The 28t o December is the 362nt day o the year (363rd in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 3 days bidin.
Events
1612 : The planet Neptune 1846 : Banner o Iowa 1065 - Wastmeenster Abbey is consecratit.1612 - Galileo Galilei observes the planet Neptune .1832 - John C. Calhoun becomes the first Vice Preses o the Unitit States tae resign.1836 - Sooth Australie is creatit.1836 - Spain recognises the unthirldom o Mexico .1846 - Iowa becomes the 29nt state o the Unitit States .1867 - The Unitit States annexes Midway Atoll .1879 - Tay Brig disaster : The Tay Rail Brig collapses as a train passes ower it, killin 75 fowk.1895 - The Lumière brithers open their first cinema in Paris .1908 - A yirdquauk in Messina , Sicily , kills thoosands o fowk.1945 - The Unitit States Congress recognises the Pledge o Allegiance.1950 - The Peak District becomes the first Naitional Park in the Unitit Kinrick .1973 - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn publishes his novel The Gulag Archipelago.1984 - Rajiv Gandhi is electit Prime meenister o Indie .1999 - Saparmurat Niyazov is declarit "Preses for Life" in Turkmenistan .2007 - Nepal decides tae become a republic.2009 - 43 fowk are kilt in a suicide bombin in Karachi , Pakistan .2014 - Air Asia Flicht 8501 crashes near Borneo , killin aw passengers an crew on baird.2014 - The ferry "MS Norman Atlantic" burns in the Strait o Otranto atween Greece an Italy , killin 9 fowk an leavin 19 missin.2017 - 41 fowk are kilt in a bomb attack in Kabul , Afghanistan .2017 - 12 fowk are kilt in a fire at an apairtment block in The Bronx , New York Ceety .2019 - A truck bombin in Mogadishu , Somalie , kills at least 85 fowk.2019 - The Unitit Kinrick 's heichest-recordit December temperatur tae-date is measured as 18.7 degrees Celsius at Achfary in the Scots Hielands . This is due tae the Foehn effect, which causes wairmer an drier air on ane side o a muntain than on the ither.
Births
Dame Maggie Smith Denzel Washington 1769 - Alexander John Forsyth , Scots Presbyterian clergyman an inventor (d. 1843 )1798 - Thomas Henderson , Scots astronomer (d. 1844 )1835 - Archibald Geikie , Scots geologist an writer (d. 1924 )1856 - Woodrow Wilson , 28t Preses o the Unitit States (d. 1924 )1882 - Arthur Eddington , Inglis astropheesicist (d. 1944 )1903 - John von Neumann , Hungarian-American mathemateecian (d. 1957 )1922 - Stan Lee , American comic beuk writer, airtist an publisher (d. 2018 )1932 - Nichelle Nichols , American actress1934 - Alasdair Gray , Scots writer an airtist (d. 2019 )1934 - Dame Maggie Smith , Inglis actress1938 - Anatoly Slivko , Roushie serial killer (d. 1989 )1939 - Frank McLintock , Scots fitbawer1940 - Don Francisco , Chilean telly host1954 - Denzel Washington , American actor1955 - Liu Xiaobo , Cheenese human richts activist (d. 2017 )1962 - Quim Torra , Catalan politeecian1969 - Linus Torvalds , Finnish computer programmer1979 - Noomi Rapace , Swadish actress1981 - Sienna Miller , American-Inglis actress1984 - Martin Kaymer , German gowfer1986 - Danny Swanson , Scots fitbawer1989 - Salvador Sobral , Portuguese sangster1994 - Adam Peaty , Inglis soummer
Daiths
Grave o Rob Roy MacGregor in Balquhidder 1633 - Maria Maddalena de' Medici , Princess o the Grand Duchy o Tuscany (b. 1600 )1694 - Mary II, Queen o Scots (b. 1662 )1706 - Pierre Bayle , French philosopher (b. 1647 )1734 - Rob Roy MacGregor , Scots fowk hero (b. 1671 )1782 - Princess Maria Carolina o Savoy (b. 1764 )1937 - Maurice Ravel , French componer (b. 1875 )1947 - Victor Emmanuel III o Italy (b. 1869 )1963 - Paul Hindemith , German componer (b. 1895 )2004 - Jerry Orbach , American actor (b. 1935 )2004 - Susan Sontag , American writer (b. 1933 )2015 - Lemmy Kilmister , Inglis muisicker (Motörhead ) (b. 1945 )2016 - Debbie Reynolds , American actress an sangster (b. 1932 )
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