A few of the great historical events that happened today in history, December 28th!
| 1832 | John C. Calhoun became the first vice president of the United States to resign, stepping down over differences with President Andrew Jackson.  |
| 1846 | Iowa is admitted as the 29th State of the Union. |
| 1872 | A U.S. Army force defeats a group of Apache warriors at Salt River Canyon, Arizona Territory, with 57 Indians killed but only one soldier. |
| 1897 | “Cyrano de Bergerac,” a play by Edmond Rostand, premiered in Paris. |
| 1904 | Farmers in Georgia burn two million bales of cotton to prop up falling prices. |
| 1905 | The forerunner of the NCAA, the Intercollegiate Athletic Association of the United States, was founded in New York City. |
| 1920 | The United States resumes the deportation of communists and suspected communists. |
| 1933 | President Franklin D. Roosevelt states, “The definite policy of the United States, from now on, is one opposed to armed intervention.”  |
| 1936 | Benito Mussolini sends planes to Spain to support Francisco Franco’s forces. |
| 1938 | France orders the doubling of forces in Somaliland; two warships are sent. |
| 1945 | Congress officially recognized the Pledge of Allegiance. |
| 1946 | The French declare martial law in Vietnam as a full-scale war appears inevitable. |
| 1948 | Premier Nokrashy Pasha of Egypt is assassinated by a member of the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood because of his failure to achieve victory in the war against Israel. |
| 1951 | The United States pays $120,000 to free four fliers convicted of espionage in Hungary. |
| 1958 | The Baltimore Colts won the NFL championship, defeating the New York Giants 23-17 in overtime at Yankee Stadium, in what has been dubbed the greatest football game ever played. |
| 1965 | The United States bars oil sales to Rhodesia. |
| 1968 | Israel attacks an airport in Beirut, destroying 13 planes. |
| 1971 | The U.S. Justice Department sues Mississippi officials for ignoring the voting ballots of blacks in that state. |
| 1973 | Alexander Solzhenitsyn published “Gulag Archipelago,” an expose of the Soviet prison system.  |
| 1982 | A black man was mortally wounded by a police officer in a Miami video arcade, setting off three days of race-related disturbances that left another man dead. |
| 2005 | Former top Enron Corp. accountant Richard Causey pleaded guilty to securities fraud and agreed to help pursue convictions against Enron founder Kenneth Lay and former CEO Jeffrey Skilling. |
| 2008 | The Detroit Lions completed an 0-16 season, the NFL’s worst ever, with a 31-21 loss to the Green Bay Packers. |
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