14 Facts about the 28th of December 1 ~ St Boniface I begins his reign as Catholic Pope in 418 2 ~ The reign of Emperor Hanazono, emperor of Japan, begins in 1308 3 ~ First observation of Neptune - Galileo observes and records a fixed star without realising it is a planet in 1608 4 ~ U.S. retail giant Montgomery Ward announces it is going out of business after 128 years in 2000 (My Birthday :P ) 5 ~ 43 people die in a suicide bombing in Karachi, Pakistan, where Shia Muslims were observing the Day of Ashura in 2009 6 ~ 13 people are killed and 19 are injured after a bus plunges into a river in western Nepal in 2012 7 ~ Vladimir Putin signs into law a ban on US adoption of Russian children in 2012 8 ~ Chris Weidman defeats Anderson Silva to retain the UFC Middleweight Championship 2013 9 ~ US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site in 1984 10 ~ 1st daily wireless weather forecasts published in 1904 11 ~ United States claims Midway Island, the first territory annexed outside Continental limits in 1867 12 ~ USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR in 1969 13 ~ Scarlett Johansson makes her debut on Broadway in the Arthur Miller play A View from the Bridge in 2009 14 ~ Early signs of Ebola epidemic: 2 year old child in Guinea dies of an unidentified haemorraghic fever; mother, sister and grandmother soon follow in 2013
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