December 28
People born on this day are Capricorn.
- 1948
The DC-3 airliner NC16002 disappears 80 kilometres (50 mi) south of Miami.
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Chin Peng, David Marshall and Tunku Abdul Rahman meet in Baling, Malaya to try to resolve the Malayan Emergency situation.
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"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.
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American businesswoman Muriel Siebert becomes the first woman to own a seat on the New York Stock Exchange.
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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.
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The United States Endangered Species Act is signed into law by President Richard Nixon.
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United Airlines Flight 173 crashes in a residential neighborhood near Portland International Airport, killing 10 people.
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War in Somalia: The militaries of Somalia's Transitional Federal Government and Ethiopian troops capture Mogadishu unopposed.
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Forty-three people die in a suicide bombing in Karachi, Pakistan, where Shia Muslims are observing the Day of Ashura.
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Indonesia AirAsia Flight 8501 crashes into the Karimata Strait en route from Surabaya to Singapore, killing all 162 people aboard.
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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.
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Unrest in the form of mass protests erupt across Iran, the largest uprising in the country since the Iranian Revolution.
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2002Tom Cannon, British-Irish footballer
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2001Maitreyi Ramakrishnan, Canadian actress
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1999Iqbaal Ramadhan, Indonesian actor and singer
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1996Tanguy Ndombele, French footballer
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1995Dylan Cease, American baseball player
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1995Mauricio Lemos, Uruguayan footballer
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1995Nahitan Nández, Uruguayan footballer
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1994Adam Peaty, English swimmer
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1992Tomáš Jurčo, Slovak ice hockey player
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1990Ayele Abshero, Ethiopian runner
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1990Marcos Alonso, Spanish footballer
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1990David Archuleta, American singer
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