December 28

What happened that day?

• 2014: Indonesia AirAsia Flight 8501 crashes into the Karimata Strait en route from Surabaya to Singapore, killing all 162 people aboard.
• 2009: Forty-three people die in a suicide bombing in Karachi, Pakistan, where Shia Muslims are observing the Day of Ashura.
• 2006: War in Somalia: The militaries of Somalia's Transitional Federal Government and Ethiopian troops capture Mogadishu unopposed.
• 1989: A magnitude 5.6 earthquake hits Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia, killing 13 people.
• 1973: The Endangered Species Act is passed in the United States.
• 1958: "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.
• 1956: Chin Peng, David Marshall and Tunku Abdul Rahman meet in Baling, Malaya to try and resolve the Malayan Emergency situation.
• 1948: The DC-3 airliner NC16002 disappears 50 miles south of Miami.
• 1944: Maurice Richard becomes the first player to score eight points in one game of NHL ice hockey.
• 1943: World War II: After eight days of brutal house-to-house fighting, the Battle of [Ortona](https://wikipedia.org/wiki/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.
• 1941: World War II: Operation Anthropoid, the plot to assassinate high-ranking Nazi officer Reinhard Heydrich, commences.
• 1918: Constance Markievicz, while detained in Holloway prison, became the first woman to be elected MP to the British House of Commons.
• 1912: The first municipally owned streetcars take to the streets in San Francisco.
• 1908: The 7.1 Mw Messina earthquake shakes Southern Italy with a maximum Mercalli intensity of XI (Extreme), killing between 75,000 and 200,000.
• 1902: 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.
• 1895: Wilhelm Röntgen publishes a paper detailing his discovery of a new type of radiation, which later will be known as x-rays.
• 1895: The Lumière brothers perform for their first paying audience at the Grand Cafe in Boulevard des Capucines.
• 1885: Indian National Congress, a political party of India is founded in Bombay Presidency, British India.
• 1879: 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.
• 1867: United States claims Midway Atoll, the first territory annexed outside Continental limits.
• 1846: Iowa is admitted as the 29th U.S. state.
• 1836: Spain recognizes the independence of Mexico with the signing of the Santa María-Calatrava Treaty.
• 1836: South Australia and Adelaide are founded.
• 1835: Osceola leads his Seminole warriors in Florida into the Second Seminole War against the United States Army.
• 1832: John C. Calhoun becomes the first Vice President of the United States to resign.
• 1795: Construction of Yonge Street, formerly recognized as the longest street in the world, begins in York, Upper Canada (present-day Toronto).
• 1768: King Taksin's coronation achieved through conquest as a king of Thailand and established Thonburi as a capital.
• 1308: The reign of Emperor Hanazono of Japan begins.
• 1065: Westminster Abbey is consecrated.
• 893: An earthquake destroys the city of Dvin, Armenia.
• 484: Alaric II succeeds his father Euric and becomes king of the Visigoths. He establishes his capital at Aire-sur-l'Adour (Southern Gaul).
• 457: Majorian is acclaimed emperor of the Western Roman Empire and recognized by Emperor Leo I the Thracian.
• 418: Pope Boniface I is elected.