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 on December - 28.   

1945  On this day in history theodore Dreiser, novelist (An American Tragedy), dies at 74   

1946  On December - 28 carrie Jacobs Bond, American composer (I Love You Truly), dies at 85   

1947  On this day in history chic Cards beat Phila Eagles 28-21 in NFL championship game   

1947  On December - 28 victor Emmanuel III, king of Italy (1900-46)/Ethiopia, dies at 78   

1948  On this day in history the IDF crosses the Egyptian border   

1948  IDF crosses Egyptian border on December - 28.   

1948  On this day in history mahmud Nokrashy Pasha, PM of Egypt (19..-48), assassinated   

1949  On December - 28 20th Century Fox announces it would produce TV programs   

1949  On December - 28 jack Lovelock, NZ/US surgeon/athlete (Olympic-gold-1936), dies at 39   

1950  Chinese troops cross 38th Parallel, into South Korea on December - 28.   

1952  On this day in history detroit Lions beat Cleveland Browns 17-7 in NFL championship game   

1953  On this day in history wLBT TV channel 3 in Jackson, MS (NBC) begins broadcasting   

1954  On this day in history 43rd Davis Cup: USA beats Australia in Sydney (3-2)   

1955  44th Davis Cup: Australia beats USA in New York (5-0) on December - 28.   

1956  Miss Frances [Horwich], last Ding Dong School on NBC-TV on December - 28.   

1956  Roelof Kranenburg, Dutch social democratic party-chairman, dies at 76 on December - 28.   

1957  On this day in history the two-millionth Volkswagen was finished on this day in 1957   

1957  On December - 28 cBS states it won't broadcast baseball where minor league games are on   

1958  Chipmunks (Alvin, Simon & Theodore with David Seville) hit #1 on this day in history.   

1960  Raymond Bourque hockey player, was born at Montreal, Quebec on this day in history.   

1961  Tennessee Williams' "Night of the Iguana," premieres in NYC on December - 28.   

1961  On December - 28 edith Bolling Galt Wilson, 1st lady (1915-21), dies at 89   

1962  UN troops occupies Elizabethstad Katanga on this day in history.   

1963  Last ever broadcast of 'That Was The Week That Was' on this day in history.   

1963  "Double Dublin" closes at Little Theater NYC after 4 performances on this day in history.   

1963  Abbott Joseph Liebling, American journalist/writer, dies on this day in history.   

1964  On December - 28 premier of Dmitri Sjostakovitch' Stefan Rasin   

1966  On December - 28 13 die in a train crash in Everett Mass   

1967  On this day in history 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 on this day in history.   

1968  100,000 attend Miami Pop Festival on this day in history.   

1968  On December - 28 beatles' "Beatles-The White Album," goes #1 & stays #1 for 9 weeks   

1969  Neil Simon's "Last of the Red Hot Lovers," premieres in NYC on December - 28.   

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1164  On December - 28 birth of emperor Rokujō of Japan (d. 1176)   

1484  On December - 28 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 December - 28 birth of antoine Furetière, French writer (d. 1688)   

1631  Ludolf Backhuysen, Dutch seascape painter/cartoonist was born on December - 28.   

1635  On December - 28 birth of princess Elizabeth of England (d. 1650)   

1655  On December - 28 birth of charles Cornwallis, 3rd Baron Cornwallis, First Lord of the British Admiralty (d. 1698)   

1665  On this day in history birth of george FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Northumberland, British general (d. 1716)   

0300  Death of Theonas, Patriarch of Alexandria on December - 28.   

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

1446  On this day in history 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  On December - 28 albert Pigge, [Pighius], Dutch theologist/astronomer, dies at about 52   

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

1663  Death of Francesco Maria Grimaldi, Italian mathematician and physicist (b. 1618) on this day in history.   

1671  Death of Johann Friedrich Gronovius, German classical scholar (b. 1611) on December - 28.