December 28 holidays, events, history
👉 HOLIDAYS:
🌏 International Film Day
🔹 NATIONAL HOLIDAYS:
🇺🇸 USA – National Short Film Day.
🇺🇸 USA – Loyalty Day.
🇹🇯 Tajikistan – National Security Officers Day.
🇦🇿 Azerbaijan – Defense Attorney Day.
🇹🇭 Thailand – King Taksin Memorial Day.
🇷🇺 Russia – Kalmyk Deportation Victims’ Day.
👉 EVENTS:
– 1065 – Westminster Abbey is consecrated in London.
– 1810 – The British ship “Elizabeth” is wrecked during a storm off the coast of Ireland; about 400 people die.
– 1869 – William Semple in Ohio (USA) patents chewing gum.
– 1895 – The Lumière brothers demonstrated the cinematograph.
– 1895 – German physicist Roentgen announced the discovery of X-rays in Würzburg.
– 1905 – The Republic of Sochi was founded.
– 1908 – The Messina earthquake. 75,000 victims.
– 1943 – By decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR on the liquidation of the Kalmyk ASSR, the NKVD troops carried out an operation to expel Kalmyks to Siberia and the Far East. 91,919 Kalmyks were deported from the Kalmyk ASSR.
– 1948 – A Douglas DC-3 aircraft of the US Air Force with 32 people on board disappeared over the Caribbean Sea.
– 1964 – The battle near Binzya.
– 1973 – Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s novel “The GULAG Archipelago” was published in Paris.
– 1968 – Israeli special services destroyed 14 aircraft at Beirut International Airport.
– 1973 – Jizzakh region was formed.
– 1991 – The Syrian Arab Republic, the Republic of Croatia and Japan recognized the sovereignty of Uzbekistan.
– 1992 – The Imam Bukhari International Foundation was established.
– 1999 – Saparmurat Niyazov was elected President for Life of Turkmenistan.
– 2000 – The city of Shakhrisabz was included in the UNESCO list.
– 2005 – A monumental statue depicting Mother Bakhtiyor was erected in front of the Independence Monument. This complex was named the “Monument of Independence and Virtue”.
– 2007 – Nepal was declared a Federal Democratic Republic.
– 2011 – The funeral of the country’s leader Kim Jong-il was held in the DPRK.
– 2014 – An Airbus A320 of the Indonesia AirAsia company crashed into the Java Sea, killing 162 people.
– 2017 – The “Future Builder” medal was established.
