Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/December 28

This is a list of selected December 28 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.

Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article or picture of the day.

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Images

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  The Old Gum Tree in South Australia (c. 2006)
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  San Francisco cable car
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  Osceola
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  President Saparmurat Niyazov of Turkmenistan
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  Neptune
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  Westminster Abbey, west facade
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  A pair of huia
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  Constance Markievicz
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  Norman Atlantic

Ineligible

Blurb	Reason
Day of the Holy Innocents (Western Christianity);	lots of CN tags (7)
Proclamation Day in South Australia (1836)	new date, the first work day following Christmas, which is typically 26 December
1832 – John C. Calhoun became the first vice president of the United States to resign.	Date not cited
1835 – Osceola led his Seminole warriors in Florida into the Second Seminole War against the U.S. Army.	refimprove section, trivia
1836 – At the Old Gum Tree near present-day Adelaide, Royal Navy Rear-Admiral John Hindmarsh read a proclamation establishing the British province of South Australia.	lots of CN tags in one section (Economy)
1895 – Using their cinematograph in Paris, the Lumière brothers showed motion pictures to a paying audience for the first time.	refimprove section
1912 – The San Francisco Municipal Railway, operator of the city's famed cable car system, opened its first line.	refimprove section
1935 – Politician Pavel Postyshev revived the New Year tree tradition in the Soviet Union when Pravda published his letter asking for them to be installed in schools, children's homes, Young Pioneer Palaces, children's clubs, children's theaters, and cinema theaters.	lead too short, pertinent fact unreferenced
1948 – The Douglas DC-3 airliner NC16002, en route from San Juan, Puerto Rico to Miami, Florida, disappeared in the area known as the Bermuda Triangle.	refimprove
1955 – Supreme Leader of North Korea Kim Il-sung delivered the Juche speech, outlining the state ideology of his regime.	date uncertain
1973 – U.S. president Richard Nixon signed the Endangered Species Act into law, a wide-ranging environmental law designed to protect critically imperiled species from extinction.	refimprove section
1978 – With the crew investigating a problem with the landing gear, United Airlines Flight 173 ran out of fuel and crashed in Portland, Oregon, leading to the establishment of the industry's first crew resource management program.	missing information
1999 – Saparmurat Niyazov, the first president of Turkmenistan, was proclaimed president for life by the Assembly.	refimprove
Carl-Gustaf Rossby |b|1898|	Birthday not cited

Eligible

• 484 – Alaric II succeeded his father Euric as King of the Visigoths.
• 1065 – Westminster Abbey, built by Edward the Confessor as the first Romanesque church in England, was first consecrated.
• 1612 – Galileo Galilei became the first person to observe the planet Neptune, although he mistakenly catalogued it as a fixed star.
• 1767 – Taksin the Great was crowned king of the newly established Thonburi Kingdom at the new capital of Thonburi in present-day Thailand.
• 1879 – The Tay Bridge, spanning the Firth of Tay in Scotland between Dundee and Wormit, collapsed during a violent storm while a train was passing over it, killing all on board.
• 1907 – The last confirmed sighting of the now-extinct huia occurred in the Tararua Range on New Zealand's North Island.
• 1908 – An earthquake registering 7.1 M_w struck near Messina, which, along with the subsequent tsunami, killed at least 75,000 people in southern Italy.
• 1967 – American businesswoman Muriel Siebert became the first woman to own a seat on the New York Stock Exchange.
• 1989 – In one of Australia's worst natural disasters, an earthquake measuring 5.6 M_L struck Newcastle, New South Wales, killing 13 people and injuring more than 160 others, and causing an estimated A$4 billion in damages.
• 2006 – Somali Civil War: Troops of Somalia's Transitional Federal Government and their Ethiopian allies captured Mogadishu unopposed.
• 2009 – A suicide bomber attacked a Shia procession commemorating the day of Ashura in Karachi, Pakistan, causing 43 deaths.
• 2009 – Tibetan dissident filmmaker Dhondup Wangchen was imprisoned for subversion by Chinese authorities after a secret trial.
• 2011 – Kurdish–Turkish conflict: Acting on information that Kurdish militants were crossing the border from Iraqi territory, two Turkish F-16 jets fired at a group of villagers, killing 34 people.
• 2014 – The passenger ferry Norman Atlantic (pictured) caught fire in the Adriatic Sea.

• Born/died: | Wang Zongbi |d|925| Antoine Furetière |b|1619| William Carstares |d|1715| Eliza Lucas |b|1722| Arthur Hunter Palmer |b|1819| Ratan Tata |b|1937| Maurice Ravel |d|1937| Barbara Judge |b|1946| Sharon Dyall |b|1962 | Susan Sontag |d|2004

Notes

• Ashura protests appears on December 27, so Karachi bombing should not appear in the same year

December 28

Canadian Armour Passing Through Ortona

• 893 – An earthquake destroyed the city of Dvin, Armenia, resulting in about 30,000 casualties.
• 1862 – American Civil War: Union forces defeated a Confederate cavalry unit at the Battle of Van Buren, capturing three steamboats, Confederate troops, and various supplies.
• 1918 – At the Irish general election, Constance Markievicz was elected to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom as the first female member of Parliament, although she never took her seat.
• 1943 – World War II: After eight days of brutal house-to-house fighting, the 1st Canadian Infantry Division captured the Italian town of Ortona (depicted).
• 2018 – Netflix released Black Mirror: Bandersnatch, its first interactive content for adults.

• Andrea Gritti (d. 1538)
• Albert Christoph Dies (d. 1822)
• Shen Congwen (b. 1902)
• Philomena Franz (d. 2022)

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