#History of 28th December 1904 - 1st daily wireless weather forecasts published (London) 1905 - Intercollegiate Athletic Association of US founded (becomes NCAA in 1910) 1905 - NSW all out for 805 vs Victoria, win by innings & 253 1906 - Ecuador adopts its constitution 1908 - Earthquake strikes Messina, Italy (nearly 80,000 died) 1912 - National Council of Young Israel convenes 1912 - SF Municipal Railway starts operation at Geary St (MUNI) 1912 - The first municipally owned streetcars take to the streets in San Francisco, California. 1914 - Turks are repulsed by the Russians after fighting in Armenia for weeks 1915 - SF City Hall dedicated by Mayor James Rolph 1925 - George/Ira Gershwins musical Tip-Toes premieres in NYC 1926 - Arthur Mailey takes 4-362 off 64 overs (no maidens) NSW v Vic 1926 - Imperial Airways begins England-India mail & passenger service 1926 - Ponsford scores 352 & Ryder 295 against NSW 1926 - Victoria all out for 1107 against NSW at the MCG Crowd 22,348 1931 - Lin-Sen succeeds Chiang Kai-shek as president of Nanjing-China 1935 - W P A Federal Art Project Gallery opens in NYC 1937 - Fascist Octavian Goga becomes PM of Romania/begins spread of Judaism 1938 - Paul Gibb scores 106 on Test Cricket debut v South Africa 1941 - State of siege goes into effect in Bohemia/Moravia 1942 - Oberkommando Wehrmacht orders strategist flight out of Kaukasus 1942 - Robert Sullivan becomes 1st pilot to fly Atlantic 100 times 1943 - All Kalmyk inhabitants of of the Republic of Kalmukkie deported by the Soviet Union to Central Asia and Siberia. Many die en route 1944 - Eisenhower & Montgomery meet in Hasselt, Belgium 1944 - Former Wash 3rd baseman Buddy Lewis wins Distinguished Flying Cross 1944 - Leonard Bernsteins musical On the Town premieres in NYC 1945 - Congress officially recognizes Pledge of Allegiance 1948 - IDF crosses Egyptian border 1948 - Middel-Java as a whole in Dutch hands 1948 - US announced a study to launch an Earth satellite 1948 - The DC-3 airliner NC16002 disappears 50 miles south of Miami, Florida. 1949 - 20th Century Fox announces it would produce TV programs 1950 - Chinese troops cross 38th Parallel, into South Korea 1950 - The Peak District becomes the United Kingdoms first National Park. 1952 - Detroit Lions beat Cleveland Browns 17-7 in NFL championship game 1953 - WLBT TV channel 3 in Jackson, MS (NBC) begins broadcasting 1957 - CBS states it wont broadcast baseball where minor league games are on 1957 - USSR performs atmospheric nuclear test 1962 - UN troops occupies Elizabethstad Katanga 1963 - Double Dublin closes at Little Theater NYC after 4 performances 1963 - Jennie closes at Majestic Theater NYC after 82 performances 1964 - Principal filming of Dr Zhivago begins 1966 - 13 die in a train crash in Everett Mass 1966 - China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor, PRC 1967 - KTSB (now KSNT) TV channel 27 in Topeka, KS (NBC) begins broadcasting 1967 - Muriel Siebert is 1st woman to own a seat on NY Stock Exchange. 1968 - 100,000 attend Miami Pop Festival 1968 - Israeli assault on Beirut Airport 1968 - KVOF (KUDO, now KWBB) TV channel 38 in SF, CA (IND) 1st broadcast 1969 - Neil Simons Last of the Red Hot Lovers premieres in NYC 1969 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR 1970 - Lovely Ladies, Kind Gentlemen opens at Majestic NYC for 19 perfs 1972 - Kim Il-song, becomes president of North Korea 1972 - Martin Bormanns skeleton found in Berlin (Hitlers deputy) 1973 - US President Nixon signs Endangered Species Act into law 1973 - Akron Ohios Chamber of Commerce terminates itself from Soap Box Derby 1973 - Comet Kohoutek at perihelion 1974 - 6.3 earthquake strikes Pakistan: 5200 killed 1975 - 1st broadcast of radio Hilversum IV (classic music) 1975 - Earthquake in Pakistan, 4,000 die 1975 - Gary Cosier scores 109 v West Indies at MCG on Test Cricket debut 1975 - Red Army beats NY Rangers 7-3 at Madison Square Garden 1976 - Fiddler on the Roof opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 167 perfs 1976 - Genie Francis joind General Hospital as Laura Vining 1976 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 1981 - Cleveland Metroparks Administrative offices move from downtown to Zoo 1981 - Warner-Elektra-Atlantic raises price of 45 records from $1.68 to $1.98 1981 - The first American test-tube baby, Elizabeth Jordan Carr, is born in Norfolk, Virginia. 1983 - Gavaskar achieves his 30th century, beating Bradmans 29 1984 - Creosote bush determined to be 11,700 years old 1984 - Rajiv Gandhis Congress party wins election in India 1984 - TV soap Edge of Night ends 28 year run 1984 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR 1985 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 1985 - Warring Lebanese Moslem & Christian leaders sign peace agreement 1988 - John Tarrant, 1st Aust born Zen teacher, receives Dharma Transmission 1988 - US 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals affirms Yonkers is guilty of racism 1988 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR 1989 - Earthquake at Newcastle Australia, 11 die 1991 - 8 are crushed to death at a RAP basketball game at City College, NYC 1991 - Irene the Icon of Greek Orthodox church returns after being stolen 1991 - Ninibeth Beatriz Leal Jiminez, 20, of Venez, crowned 41st Miss World 1991 - Ted Turner is named Time Magazine Man of Year 1993 - Dow-Jones hits record 3793.49 1993 - Dutch Antilles government of Yandi Paula forms 1996 - India all out for 66 at Durban after making 100 in cricket 1st innings 1997 - Sting beats Hollywood Hogan for WCW Championship 1999 - Saparmurat Niyazov is proclaimed President for Life in Turkmenistan. 2000 - U.S. retail giant Montgomery Ward announces it is going out of business after 128 years. 2001 - OPEC oil ministers meeting in Cairo agree to reduce their crude oil output quotas by a combined 1.5 million barrels per day 2007 - Nepal declared a federal democratic Republic by interim parliament, abolishing the monarchy. 2009 - 43 people die in a suicide bombing in Karachi, Pakistan, where Shia Muslims were observing the Day of Ashura. 2012 - 13 people are killed and 19 are injured after a bus plunges into a river in western Nepal 2012 - Vladimir Putin signs into law a ban on US adoption of Russian children 2013 - Chris Weidman defeats Anderson Silva to retain the UFC Middleweight Championship 2013 - Early signs of Ebola epidemic: 2 year old child in Guinea dies of an unidentified haemorraghic fever; mother, sister and grandmother soon follow.
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