Page 6: Historical Events In December - 28

1945  On December - 28 the President directed that the Coast Guard be transferred from the Navy and returned to the jurisdiction of the Treasury Department.   

1945  Theodore Dreiser, novelist (An American Tragedy), dies at 74 on this day in history.   

1946  On this day in history carrie Jacobs Bond, American composer (I Love You Truly), dies at 85   

1947  On December - 28 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  On December - 28 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 this day in history.   

1949  Jack Lovelock, NZ/US surgeon/athlete (Olympic-gold-1936), dies at 39 on this day in history.   

1950  On this day in history chinese troops cross 38th Parallel, into South Korea   

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 December - 28.   

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

1956  On December - 28 miss Frances [Horwich], last Ding Dong School on NBC-TV   

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

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  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 December - 28.   

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

1962  UN troops occupies Elizabethstad Katanga on December - 28.   

1963  On December - 28 last ever broadcast of 'That Was The Week That Was'   

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

1963  Abbott Joseph Liebling, American journalist/writer, dies on December - 28.   

1964  On December - 28 premier of Dmitri Sjostakovitch' Stefan Rasin   

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

1967  KTSB (now KSNT) TV channel 27 in Topeka, KS (NBC) begins broadcasting on December - 28.   

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

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

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  Emperor Rokujō of Japan (d. 1176) was born on this day in history.   

1484  Joachim Vadianus, [von Watt], Swiss physician/mayor of Sankt Gallen was born on this day in history.   

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  On this day in history birth of ludolf Backhuysen, Dutch seascape painter/cartoonist   

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 December - 28.   

1665  George FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Northumberland, British general (d. 1716) was born on this day in history.   

0300  Death of Theonas, Patriarch of Alexandria on this day in history.   

1367  On this day in history death of ashikaga Yoshiakira, Japanese shogun (b. 1330)   

1446  On this day in history 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  Francois de Sales, French bishop of Geneva/writer/saint, dies at 55 on this day in history.   

1663  On this day in history 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.