Today in History – December 28 in History
What happened on this day in history – December 28 in History around the world
1688 | William of Orange makes a triumphant march into London as James II flees. | |
1694 | George I of England gets divorced. | |
1846 | Iowa is admitted as the 29th State of the Union. | |
1872 | A U.S. Army force defeats a group of Apache warriors at Salt River Canyon, Arizona Territory, with 57 Indians killed but only one soldier. | |
1904 | Farmers in Georgia burn two million bales of cotton to prop up falling prices. | |
1920 | The United States resumes the deportation of communists and suspected communists. | |
1933 | President Franklin D. Roosevelt states, “The definite policy of the United States, from now on, is one opposed to armed intervention.” | |
1936 | Benito Mussolini sends planes to Spain to support Francisco Franco’s forces. | |
1938 | France orders the doubling of forces in Somaliland; two warships are sent. | |
1946 | The French declare martial law in Vietnam as a full-scale war appears inevitable. | |
1948 | Premier Nokrashy Pasha of Egypt is assassinated by a member of the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood because of his failure to achieve victory in the war against Israel. | |
1951 | The United States pays $120,000 to free four fliers convicted of espionage in Hungary. | |
1965 | The United States bars oil sales to Rhodesia. | |
1968 | Israel attacks an airport in Beirut, destroying 13 planes. | |
1971 | The U.S. Justice Department sues Mississippi officials for ignoring the voting ballots of blacks in that state. | |
Born on December 28 | ||
1856 | Woodrow Wilson, 28th president of the United States. | |
1882 | Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington, English astronomer who confirmed Einstein’s theory of relativity. | |
1902 | Mortimer J. Adler, American philosopher, educator and writer. | |
1903 | John Von Neumann, Hungarian-born mathematician. |
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