28 December History
- 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.
28 December Birthdays
- 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.