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Today in history

Dec. 28, 1964, 'Doctor Zhivago', directed by David Lean and starring Omar Sharif and Julie Christie, began filming in Spain. Replicas of Moscow landmarks had been built for the movie.
 
28 December 1934 - Birth of Dame Maggie Smith, CH, DBE.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maggie_Smith
 
1811 - Senator Timothy Pickering, a Federalist from Massachusetts, became the first member of the U. S. Senate to be censured after he'd improperly revealed the contents of an executive document
1900 - U. S. Secretary of State John Hay announced the "Open Door Policy" to facilitate trade with China
1929 - the United States and Canada reached an agreement on joint action to preserve Niagara Falls
1967 - Republican Ronald Reagan took the oath of office as the new governor of California in a ceremony that took place in Sacramento shortly just after midnight
1971 - 66 people were killed in a pileup of spectators leaving a soccer match at Ibrox Stadium in Glasgow, Scotland
1974 - President Richard Nixon signed legislation requiring states to limit highway speeds to 55 miles an hour as a way of conserving gasoline in the face of an OPEC oil embargo. The 55 mile per hour limit was effectively phased out in 1987; and, federal speed limits were abolished in 1995
 
Mussolini declares himself Dictator in 1925.
 
Today in history - 75 years ago




David Robert Jones - later David Bowie was born - one of the most influential persons in popular music.
German Mail honours him with a special 85 cent stamp.


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the hero of the black holes - Stephen Hawking was born 80 years ago today


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1788 - Connecticut became the 5th state to ratify the U. S. Constitution
1793 - Frenchman Jean Pierre Blanchard, using a hot-air balloon, flew from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to Woodbury, New Jersey; a distance of slightly over 13 miles
1861 - Mississippi became the 2nd state to secede from the Union, the same day the Star of the West, a merchant vessel bringing reinforcements and supplies to Federal troops at Ft. Sumter, South Carolina, retreated because of artillery fire
1945 - during World War II, American forces began landing on the shores of Lingayen Gulf in the Philippines as the Battle of Luzon got underway, resulting in an Allied victory over Imperial Japanese forces
1972 - reclusive billionaire Howard Hughes, speaking by telephone from the Bahamas to reporters in Hollywood, said a purported autobiography of him by Clifford Irving was a fake
1987 - The White House released a January 1986 memorandum prepared for President Ronald Reagan by Lt. Col. Oliver L. North showing a link between U. S. arms sales to Iran and the release of American hostages in Lebanon
 
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1776 - Thomas Paine annonymously published his influential pamphlet, Common Sense, which argued for American independence from British rule
1861 - Florida became the 3rd state to secede from the Union
1863 - the London Underground had its beginnings as the Metroploitan, the world's first underground passenger railway, opened with service between Paddington and Farringdon Street
1870 - John D. Rockefeller incorporated Standard Oil - which, after its disolution in 1911, split into Sohio (now a part of BP), ESSO (now a part of Exxon) and SOcal (now Chevron)
1920 - the League of Nations was established as the Treaty of Versailles went into effect
 
236: Fabian is elected bishop of Rome. He served until 250, when he became the first martyr under Decius, the emperor who initiated Empire wide persecution of Christians. After Fabian's death, Decius is reported to have said, "I would far rather receive news of a rival to the throne than of another bishop of Rome".
 
1697: Massachusetts citizens observe a day of fasting and repentance for the Salem witch trials of 1692, in which 19 suspected witches were hanged and more than 150 imprisoned. The day was declared "That so all of God's people may offer up fervent supplications unto him, that all iniquity may be put away, which hath stirred God's holy jealousy against this land; that he would show us what we know not, and help us, wherein we have done amiss, to do so no more"

-- from Christianity Today
 
1377: Gregory XI moves the papal see from Avignon (where it had been for 72 years) back to Rome. However, when he died the next year, two men (one in Rome, the other in Avignon) both claimed to succeed him, creating "The Great Schism." (The break between eastern and western churches in 1054 is also called "The Great Schism.")
 
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