About December 28
December 28, 2025 is the 362nd day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 3 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday.
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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 51 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On December 28
- 893 –An earthquake destroys the city of Dvin, Armenia.
- 1308 –The reign of Emperor Hanazono, emperor of Japan, begins.
- 1768 –King Taksin’s coronation achieved through conquest as a king of Thailand and established Thonburi as a capital.
- 1795 –Construction of Yonge Street, formerly recognized as the longest street in the world, begins in York, Upper Canada (present-day Toronto, Ontario).
- 1835 –Osceola leads his Seminole warriors in Florida into the Second Seminole War against the United States Army.
- 1836 –South Australia and Adelaide are founded.
- 1836 –Spain recognizes the independence of Mexico.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1943 –World War II – After eight days of brutal house-to-house fighting, the battle of Ortona concludes with the victory of the 1st Canadian Infantry Division over the German 1st Parachute Division and the capture of the Italian town of Ortona.
- 1944 –Maurice Richard becomes the first player to score 8 points in one game of NHL ice hockey.
- 1958 –“Greatest Game Ever Played” – Baltimore Colts defeat the New York Giants in the first ever National Football League sudden death overtime game at New York’s Yankee Stadium.
- 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.
- 2000 –U.S. retail giant Montgomery Ward announces it is going out of business after 128 years.
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