Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/December 28
This is a list of selected December 28 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
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The Old Gum Tree in South Australia (c. 2006) -
San Francisco cable car -
Osceola -
President Saparmurat Niyazov of Turkmenistan -
Neptune -
Westminster Abbey -
A pair of huia
Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
|---|---|
| Day of the Holy Innocents (Western Christianity); | lots of CN tags |
| 1835 – Osceola led his Seminole warriors in Florida into the Second Seminole War against the U.S. Army. | refimprove section |
| 1836 – At the Old Gum Tree near present-day Adelaide, Royal Navy Rear-Admiral John Hindmarsh read a proclamation establishing the British province of South Australia. | neutrality issues |
| 1948 – The Douglas DC-3 airliner NC16002, en route from San Juan, Puerto Rico to Miami, Florida, disappeared in the area known as the Bermuda Triangle. | refimprove |
| 1978 – With the crew investigating a problem with the landing gear, United Airlines Flight 173 ran out of fuel and crashed in Portland, Oregon, leading to the establishment of the industry's first crew resource management program. | missing information |
| 1999 – Saparmurat Niyazov, the first President of Turkmenistan, was proclaimed President for Life by the Assembly of Turkmenistan. | refimprove |
Eligible
- 484 – Alaric II succeeded his father Euric as king of the Visigoths.
- 893 – An earthquake destroyed the city of Dvin, Armenia, causing about 30,000 casualties.
- 1612 – Galileo became the first person to observe the planet Neptune, although he mistakenly catalogued it as a fixed star.
- 1832 – John C. Calhoun became the first Vice President of the United States to resign.
- 1879 – The Tay Rail Bridge, spanning the Firth of Tay in Scotland between Dundee and the Wormit, collapsed during a violent storm while a train was passing over it, killing all on board.
- 1895 – History of film: Using their cinematograph in Paris, the Lumière brothers showed motion pictures to a paying audience for the first time.
- 1907 – The last confirmed sighting of the now-extinct huia took place in the Tararua Ranges, North Island, New Zealand.
- 1908 – A magnitude 7.2 earthquake and subsequent tsunami struck Messina, Italy, killing more than 100,000 people.
- 1912 – The San Francisco Municipal Railway, operator of the city's famed cable car system, opened its first line.
- 1935 – Politician Pavel Postyshev revived the New Year tree tradition in the Soviet Union when Pravda published his letter asking for them to be installed in schools, children's homes, Young Pioneer Palaces, children's clubs, children's theaters, and cinema theaters.
- 1973 – U.S. President Richard Nixon signed the Endangered Species Act into law, a wide-ranging environmental law designed to protect critically imperiled species from extinction.
- 1989 – In one of Australia's most serious natural disasters, a 5.6 ML earthquake struck Newcastle, New South Wales, killing 13 people and injuring more than 160 others, and causing an estimated A$4 billion in damages.
- 2009 – A suicide bomber attacked a Shi'ite commemoration in Karachi, Pakistan, during a procession on the Day of Ashura, the holiest of days for followers of Shia Islam.
- 2011 – Acting on information that PKK militants were crossing the border into Şırnak Province, two Turkish F-16 jets fired at a group of villagers, killing 34 people.
- 2014 – The passenger ferry Norman Atlantic caught fire in the Adriatic Sea, resulting in nine deaths, with a further 19 missing.
- Born/died: Arthur Hunter Palmer (b. 1819) · Thomas Babington Macaulay (d. 1859) · Maurice Ravel (d. 1937)
Notes
- Ashura protests appears on December 27, so Karachi bombing should not appear in the same year
December 28: Proclamation Day in South Australia (1836)
- 1065 – Westminster Abbey (pictured) in London, built by Edward the Confessor between 1045 and 1050, was consecrated.
- 1768 – Taksin the Great was crowned king of the newly established Thonburi Kingdom in the new capital at Thonburi, present-day Thailand.
- 1918 – Irishwoman Constance Markievicz became the first female Member of Parliament elected to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, although she never served.
- 1943 – World War II: After eight days of brutal house-to-house fighting, the 1st Canadian Infantry Division captured Ortona, Italy.
- 2006 – Somali Civil War: Troops of Somalia's Transitional Federal Government and their Ethiopian allies captured Mogadishu unopposed.
William Carstares (d. 1715) · Carl-Gustaf Rossby (b. 1898) · Ratan Tata (b. 1937)