Historical Events - December 28.

1612: Galileo recorded the planet Neptune, but classifies it as a fixed star.

1846: Iowa became the 29th state of the United States.

1885: Indian National Congress political party formed.

1908: Earthquake in Messina, Sicily. 75,000 people died.

1948: The Kasel His Land Tribal Act came into force in the state of Mumbai.

1984: Congress won the Lok Sabha elections under the leadership of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi.

2013: Aam Aadmi Party formed the government with support from Congress in Delhi.

 

Famous Birthdays and Birth Anniversaries– December 28

1856: Thomas Woodrow Wilson, an American politician, and the 28th president of the United States.

1903: John von Neumann, a Hungarian-American mathematician, physicist, computer scientist, engineer, and polymath.

1922: Stan Lee, an American comic book writer, editor, publisher, and producer.

1926: Shirishkumar Mehta, an Indian freedom fighter, a Revolutionary movement for Indian independence.

1932: Dhirubhai Ambani, an Indian business tycoon who founded Reliance Industries.

1937: Ratan Tata, an Indian industrialist, philanthropist, and a former chairman of Tata Sons.

1952: Arun Jaitley, an Indian politician, and attorney. 

1969: Linus Benedict Torvalds, a Finnish-American software engineer who is the creator and, historically, the principal developer of the Linux kernel.

Death Anniversaries of Famous People – December 28

1663: Francesco Maria Grimaldi, an Italian Jesuit priest, mathematician, and physicist.

1912: Madhusudan Rao, an Odia poet and writer.

1931: Abalal Rahiman, an Indian painter.

1971: Nanak Singh, an Indian poet, songwriter, and novelist of the Punjabi language.

1977: Sumitranandan Pant, an Indian poet. 

1981: David Abraham Cheulkar, a Jewish-Indian Hindi film actor.

2000: Ustad Nasir Aminuddin Dagar, an Indian dhrupad singer in the dagar-vani style.