December 28th

The December 28th is the 362e Jour of the Année (363e in the event of Leap year) of the Gregorian calendar . It belongs systematically to the last week of the year (see standard ISO). There remain 3 days before the end of the year.

Events

•    418: saint Boniface I {{er}} becomes Pape

•     856: raid of the Viking S on Paris which set fire to the city
• 1065: dedication of the Abbey of Westminster
• 1308: beginning of the reign of the emperor Hanazono, Emperor of Japan
• 1355: the General states joined together with Paris at the request of the king Jean II '' the Good '' vote the Grande ordinance (on the model of the Large English Charter of 1215), limiting the royal capacities and marking a reinforcement of the Parliament. The Provost of the merchants Etienne Marcel and Robert the Cock are the chiefs of the middle-class of opposition.
• 1801 : France (7 nivôse): the Tribunat pushes back the first articles of the Civil code French. Dissatisfied, Bonaparte suspends work of the commission.
• 1822 : France: Chateaubriand is named Foreign Minister to follow a policy favorable to the the Holy Alliance.
• 1832 : John Caldwell Calhoun, in favor of the maintenance of the Slavery, first Vice-president of the United States to resign
• 1836: the Spain recognizes the independence of the Mexico
• 1845: with Madrid (Spain), alternate without “transfer of trastos ” (i.e. without true ceremony) of Pedro Parraga, Spanish Matador.
• 1846 : The Iowa is allowed within the the United States like the 29è state
• 1857: Free - Britanniques bombards Canton
• 1895: the first paying public projection of cinema with Paris: the Exit of the factory Light in Lyon of Auguste and Louis Light.
• 1897 : in France, triumph of Edmond Rostand with Cyrano of Bergerac .
• 1908 : in Calabria and Sicily, a Seism and the subsequent Raz-de-marée make more than eighty thousand dead, Messine is shaven.
• 1917 : Right to vote for the British women.
• 1918 : Berlin: rupture enters the spartakists and the social democrats. Noske becomes governor of Berlin.
• 1942 : Planes Japan board bombard the town of Calcutta.
• 1944 : In the the Ardennes, end of the German offensive, it is a defeat.
• 1945 :
• in France, the bread charts are restored because of a strong increase in consumption.
• Repatriated Europe, twelve thousand soldiers Canadian unload steamer Queen Elizabeth with New York.
• 1948 : After months of rising and riots, in Egypt, the Prime Minister Nokrachi Pasha is assassinated.
• 1949 : Adoption in Hungary of the decree nationalizing all industry and all the trade.
• 1950 : The Chinese army crosses the parallel 38e in Korea.
• 1962 : Shootings heavy between Blue helmets of UNO and rebels of the Katanga, with the Zaire.
• 1966 : The Chinese carry out a fifth nuclear test.
• 1967 : In France, legalization of the Contraception with the vote of the Law Neuwirth.
• 1968 : Israeli aviation bombards the airport of Beirut, destroying thirteen planes belonging to Arab companies.
• 1969:
• Of the Israeli planes tackles objectives along the Suez Canal and Jordan, while Cairo announces a naval operation against Israeli positions.
• At the end of sixty hours, the falls of Neige add up seventy centimetres with Montreal.
• 1970 :
• Arrest of Francis Simard, Paul and Jacques Rose, for the abduction and the murder of the Québécois minister Pierre Laporte.
• In pro-Franco Spain, six Basque separatists are condemned to death.
• 1973 : the Gulag Archipelago of Alexandre Soljenitsyne is published.
• 1974 :
• a Seism of magnitude 5,5 in the mounts Karakoram, with the Pakistan, makes more than five thousand two hundred dead.
• a commando makes irruption during a reception offered in the honor of the American ambassador to Managua, cuts down three guards and takes several Nicaraguan personalities as hostages.
• 1975 : Failure of an attempt to save three hundred soixante-douze men blocked in a coal mine, in the North-East of the India, all these minors perished.
• 1981 : Birth of the first American Test-tube baby, Elizabeth Jordan Carr with Norfolk, in Virginia.
• 1985 : An agreement is signed with Damas by the chiefs of the three principal Lebanese militia (Christian, Chiite and Druze).
• 1987 : Jean-Paul II names a Palestinian, Michel Sabbah, 54 years, Latin patriarch of Jerusalem.
• 1988 : Creation of the trade union CUS postal and telecommunications authorities.
• 1989 : in Lithuania, official beginning of the first multi-party system in Soviet Union.
• 1993 : in Algeria, Youcef Sebti, poet and teacher, are the eighteenth intellectual assassinated in two months.
• 1994 : The director of the CIA, James Woolsey, must resign following the business of the spy Aldrich Ames.
• 1995 : The Cinema festival officially its 100 years, birthday of the first paying public meeting to the Large Coffee with Paris.
• 1997 : Whereas an flu epidemic made there four died, HongKong makes cut down 1.300.000 chickens of the territory.
• 1998 : with the Yemen, sixteen tourists are captured of which four will perish, in the attack of the police force against the kidnappers.
• 2001 : The former Congolese president Pascal Lissouba is condemned by contumacy to Brazzaville to 30 years of forced labors for high treason and embezzlement.
• 2004 : Two members of the team of the deputy UMP Didier Julia, Philippe Brett and Philippe Evanno, are placed as a police custody then put in examination for " intelligence with a power or a foreign organization " , within the framework of the open survey by the parquet floor of Paris on the attempt missed by release of the two French journalists retained as hostages in Iraq.
• 2005 : Placing in successful orbit, to 23.000 km of altitude, from the Russian space center of Baïkonour (Kazakhstan), of the first satellite of the European project of navigation by satellite Galileo, which must make it possible Europe to be freed from American GPS, and should be operational in 2010.

Births

• 1164 : Rokujō, Emperor of Japan
• 1729: Giuseppe Sarti, Italian type-setter. († July 28th 1802).
• 1763 : John Molson, large brewer and contractor montréalais. († January 11th 1836)
• 1835: Archibald Geikie, British geologist
• 1849: Herbert von Bismarck
• 1856: Woodrow Wilson, twenty-eighth chair of the United States of America. († February 3rd 1924)
• 1856: Pierre Auguste Roques, French Minister for the War
• 1872: Pío Baroja, Spanish writer
• 1882: Arthur Eddington, scientific British. († November 22nd 1944)
• 1888: Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau, German realizer († March 11th 1931)
• 1902: Shen Congwen, Chinese writer († May 10th 1988)
• 1903: John von Neumann, mathematician of Hungarian origin, one of the fathers of the Data-processing and the Game theory († February 8th 1957)
• 1922: Stan Lee, scenario writer and American publication director
• 1924: Milton Obote, president of the Uganda (1966-1971 and 1980-1985)
• 1928: Öyvind Fahlström, painter, writer and poet Swedish († November 9th 1976)
• 1931: Guy Overflow, one of the founders of the International situationnist
• 1933: Charles Fiterman, politician French
• 1934: Maggie Smith, British actress
• 1936: Jacques Mesrine, criminal French
• 1937: Jorge Nuno Pinto da Costa, charismatic president of FC Oporto since 1982.
• 1944 : Kary Mullis, American biochemist, Nobel Prize
• 1946: Pierre Falardeau, Québécois scenario writer
• 1951: Gilbert Mountain, French singer
• 1953: Richard Clayderman, French pianist
• 1954: Denzel Washington, American actor
• 1956: Nigel Kennedy, British violonist
• 1959: Anna Torroja, Spanish Singer
• 1962: Michel Petrucciani, jazzman French
• 1965: Dany Shining, French singer.
• 1969: Linus Torvalds, initiator of Linux
• 1972:
• Ingrid Colicis, Belgian political woman of French language
• Patrick Rafter, player of Australian Tennis
• 1979: James Blake, American tennis player.
• 1981 : Sienna Miller, American actress
• 1989: Rosman McKenzie, American actress

Death

• 1367 : Ashikaga Yoshiakira, Shogun (B 1330)
• 1446: the Antipape Clement VIII
• 1503: Pierre II of Médicis (° 1471)
• 1622: François Dirty in Lyon. (° August 21st 1567)
• 1706: Pierre Bayle, philosopher and writer French (° November 18th 1647)
• 1708: Joseph Pitton de Tournefort, French botanist (° 1656)
• 1736: Antonio Caldara, Italian musician. (° 1670)
• 1828: Jean-Charles-Louis de Mesrigny, Knight of Mesgrigny-Villebertin and commander of Malta. (° August 29th 1745).
• 1829 : Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, Naturalist French
• 1849: Antoine Quatremère de Quincy, writer, Philosopher, Archeologist, art Critic and Politician French. (° October 21st 1755)
• 1898: Martin Nadaud, French politician (° 1815)
• 1937: Maurice Ravel, type-setter French. (° March 7th 1875)
• 1947: Victor-Emmanuel III, former king of Italy, emperor of Ethiopia and king of Albania. (° November 11th 1869)
• 1948: Nokrachi Pasha, Egyptian Prime Minister .
• 1960 : Philippe Web, of his name of author Ringuet, novelist and essay writer Québécois. (° April 30th 1895)
• 1963: Paul Hindemith, German type-setter (° November 16th 1895).
• 1984 : Sam Peckinpah, American realizer (° February 21st 1925)
• 1992: Pudlo Pudlat, artist Inuit. (° February 4th 1916)
• 1993: Youssef Sebti, poet, intellectual teacher Algeria N
• 1994: Jean-Louis Lévesque, Business man and Philanthropist Québécois 1911
• 1997: Henry Barraud, Type-setter French. (° April 23rd 1900).
• 1999 : Louis Féraud, dressmaker French
• 2004 :
• Susan Sontag, essay writer and novelist states-unienne. (° January 16th 1933)
• Jerry Orbach, 69 years, American actor star of the televised series " New York District". (° October 20th 1935)

Celebrations

Catholic and orthodoxe saints of the day

• Innocent the

Catholic saints of the day

Orthodoxe saints of the day

• Simon Myroblite founder of the monastery of Simonos Pétra

See too

• December 28th in sport
• December 28th in the railroads

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