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 this day in history.   

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 this day in history.   

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 December - 28.   

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 this day in history.   

1952  Detroit Lions beat Cleveland Browns 17-7 in NFL championship game on December - 28.   

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  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 this day in history.   

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

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

1962  UN troops occupies Elizabethstad Katanga on this day in history.   

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

1963  On this day in history "Double Dublin" closes at Little Theater NYC after 4 performances   

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

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

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

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 this day in history.   

1968  On December - 28 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  Antoine Furetière, French writer (d. 1688) was born on December - 28.   

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  On December - 28 birth of charles Cornwallis, 3rd Baron Cornwallis, First Lord of the British Admiralty (d. 1698)   

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  Death of Ashikaga Yoshiakira, Japanese shogun (b. 1330) on this day in history.   

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  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 this day in history.   

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