About December 28
December 28, 2023 is the 362nd day of the year 2023 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 3 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday.
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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 44 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.
- 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.
- 1846 –Iowa is admitted as the 29th U.S. state.
- 1885 –Indian National Congress a political party of India is founded in Bombay, British India.
- 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.
- 1944 –Maurice Richard becomes the first player to score 8 points in one game of NHL ice hockey.
- 1948 –The DC-3 airliner NC16002 disappears 50 miles south of Miami, Florida.
- 1956 –Chin Peng, David Marshall and Tunku Abdul Rahman meet in Baling to try and resolve the Malayan Emergency situation.
- 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.
- 1972 –Kim Il-sung, already Prime Minister of North Korea and General Secretary of the Workers’ Party of Korea, became the first President of North Korea.
- 1973 –The Endangered Species Act is passed in the United States.
- 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.
- 2008 –War in Somalia: The militaries of Somalia’s Transitional Federal Government and Ethiopian troops capture Mogadishu unopposed.
- 2009 –43 people die in a suicide bombing in Karachi, Pakistan, where Shia Muslims are observing the Day of Ashura.
- 2010 –Arab Spring: Popular protests begin in Algeria against the government.
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