more events on December 28
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1971
The U.S. Justice Department sues Mississippi officials for ignoring the voting ballots of blacks in that state.
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1968
Israel attacks an airport in Beirut, destroying 13 planes.
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1965
The United States bars oil sales to Rhodesia.
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1951
The United States pays $120,000 to free four fliers convicted of espionage in Hungary.
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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.
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1946
The French declare martial law in Vietnam as a full-scale war appears inevitable.
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1938
France orders the doubling of forces in Somaliland; two warships are sent.
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1936
Benito Mussolini sends planes to Spain to support Francisco Franco’s forces.
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1933
President Franklin D. Roosevelt states, “The definite policy of the United States, from now on, is one opposed to armed intervention.”
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1927
U.S. Secretary of State Frank B. Kellogg suggests a worldwide pact renouncing war.
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1920
The United States resumes the deportation of communists and suspected communists.
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1904
Farmers in Georgia burn two million bales of cotton to prop up falling prices.
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1903
John Von Neumann, Hungarian-born mathematician.
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1902
Mortimer J. Adler, American philosopher, educator and writer.
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1882
Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington, English astronomer who confirmed Einstein’s theory of relativity.
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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.
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1856
Woodrow Wilson, 28th president of the United States.
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1846
Iowa is admitted as the 29th State of the Union.
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1694
George I of England gets divorced.
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1688
William of Orange makes a triumphant march into London as James II flees.