History Events on December 28

The Lumière brothers perform for their first paying audience at the Grand Cafe in Boulevard des Capucines.

#Auguste_and_Louis_Lumière

South Australia and Adelaide are founded.

#South_Australia

A magnitude 5.6 earthquake hits Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia, killing 13 people.

#1989_Newcastle_earthquake

Wilhelm Röntgen publishes a paper detailing his discovery of a new type of radiation, which later will be known as x-rays.

#Wilhelm_Röntgen

Construction of Yonge Street, formerly recognized as the longest street in the world, begins in York, Upper Canada (present-day Toronto).

#Yonge_Street

World War II: Operation Anthropoid, the plot to assassinate high-ranking Nazi officer Reinhard Heydrich, commences.

#World_War_II

Edward the Confessor's Romanesque monastic church at Westminster Abbey is consecrated.

#Edward_the_Confessor

Chin Peng, David Marshall and Tunku Abdul Rahman meet in Baling, Malaya to try and resolve the Malayan Emergency situation.

#Chin_Peng

The 7.1 Mw? Messina earthquake shakes Southern Italy with a maximum Mercalli intensity of XI (Extreme), killing between 75,000 and 200,000.

#1908_Messina_earthquake

World War II: After eight days of brutal house-to-house fighting, the Battle of Ortona concludes with the victory of the 1st Canadian Infantry Division over the German 1st Parachute Division and the capture of the Italian town of Ortona.

#World_War_II

Tay Bridge disaster: The central part of the Tay Rail Bridge in Dundee, Scotland, United Kingdom collapses as a train passes over it, killing 75.

#Tay_Bridge_disaster

The reign of Emperor Hanazono of Japan begins.

#Emperor_Hanazono

The DC-3 airliner NC16002 disappears 50 miles south of Miami.

#Douglas_DC-3

"Greatest Game Ever Played": Baltimore Colts defeat the New York Giants in the first ever National Football League sudden death overtime game at New York's Yankee Stadium.

#1958_NFL_Championship_Game

The United States Endangered Species Act is signed into law by Pres. Richard Nixon.

#United_States

Indian National Congress, a political party of India, is founded in Bombay Presidency, British India.

#Indian_National_Congress

Alaric II succeeds his father Euric and becomes king of the Visigoths. He establishes his capital at Aire-sur-l'Adour (Southern Gaul).

#Alaric_II

Spain recognizes the independence of Mexico with the signing of the Santa María-Calatrava Treaty.

#Spanish_attempts_to_reconquer_Mexico

The Marathas defeat the Adilshahi forces in the Battle of Kolhapur.

#Maratha_Empire

An earthquake destroys the city of Dvin, Armenia.

#893_Dvin_earthquake

Indonesia AirAsia Flight 8501 crashes into the Karimata Strait en route from Surabaya to Singapore, killing all 162 people aboard.

#Indonesia_AirAsia_Flight_8501

King Taksin's coronation achieved through conquest as a king of Thailand and established Thonburi as a capital.

#Taksin

Majorian is acclaimed emperor of the Western Roman Empire and recognized by Emperor Leo I the Thracian.

#Majorian

John C. Calhoun becomes the first Vice President of the United States to resign.

#John_C._Calhoun

Nine people die and another 19 are reported missing, when the MS Norman Atlantic catches fire in the Strait of Otranto, in the Adriatic Sea, in Italian waters.

#MS_Norman_Atlantic

The menorah is lit to rededicate the Holy Temple of Jerusalem after two centuries of foreign rule and religious oppression and a seven-year revolt. The menorah burns for eight days without the sufficient fuel needed to do so, birthing the holiday Hanukkah.

#Menorah_(Temple)

Iowa is admitted as the 29th U.S. state.

#Iowa

Maurice Richard becomes the first player to score eight points in one game of NHL ice hockey.

#Maurice_Richard

Constance Markievicz, while detained in Holloway prison, became the first woman to be elected MP to the British House of Commons.

#Constance_Markievicz

Osceola leads his Seminole warriors in Florida into the Second Seminole War against the United States Army.

#Osceola

The first municipally owned streetcars take to the streets in San Francisco.

#San_Francisco_Municipal_Railway

Forty-three people die in a suicide bombing in Karachi, Pakistan, where Shia Muslims are observing the Day of Ashura.

War in Somalia: The militaries of Somalia's Transitional Federal Government and Ethiopian troops capture Mogadishu unopposed.

Muriel Siebert becomes the first woman to own a seat on the New York Stock Exchange.

Soviet authorities launch operation Operation Ulussy, beginning the deportation of the Kalmyk nation to Siberia and Central Asia.

The Syracuse Athletic Club defeated the New York Philadelphians, 5-0, in the first indoor professional football game, which was held at Madison Square Garden.

Pope Boniface I is elected.