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 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 December - 28.   

1947  Chic Cards beat Phila Eagles 28-21 in NFL championship game on December - 28.   

1947  Victor Emmanuel III, king of Italy (1900-46)/Ethiopia, dies at 78 on December - 28.   

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

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 December - 28.   

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

1953  On December - 28 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 this day in history 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  On this day in history roelof Kranenburg, Dutch social democratic party-chairman, dies at 76   

1957  The two-millionth Volkswagen was finished on this day in 1957 on December - 28.   

1957  On this day in history 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  Raymond Bourque hockey player, was born at Montreal, Quebec on December - 28.   

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

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

1962  UN troops occupies Elizabethstad Katanga on December - 28.   

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

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

1963  On December - 28 abbott Joseph Liebling, American journalist/writer, dies   

1964  On this day in history 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  Béla Schick, Hung/US children's physician (Scarlet Fever), dies at 90 on December - 28.   

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

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1164  On this day in history 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  On this day in history 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  Ludolf Backhuysen, Dutch seascape painter/cartoonist was born on December - 28.   

1635  Princess Elizabeth of England (d. 1650) was born on December - 28.   

1655  Charles Cornwallis, 3rd Baron Cornwallis, First Lord of the British Admiralty (d. 1698) was born on this day in history.   

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 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  Albert Pigge, [Pighius], Dutch theologist/astronomer, dies at about 52 on this day in history.   

1622  On December - 28 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  Death of Johann Friedrich Gronovius, German classical scholar (b. 1611) on December - 28.