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December 28 is the 362nd day of the year (363rd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 3 days remaining.

• 418 - St. Boniface I becomes Pope.
• 1065 - Westminster Abbey is consecrated.
• 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.
• 1832 - John C. Calhoun becomes the first Vice President of the United States to resign.
• 1835 - Osceola led his Seminole warriors in Florida into the Second Seminole War against the U.S. Army.
• 1836 - South Australia and Adelaide are founded.
• 1836 - Spain recognizes independence of Mexico.
• 1846 - Iowa is admitted as the 29th U.S. state.
• 1867 - U.S. claims Midway Island, first territory annexed outside Continental limits.
• 1869 - William E. Semple of Mt. Vernon, Ohio patents chewing gum.
• 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.
• 1895 - The Lumière brothers have their first paying audience at the Grand Cafe in Boulevard des Capucines marking the debut of the cinema.
• 1897 - The play Cyrano de Bergerac, by Edmond Rostand, premieres in Paris.
• 1902 - The first indoor professional American football game is played in New York City at Madison Square Garden.
• 1908 - An earthquake rocks Messina, Sicily killing over 75,000.
• 1912 - The first municipally owned streetcars take to the streets in San Francisco.
• 1939 - First flight of the Consolidated XB-24 “Liberator” bomber prototype.
• 1945 - The U.S. Congress officially recognizes the Pledge of Allegiance.
• 1948 - The DC-3 airliner NC16002 disappears 50 miles south of Miami, Florida.
• 1950 - The Peak District becomes the United Kingdom’s first National Park.
• 1968 - Israeli commando troops destroy 13 civilian aircraft at Beirut International Airport.
• 1974 - Senegalese marxist group Reenu-Rew founds the political movement And-Jëf at a clandestine congress.
• 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 - Pat Sajak starts hosting the daytime version of Wheel of Fortune.
• 1984 - The Edge of Night, a long running daytime American soap opera ends after a 28 year run and 7420 episodes.
• 1989 - A magnitude 5.6 earthquake hits Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia, killing 13 people.
• 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.
• 1995 - CompuServe sets a precedent by blocking access to sex-oriented newsgroups after being pressured by German prosecutors.
• 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.
• 2005 - A U.S. immigration judge orders John Demjanjuk deported to the Ukraine for crimes against humanity committed during World War II.

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