eso ha pasado un 28 Diciembre

1879 : A bridge collapses with a train in Scotland


On December 28, 1879, the Tay Rail Bridge linking Dundee to Wormit, more than 3 km long, collapsed during a violent storm, while a train was crossing it. Its construction had been completed less than two years earlier. All passengers (75 people) of the train were killed. The collapse was due to serious design flaws.

1885 : Creation of the Indian National Congress


On 28 December 1885 was created the Indian National Congress party. At the beginning, it demanded economic reforms and a certain power in decisions concerning Indian policy. This is the party that organized the campaign of passive resistance led by Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi.
After the independence of India, it became and long remained the majority party in the country under the leadership of Nehru and his descendants.

1895 : First motion picture shown in Paris


On December 28, 1895, the Lumière brothers projected the first public movie of the history at the Grand Café de Paris. The silent documentary film, Workers Leaving The Lumière Factory in Lyon, lasts 45 seconds.

1908 : Earthquake in Sicily


On 28 December 1908, an earthquake of magnitude 7.2 on the Richter scale occured in Messina in Sicily. The city of Messina was destroyed and the city of Reggio, in Calabria, strongly affected. The earthquake and the tsunami which followed killed between 100,000 and 200,000 people.

Cita del día : 28 Diciembre

Victor Hugo
One half of the human species is out of equality : the right of women should be the cons-weight of the right of men.

Cumpleaños : 28 Diciembre

Woodrow Wilson, 28o Presidente de los Estados Unidos, Premio Nobel de la Paz (1856)
Earl Hines, Músico estadounidense (1903)
John von Neumann, Matemático estadounidense húngaro (1903)
Lew Ayres, Actor americano (1908)
Milton Obote, 2do Presidente de Uganda (1925)
Nichelle Nichols, Actriz americana (1932)
Maggie Smith, Actriz (1934)
Kary Mullis, Bioquímico estadounidense, Premio Nobel de Química (1944)
Richard Clayderman, Pianista francés (1953)
Denzel Washington, Actor (1954)
Liu Xiaobo, Writer, Peace Nobel Price 2010 (1955)
Nigel Kennedy, Violinista inglés (1956)
Choi Soo Jong, Actor (1962)
Michel Petrucciani, Pianista francés (1962)
Linus Torvalds, Programador finlandés (1969)
Seth Meyers, Actor americano (1973)
Rob Niedermayer, Jugador de hockey sobre hielo (1974)
Sienna Miller, Actriz inglesa (1981)
Frank Turner, Cantante (1981)
Thomas Dekker, Actor americano (1987)

Nos han dejado un 28 Diciembre

Maurice Ravel, Compositor (1937)
Max Steiner, Compositor (1971)
Sam Peckinpah, Director de cine (1984)
Cassandra Harris, Actriz (1991)
Jerry Orbach, Actor (2004)
Vue mer : crédit photo Aseed