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 December - 28 theodore Dreiser, novelist (An American Tragedy), dies at 74  

1946  Carrie Jacobs Bond, American composer (I Love You Truly), dies at 85 on this day in history.  

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

1947  On this day in history 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  Mahmud Nokrashy Pasha, PM of Egypt (19..-48), assassinated on this day in history.  

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 this day in history.  

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1950  On December - 28 chinese troops cross 38th Parallel, into South Korea  

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

1955  44th Davis Cup: Australia beats USA in New York (5-0) on this day in history.  

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 December - 28.  

1960  On December - 28 raymond Bourque hockey player, was born at Montreal, Quebec  

1961  On December - 28 tennessee Williams' "Night of the Iguana," premieres in NYC  

1961  Edith Bolling Galt Wilson, 1st lady (1915-21), dies at 89 on December - 28.  

1962  On this day in history uN troops occupies Elizabethstad Katanga  

1963  Last ever broadcast of 'That Was The Week That Was' on December - 28.  

1963  On December - 28 "Double Dublin" closes at Little Theater NYC after 4 performances  

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 this day in history.  

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

1967  On this day in history béla Schick, Hung/US children's physician (Scarlet Fever), dies at 90  

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

1968  Beatles' "Beatles-The White Album," goes #1 & stays #1 for 9 weeks on this day in history.  

1969  On this day in history 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  Antoine Furetière, French writer (d. 1688) was born on this day in history.  

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  Charles Cornwallis, 3rd Baron Cornwallis, First Lord of the British Admiralty (d. 1698) was born on this day in history.  

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 this day in history death of ashikaga Yoshiakira, Japanese shogun (b. 1330)  

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

1503  Death of Piero di Lorenzo de' Medici, ruler of Florence (b. 1471) on this day in history.  

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  Death of Francesco Maria Grimaldi, Italian mathematician and physicist (b. 1618) on December - 28.  

1671  On this day in history death of johann Friedrich Gronovius, German classical scholar (b. 1611)