Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/December 28
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December 28: Proclamation Day in South Australia (1836); Day of the Holy Innocents in Iberoamerica.
- 1065 - Westminster Abbey, built by Edward the Confessor between 1045 and 1050, was consecrated.
- 1835 - Osceola (pictured) led his Seminole warriors in Florida into the Second Seminole War against the U.S. Army.
- 1879 - The Tay Bridge in Dundee, Scotland collapsed as a train passed over it, killing all on board.
- 1895 - History of cinema: Using their cinematographe, the Lumière brothers showed motion pictures to a paying audience for the first time.
- 1999 - Saparmurat Niyazov was proclaimed President for Life in Turkmenistan.
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