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Events on December 28

• 1594 The earliest documented performance of William Shakespeare’s comedy The Comedy of Errors (The Comedy of Errors) takes place at Gray’s Inn, a law school in London.
• 1612 Galileo Galilei is the first astronomer to observe the planet Neptune through his telescope, but mistakes it for a fixed star.
• 1879 The Tay Bridge over the Firth of Tay in Scotland collapses as a train crosses it. 75 people die. Theodor Fontane later writes the ballad The Bridge on the Tay about it.
• 1895 Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen publishes his first report on the X-rays that were later named after him.
• 1924 The cableway on the Fichtelberg in the Ore Mountains begins operating. The Fichtelberg aerial tramway is the oldest aerial cableway in Germany.
• 1949 The German arms company Heckler & Koch is founded.
• 1965 F.C. Hansa Rostock is founded.
• 1972 The mortal remains of Martin Bormann, who, during National Socialism, was head of the NSDAP Party Chancellery with the powers of a Reich minister, are identified in Berlin.
• 1973 The work The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn is published in Russian by a Paris émigré publishing house.
• 1995 The James Bond film GoldenEye opens in German cinemas.
• 2005 Giove-A, the first test satellite for the European Galileo navigation system, begins operations.
• 2024 In the European Union, all small electronic devices must now use USB-C exclusively as their charging connector.

Born on December 28

• 1865 Félix Vallotton, Swiss-French painter, graphic artist and writer
• 1882 Arthur Stanley Eddington, British astrophysicist
• 1882 Lili Elbe, Danish painter
• 1890 Gösta Ekman, Swedish actor
• 1930 Franzl Lang, German singer, yodeler, guitarist and accordion player
• 1950 Hugh McDonald, American musician
• 1972 Patrick Rafter, Australian tennis player
• 1981 Khalid Boulahrouz, Dutch footballer
• 1981 Sienna Miller, British-American actress
• 2001 Madison De La Garza, American actress

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Source of events and birthdays: German Wikipedia article „28. Dezember“, licence CC BY-SA 4.0, selected, shortened and translated by Birthday Paper.

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