December 28 - This day in History

December 28: General Interest
1895: First commercial movie screened

On this day in 1895, the world's first commercial movie screening takes place at the Grand Cafe in Paris. The film was made by Louis and Auguste Lumiere, two French brothers who developed a camera-projector called the Cinematographe. The Lumiere brothers unveiled their invention to the public in March 1895 with a brief film showing workers leaving... read more


American Revolution
1781 : British post troops on John's Island
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/british-post-troops-on-johns-island


Automotive
1938 : Silent-film star and inventor of mechanical turn signal dies
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/silent-film-star-and-inventor-of-mechanical-turn-signal-dies


Civil War
1822 : Confederate General William Booth Taliaferro is born
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/william-booth-taliaferro-born


Cold War
1973 : Solzhenitsyn's The Gulag Archipelago published
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/solzhenitsyns-the-gulag-archipelago-published


Crime
1793 : An American hero is arrested in France
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/an-american-hero-is-arrested-in-france


Disaster
1908 : Earthquake rocks Sicily
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/earthquake-rocks-sicily


General Interest
1832 : Calhoun resigns vice presidency
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/calhoun-resigns-vice-presidency

1869 : America's first Labor Day
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/americas-first-labor-day

1908 : Worst European earthquake
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/worst-european-earthquake

1989 : Dubcek returns to public office
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/dubcek-returns-to-public-office


Hollywood
1954 : Denzel Washington born
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/denzel-washington-born


Literary
1932 : Argentine novelist Manuel Puig is born
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/argentine-novelist-manuel-puig-is-born


Music
1991 : Nine killed in a stampede outside a hip-hop celebrity basketball game
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/nine-killed-in-a-stampede-outside-a-hip-hop-celebrity-basketball-game


Old West
1900 : Carry Nation attacks a Kansas saloon
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/carry-nation-attacks-a-kansas-saloon


Presidential
1856 : Woodrow Wilson born in Staunton, Virginia
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/woodrow-wilson-born-in-staunton-virginia


Sports
1975 : Central Red Army defeats New York Rangers at MSG
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/central-red-army-defeats-new-york-rangers-at-msg


Vietnam War
1964 : South Vietnamese win costly battle at Binh Gia
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/south-vietnamese-win-costly-battle-at-binh-gia

1972 : Hanoi announces return to the Paris peace talks
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/hanoi-announces-return-to-the-paris-peace-talks


World War I
1856 : Woodrow Wilson is born
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/woodrow-wilson-is-born


World War II
1941 : Request made for creation of construction battalions
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/request-made-for-creation-of-construction-battalions