December 28 - What happened today?

Home What happened today in history? Blamepro's Almanac for December 28
In the headlines today:

1999	Clayton Moore, star of the 1950s TV show The Lone Ranger, dies in Los Angeles at age 85.
1981	Elizabeth Jordan Carr, the first US test tube baby, is born in Norfolk, VA.
1973	Gulag Archipelago, an expose' of the Soviet prison system, is published by Alexander Solzhenitsyn.
1945	The Pledge of Allegiance is officially recognized by the US Congress.
1944	The Broadway musical On the Town opens in New York City.
1937	Maurice Ravel, composer of Bolero, dies in Paris.
1908	Over 100,000 people die when a massive earthquake and resulting tsunami flattens Messina, Italy.
1902	The first indoor pro football game is played at Madison Square Garden in New York.
1897	Edmond Rostand's play, Cyrano de Bergerac, premieres in Paris.
1879	Seventy-three people drown when a North Britain Railway train is blown off a bridge.
1869	The Knights of Labor, a union of Philadelphia tailors, hold the first Labor Day ceremonies in the US.
1846	Iowa is admitted as the 29th state of the US.
1832	John C. Calhoun becomes the first US vice president to resign, stepping down over differences with President Andrew Jackson.
1694	Queen Mary II of England dies of smallpox after five years of joint rule with her husband, King William III.