Page 6: Historical Events In December - 28

1945  The President directed that the Coast Guard be transferred from the Navy and returned to the jurisdiction of the Treasury Department.   

1945  Theodore Dreiser, novelist (An American Tragedy), dies at 74.   

1946  Carrie Jacobs Bond, American composer (I Love You Truly), dies at 85   

1947  Chic Cards beat Phila Eagles 28-21 in NFL championship game   

1947  Victor Emmanuel III, king of Italy (1900-46)/Ethiopia, dies at 78.   

1948  The IDF crosses the Egyptian border   

1948  IDF crosses Egyptian border.   

1948  Mahmud Nokrashy Pasha, PM of Egypt (19..-48), assassinated.   

1949  20th Century Fox announces it would produce TV programs.   

1949  Jack Lovelock, NZ/US surgeon/athlete (Olympic-gold-1936), dies at 39   

1950  Chinese troops cross 38th Parallel, into South Korea   

1952  Detroit Lions beat Cleveland Browns 17-7 in NFL championship game   

1953  WLBT TV channel 3 in Jackson, MS (NBC) begins broadcasting   

1954  43rd Davis Cup: USA beats Australia in Sydney (3-2).   

1955  44th Davis Cup: Australia beats USA in New York (5-0)   

1956  Miss Frances [Horwich], last Ding Dong School on NBC-TV   

1956  Roelof Kranenburg, Dutch social democratic party-chairman, dies at 76.   

1957  The two-millionth Volkswagen was finished on this day in 1957   

1957  CBS states it won't broadcast baseball where minor league games are on   

1958  Chipmunks (Alvin, Simon and Theodore with David Seville) hit #1   

1960  Raymond Bourque hockey player, was born at Montreal, Quebec.   

1961  Tennessee Williams' "Night of the Iguana," premieres in NYC   

1961  Edith Bolling Galt Wilson, 1st lady (1915-21), dies at 89   

1962  UN troops occupies Elizabethstad Katanga.   

1963  Last ever broadcast of 'That Was The Week That Was'.   

1963  "Double Dublin" closes at Little Theater NYC after 4 performances   

1963  Abbott Joseph Liebling, American journalist/writer, dies   

1964  Premier of Dmitri Sjostakovitch' Stefan Rasin.   

1966  13 die in a train crash in Everett Mass   

1967  KTSB (now KSNT) TV channel 27 in Topeka, KS (NBC) begins broadcasting   

1967  Béla Schick, Hung/US children's physician (Scarlet Fever), dies at 90.   

1968  100000 attend Miami Pop Festival   

1968  Beatles' "Beatles-The White Album," goes #1 and stays #1 for 9 weeks   

1969  Neil Simon's "Last of the Red Hot Lovers," premieres in NYC.   

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1484  Joachim vadianus: [von watt], swiss physician/mayor of sankt gallen   

1522  Margaret of austria: Regent of the netherlands   

1619  Antoine furetière: French writer   

1631  Ludolf backhuysen: Dutch seascape painter/cartoonist   

1635  Princess elizabeth of england: Princess elizabeth of england (d. 1650)   

1655  Charles cornwallis: 3rd baron cornwallis, first lord of the british admiralty   

1665  George fitzroy: 1st duke of northumberland, british general   

1694  Ceslav vanura: Composer   

0300  Theonas: Patriarch of alexandria   

1367  Ashikaga yoshiakira: Japanese shogun (b. 1330)   

1446  Clemens viii: [aegyd munoz], spanish anti-pope (1423-29),   

1503  Death of Piero di lorenzo de' medici: Ruler of florence (b. 1471)   

1542  Albert pigge: [pighius], dutch theologist/astronomer,   

1622  Francois de sales: French bishop of geneva/writer/saint,   

1663  Death of Francesco maria grimaldi: Italian mathematician and physicist (b. 1618)   

1671  Johann friedrich gronovius: German classical scholar (b. 1611)