28 BCE Year of the First Consulship of Octavian and Agrippa The earliest dated record of a sunspot by Chinese astronomers on May 10.
28 CE The Year of the Consulship of Augustus and Caesar
On December 28 in:
1612 -- Galileo Galilei became the first astronomer to observe the planet Neptune, but mistakenly catalogued it as a fixed star.
1835 -- Osceola led his Seminole warriors into the Second Seminole War against the United States.
1836 -- Spain recognized the independence of Mexico.
1867 -- The U. S. claimed Midway Atoll, the first territory annexed outside continental limits.
1895 -- Wilhelm Röntgen published a paper detailing his discovery of a new type of radiation, later called x-rays.
1972 -- Kim Il-sung, already Prime Minister of North Korea and First Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea, became the first President of North Korea.
1973 -- The Endangered Species Act was passed in the United States.
2000 -- U.S. retail giant Montgomery Ward announced it is going out of business after 128 years.
2010 -- Popular protests against the government begin in Algeria; the start of the Arab Spring.
The following people were born on this day in:
1856 -- Woodrow Wilson, American historian and politician, 28th President of the United States, Nobel Prize laureate.
1882 -- Arthur Eddington, English astronomer, physicist, and mathematician.
1903 -- Earl Hines, American pianist and bandleader.
1915 -- Pops Staples, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Staple Singers).
1921 -- Johnny Otis, American singer-songwriter and producer.
1948 -- Mary Weiss, American singer (The Shangri-Las).
1950 -- Alex Chilton, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (The Box Tops and Big Star).
1969 -- Linus Torvalds, Finnish-American computer programmer, developed Linux kernel.
The following people died on this day in:
1503 -- Piero the Unfortunate, Italian ruler. Unfortunately
1937 -- Maurice Ravel, French pianist and composer.
1947 -- Victor Emmanuel III of Italy. King during WWI, WWII, and the rise and fall of Mussolini's Fascist state.
1963 -- Paul Hindemith, German violinist, composer, and conductor.
1983 -- Dennis Wilson, American drummer, songwriter, and producer (The Beach Boys).
1992 -- Sal Maglie, American baseball player and coach. Sal "the Barber".
1993 -- William L. Shirer, American journalist and historian.
2004 -- Susan Sontag, American author and academic.
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