Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/December 28
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December 28: Proclamation Day in South Australia (1836); Day of the Holy Innocents in Western Christianity.
- 1065 – London's Westminster Abbey, built by Edward the Confessor between 1045 and 1050, was consecrated.
- 1836 – At the Old Gum Tree (pictured in 2006) near present-day Adelaide, Royal Navy Rear–Admiral John Hindmarsh read a proclamation establishing the British province of South Australia.
- 1895 – History of film: Using their cinematograph in Paris, the Lumière brothers showed motion pictures to a paying audience for the first time.
- 1948 – The Douglas DC-3 airliner NC16002, en route from San Juan, Puerto Rico to Miami, Florida, USA, inexplicably disappeared in the area known as the Bermuda Triangle.
- 1999 – Saparmurat Niyazov, the first President of Turkmenistan, was proclaimed President for Life by the Assembly of Turkmenistan.
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