Today in History - December 28th
418: Election of Boniface I as Pope
856: The Vikings burn Paris
1594: 1st known Shakespearean production, "Comedy of Errors" at Gray's Inn
1622: Death of St. Francis de Sales
1688: William of Orange makes a triumphant march into London as James II flees.
1832: John Calhoun, at odds with President Andrew Jackson, became the first U.S. vice president to resign.
1846: Iowa became the 29th state to be admitted to the Union.
1856: Woodrow Wilson, 28th president of the United States born
1882: Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington, English astronomer who confirmed Eisteins theory of relativity. born
1922: Writer for Marvel Comics Stan Lee born
1945: Congress officially recognized the Pledge of Allegiance to the flag of the United States.
1948: Premier Nokrashy Pasha of Egypt is assassinated by a member of the outlawed Moslem Brotherhood because of his failure to achieve victory in the war against Israel.
1950: Advancing Chinese troops crossed the 38th Parallel, dividing line between North and South Korea, to help the communist North Koreans fight American-led United Nations forces.
1971: U.S. Justice Department sues Mississippi officials for ignoring the ballots of blacks.
1973: Alexander Solzhenitsyn published "Gulag Archipelago," an expose of the Soviet prison system.
1989: Alexander Dubcek, the former Czechoslovak Communist leader who was deposed in a Soviet-led Warsaw Pact invasion in 1968, was named chairman of the country's parliament.