Today In History. What Happened This Day In History
A Timeline Of Events That Occurred On This Day In History
A chronological timetable of historical events that occurred on this day in history. Historical facts of the day in the areas of military, politics, science, music, sports, arts, entertainment and more. Discover what happened today in history.
Today in History
December 28
| 1688 | William of Orange makes a triumphant march into London as James II flees. | |
| 1694 | George I of England gets divorced. | |
| 1846 | Iowa is admitted as the 29th State of the Union. | |
| 1872 | A U.S. Army force defeats a group of Apache warriors at Salt River Canyon, Arizona Territory, with 57 Indians killed but only one soldier. | |
| 1904 | Farmers in Georgia burn two million bales of cotton to prop up falling prices. | |
| 1920 | The United States resumes the deportation of communists and suspected communists. | |
| 1933 | President Franklin D. Roosevelt states, "The definite policy of the United States, from now on, is one opposed to armed intervention." | |
| 1936 | Benito Mussolini sends planes to Spain to support Francisco Franco's forces. | |
| 1938 | France orders the doubling of forces in Somaliland; two warships are sent. | |
| 1946 | The French declare martial law in Vietnam as a full-scale war appears inevitable. | |
| 1948 | Premier Nokrashy Pasha of Egypt is assassinated by a member of the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood because of his failure to achieve victory in the war against Israel. | |
| 1951 | The United States pays $120,000 to free four fliers convicted of espionage in Hungary. | |
| 1965 | The United States bars oil sales to Rhodesia. | |
| 1968 | Israel attacks an airport in Beirut, destroying 13 planes. | |
| 1971 | The U.S. Justice Department sues Mississippi officials for ignoring the voting ballots of blacks in that state. | |
| Born on December 28 | ||
| 1856 | Woodrow Wilson, 28th president of the United States. | |
| 1882 | Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington, English astronomer who confirmed Einstein's theory of relativity. | |
| 1902 | Mortimer J. Adler, American philosopher, educator and writer. | |
| 1903 | John Von Neumann, Hungarian-born mathematician. | |
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