28 December
Notable Births
Tom Cannon (footballer)
b. 2002
Irish footballer
Maitreyi Ramakrishnan
b. 2001
Canadian actress (born 2001)
Iqbaal Ramadhan
b. 1999
Indonesian actor and singer (born 1999)
Tanguy Ndombele
b. 1996
French footballer (born 1996)
Dylan Cease
b. 1995
American baseball player (born 1995)
Mauricio Lemos
b. 1995
Uruguayan footballer (born 1995)
Nahitan Nández
b. 1995
Uruguayan footballer (born 1995)
Adam Peaty
b. 1994
British swimmer (born 1994)
Tomáš Jurčo
b. 1992
Slovak ice hockey player (born 1992)
Ayele Abshero
b. 1990
Ethiopian long-distance runner
Marcos Alonso (footballer, born 1990)
b. 1990
Spanish footballer (born 1990)
David Archuleta
b. 1990
American singer-songwriter (born 1990)
John Henson (basketball)
b. 1990
American basketball player (born 1990)
Austin Barnes
b. 1989
American baseball player (born 1989)
Thomas Dekker (actor)
b. 1987
American actor
Tom Huddlestone
b. 1986
English association football player (born 1986)
Martin Kaymer
b. 1984
German professional golfer (born 1984)
Duane Solomon
b. 1984
American middle-distance runner
Cedric Benson
b. 1982
American football player (1982–2019)
Beau Garrett
b. 1982
American actress, model (born 1982)
Notable Deaths
Brigitte Bardot
d. 2025
French actress and activist (1934–2025)
Charles Dolan
d. 2024
American billionaire businessman (1926–2024)
Vijayakanth
d. 2023
Indian actor and politician (1952–2023)
Philomena Franz
d. 2022
German Romani author (1922–2022)
Igor and Grichka Bogdanoff
d. 2021
French physicists, authors and TV presenters
John Madden
d. 2021
American football coach and announcer (1936–2021)
Harry Reid
d. 2021
American politician (1939–2021)
Rose Marie
d. 2017
American actress, singer, and comedian (1923–2017)
Debbie Reynolds
d. 2016
American actress and singer (1932–2016)
Jean-Christophe Victor
d. 2016
French political scientist (1947-2016)
John Bradbury (drummer)
d. 2015
Musical artist
Eloy Inos
d. 2015
Northern Marianas politician
Lemmy
d. 2015
English rock musician (1945–2015)
Leelah Alcorn
d. 2014
American transgender girl (1997–2014)
Vahan Hovhannisyan
d. 2014
Armenian politician (1956-2014)
Frankie Randall (singer)
d. 2014
American singer, pianist (1938–2014)
Halton Arp
d. 2013
American astronomer (1927-2013)
Esther Borja
d. 2013
Cuban operatic soprano (1913–2013)
Andrew Jacobs Jr.
d. 2013
American politician (1932–2013)
Joseph Ruskin
d. 2013
American actor (1924–2013)
On This Day in History
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2025
Unrest in the form of mass protests erupt across Iran, the largest uprising in the country since the Iranian Revolution.
2025–2026 Iranian protests
2019
A truck bomb is detonated in Mogadishu, Somalia, killing at least 85 people and injuring over 140 more. The militant group Al-Shabaab claims responsibility.
December 2019 Mogadishu bombing
2014
Indonesia AirAsia Flight 8501 crashes into the Karimata Strait en route from Surabaya to Singapore, killing all 162 people aboard.
Indonesia AirAsia Flight 8501
2014
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
2009
Forty-three people die in a suicide bombing in Karachi, Pakistan, where Shia Muslims are observing the Day of Ashura.
2009 Karachi bombing
2006
War in Somalia: The militaries of Somalia's Transitional Federal Government and Ethiopian troops capture Mogadishu unopposed.
War in Somalia (2006–2009)
1989
A magnitude 5.6 earthquake hits Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia, killing 13 people.
1989 Newcastle earthquake
1978
United Airlines Flight 173 crashes in a residential neighborhood near Portland International Airport, killing 10 people.
United Airlines Flight 173
1973
The United States Endangered Species Act is signed into law by President Richard Nixon.
United States
1972
The last scheduled day for induction into the military by the Selective Service System. Due to the fact that President Richard Nixon declared this day a national day of mourning due to former President Harry S Truman's death, approximately 300 men were not able to report due to most Federal offices being closed. Since the draft was not resumed in 1973, they were never drafted.
Selective Service System
1967
American businesswoman Muriel Siebert becomes the first woman to own a seat on the New York Stock Exchange.
Muriel Siebert
1958
"Greatest Game Ever Played": The Baltimore Colts defeat the New York Giants in the first ever National Football League sudden death overtime game at New York's Yankee Stadium to win the NFL Championship.
1958 NFL Championship Game
1956
Chin Peng, David Marshall and Tunku Abdul Rahman meet in Baling, Malaya to try and resolve the Malayan Emergency situation.
Chin Peng
1948
The DC-3 airliner NC16002 disappears 80 kilometres (50 mi) south of Miami.
Douglas DC-3
1944
Maurice Richard becomes the first player to score eight points in one game of NHL ice hockey.
Maurice Richard
1943
Soviet authorities launch Operation Ulussy, beginning the deportation of the Kalmyk nation to Siberia and Central Asia.
Deportation of the Kalmyks
1943
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.
Urban warfare
1941
World War II: Operation Anthropoid, the plot to assassinate high-ranking Nazi officer Reinhard Heydrich, commences.
World War II
1918
Constance Markievicz, while detained in Holloway prison, becomes the first woman to be elected Member of Parliament (MP) to the British House of Commons.
Constance Markievicz
1912
The first municipally owned streetcars take to the streets in San Francisco.
San Francisco Municipal Railway