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  Chic Cards beat Phila Eagles 28-21 in NFL championship game on December - 28.   

1947  On this day in history victor Emmanuel III, king of Italy (1900-46)/Ethiopia, dies at 78   

1948  On this day in history the IDF crosses the Egyptian border   

1948  On this day in history iDF crosses Egyptian border   

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

1949  On December - 28 20th Century Fox announces it would produce TV programs   

1949  Jack Lovelock, NZ/US surgeon/athlete (Olympic-gold-1936), dies at 39 on this day in history.   

1950  On December - 28 chinese troops cross 38th Parallel, into South Korea   

1952  Detroit Lions beat Cleveland Browns 17-7 in NFL championship game on December - 28.   

1953  WLBT TV channel 3 in Jackson, MS (NBC) begins broadcasting on December - 28.   

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 this day in history.   

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

1956  Roelof Kranenburg, Dutch social democratic party-chairman, dies at 76 on December - 28.   

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 December - 28.   

1958  On December - 28 chipmunks (Alvin, Simon & Theodore with David Seville) hit #1   

1960  On December - 28 raymond Bourque hockey player, was born at Montreal, Quebec   

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

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

1962  UN troops occupies Elizabethstad Katanga on this day in history.   

1963  Last ever broadcast of 'That Was The Week That Was' on December - 28.   

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

1963  On December - 28 abbott Joseph Liebling, American journalist/writer, dies   

1964  Premier of Dmitri Sjostakovitch' Stefan Rasin on December - 28.   

1966  On this day in history 13 die in a train crash in Everett Mass   

1967  KTSB (now KSNT) TV channel 27 in Topeka, KS (NBC) begins broadcasting on December - 28.   

1967  Béla Schick, Hung/US children's physician (Scarlet Fever), dies at 90 on this day in history.   

1968  On this day in history 100,000 attend Miami Pop Festival   

1968  On this day in history beatles' "Beatles-The White Album," goes #1 & stays #1 for 9 weeks   

1969  On December - 28 neil Simon's "Last of the Red Hot Lovers," premieres in NYC   

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1164  Emperor Rokujō of Japan (d. 1176) was born on this day in history.   

1484  On December - 28 birth of joachim Vadianus, [von Watt], Swiss physician/mayor of Sankt Gallen   

1522  On this day in history birth of margaret of Austria, regent of the Netherlands (d. 1583)   

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

1631  On this day in history birth of ludolf Backhuysen, Dutch seascape painter/cartoonist   

1635  Princess Elizabeth of England (d. 1650) was born on this day in history.   

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

1665  On this day in history birth of george FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Northumberland, British general (d. 1716)   

0300  Death of Theonas, Patriarch of Alexandria on December - 28.   

1367  On this day in history death of ashikaga Yoshiakira, Japanese shogun (b. 1330)   

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

1503  Death of Piero di Lorenzo de' Medici, ruler of Florence (b. 1471) on this day in history.   

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

1622  On December - 28 francois de Sales, French bishop of Geneva/writer/saint, dies at 55   

1663  Death of Francesco Maria Grimaldi, Italian mathematician and physicist (b. 1618) on this day in history.   

1671  On this day in history death of johann Friedrich Gronovius, German classical scholar (b. 1611)