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  Theodore Dreiser, novelist (An American Tragedy), dies at 74 on December - 28.   

1946  Carrie Jacobs Bond, American composer (I Love You Truly), dies at 85 on December - 28.   

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  The IDF crosses the Egyptian border on December - 28.   

1948  On December - 28 iDF crosses Egyptian border   

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 this day in history.   

1949  On this day in history 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  Detroit Lions beat Cleveland Browns 17-7 in NFL championship game on this day in history.   

1953  WLBT TV channel 3 in Jackson, MS (NBC) begins broadcasting on this day in history.   

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

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

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

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

1957  On December - 28 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  On December - 28 chipmunks (Alvin, Simon & Theodore with David Seville) hit #1   

1960  Raymond Bourque hockey player, was born at Montreal, Quebec on December - 28.   

1961  On this day in history tennessee Williams' "Night of the Iguana," premieres in NYC   

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

1962  On December - 28 uN troops occupies Elizabethstad Katanga   

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 December - 28 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  100,000 attend Miami Pop Festival on December - 28.   

1968  On this day in history 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 this day in history.   

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1164  On this day in history birth of emperor Rokujō of Japan (d. 1176)   

1484  On this day in history 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 December - 28.   

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 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 December - 28.   

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

1622  On this day in history francois de Sales, French bishop of Geneva/writer/saint, dies at 55   

1663  On December - 28 death of francesco Maria Grimaldi, Italian mathematician and physicist (b. 1618)   

1671  On December - 28 death of johann Friedrich Gronovius, German classical scholar (b. 1611)