This Day In History
December 28
British post troops on John's Island An American hero is arrested in France Confederate General William Booth Taliaferro is born Calhoun resigns vice presidency Woodrow Wilson born in Staunton, Virginia Woodrow Wilson is born America's first Labor Day First commercial movie screened Carry Nation attacks a Kansas saloon Earthquake rocks Sicily Worst European earthquake Argentine novelist Manuel Puig is born Silent-film star and inventor of mechanical turn signal dies Request made for creation of construction battalions Denzel Washington born South Vietnamese win costly battle at Binh Gia Hanoi announces return to the Paris peace talks Solzhenitsyn's The Gulag Archipelago published Central Red Army defeats New York Rangers at MSG Dubcek returns to public office Nine killed in a stampede outside a hip-hop celebrity basketball game
British post troops on John's Island An American hero is arrested in France Confederate General William Booth Taliaferro is born Calhoun resigns vice presidency Woodrow Wilson born in Staunton, Virginia Woodrow Wilson is born America's first Labor Day First commercial movie screened Carry Nation attacks a Kansas saloon Earthquake rocks Sicily Worst European earthquake Argentine novelist Manuel Puig is born Silent-film star and inventor of mechanical turn signal dies Request made for creation of construction battalions Denzel Washington born South Vietnamese win costly battle at Binh Gia Hanoi announces return to the Paris peace talks Solzhenitsyn's The Gulag Archipelago published Central Red Army defeats New York Rangers at MSG Dubcek returns to public office Nine killed in a stampede outside a hip-hop celebrity basketball game
