Page 6: Historical Events In December - 28

1945  On December - 28 the President directed that the Coast Guard be transferred from the Navy and returned to the jurisdiction of the Treasury Department.   

1945  On December - 28 theodore Dreiser, novelist (An American Tragedy), dies at 74   

1946  Carrie Jacobs Bond, American composer (I Love You Truly), dies at 85 on December - 28.   

1947  On December - 28 chic Cards beat Phila Eagles 28-21 in NFL championship game   

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  IDF crosses Egyptian border on December - 28.   

1948  Mahmud Nokrashy Pasha, PM of Egypt (19..-48), assassinated on December - 28.   

1949  20th Century Fox announces it would produce TV programs on this day in history.   

1949  Jack Lovelock, NZ/US surgeon/athlete (Olympic-gold-1936), dies at 39 on December - 28.   

1950  Chinese troops cross 38th Parallel, into South Korea on this day in history.   

1952  On December - 28 detroit Lions beat Cleveland Browns 17-7 in NFL championship game   

1953  On this day in history wLBT TV channel 3 in Jackson, MS (NBC) begins broadcasting   

1954  43rd Davis Cup: USA beats Australia in Sydney (3-2) on December - 28.   

1955  44th Davis Cup: Australia beats USA in New York (5-0) on December - 28.   

1956  On this day in history miss Frances [Horwich], last Ding Dong School on NBC-TV   

1956  On December - 28 roelof Kranenburg, Dutch social democratic party-chairman, dies at 76   

1957  On December - 28 the two-millionth Volkswagen was finished on this day in 1957   

1957  CBS states it won't broadcast baseball where minor league games are on on this day in history.   

1958  Chipmunks (Alvin, Simon & Theodore with David Seville) hit #1 on this day in history.   

1960  On this day in history raymond Bourque hockey player, was born at Montreal, Quebec   

1961  On December - 28 tennessee Williams' "Night of the Iguana," premieres in NYC   

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

1962  UN troops occupies Elizabethstad Katanga on December - 28.   

1963  On this day in history last ever broadcast of 'That Was The Week That Was'   

1963  "Double Dublin" closes at Little Theater NYC after 4 performances on December - 28.   

1963  Abbott Joseph Liebling, American journalist/writer, dies on December - 28.   

1964  Premier of Dmitri Sjostakovitch' Stefan Rasin on this day in history.   

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  Béla Schick, Hung/US children's physician (Scarlet Fever), dies at 90 on this day in history.   

1968  100,000 attend Miami Pop Festival on December - 28.   

1968  On December - 28 beatles' "Beatles-The White Album," goes #1 & stays #1 for 9 weeks   

1969  On this day in history neil Simon's "Last of the Red Hot Lovers," premieres in NYC   

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1164  On December - 28 birth of emperor Rokujō of Japan (d. 1176)   

1484  Joachim Vadianus, [von Watt], Swiss physician/mayor of Sankt Gallen was born on this day in history.   

1522  Margaret of Austria, regent of the Netherlands (d. 1583) was born on this day in history.   

1619  On December - 28 birth of antoine Furetière, French writer (d. 1688)   

1631  Ludolf Backhuysen, Dutch seascape painter/cartoonist was born on December - 28.   

1635  On December - 28 birth of princess Elizabeth of England (d. 1650)   

1655  On December - 28 birth of charles Cornwallis, 3rd Baron Cornwallis, First Lord of the British Admiralty (d. 1698)   

1665  On December - 28 birth of george FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Northumberland, British general (d. 1716)   

0300  On December - 28 death of theonas, Patriarch of Alexandria   

1367  Death of Ashikaga Yoshiakira, Japanese shogun (b. 1330) on this day in history.   

1446  On this day in history clemens VIII, [Aegyd Munoz], Spanish anti-pope (1423-29), dies   

1503  On December - 28 death of piero di Lorenzo de' Medici, ruler of Florence (b. 1471)   

1542  Albert Pigge, [Pighius], Dutch theologist/astronomer, dies at about 52 on this day in history.   

1622  Francois de Sales, French bishop of Geneva/writer/saint, dies at 55 on this day in history.   

1663  On December - 28 death of francesco Maria Grimaldi, Italian mathematician and physicist (b. 1618)   

1671  Death of Johann Friedrich Gronovius, German classical scholar (b. 1611) on December - 28.