Effemeride del 28 Dicembre

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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.

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.

Woodrow Wilson, 28o Presidente degli Stati Uniti, Nobel per la Pace (1856)
Earl Hines, Musicista americano (1903)
John von Neumann, Matematico ungherese americano (1903)
Lew Ayres, Attore americano (1908)
Milton Obote, 2o Presidente dell'Uganda (1925)
Nichelle Nichols, Attrice americana (1932)
Maggie Smith, Attrice (1934)
Kary Mullis, Biochimico americano, Premio Nobel per la Chimica (1944)
Richard Clayderman, Pianista francese (1953)
Denzel Washington, Attore (1954)
Liu Xiaobo, Writer, Peace Nobel Price 2010 (1955)
Nigel Kennedy, Violinista inglese (1956)
Choi Soo Jong, Attore (1962)
Michel Petrucciani, Pianista francese (1962)
Linus Torvalds, Computer programmatore finlandese (1969)
Seth Meyers, Attore americano (1973)
Rob Niedermayer, Giocatore di hockey su ghiaccio (1974)
Sienna Miller, Attrice inglese (1981)
Frank Turner, Cantante (1981)
Thomas Dekker, Attore americano (1987)