Historical Events In December - 28

1924  On this day in history johnny Otis, [Veliotes], composer (Every Beat of My Heart)  

1925  On December - 28 george/Ira Gershwin's musical "Tip-Toes," premieres in NYC  

1925  Bill [William] Westwood, British bishop of Peterborough on this day in history.  

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

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

1926  Donald Carr, cricketer (England player in 50's, later MCC honcho) on this day in history.  

1927  On December - 28 george Kaufman & Moss Hart's "Royal Family," premieres in NYC  

1927  Anne Legendre Armstrong, ambassador (to UK) on December - 28.  

1928  Last recording of Ma Rainey, "Mother of the Blues," made on this day in history.  

1928  On this day in history kamillo Lendvay, composer  

1929  On December - 28 wilfred Wop May 1896-1952 flies first official air mail north to Aklavik NWT  

1929  On this day in history maarten Schmidt, Neth/US astronomer (quasars)  

1931  Lin-Sen succeeds Chiang Kai-shek as president of Nanjing-China on this day in history.  

1931  Georg "Org" Marais, South African economist/underminister of Finance on December - 28.  

1932  On December - 28 henry Vernon 'Harry' Howell hockey player, defenseman, was born at Hamilton, Ontario  

1932  John Blackham, cricketer (35 Tests as Aust WK, caught 37), dies on this day in history.  

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 December - 28 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 this day in history clarence Day, writer (Life with Father), dies  

1937  Fascist Octavian Goga becomes PM of Romania/begins spread of Judaism on this day in history.  

1937  On December - 28 maurice J Ravel, Swiss/French composer (Bolero), dies in Paris at 62  

1938  On this day in history paul Gibb scores 106 on Test Cricket debut v South Africa  

1938  Florence Lawrence, silent screen actress (Confidence), dies at 48 on this day in history.  

1939  On this day in history first flight of the Consolidated XB-24 Liberator bomber prototype.  

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

1941  On this day in history state of siege goes into effect in Bohemia/Moravia  

1942  Robert Sullivan becomes first pilot to fly the Atlantic 100 times on December - 28.  

1942  On this day in history oberkommando Wehrmacht orders strategist flight out of Kaukasus  

1943  On December - 28 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  The Broadway musical On the Town opens in New York City on December - 28.  

1944  On this day in history eisenhower & Montgomery meet in Hasselt Belgium  

1945  On this day in history 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  Joachim Vadianus, [von Watt], Swiss physician/mayor of Sankt Gallen was born on this day in history.  

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

1619  Antoine Furetière, French writer (d. 1688) was born on this day in history.  

1631  Ludolf Backhuysen, Dutch seascape painter/cartoonist was born on this day in history.  

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

1655  On this day in history birth of charles Cornwallis, 3rd Baron Cornwallis, First Lord of the British Admiralty (d. 1698)  

1665  On December - 28 birth of george FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Northumberland, British general (d. 1716)  

0300  On December - 28 death of theonas, Patriarch of Alexandria  

1367  On December - 28 death of ashikaga Yoshiakira, Japanese shogun (b. 1330)  

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

1503  On this day in history death of piero di Lorenzo de' Medici, ruler of Florence (b. 1471)  

1542  Albert Pigge, [Pighius], Dutch theologist/astronomer, dies at about 52 on December - 28.  

1622  Francois de Sales, French bishop of Geneva/writer/saint, dies at 55 on this day in history.  

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

1671  Death of Johann Friedrich Gronovius, German classical scholar (b. 1611) on this day in history.