Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/December 28
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This is a list of selected December 28 anniversaries that appears on the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition may be controversial, or on a day that is or soon will be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
To report an error when this appears on the Main Page, see Main Page errors.December 28: Proclamation Day in South Australia (1836); Day of the Holy Innocents in Western Christianity
- 1065 – London's Westminster Abbey, built by Edward the Confessor between 1045 and 1050, was consecrated.
- 1836 – At the Old Gum Tree (pictured in 2006) near present-day Adelaide, Royal Navy Rear–Admiral John Hindmarsh read a proclamation establishing the British province of South Australia.
- 1895 – History of film: Using their cinematograph in Paris, the Lumière brothers showed motion pictures to a paying audience for the first time.
- 1948 – The Douglas DC-3 airliner NC16002, en route from San Juan, Puerto Rico to Miami, Florida, USA, inexplicably disappeared in the area known as the Bermuda Triangle.
- 1999 – Saparmurat Niyazov, the first President of Turkmenistan, was proclaimed President for Life by the Assembly of Turkmenistan.
More events: December 27 – December 28 – December 29
