December 28......

December 28 is the 362nd day of the year (363rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 3 days remaining in the year on this date.

EVENTS

● 418 - St. Boniface I becomes Pope.

● 801 - Louis the Vrome occupies Barcelona

● 1065 - Westminster Abbey was consecrated under Edward the Confessor.

● 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.

● 1614 - Sperm whale beached at Noordwijk

● 1694 - Queen Mary II of England died after five years of joint rule with her husband, King William III.

● 1732 - "The Pennsylvania Gazette," owned by Benjamin Franklin, ran an ad for the first issue of "Poor Richard’s Almanack."

● 1741 - English revivalist George Whitefield wrote in a letter: 'Redeem your precious time: pick up the fragments of it, that not one moment of it may be lost. Be much in secret prayer. Converse less with man, and more with God.'

● 1816 - American Colonization Society organizes

● 1821 - Naples: Gioacchini Rossini moves to Bologna

● 1828 - 6.8 earthquake strikes Echigo Japan, 30,000 killed

● 1831 - Thirty thousand slaves in Jamaica begin armed insurrection.

● 1832 - Vice President John C. Calhoun of South Carolina resigns in order to lead the South's fight for slavery, a cause he called "a perfect good." This made him the first to resign as Veep but not the last without any sense of real morals.

● 1832 - In Missouri, St. Louis Academy (founded in 1818) was chartered as St. Louis University. It was the first Catholic university established in the U.S. west of the Allegheny Mountains.

● 1835 - Osceola led his Seminole warriors in Florida into the Second Seminole War against the U.S. Army and destroy a column of 110 invading soldiers..

● 1836 - South Australia and Adelaide are founded.

● 1836 - Spain recognizes independence of Mexico.

● 1838 - Greensborough Female College was chartered in North Carolina, under the Methodist Church. In 1920 its name was changed to Greensboro College.

● 1846 - Iowa is admitted as the 29th U.S. state.

● 1847 - Birth of Samuel A. Ward, American music publisher. Ward composed the tune MATERNA, to which we sing today the patriotic hymn, "America, The Beautiful."

● 1849 - M Jolly-Bellin discovers dry-cleaning, he accidentally upset lamp containing turpentine & oil on his clothing & sees cleaning effect

● 1850 - Rangoon Burma destroyed by fire

● 1856 - Thomas Woodrow Wilson, the 28th president of the United States, was born in Staunton, Va.

● 1863 - Russia: Nihilists annihilate Chief of Police.

● 1864 - Battle of Egypt Station MS

● 1869 - Knights of Labor hold their first meeting, Philadelphia.

● 1869 - William E. Semple of Mt. Vernon, Ohio patents chewing gum.

● 1877 - John Stevens applied for a patent for his flour-rolling mill, which boosted production by 70%.

● 1878 - Pope Leo XIII publishes encyclical Quod apostolici muneris (socialism)

● 1879 - Birth of long-time Seattle labor leader Jimmy Duncan.

● 1879 - The Tay Bridge Disaster: The central part of the Tay Rail Bridge in Dundee, Scotland collapses as a train passed over it, killing 75.

● 1882 - Arthur Eddington, pacifist astronomer, born, Britain.

● 1887 - Sir John Layton Jarvis, 1st British race horse trainer knighted

● 1893 - French lieutenant Boiteux annexes Tumbuktu

● 1895 - The Lumière brothers have their first paying audience at the Grand Cafe in Boulevard des Capucines marking the debut of the cinema. This is the World's 1st movie theater.

● 1897 - The play Cyrano de Bergerac, by Edmond Rostand, premieres in Paris.

● 1902 - The first professional indoor football game was played at Madison Square Garden in New York City. Syracuse defeated the Philadelphia Nationals 6-0.

● 1902 - Trans-Pacific cable links Hawaii to US

● 1903 - Electric lamp sets fire to Iroquois Theater in Chicago; 602 die, many trampled to death as a result of defective provisions for safety and exit.

● 1904 - 1st daily wireless weather forecasts published (London)

● 1905 - Earl "Fatha" Hines, the father of modern jazz piano, was born.

● 1905 - Intercollegiate Athletic Association of US founded (becomes NCAA in 1910)

● 1906 - Ecuador adopts its constitution

● 1908 - Earthquake strikes Messina, Italy; 80,000 die.

● 1912 - The first municipally owned streetcars take to the streets in San Francisco.

● 1912 - National Council of Young Israel convenes

● 1915 - San Francisco City Hall dedicated by Mayor James Rolph

● 1916 - At a seven-day convention in Eureka Springs, Arkansas, the General Assembly of Apostolic Assemblies (GAAA) was formed. Its institutional life was short, however. Due to the pressures of World War I, the GAAA was formed too late to recognize ministers of military age.

● 1917 - The New York Evening Mail published a facetious essay by H.L. Mencken on the history of bathtubs in America.

● 1926 - Imperial Airways begins England-India mail & passenger service

● 1931 - Lin-Sen succeeds Chiang Kai-shek as President of Nanjing-China

● 1935 - W P A Federal Art Project Gallery opens in New York NY

● 1936 - Sit-down strike against General Motors begins at Fisher Body plant in Cleveland.

● 1937 - Composer Maurice Ravel died in Paris.

● 1937 - The Irish Free State became the Republic of Ireland when a new constitution established the country as a sovereign state under the name of Eire.

● 1937 - Fascist Octavian Goga becomes PM of Romania/begins spread of Judaism

● 1939 - First flight of the Consolidated XB-24 "Liberator" bomber prototype.

● 1941 - State of siege goes into effect in Bohemia/Moravia

● 1942 - Robert Sullivan becomes 1st pilot to fly the Atlantic 100 times.

● 1942 - Oberkommando Wehrmacht orders strategist flight out of Kaukasus

● 1943 - All inhabitants of Kalmukkie deported, about 70,000 killed.

● 1944 - Eisenhower & Montgomery meet in Hasselt Belgium

● 1944 - Former Washington 3rd baseman Buddy Lewis wins Distinguished Flying Cross

● 1944 - President Franklin D. Roosevelt orders the Army to seize the executive offices of Montgomery Ward & Company after the patriotic corporation fails to comply with a National War Labor Board directive regarding union shops.

● 1945 - Congress officially recognizes "The Pledge of Allegiance."

● 1948 - The IDF crosses the Egyptian border

● 1948 - Middel-Java as a whole in Dutch hands

● 1948 - US announced a study to launch an Earth satellite

● 1948 - The DC-3 airliner NC16002 disappears 50 miles south of Miami, Florida.

● 1949 - 20th Century Fox announces it will produce TV programs

● 1950 - The Peak District becomes the United Kingdom's first National Park.

● 1950 - Chinese troops cross 38th Parallel, into South Korea.

● 1956 - After five years on television, the last "Ding Dong School" was aired on NBC-TV.

● 1957 - Foot-and-mouth shuts down abattoir; One of Britain's largest abattoirs closes down after foot-and-mouth disease is found in cattle waiting to be slaughtered.

● 1957 - CBS states it won't broadcast baseball where minor league games are on

● 1957 - USSR performs atmospheric nuclear test

● 1958 - Chipmunks (Alvin, Simon & Theodore with David Seville) hit #1

● 1962 - UN troops occupy Elizabethstad Katanga

● 1962 - Government outlaws 36 organizations under "Suppression of Communism Act," South Africa.

● 1963 - Merle Haggard's 1st appearance on country chart with "Sing a Sad Song"

● 1964 - Premier of Dmitri Shostakovich's Stefan Rasin

● 1964 - Initial filming of the movie "Dr. Zhivago" began on location near Madrid, Spain. The movies total running time is 197 minutes.

● 1966 - 13 die in a train crash in Everett MA

● 1966 - China People's Republic performs nuclear test at Lop Nor People's Rebublic of China

● 1967 - Muriel Siebert is 1st women to own a seat on New York Stock Exchange

● 1968 - 100,000 attend Miami Pop Festival

● 1968 - Beatles' "Beatles-The White Album" goes #1 & stays #1 for 9 weeks

● 1968 - Anti-draft conference launches "Don't Register" campaign, Australia.

● 1968 - Israeli commando troops destroy 13 civilian aircraft at Beirut International Airport.

● 1969 - ACLU charges police in nine cities are illegally harassing members of the Black Panther Party.

● 1969 - Dallas Cowboy kicker Mike Clark, attempting an on-side kick against Cleveland, misses the ball

● 1969 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR

● 1970 - Yemen Arab Republic (North Yemen) adopts constitution

● 1971 - Eighty-eight Vietnam Veterans Against the War are arrested at a White House protest.

● 1971 - Vietnam veteran antiwar protesters peacefully end their occupation of the Statue of Liberty.

● 1972 - Kim Il-song, becomes President of North Korea

● 1972 - Martin Bormann's skeleton found in Berlin (Hitler's deputy)

● 1972 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR

● 1973 - Alexander Solzhenitsyn published "Gulag Archipelago," an expose of the Soviet prison system.

● 1973 - The Chamber of Commerce of Akron, OH, terminated its association with the All-American Soap Box Derby. It was stated that the race had become "a victim of cheating and fraud."

● 1973 - Comet Kohoutek at perihelion

● 1974 - Senegalese marxist group Reenu-Rew founds the political movement And-Jëf at a clandestine congress.

● 1974 - 6.3 earthquake strikes Pakistan: 5200 killed

● 1975 - "Hail Mary Pass" - Cowboys beat Vikings 17-14 on last second pass

● 1976 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

● 1976 - Winnie Mandela banished in South Africa

● 1979 - Tay Bridge rail disaster remembered; Passengers retrace a fatal journey on the 100th anniversary of a train plunging from the Tay Bridge into icy waters.

● 1980 - México terminated fishing agreements with US

● 1980 - Green light for British breakfast television; A shake-up of broadcasting franchises paves the way for breakfast television.

● 1981 - Peace camp set up at Molesworth cruise missile base, Britain.

● 1981 - The first American test-tube baby, Elizabeth Jordan Carr, is born in Norfolk, Virginia.

● 1981 - The HBO pay cable television service expanded its schedule offering to 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

● 1981 - Cleveland Metroparks Administrative offices move from downtown to Zoo

● 1981 - Warner-Elektra-Atlantic raises price of 45 records from $1.68 to $1.98

● 1981 - Pat Sajak starts hosting the daytime version of Wheel of Fortune.

● 1982 - Nevell Johnson Jr. was mortally wounded by a police officer in a Miami video arcade. The event set off three days of race related disturbances that left another man dead.

● 1983 - US says they will leave UNESCO on Dec 31, 1984

● 1984 - The Edge of Night, a long running daytime American soap opera ends after a 28 year run and 7420 episodes.

● 1984 - Accidental launch of U.S.S.R. missile toward Germany destroyed in flight. The name of the above soap opera provides more than a little irony.

● 1984 - Creosote bush determined to be 11,700 years old

● 1984 - Rajiv Gandhi's Congress party wins election in India

● 1984 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR

● 1985 - Warring Lebanese Moslem & Christian leaders sign peace agreement

● 1985 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

● 1986 - Pat Davis, ranked 412th among world tennis competitors, wins Davis Cup

● 1987 - The bodies of 14 relatives of R. Gene Simmons were found at his home near Dover, AR. Simmons had gone on a shooting spree in Russellville that claimed two other lives.

● 1988 - US 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals affirms Yonkers is guilty of racism

● 1988 - John Tarrant, 1st Australian born Zen teacher, receives Dharma Transmission

● 1988 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR

● 1989 - A magnitude 5.6 earthquake hits Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia, killing 13 people.

● 1989 - Alexander Dubcek, who had been expelled from the Communist Party in 1970, was elected speaker of the Czech parliament.

● 1990 - 2 die in a NYC subway accident

● 1991 - Nine people died in a rush to get into a basketball game at City College in New York.

● 1991 - Irene the Icon of the Greek Orthodox church returns after being stolen

● 1991 - Ted Turner is named Time Magazine Man of the Year

● 1992 - NFL Hall of Fame quarterback Joe Montana played in his final game as a San Francisco 49er in a victory over the Detroit Lions.

● 1993 - Mafia link in cocaine haul; British customs officials seize £70m of Colombian cocaine thought to be linked to the Mafia.

● 1993 - Dow-Jones hits record 3793.49

● 1993 - Dutch Antilles government of Yandi Paula forms

● 1994 - Tammy Wynette admitted to the hospital with bile duct infection

● 1995 - Pressure from German prosecutors investigating pornography forced CompuServe to set a precedent by blocking access to sex-oriented newsgroups on the Internet for its customers.

● 1995 - Ten activists are arrested for trespass at the Strategic Nuclear Command Center near Omaha, Nebraska.

● 1996 - Three arrested at Capitol Hill post office in Seattle for refusing to leave after attempting to mail humanitarian supplies to Iraq in defiance of U.S.-led embargo.

● 1999 - Saparmurat Niyazov is proclaimed President for Life in Turkmenistan.

● 2000 - U.S. retail giant Montgomery Ward announces it is going out of business after 128 years.

● 2000 - U.S. District Court Judge Matsch held a hearing to ensure that confessed Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh understood that he was dropping his appeals. McVeigh said that he wanted an execution date, set but wanted to reserve the right to seek presidential clemency.

● 2000 - Shannen Doherty was arrested for driving under the influence.

● 2003 - Britain gives go-ahead for 'sky marshals'; The British Government announces plans to tighten airline security by allowing armed guards on some British flights to the USA.

● 2004 - Activist, author and intellectual Susan Sontag died at age 71.

● 2004 - Actor Jerry Orbach (''Law and Order'') died at age 69.

● 2005 - Former top Enron Corp. accountant Richard Causey pleaded guilty to securities fraud and agreed to help pursue convictions against Enron founder Kenneth Lay and former CEO Jeffrey Skilling.

● 2005 - A U.S. immigration judge ordered retired auto worker John Demjanjuk, accused of being a Nazi concentration camp guard, deported to his native Ukraine.

BIRTHS

● 1164 - Emperor Rokujo of Japan (d. 1176)

● 1522 - Margaret of Austria, regent of the Netherlands (d. 1583)

● 1619 - Antoine Furetière, French writer (d. 1688)

● 1655 - Charles Cornwallis, 3rd Baron Cornwallis, First Lord of the British Admiralty (d. 1698)

● 1665 - George FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Northumberland, British general (d. 1716)

● 1778 - Franciszek Ksawery Drucki-Lubecki, Polish politician (d. 1846)

● 1798 - Thomas Henderson, Scottish astronomer (d. 1844)

● 1833 - Edward Levy-Lawson Burnham,
English creator of London Daily Telegraph newspaper (d. 1916)

● 1856 - Woodrow Wilson, 28th President of the United States, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1924)

● 1866 - Szymon Askenazy, Polish historian, diplomat and politician (d. 1935)

● 1871 - Frederick Pethick-Lawrence, English women's suffrage movement leader (d. 1961)

● 1873 - William Draper Harkins, American chemist (d. 1951)

● 1879 - Billy Mitchell, American military aviation pioneer (d. 1936)

● 1882 - Sir Arthur Eddington, British astronomer and physicist (d. 1944)

● 1888 - Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau, German film director (d. 1931)

● 1898 - Carl-Gustaf Rossby, Swedish meteorologist (b. 1957)

● 1899 - Eugeniusz Bodo, Polish actor (d. 1943)

● 1902 - Mortimer Adler, American philosopher (d. 2001)

● 1902 - Shen Congwen, Chinese writer (d. 1988)

● 1903 - Earl "Fatha" Hines, American musician (d. 1983)

● 1903 - John von Neumann, Hungarian-born mathematician (d. 1957)

● 1905 - Earl "Fatha" Hines, American jazz pianist, bandleader and composer (d. 1983)

● 1905 - Cliff Arquette, American actor and comedian (d. 1974)

● 1908 - Lew Ayres, American actor (d. 1996)

● 1913 - Lou Jacobi, Actor

● 1921 - Johnny Otis, Bandleader

● 1922 - Stan Lee, American comic book writer (''Spider-Man,'' ''The Incredible Hulk'')

● 1924 - Milton Obote, President of Uganda (d. 2005)

● 1925 - Hildegard Knef, German actress, singer and writer (d. 2002)

● 1929 - Brian Redhead, British journalist and broadcaster (d. 1994)

● 1929 - Terry Sawchuk, Canadian hockey player (d. 1970)

● 1931 - Guy Debord, French writer and filmmaker (d. 1994)

● 1932 - Dhirubhai Ambani, Indian businessman (d. 2002)

● 1932 - Manuel Puig, Argentine writer (d. 1990)

● 1932 - Roy Hattersley, British politician

● 1933 - Nichelle Nichols, American actress and singer

● 1934 - Maggie Smith, British actress

● 1934 - Yujiro Ishihara, Japanese actor (d. 1987)

● 1937 - Ratan Tata, Indian industrialist

● 1938 - Charles Neville, American musician (Neville Brothers)

● 1940 - Don Francisco, Chilean television host

● 1943 - Richard Whiteley, British television presenter (d. 2005)

● 1944 - Johnny Isakson, U.S. senator, R-Ga.

● 1944 - Kary Mullis, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate

● 1946 - Tim Johnson, U.S. senator, D-S.D.

● 1946 - Edgar Winter, American musician

● 1947 - Aurelio Rodríguez, Mexican Major League Baseball player (d. 2000)

● 1950 - Alex Chilton, Rock singer-musician

● 1953 - Richard Clayderman, French pianist

● 1954 - Denzel Washington, American actor

● 1956 - Nigel Kennedy, British violinist

● 1958 - Joe Diffie, Country singer

● 1958 - Mike McGuire, Country musician (Shenandoah)

● 1960 - Chad McQueen, Actor

● 1960 - Marty Roe, Country singer-musician (Diamond Rio)

● 1960 - Raymond Bourque, Canadian hockey player and Hall of Fame member

● 1962 - Rachel Z, American jazz pianist

● 1964 - Malcolm Gets, Actor

● 1967 - Chris Ware, American cartoonist

● 1969 - Mauricio Mendoza, Actor

● 1969 - Linus Torvalds, Finnish computer programmer

● 1971 - Frank Sepe, American bodybuilder and model

● 1971 - Benny Agbayani, Hawaiian baseball player

● 1972 - Patrick Rafter, Australian tennis player

● 1972 - Adam Vinatieri, American Football player

● 1973 - Seth Meyers, Comedian (''Saturday Night Live'')

● 1978 - John Legend, American singer, songwriter, and pianist

● 1979 - James Blake, Tennis player

● 1981 - Sienna Miller, British actress

● 1982 - Cedric Benson, American football player

● 1982 - Kevin Pereira, American television host

● 1986 - Tom Huddlestone, English footballer

● 1987 - Thomas Dekker, American actor

● 1989 - Mackenzie Rosman, American actress (''7th Heaven'')

DEATHS

● 300 - Theonas, Patriarch of Alexandria

● 1367 - Ashikaga Yoshiakira, Japanese shogun (b. 1330)

● 1446 - Antipope Clement VIII

● 1503 - Piero di Lorenzo de' Medici, ruler of Florence (b. 1471)

● 1558 - Hermann Finck, German composer (b. 1527)

● 1622 - Francis de Sales, Bishop of Geneva and saint (b. 1567)

● 1663 - Francesco Maria Grimaldi, Italian mathematician and physicist (b. 1618)

● 1671 - Johann Friedrich Gronovius, German classical scholar (b. 1611)

● 1694 - Queen Mary II of England (b. 1662)

● 1703 - Mustafa II, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1664)

● 1706 - Pierre Bayle, French philosopher (b. 1647)

● 1708 - Joseph Pitton de Tournefort, French botanist (b. 1656)

● 1715 - William Carstares, Scottish minister (b. 1649)

● 1734 - Robert Roy MacGregor, Scottish folk hero (b. 1671)

● 1736 - Antonio Caldara, Italian composer (b. 1670)

● 1795 - Eugenio Espejo, Ecuadorian scientist (b. 1747)

● 1829 - Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, French scientist (b. 1744)

● 1859 - Thomas Macaulay, British poet, historian, and politician (b. 1800)

● 1872 - James Van Ness, Mayor of San Francisco (1855-1856) (b. 1808)

● 1877 - Nikolai Alekseevich Nekrasov, Russian poet (b. 1821)

● 1900 - Alexandre Alberto da Rocha de Serpa Pinto, Portuguese explorer (b. 1846)

● 1916 - Eduard Strauss, Austrian composer (b. 1835)

● 1918 - Olavo Bilac, Brazilian poet (b. 1865)

● 1919 - Johannes Rydberg, Swedish physicist (b. 1854)

● 1924 - Léon Bakst, Russian artist (b. 1866)

● 1937 - Maurice Ravel, French composer (b. 1875)

● 1938 - Florence Lawrence, American actress (b. 1886)

● 1943 - Steve Evans, baseball player (b. 1885)

● 1945 - Theodore Dreiser, American author (b. 1871)

● 1947 - King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy (b. 1869)

● 1949 - Jack Lovelock, New Zealand athlete (b. 1910)

● 1952 - Fletcher Henderson, American musician (b. 1897)

● 1963 - Paul Hindemith, German composer (b. 1895)

● 1967 - Katharine McCormick, American women's rights activist (b. 1875)

● 1976 - Katharine Byron, U.S. Congresswoman (b. 1903)

● 1981 - Allan Dwan, Canadian-born film director (b. 1885)

● 1983 - William Demarest, American actor (b. 1892)

● 1983 - Jimmy Demaret, American golfer (b. 1910)

● 1983 - Dennis Wilson, American musician (The Beach Boys) (b. 1944)

● 1984 - Sam Peckinpah, American film director (b. 1925)

● 1986 - Andrei Tarkovsky, Russian film director (b. 1932)

● 1989 - Hermann Oberth, German physicist (b. 1894)

● 1991 - Cassandra Harris, Australian actress (b. 1952)

● 1992 - Sal Maglie, baseball player (b. 1917)

● 1998 - Claudia Benton, Peruvian child psychologist (b. 1959)

● 1999 - Clayton Moore, American actor (b. 1914)

● 2001 - William X. Kienzle, American novelist (b. 1928)

● 2003 - Benjamin Hacker, U.S. admiral (b. 1935)

● 2004 - Jerry Orbach, American actor (“Law and Order”) (b. 1935)

● 2004 - Susan Sontag, American writer and activist (b. 1933)

HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES

● Roman Catholic:
● St. Anthony the Hermit
● St. Troadius
● St. Caesarius
● St. Caesarius
● St. Castor
● St. Domnio
● St. Eutychius & Domitian
● St. Romulus and Conindrus
● St. Maughold
● Feast of the Holy Innocents, also known as Childermas, commemorating the Massacre of the Innocents on order of king Herod the Great. In Spain and Latin American countries, the festival is celebrated in a manner similar to April Fool's Day.

● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for December 15 (Civil Date: December 28)
● Nativity Fast.
● Hieromartyr Eleutherius, Bishop of Illyria, and his mother Martyr Anthia.
● St. Paul of Latros.
● St. Stephen the confessor, Archbishop Surozha in the Crimea.
● Martyr Eleutherius at Constantinople.
● St. Pardus, hermit of Palestine.
● Martyr Bacchus the New.
● Martyr Susanna the deaconess of Palestine.
● St. Tryphon, abbot of Pechenga or Kolsk, and his martyred disciple Jonah.
● NEW HIEROMARTYR Joseph, Metropolitan of Petrograd (1938)
● NEW HIEROMARTYR Ilarion (Troitsky) (1929).
● New Martyr Paul (Florensky).

● Greek Calendar:
● Martyr Koremon the Epatch and two executioners martyred with him.

● The third day of Christmas in Western Christianity.

● If on a Monday, normally proclaimed as a bank holiday in Britain and other former British colonies as a substitute holiday in lieu of Christmas Day.

● If on a Tuesday, normally proclaimed as a bank holiday in Britain and other former British colonies as a substitute holiday in lieu of Boxing Day.

● Iowa : Admission Day (1846)

● Nepál : King Birendra's Birthday

● Proclamation Day in South Australia

Click on this LINK to see original Wikipedia list with many having links with details.

Additional facts taken from:

On this day in the New York Times

The BBC’s Take on the day

On This Day Website

Geov Parrish's this Day in Radical History, things that happened on this day that you never had to memorize in school.

Scope Systems Any Day Website

Roman Catholic Saint of the Day

Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar

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