Year 1612
Galileo recorded the planet Neptune, but classifies it as a fixed star.
DECEMBER 28
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28 December: What Happened On This Day in History
Curated historical timeline of momentous political pacts, freedom struggle uprisings, constitutional developments, scientific breakthroughs, and prominent birthdays recorded on 28 December.
Year 1846
Iowa became the 29th state of the United States.
Year 1885
Indian National Congress political party formed.
Year 1908
Earthquake in Messina, Sicily. 75,000 people died.
Year 1948
The Kasel His Land Tribal Act came into force in the state of Mumbai.
Year 1984
Congress won the Lok Sabha elections under the leadership of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi.
Year 2013
Aam Aadmi Party formed the government with support from Congress in Delhi.
Born 1856
Thomas Woodrow Wilson, an American politician, and the 28th president of the United States.
Born 1903
John von Neumann, a Hungarian-American mathematician, physicist, computer scientist, engineer, and polymath.
Born 1922
Stan Lee, an American comic book writer, editor, publisher, and producer.
Born 1926
Shirishkumar Mehta, an Indian freedom fighter, a Revolutionary movement for Indian independence.
Born 1932
Dhirubhai Ambani, an Indian business tycoon who founded Reliance Industries.
Born 1937
Ratan Tata, an Indian industrialist, philanthropist, and a former chairman of Tata Sons.
Born 1940
A. K. Antony, Indian lawyer and politician, Indian Minister of Defence
Born 1941
Intikhab Alam, Indian-Pakistani cricketer and coach
Born 1952
Arun Jaitley, an Indian politician, and attorney.
Born 1969
Linus Benedict Torvalds, a Finnish-American software engineer who is the creator and, historically, the principal developer of the Linux kernel.
Died 1663
Francesco Maria Grimaldi, an Italian Jesuit priest, mathematician, and physicist.
Died 1912
Madhusudan Rao, an Odia poet and writer.
Died 1931
Abalal Rahiman, an Indian painter.
Died 1971
Nanak Singh, an Indian poet, songwriter, and novelist of the Punjabi language.
Died 1977
Sumitranandan Pant, an Indian poet.
Died 1981
David Abraham Cheulkar, a Jewish-Indian Hindi film actor.
Died 2000
Ustad Nasir Aminuddin Dagar, an Indian dhrupad singer in the dagar-vani style.