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 this day in history.  

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  Chic Cards beat Phila Eagles 28-21 in NFL championship game on December - 28.  

1947  On this day in history victor Emmanuel III, king of Italy (1900-46)/Ethiopia, dies at 78  

1948  On December - 28 the IDF crosses the Egyptian border  

1948  IDF crosses Egyptian border on December - 28.  

1948  On December - 28 mahmud Nokrashy Pasha, PM of Egypt (19..-48), assassinated  

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

1949  Jack Lovelock, NZ/US surgeon/athlete (Olympic-gold-1936), dies at 39 on December - 28.  

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

1952  Detroit Lions beat Cleveland Browns 17-7 in NFL championship game on December - 28.  

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

1954  On December - 28 43rd Davis Cup: USA beats Australia in Sydney (3-2)  

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

1956  On this day in history miss Frances [Horwich], last Ding Dong School on NBC-TV  

1956  Roelof Kranenburg, Dutch social democratic party-chairman, dies at 76 on this day in history.  

1957  On this day in history 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 on December - 28.  

1958  On December - 28 chipmunks (Alvin, Simon & Theodore with David Seville) hit #1  

1960  On this day in history raymond Bourque hockey player, was born at Montreal, Quebec  

1961  Tennessee Williams' "Night of the Iguana," premieres in NYC on this day in history.  

1961  On this day in history edith Bolling Galt Wilson, 1st lady (1915-21), dies at 89  

1962  On this day in history uN troops occupies Elizabethstad Katanga  

1963  On this day in history last ever broadcast of 'That Was The Week That Was'  

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 this day in history premier of Dmitri Sjostakovitch' Stefan Rasin  

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

1967  On this day in history kTSB (now KSNT) TV channel 27 in Topeka, KS (NBC) begins broadcasting  

1967  On December - 28 béla Schick, Hung/US children's physician (Scarlet Fever), dies at 90  

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  On December - 28 neil Simon's "Last of the Red Hot Lovers," premieres in NYC  

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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  On December - 28 birth of margaret of Austria, regent of the Netherlands (d. 1583)  

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

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

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

1446  Clemens VIII, [Aegyd Munoz], Spanish anti-pope (1423-29), dies on December - 28.  

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 this day in history.  

1622  On this day in history 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 December - 28.  

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