Editing December 28 (section)

===1901–present===
*[[1902]] &ndash; The [[Syracuse Pros|Syracuse Athletic Club]] [[World Series of Football (1902–03)|defeat]] the [[New York (World Series of Football)|New York Philadelphians]], 5–0, in the [[indoor American football|first indoor professional football]] game, which was held at [[Madison Square Garden (1890)|Madison Square Garden]].
*[[1908]] &ndash; The 7.1 {{M|w}} [[1908 Messina earthquake|Messina earthquake]] shakes [[Southern Italy]] with a maximum [[Mercalli intensity scale|Mercalli intensity]] of XI (''Extreme''), killing between about 80,000.<ref name="CFTI5">{{Cite web |url=https://storing.ingv.it/cfti/cfti5/quake.php?21318IT |title=1908 12 28, 04:20:27 Calabria meridionale-Messina (Italy)  |last1=Guidoboni E. |last2= Ferrari G. |website=CFTI5 Catalogue of Strong Earthquakes in Italy (461 BC – 1997) and Mediterranean Area (760 B.C. – 1500) |last3=Mariotti D. |last4=Comastri A. |last5=Tarabusi G. |last6=Sgattoni G. |last7=Valensise G}}</ref>
*[[1912]] &ndash; The first [[San Francisco Municipal Railway|municipally owned]] [[Tram|streetcar]]s take to the streets in [[San Francisco]].
*[[1918]] &ndash; [[Constance Markievicz]], while detained in Holloway prison, becomes the first woman to be elected [[Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)|Member of Parliament]] (MP) to the [[House of Commons of the United Kingdom|British House of Commons]].
*[[1941]] &ndash; [[World War II]]: [[Operation Anthropoid]], the plot to assassinate high-ranking [[Nazism|Nazi]] officer [[Reinhard Heydrich]], commences.
*[[1943]] &ndash; Soviet authorities launch Operation Ulussy, beginning the [[Kalmyk deportations of 1943|deportation of the Kalmyk nation]] to Siberia and Central Asia.
*  1943   &ndash; World War II: After eight days of brutal [[urban warfare|house-to-house fighting]], the [[Battle of Ortona]] concludes with the victory of the [[1st Canadian Infantry Division]] over the [[1st Parachute Division (Germany)|German 1st Parachute Division]] and the capture of the Italian town of [[Ortona]].
*[[1944]] &ndash; [[Maurice Richard]] becomes the first player to score eight points in one game of [[National Hockey League|NHL]] [[ice hockey]].
*[[1948]] &ndash; The [[Douglas DC-3|DC-3]] airliner ''[[1948 Airborne Transport DC-3 (DST) disappearance|NC16002]]'' disappears {{convert|50|mi|km|order=flip}} south of [[Miami]].
*[[1956]] &ndash; [[Chin Peng]], [[David Marshall (Singaporean politician)|David Marshall]] and [[Tunku Abdul Rahman]] meet in [[Baling]], [[Federation of Malaya|Malaya]] to [[Baling Talks|try and resolve]] the [[Malayan Emergency]] situation.
*[[1958]] &ndash; [[1958 NFL Championship Game|"Greatest Game Ever Played"]]: The [[History of the Indianapolis Colts|Baltimore Colts]] defeat the [[New York Giants]] in the first ever [[National Football League]] [[sudden death (sport)|sudden death]] [[Overtime (sports)|overtime]] game at New York's [[Yankee Stadium (1923)|Yankee Stadium]] to win the NFL Championship.
*[[1967]] &ndash; American businesswoman [[Muriel Siebert]] becomes the first woman to own a seat on the [[New York Stock Exchange]].<ref>{{cite news |last1=Nemy |first1=Enid |title=Muriel Siebert, a Determined Trailblazer for Women on Wall Street, Dies at 84 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/26/business/muriel-siebert-first-woman-to-own-a-seat-on-wall-st-dies-at-80.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220101/https://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/26/business/muriel-siebert-first-woman-to-own-a-seat-on-wall-st-dies-at-80.html |archive-date=2022-01-01 |url-access=limited |access-date=26 December 2020 |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=25 August 2013}}{{cbignore}}</ref>
*[[1972]] &ndash; The last scheduled day for induction into the military by the [[Selective Service System]]. Due to the fact that President [[Richard Nixon]] declared this day a national day of mourning due to former President [[Harry S Truman]]'s death, approximately 300 men were not able to report due to most Federal offices being closed.<ref>{{Cite news|date=1972-12-28|title=MOURNING DAY GIVES 300 DRAFT REPRIEVE (Published 1972)|language=en-US|work=[[The New York Times]]|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1972/12/28/archives/mourning-day-gives-300-draft-reprieve.html|access-date=2021-01-18|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> Since the draft was not resumed in 1973, they were never drafted.
*[[1973]] &ndash; The [[United States]] [[Endangered Species Act]] is signed into law by President [[Richard Nixon]].
*[[1978]] &ndash; [[United Airlines Flight 173]] crashes in a residential neighborhood near [[Portland International Airport]], killing 10 people.<ref name="ergtend">{{cite news |last=Baum |first=Bob |date=December 29, 1978 |title=10 dead in Portland jetliner crash |page=1A |work=Eugene Register-Guard |agency=Associated Press |location=(Oregon) |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=xBRWAAAAIBAJ&pg=5761%2C8954300}}</ref>
*[[1989]] &ndash; A [[1989 Newcastle earthquake|magnitude 5.6 earthquake]] hits [[Newcastle, New South Wales]], Australia, killing 13 people.
*[[2006]] &ndash; [[War in Somalia (2006–09)|War in Somalia]]: The militaries of [[Somalia]]'s [[Transitional Federal Government of Somalia|Transitional Federal Government]] and [[Ethiopia]]n troops [[Fall of Mogadishu|capture Mogadishu]] unopposed.
*[[2009]] &ndash; [[2009 Karachi bombing|Forty-three people die in a suicide bombing]] in [[Karachi]], Pakistan, where [[Shia Islam|Shia]] Muslims are observing the [[Day of Ashura]].
*[[2014]] &ndash; [[Indonesia AirAsia Flight 8501]] crashes into the [[Karimata Strait]] en route from [[Juanda International Airport|Surabaya]] to [[Singapore Changi Airport|Singapore]], killing all 162 people aboard.
*  2014   &ndash; Nine people die and another 19 are reported missing, when the [[MS Norman Atlantic|MS ''Norman Atlantic'']] catches fire in the [[Strait of Otranto]], in the [[Adriatic Sea]], in Italian waters.