December 28
Today in America's Present Past
1789 | Author Catharine Maria Sedgwick was born.
1832 | POTUS: John C. Calhoun became the first vice president to resign.
1835 | Indian Wars: Sumter County, Florida massacre.
1846 | Statehood: Iowa joined the Union.
1856 | POTUS: President Woodrow Wilson was born.
1860 | Civil Rights: Harriet Tubman concluded her last Underground Railroad mission.
1867 | The US annexed Midway Island.
1890 | Author and activist Quincy Wright was born.
1890 | Painter Dennis Miller Bunker died.
1896 | Composer Roger Sessions was born.
1902 | Trans-Pacific cable completed, linking Hawaii to the US.
1902 | Philosopher Mortimer J. Adler was born.
1905 | Intercollegiate Athletic Association of the US was founded (became NCAA).
1922 | Stan Lee was born.
1939 | Entrepreneur Philip Anschutz was born.
1945 | Congress: Officially recognized the “Pledge of Allegiance.”
1945 | Novelist Theodore Dreiser died.
1954 | Actor Denzel Washington was born.
1954 | Entertainer Gayle King was born.
1967 | Entrepreneur Muriel Siebert becomes the first woman to own a seat on the New York Stock Exchange.
1973 | Republican President Nixon signed Endangered Species Act.
1973 | Entertainer Seth Meyers was born.
1978 | Entertainer John Legend was born.
1993 | Author and historian William L. Shirer died.
2002 | Online platform LinkedIn was founded.
2012 | Poet Jayne Cortez died.
2013 | Entrepreneur Alfred Marshall died.
2021 | Football pro John Madden died.