About December 28
December 28, 2024 is the 363rd day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 3 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.
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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 32 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.
- 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.
- 1867 –United States claims Midway Atoll, the first territory annexed outside Continental limits.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1948 –The DC-3 airliner NC16002 disappears 50 miles south of Miami, Florida.
- 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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