December 28
There are 3 days remaining in 2016.
Events
1065 –
Westminster Abbey is consecrated.
1795 – Construction of
Yonge Street, formerly recognized as the longest street in the world, begins in York, Upper Canada (present-day Toronto).
1832 –
John C. Calhoun becomes the first Vice President of the United States to resign.
1835 –
Osceola leads his
Seminole warriors in Florida into the
Second Seminole War against the United States Army.
1836 –
South Australia and
Adelaide are founded.
1846 –
Iowa is admitted as the 29th U.S. state.
1867 – United States claims
Midway Atoll, the first territory annexed outside Continental limits.
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.
1895 – The
Lumière brothers perform for their first paying audience at the Grand Cafe in Boulevard des Capucines.
1895 –
Wilhelm Röntgen publishes a paper detailing his discovery of a new type of radiation, which later will be known as
x-rays.
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.
1912 – The first
municipally owned streetcars take to the streets in San Francisco.
1918 –
Constance Markievicz, while detained in Holloway prison, became the first woman to be elected MP to the British House of Commons.
1948 – The
DC-3 airliner
NC16002 disappears 50 miles south of Miami.
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.
1972 –
Kim Il-sung, already Prime Minister of North Korea and First Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea, becomes the first President of North Korea.
1973 – The
Endangered Species Act is passed in the United States.
2010 –
Arab Spring:
Popular protests begin in Algeria against the government.
2015 -
Lemmy, lead vocalist and bassist with
Motörhead, died at his home in Los Angeles, California, four days after his 70th birthday following a short battle with an extremely aggressive cancer. Lemmy played in several rock groups in the 1960s, including the
Rockin' Vickers and worked as a roadie for
Jimi Hendrix and
The Nice, before joining the space rock band
Hawkwind in 1971, singing lead on their hit '
Silver Machine'.
Births
1763 – John Molson (Molson Brewery); 1856 – Woodrow Wilson (28th POTUS); 1903 – Earl Hines

; 1908 – Lew Ayres; 1914 – 'Pops' Roebuck Staples♪ ♫(The Staple Singers); 1922 – Stan Lee; 1931 – Martin Milner (
Route 66, Adam-12); 1932 – Nichelle Nichols ('Uhura' on
Star Trek TOS); 1933 – John Y. Brown Jr.; 1934 – Maggie Smith (
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Downton Abbey, Harry Potter movies); 1938 - Charles Neville♪ ♫(The Neville Bros); 1946 – Mike Beebe; 1946 – Edgar Winter♪ ♫

; 1953 - Richard Clayderman

; 1953 – Martha Wash♪ ♫(The Weather Girls); 1954 – Gayle King; 1954 – Denzel Washington; 1960 – Melvin Turpin (with Sam Bowie, one of University Of Kentucky basketball's 'Twin Towers'); 1969 – Linus Torvalds (developed Linux kernel); 1970 – Elaine Hendrix

; 1973 – Seth Meyers; 1978 – John Legend

; 1981 – Sienna Miller
Deaths
1734 – Rob Roy MacGregor; 1937 – Maurice Ravel♪ ♫; 1983 – William Demarest ('Uncle Charley' on
My Three Sons); 1983 – Dennis Wilson

(The Beach Boys); 1984 – Sam Peckinpah; 1999 – Clayton Moore (
The Lone Ranger); 2004 – Jerry Orbach (
Law & Order); 2004 – Susan Sontag; 2012 – Mark Crispin (designed the IMAP (Internet Message Access Protocol); 2015 – Ian "Lemmy" Kilmister


(Motörhead)