Unforgettable Moments: December 28 in History

On December 28, Join us as we learn more about this date in history and how it has affected the world ever since.

We'll be discussing the significance of this date in history and how it has affected the world ever since. December 28 has been a crucial date in global history. Come learn about this date in history and how it has shaped the world we live in today!

1065 New church devoted to St Peter the Apostle built by Edward the Confessor - later called the 'west minister' consecrated in London (rebuilt mid 13th century)
1612 First observation of Neptune - Galileo observes and records a "fixed star" without realizing it is a planet
1732 Benjamin Franklin under the pseudonym Richard Saunders begins publication of "Poor Richard's Almanack”
1832 John C. Calhoun becomes 1st VP to resign (differences with President Jackson)
1836 Spain recognizes the independence of Mexico
1846 Iowa becomes 29th state of the United States of America
1860 Harriet Tubman arrives in Auburn, New York, on her last mission to free slaves, having evaded capture for 8 years on the Underground Railroad
1867 United States claims Midway Island, the first territory annexed outside Continental limits.
1869 William Finley Semple of Mount Vernon, Ohio, patents chewing gum
1902 Trans-Pacific cable links Hawaii to US
1905 Intercollegiate Athletic Association of US founded (becomes NCAA in 1910)
1915 Today the British Cabinet recognizes the true nature of the war by deciding to institute compulsory military service, with single men to be conscripted before married ones
1942 Robert Sullivan becomes 1st pilot to fly Atlantic 100 times
1944 Dutch Resistance fighter Corrie ten Boom is accidentally released from the Ravensbrück concentration camp, living to speak and educate of her experience in "The Hiding Place”
1945 Congress officially recognizes "Pledge of Allegiance”
1948 US announced a study to launch an Earth satellite
1949 20th Century Fox announces it will produce TV programs
1967 Muriel Siebert is 1st woman to own a seat on New York Stock Exchange
1973 Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn publishes "Gulag Archipelago" - a literary investigation of the police-state system in the Soviet Union
1973 US President Nixon signs Endangered Species Act into law
1975 "The Hail Mary", with 32 seconds left in the NFC Divisional Playoff Game, Cowboys quarterback Roger Staubach throws a legendary 50-yard winning touchdown pass to Drew Pearson to defeat the Minnesota Vikings, and the "Hail Mary" play is born
1981 1st American test-tube baby, Elizabeth Jordan Carr is born in Norfolk, Virginia
1991 Ted Turner is named Time Magazine Man of Year
2000 U.S. retail giant Montgomery Ward announces it is going out of business after 128 years.
2002 LinkedIn is founded by Reid Hoffman and others in Mountain View, California
2012 Vladimir Putin signs into law a ban on US adoption of Russian children