About December 28
December 28, 2024 is the 363rd day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 3 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.
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Capricorn is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Turquoise is the modern birthstone for this month. Onyx is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 32 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On December 28
- 1065 –Westminster Abbey is consecrated.
- 1308 –The reign of Emperor Hanazono, emperor of Japan, begins.
- 1795 –Construction of Yonge Street, formerly recognized as the longest street in the world, begins in York, Upper Canada (present-day Toronto, Ontario).
- 1836 –South Australia and Adelaide are founded.
- 1846 –Iowa is admitted as the 29th U.S. state.
- 1879 –The Tay Bridge Disaster: The central part of the Tay Rail Bridge in Dundee, Scotland collapses as a train passes over it, killing 75.
- 1885 –Indian National Congress a political party of India is founded in Bombay, British India.
- 1895 –The Lumière brothers perform for their first paying audience at the Grand Cafe in Boulevard des Capucines, marking the debut of the cinema.
- 1895 –Wilhelm Röntgen publishes a paper detailing his discovery of a new type of radiation, which later will be known as x-rays.
- 1908 –A magnitude 7.2 earthquake rocks Messina, Sicily killing over 75,000.
- 1912 –The first municipally owned streetcars take to the streets in San Francisco, California.
- 1918 –Constance Markievicz while detained in Holloway prison, became the first woman to be elected MP to the British House of Commons.
- 1935 –Pravda publishes a letter by Pavel Postyshev, who revives New Year tree tradition in the Soviet Union.
- 1944 –Maurice Richard becomes the first player to score 8 points in one game of NHL ice hockey.
- 1956 –Chin Peng, David Marshall and Tunku Abdul Rahman meet in Baling to try and resolve the Malayan Emergency situation.
- 1973 –The Endangered Species Act is passed in the United States.
- 1974 –Senegalese marxist group Reenu-Rew founds the political movement And-Jëf at a clandestine congress.
- 1978 –With the crew investigating a problem with the landing gear, United Airlines Flight 173 runs out of fuel and crashes in Portland, Oregon, killing 10. As a result, United Airlines instituted the industry’s first crew resource management program.
- 2000 –U.S. retail giant Montgomery Ward announces it is going out of business after 128 years.
- 2009 –43 people die in a suicide bombing in Karachi, Pakistan, where Shia Muslims are observing the Day of Ashura.
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