About December 28
December 28, 2025 is the 362nd day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 3 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday.
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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 51 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.
- 1612 –Galileo Galilei becomes the first astronomer to observe the planet Neptune, although he mistakenly catalogued it as a fixed star.
- 1768 –King Taksin’s coronation achieved through conquest as a king of Thailand and established Thonburi as a capital.
- 1835 –Osceola leads his Seminole warriors in Florida into the Second Seminole War against the United States Army.
- 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.
- 1895 –The Lumière brothers perform for their first paying audience at the Grand Cafe in Boulevard des Capucines, marking the debut of the cinema.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1973 –The Endangered Species Act is passed in the United States.
- 1974 –Senegalese marxist group Reenu-Rew founds the political movement And-Jëf at a clandestine congress.
- 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.
- 1989 –A magnitude 5.6 earthquake hits Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia, killing 13 people.
- 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.
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