Top Historical Events That Happened on December 28 Natural Disasters & Epidemics

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.   

1969  Henry Oscar, actor (Saint in London), dies at 78   

1970  Paul Rose, his brother Jacques Rose, and Francis Simard captured at 4;30 am in tunnel under farmhouse near Montreal; suspected FLQ terrorists, kidnappers and murderers of Quebec Labour Minister Pierre Laporte.   

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