About December 28
December 28, 2020 is the 363rd day of the year 2020 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 3 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday.
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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 46 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.
- 1065 –Westminster Abbey is consecrated.
- 1308 –The reign of Emperor Hanazono, emperor of Japan, begins.
- 1612 –Galileo Galilei becomes the first astronomer to observe the planet Neptune, although he mistakenly catalogued it as a fixed star.
- 1832 –John C. Calhoun becomes the first Vice President of the United States to resign.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1948 –The DC-3 airliner NC16002 disappears 50 miles south of Miami, Florida.
- 1974 –Senegalese marxist group Reenu-Rew founds the political movement And-Jëf at a clandestine congress.
- 1989 –A magnitude 5.6 earthquake hits Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia, killing 13 people.
- 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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