Talk:December 28

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December 28: Hanukkah ends at sunset (Judaism, 2011); Day of the Holy Innocents (Western Christianity)

893 – An earthquake destroyed the city of Dvin, Armenia, causing about 30,000 casualties.
1907 – The last confirmed sighting of the extinct Huia took place in the Tararua Ranges, North Island, New Zealand.
1912 – The San Francisco Municipal Railway, operator of the city's famed cable car system (cable car pictured), opened its first line.
1918 – Irishwoman Constance Markievicz became the first female Member of Parliament elected to the British House of Commons, although she never served.
1989 – In one of Australia's most serious natural disasters, a 5.6 M_L earthquake struck Newcastle, New South Wales, killing 13 people and injuring more than 160 others, and causing an estimated AUD$4 billion in damages.
2006 – War in Somalia: Troops of Somalia's Transitional Federal Government along with their Ethiopian allies captured Mogadishu unopposed.