screen actress (Confidence), dies at 48 on December - 28.  

1939  First flight of the Consolidated XB-24 Liberator bomber prototype on December - 28.  

1940  Arthur Morris scores 111 in 2nd innings of 1st game after 148 on this day in history.  

1941  On December - 28 state of siege goes into effect in Bohemia/Moravia  

1942  On December - 28 robert Sullivan becomes first pilot to fly the Atlantic 100 times  

1942  Oberkommando Wehrmacht orders strategist flight out of Kaukasus on December - 28.  

1943  On this day in history 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  

1943  All inhabitants of Kalmukkie deported, about 70,000 killed on this day in history.  

1944  On December - 28 the Broadway musical On the Town opens in New York City.  

1944  On December - 28 eisenhower & Montgomery meet in Hasselt Belgium  

1945  On December - 28 congress officially recognizes "Pledge of Allegiance"  

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1164  On this day in history birth of emperor Rokujō of Japan (d. 1176)  

1484  On this day in history birth of joachim Vadianus, [von Watt], Swiss physician/mayor of Sankt Gallen  

1522  Margaret of Austria, regent of the Netherlands (d. 1583) was born on this day in history.  

1619  On this day in history birth of antoine Furetière, French writer (d. 1688)  

1631  On December - 28 birth of ludolf Backhuysen, Dutch seascape painter/cartoonist  

1635  Princess Elizabeth of England (d. 1650) was born on this day in history.  

1655  Charles Cornwallis, 3rd Baron Cornwallis, First Lord of the British Admiralty (d. 1698) was born on this day in history.  

1665  George FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Northumberland, British general (d. 1716) was born on this day in history.  

0300  On this day in history death of theonas, Patriarch of Alexandria  

1367  Death of Ashikaga Yoshiakira, Japanese shogun (b. 1330) on this day in history.  

1446  On December - 28 clemens VIII, [Aegyd Munoz], Spanish anti-pope (1423-29), dies  

1503  Death of Piero di Lorenzo de' Medici, ruler of Florence (b. 1471) on this day in history.  

1542  Albert Pigge, [Pighius], Dutch theologist/astronomer, dies at about 52 on this day in history.  

1622  On December - 28 francois de Sales, French bishop of Geneva/writer/saint, dies at 55  

1663  On this day in history death of francesco Maria Grimaldi, Italian mathematician and physicist (b. 1618)  

1671  On this day in history death of johann Friedrich Gronovius, German classical scholar (b. 1611)