A complete timeline of historical events, famous births, notable deaths, and holidays that occurred on December 28 throughout history.
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A new church devoted to St Peter the Apostle is founded and consecrated by Edward the Confessor in London, later called Westminster Abbey. It is rebuilt in the Gothic style during the mid-13th century. [1]
First observation of Neptune - Galileo observes and records a "fixed star" without realizing it is a planet
King Taksin is crowned King of Siam and establishes Thonburi as his capital
The Texas Declaration of Independence, adopted on March 2, 1836 at the Convention of 1836 in Washington-on-the-Brazos, formally declared Texas's independence from Mexico during the Texas Revolution.
Harriet Tubman arrives in Auburn, New York, on her last mission to free slaves, having evaded capture for eight years on the Underground Railroad
Earthquake strikes Messina in Italy, killing nearly 80,000 people and causing widespread destruction and a devastating tsunami in the Strait of Messina
Kalmyk inhabitants of the Republic of Kalmykia are deported by the Soviet Union to Central Asia and Siberia, with many dying en route
Filmmakers the Lumière brothers hold the first commercial film screening at the Salon Indien du Grand Café in Paris
Leonard Bernstein, Betty Comden, and Adolph Green's musical "On the Town" with choreography by Jerome Robbins, opens at the Adelphi Theatre, NYC; runs for 462 performances
"The Greatest Game Ever Played": Baltimore Colts win the 26th NFL Championship against the NY Giants 23-17 at Yankee Stadium in the first sudden-death overtime game in NFL history, with 17 future members of the Pro Football Hall of Fame involved
Detroit Lions crash to a 31-21 loss to the Green Bay Packers at Lambeau Field, the first team in NFL history to go winless in a 16-game season
British best-selling romantic author Barbara Cartland (35) marries 2nd husband Hugh McCorquodale
Author John Steinbeck (48) weds actress Elaine Anderson (36)
American actress Janet Leigh (15) granted annulment of 4 month marriage to childhood sweetheart John Kenneth Carlisle (18)
Film and record company executive Justin Siegel (23) divorces actress-singer Emmy Rossum due to irreconcilable differences after a year-and-a-half of marriage
Former American astronaut Buzz Aldrin (82) divorces Lois Driggs Cannon due to irreconcilable differences after 23 years of marriage
St Boniface I begins his reign as Catholic Pope
In modern historiography, the Western Roman Empire was the Roman Empire's western provinces collectively during any period in which they were administered separately from the eastern provinces by a...
Japanese Emperor Hanazono ascends to the throne at age 11
Sperm whale beaches at Noordwijk, Netherlands
The American Colonization Society (ACS), initially the Society for the Colonization of Free People of Color of America, was an American organization founded in 1816 by Robert Finley to encourage and...
6.8 earthquake strikes Echigo, Japan, 30,000 people are killed
Second Seminole War between United States and Native Americans begins with the Dade Massacre in Sumter County, Florida; Senminole fighters kill nearly all 110 of US Army troops under Major Francis Langhorne Dade [1] [2]
Proclamation of South Australia as a British province. Formal proclamation is read near The Old Gum Tree, in what is now the Adelaide suburb of Glenelg North, by Captain John Hindmarsh
Events from the year 1846 in the United States. In this year, the United States declares war on Mexico, starting the Mexican–American War.
Jean Baptiste Jolly opens the first modern dry cleaning shop in Paris, Teinturerie Jolly-Belin
Rangoon, Burma, destroyed by fire
The Battle of Tupelo, also known as the Battle of Harrisburg, was a battle of the American Civil War fought July 14–15, 1864, near Tupelo, Mississippi.
The United States has discussed obtaining Greenland from Denmark since the 19th century.
Chewing gum is a soft, cohesive substance designed to be chewed without being swallowed.
John Stevens applies for a patent for his flour-rolling mill
North British Railway's train falls as Tay bridge collapses (Scotland)
American inventor Josephine Cochrane is granted a patent for the dishwasher [1]
John Layton Jarvis becomes first British race horse trainer to be knighted for services to racing
French lieutenant Boiteux annexes Tumbuktu
Cyrano is an opera in four acts composed by Walter Damrosch to an English language libretto by William James Henderson based on Edmond Rostand's 1897 play, Cyrano de Bergerac.
1st indoor pro football game, Syracuse beats Philadelphia 6-0 (Madison Square Garden, NYC)
London is the capital and largest city of both England and the United Kingdom, with a population of 9.1 million people in 2024.
NSW is all out for 805 against Victoria, winning by an innings and 253 runs
Ecuador adopts its second liberal constitution
Englebert Humperdink's opera "Konigskinder" premiers at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City
First municipally owned streetcars take to the streets in San Francisco, California, as the San Francisco Municipal Railway (Muni) begins service on Geary Street
Turks are repulsed by the Russians after fighting in Armenia for weeks
James "Sunny Jim" Rolph Jr. (August 23, 1869 – June 2, 1934) was an American politician.
Beginning of the Rand Rebellion in South Africa with a strike by white mineworkers and becomes an armed uprising against the state
Arthur Mailey takes 4-362 off 64 overs (no maidens) NSW v Vic
Ma Rainey, "Mother of the Blues" makes her last record - "Big Feelin' Blues"
Pavel Petrovich Postyshev was a Soviet politician, state and Communist Party official and party publicist.
Octavian Goga was a Romanian far-right politician, poet, playwright, journalist, and translator. Octavian Goga was the first fascist Prime Minister of Romania.
Paul Antony Gibb (11 July 1913 – 7 December 1977) was an English cricketer, who played in eight Tests for England from 1938 to 1946.
State of siege goes into effect in Bohemia and Moravia
Oberkommando Wehrmacht orders strategist flight out of Kaukasus
Dutch Resistance fighter Corrie ten Boom is accidentally released from the Ravensbrück concentration camp, living to speak and educate of her experience in "The Hiding Place"
The U.S. Pledge of Allegiance is a patriotic recited verse that promises allegiance to the flag of the United States and the republic of the United States.
The disappearance of a Douglas DST airliner, registered NC16002, occurred on the night of 28 December 1948 near the end of a scheduled flight from San Juan, Puerto Rico, to Miami, Florida.
20th Television, Inc. (formerly known as TCF Television Productions, Inc., 20th Century-Fox Television and 20th Century Fox Television) is the television studio owned by Disney Television Studios, a...
Advance units of Chinese Communist forces cross the 38th Parallel into South Korea in preparation for the massive New Year's Offensive that captures Seoul a week later
WLBT (channel 3) is a television station in Jackson, Mississippi, United States, affiliated with NBC.
KEPR TV channel 19 in Pasco-Kennewick-Richl, WA (CBS) 1st broadcast
Miss Frances [Horwich], last Ding Dong School on NBC-TV
CBS says it will not broadcast baseball games in markets where minor league games are being played
Alvin and the Chipmunks, originally known as David Seville and the Chipmunks and billed for their first two decades as The Chipmunks, are an American animated virtual band and media franchise first...
UN troops occupies Elizabethstad Katanga
KTVS TV Channel 3 in Sterling, Colorado (CBS) begins broadcasting
Ballon d'Or: Benfica striker Eusébio wins award for best European football player; first Portuguese national to win, and still only Benfica player
The 1966 Everett truck-train crash was a railway accident that occurred on December 28, 1966, when a train struck a stalled tank truck, killing 13 people in Everett, Massachusetts.
KSNT (channel 27) is a television station in Topeka, Kansas, United States, affiliated with NBC.
Dallas Cowboy kicker Mike Clark, attempting an on-side kick against Cleveland, missed the ball
North Yemen is a term used to describe the Kingdom of Yemen (1918–1962), the Yemen Arab Republic (1962–1990), and the regimes that preceded them and exercised sovereignty over that region of Yemen.
The Belturbet bombing occurred on 28 December 1972 when a car bomb planted by Loyalist paramilitaries exploded in the main street in the border town of Belturbet in County Cavan, Ireland.
Akron Ohio's Chamber of Commerce terminates itself from Soap Box Derby
6.3 magnitude earthquake strikes Pakistan, killing 5,200
"The Hail Mary", with 32 seconds left in the NFC Divisional Playoff Game, Cowboys quarterback Roger Staubach throws a legendary 50-yard winning touchdown pass to Drew Pearson to defeat the Minnesota Vikings, and the "Hail Mary" play gains national recognition
Mexico terminated fishing agreements with US
1st American test-tube baby, Elizabeth Jordan Carr is born in Norfolk, Virginia
Ballon d'Or: Juventus striker Paolo Rossi is named best European football player; beats Bordeaux midfielder Alain Giresse and Juventus' Polish midfielder Zbigniew Boniek
US threatens to leave UNESCO after objecting to its domination by a coalition of third world and Soviet bloc nations
Creosote bush determined to be 11,700 years old
The Nevada National Security Sites (N2S2 or NNSS), popularized as the Nevada Test Site (NTS) until 2010, is a reservation of the United States Department of Energy located in the southeastern portion...
Ronald Gene Simmons kills 2 former employers and wounds 4 in a shooting spree and surrenders to police; later bodies of 14 of his relatives he had murdered are found at his home near Dover, Arkansas
John Tarrant, 1st Australian born Zen teacher, receives Dharma Transmission
2 die and 188 injured in a NYC subway electrical fire in tunnel near Clark Street, Brooklyn
8 are crushed to death at a RAP basketball game at City College, NYC
The India national cricket team is one of the full members of the International Cricket Council (ICC), the governing body of cricket.
Steve Borden, better known by the ring name Sting, is an American retired professional wrestler.
Turkmenistan is a landlocked country in Central Asia, bordered by Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan to the north, Afghanistan to the southeast, Iran to the south and southwest, and the Caspian Sea to the...
US retail giant Montgomery Ward announces it is going out of business after 128 years
OPEC oil ministers meeting in Cairo agree to reduce their crude oil output quotas by a combined 1.5 million barrels per day
John Demjanjuk, was a Trawniki and Nazi camp guard at Sobibor extermination camp, Majdanek, and Flossenbürg.
Nepal's interim parliament abolishes the monarchy and declares the country a federal democratic republic
43 people die in a suicide bombing in Karachi, Pakistan, as Shia Muslims observe the Day of Ashura
13 people are killed and 19 are injured after a bus plunges into a river in western Nepal
Christopher James Weidman is an American professional mixed martial artist. He competed in the Middleweight division of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), where he is a former UFC Middleweight...
Indonesia AirAsia Flight 8501 was a scheduled international passenger flight operated by Indonesia AirAsia from Surabaya, Indonesia, to Singapore.
Japan and South Korea reach agreement over WWII "comfort women", Japan apologies and pays 1bn yen compensation
Iranian woman Vida Mohaved arrested for protesting against policy of compulsory hijab, sparking other protests
52nd Peach Bowl (College Football Playoff semi final): #1 LSU beats #4 Oklahoma, 63-28
Test cricket debutant Scott Boland takes 6 for 7 as Australia retain the Ashes (3-0) with an innings & 14 run win against England in the 3rd Test in Melbourne
L’Oréal heiress and businesswoman Françoise Bettencourt Meyers is the first woman to be worth $100 billion, after a rise in the company's share price [1]
Mexican passenger train derails near Nizanda, Oaxaca, and partially plummets down an embankment, killing at least 13, and injuring 100 of the 250 passengers and crew members aboard
John von Neumann, American american mathematician and physicist, known for hungarian and american mathematician and physicist, was born on 1903-12-28.
Liu Xiaobo, Chinese human rights activist, known for chinese human rights activist, was born on 1955-12-28.
Linus Torvalds, American american software engineer, known for finnish and american software engineer, was born on 1970-12-28.
Denzel Washington actor, known for american actor, was born on 1955-12-28. Denzel Hayes Washington Jr. is an American actor, producer, director, and Pentecostal minister.
Seth Meyers, American comedian and television host, known for american comedian and television host, was born on 1974-12-28.
John Legend, American singer, known for american singer, was born on 1979-12-28. John Roger Stephens, known professionally as John Legend, is an American singer, songwriter, pianist, and record…
Terry Sawchuk, Canadian athlete, known for canadian ice hockey player, was born on 1929-12-28.
Ray Bourque, Canadian athlete, known for canadian ice hockey player, was born on 1961-12-28. Raymond Jean Bourque is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player.
James Blake, American athlete, known for american tennis player, was born on 1980-12-28. James Riley Blake is an American former professional tennis player.
Adam Peaty, English athlete, known for british swimmer, was born on 1995-12-28. Adam George Peaty is an English competitive swimmer who specialises in the sprint breaststroke events.
Pío Baroja, Spanish writer, known for spanish writer, was born on 1872-12-28. Pío Baroja y Nessi (28 December 1872 – 30 October 1956) was a Spanish writer, one of the key novelists of the Generation…
St Boniface I begins his reign as Catholic Pope
In modern historiography, the Western Roman Empire was the Roman Empire's western provinces collectively during any period in which they were administered separately from the eastern provinces by a...
A new church devoted to St Peter the Apostle is founded and consecrated by Edward the Confessor in London, later called Westminster Abbey. It is rebuilt in the Gothic style during the mid-13th century. [1]
Japanese Emperor Hanazono ascends to the throne at age 11
First observation of Neptune - Galileo observes and records a "fixed star" without realizing it is a planet
Sperm whale beaches at Noordwijk, Netherlands
King Taksin is crowned King of Siam and establishes Thonburi as his capital
The American Colonization Society (ACS), initially the Society for the Colonization of Free People of Color of America, was an American organization founded in 1816 by Robert Finley to encourage and...
6.8 earthquake strikes Echigo, Japan, 30,000 people are killed
Second Seminole War between United States and Native Americans begins with the Dade Massacre in Sumter County, Florida; Senminole fighters kill nearly all 110 of US Army troops under Major Francis Langhorne Dade [1] [2]
The Texas Declaration of Independence, adopted on March 2, 1836 at the Convention of 1836 in Washington-on-the-Brazos, formally declared Texas's independence from Mexico during the Texas Revolution.
Proclamation of South Australia as a British province. Formal proclamation is read near The Old Gum Tree, in what is now the Adelaide suburb of Glenelg North, by Captain John Hindmarsh
Events from the year 1846 in the United States. In this year, the United States declares war on Mexico, starting the Mexican–American War.
Jean Baptiste Jolly opens the first modern dry cleaning shop in Paris, Teinturerie Jolly-Belin
Rangoon, Burma, destroyed by fire
Harriet Tubman arrives in Auburn, New York, on her last mission to free slaves, having evaded capture for eight years on the Underground Railroad
The Battle of Tupelo, also known as the Battle of Harrisburg, was a battle of the American Civil War fought July 14–15, 1864, near Tupelo, Mississippi.
The United States has discussed obtaining Greenland from Denmark since the 19th century.
Chewing gum is a soft, cohesive substance designed to be chewed without being swallowed.
Pío Baroja, Spanish writer, known for spanish writer, was born on 1872-12-28. Pío Baroja y Nessi (28 December 1872 – 30 October 1956) was a Spanish writer, one of the key novelists of the Generation…
John Stevens applies for a patent for his flour-rolling mill
North British Railway's train falls as Tay bridge collapses (Scotland)
American inventor Josephine Cochrane is granted a patent for the dishwasher [1]
John Layton Jarvis becomes first British race horse trainer to be knighted for services to racing
French lieutenant Boiteux annexes Tumbuktu
Filmmakers the Lumière brothers hold the first commercial film screening at the Salon Indien du Grand Café in Paris
Cyrano is an opera in four acts composed by Walter Damrosch to an English language libretto by William James Henderson based on Edmond Rostand's 1897 play, Cyrano de Bergerac.
1st indoor pro football game, Syracuse beats Philadelphia 6-0 (Madison Square Garden, NYC)
John von Neumann, American american mathematician and physicist, known for hungarian and american mathematician and physicist, was born on 1903-12-28.
London is the capital and largest city of both England and the United Kingdom, with a population of 9.1 million people in 2024.
NSW is all out for 805 against Victoria, winning by an innings and 253 runs
Ecuador adopts its second liberal constitution
Earthquake strikes Messina in Italy, killing nearly 80,000 people and causing widespread destruction and a devastating tsunami in the Strait of Messina
Englebert Humperdink's opera "Konigskinder" premiers at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City
First municipally owned streetcars take to the streets in San Francisco, California, as the San Francisco Municipal Railway (Muni) begins service on Geary Street
Turks are repulsed by the Russians after fighting in Armenia for weeks
James "Sunny Jim" Rolph Jr. (August 23, 1869 – June 2, 1934) was an American politician.
Beginning of the Rand Rebellion in South Africa with a strike by white mineworkers and becomes an armed uprising against the state
Arthur Mailey takes 4-362 off 64 overs (no maidens) NSW v Vic
Ma Rainey, "Mother of the Blues" makes her last record - "Big Feelin' Blues"
Terry Sawchuk, Canadian athlete, known for canadian ice hockey player, was born on 1929-12-28.
Pavel Petrovich Postyshev was a Soviet politician, state and Communist Party official and party publicist.
British best-selling romantic author Barbara Cartland (35) marries 2nd husband Hugh McCorquodale
Octavian Goga was a Romanian far-right politician, poet, playwright, journalist, and translator. Octavian Goga was the first fascist Prime Minister of Romania.
Paul Antony Gibb (11 July 1913 – 7 December 1977) was an English cricketer, who played in eight Tests for England from 1938 to 1946.
State of siege goes into effect in Bohemia and Moravia
American actress Janet Leigh (15) granted annulment of 4 month marriage to childhood sweetheart John Kenneth Carlisle (18)
Oberkommando Wehrmacht orders strategist flight out of Kaukasus
Kalmyk inhabitants of the Republic of Kalmykia are deported by the Soviet Union to Central Asia and Siberia, with many dying en route
Leonard Bernstein, Betty Comden, and Adolph Green's musical "On the Town" with choreography by Jerome Robbins, opens at the Adelphi Theatre, NYC; runs for 462 performances
Dutch Resistance fighter Corrie ten Boom is accidentally released from the Ravensbrück concentration camp, living to speak and educate of her experience in "The Hiding Place"
The U.S. Pledge of Allegiance is a patriotic recited verse that promises allegiance to the flag of the United States and the republic of the United States.
The disappearance of a Douglas DST airliner, registered NC16002, occurred on the night of 28 December 1948 near the end of a scheduled flight from San Juan, Puerto Rico, to Miami, Florida.
20th Television, Inc. (formerly known as TCF Television Productions, Inc., 20th Century-Fox Television and 20th Century Fox Television) is the television studio owned by Disney Television Studios, a...
Author John Steinbeck (48) weds actress Elaine Anderson (36)
Advance units of Chinese Communist forces cross the 38th Parallel into South Korea in preparation for the massive New Year's Offensive that captures Seoul a week later
WLBT (channel 3) is a television station in Jackson, Mississippi, United States, affiliated with NBC.
KEPR TV channel 19 in Pasco-Kennewick-Richl, WA (CBS) 1st broadcast
Liu Xiaobo, Chinese human rights activist, known for chinese human rights activist, was born on 1955-12-28.
Denzel Washington actor, known for american actor, was born on 1955-12-28. Denzel Hayes Washington Jr. is an American actor, producer, director, and Pentecostal minister.
Miss Frances [Horwich], last Ding Dong School on NBC-TV
CBS says it will not broadcast baseball games in markets where minor league games are being played
"The Greatest Game Ever Played": Baltimore Colts win the 26th NFL Championship against the NY Giants 23-17 at Yankee Stadium in the first sudden-death overtime game in NFL history, with 17 future members of the Pro Football Hall of Fame involved
Alvin and the Chipmunks, originally known as David Seville and the Chipmunks and billed for their first two decades as The Chipmunks, are an American animated virtual band and media franchise first...
Ray Bourque, Canadian athlete, known for canadian ice hockey player, was born on 1961-12-28. Raymond Jean Bourque is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player.
UN troops occupies Elizabethstad Katanga
KTVS TV Channel 3 in Sterling, Colorado (CBS) begins broadcasting
Ballon d'Or: Benfica striker Eusébio wins award for best European football player; first Portuguese national to win, and still only Benfica player
The 1966 Everett truck-train crash was a railway accident that occurred on December 28, 1966, when a train struck a stalled tank truck, killing 13 people in Everett, Massachusetts.
KSNT (channel 27) is a television station in Topeka, Kansas, United States, affiliated with NBC.
Dallas Cowboy kicker Mike Clark, attempting an on-side kick against Cleveland, missed the ball
North Yemen is a term used to describe the Kingdom of Yemen (1918–1962), the Yemen Arab Republic (1962–1990), and the regimes that preceded them and exercised sovereignty over that region of Yemen.
Linus Torvalds, American american software engineer, known for finnish and american software engineer, was born on 1970-12-28.
The Belturbet bombing occurred on 28 December 1972 when a car bomb planted by Loyalist paramilitaries exploded in the main street in the border town of Belturbet in County Cavan, Ireland.
Akron Ohio's Chamber of Commerce terminates itself from Soap Box Derby
6.3 magnitude earthquake strikes Pakistan, killing 5,200
Seth Meyers, American comedian and television host, known for american comedian and television host, was born on 1974-12-28.
"The Hail Mary", with 32 seconds left in the NFC Divisional Playoff Game, Cowboys quarterback Roger Staubach throws a legendary 50-yard winning touchdown pass to Drew Pearson to defeat the Minnesota Vikings, and the "Hail Mary" play gains national recognition
John Legend, American singer, known for american singer, was born on 1979-12-28. John Roger Stephens, known professionally as John Legend, is an American singer, songwriter, pianist, and record…
Mexico terminated fishing agreements with US
James Blake, American athlete, known for american tennis player, was born on 1980-12-28. James Riley Blake is an American former professional tennis player.
1st American test-tube baby, Elizabeth Jordan Carr is born in Norfolk, Virginia
Ballon d'Or: Juventus striker Paolo Rossi is named best European football player; beats Bordeaux midfielder Alain Giresse and Juventus' Polish midfielder Zbigniew Boniek
US threatens to leave UNESCO after objecting to its domination by a coalition of third world and Soviet bloc nations
Creosote bush determined to be 11,700 years old
The Nevada National Security Sites (N2S2 or NNSS), popularized as the Nevada Test Site (NTS) until 2010, is a reservation of the United States Department of Energy located in the southeastern portion...
Ronald Gene Simmons kills 2 former employers and wounds 4 in a shooting spree and surrenders to police; later bodies of 14 of his relatives he had murdered are found at his home near Dover, Arkansas
John Tarrant, 1st Australian born Zen teacher, receives Dharma Transmission
2 die and 188 injured in a NYC subway electrical fire in tunnel near Clark Street, Brooklyn
8 are crushed to death at a RAP basketball game at City College, NYC
Adam Peaty, English athlete, known for british swimmer, was born on 1995-12-28. Adam George Peaty is an English competitive swimmer who specialises in the sprint breaststroke events.
The India national cricket team is one of the full members of the International Cricket Council (ICC), the governing body of cricket.
Steve Borden, better known by the ring name Sting, is an American retired professional wrestler.
Turkmenistan is a landlocked country in Central Asia, bordered by Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan to the north, Afghanistan to the southeast, Iran to the south and southwest, and the Caspian Sea to the...
US retail giant Montgomery Ward announces it is going out of business after 128 years
OPEC oil ministers meeting in Cairo agree to reduce their crude oil output quotas by a combined 1.5 million barrels per day
John Demjanjuk, was a Trawniki and Nazi camp guard at Sobibor extermination camp, Majdanek, and Flossenbürg.
Nepal's interim parliament abolishes the monarchy and declares the country a federal democratic republic
Detroit Lions crash to a 31-21 loss to the Green Bay Packers at Lambeau Field, the first team in NFL history to go winless in a 16-game season
43 people die in a suicide bombing in Karachi, Pakistan, as Shia Muslims observe the Day of Ashura
Film and record company executive Justin Siegel (23) divorces actress-singer Emmy Rossum due to irreconcilable differences after a year-and-a-half of marriage
Former American astronaut Buzz Aldrin (82) divorces Lois Driggs Cannon due to irreconcilable differences after 23 years of marriage
13 people are killed and 19 are injured after a bus plunges into a river in western Nepal
Christopher James Weidman is an American professional mixed martial artist. He competed in the Middleweight division of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), where he is a former UFC Middleweight...
Indonesia AirAsia Flight 8501 was a scheduled international passenger flight operated by Indonesia AirAsia from Surabaya, Indonesia, to Singapore.
Japan and South Korea reach agreement over WWII "comfort women", Japan apologies and pays 1bn yen compensation
Iranian woman Vida Mohaved arrested for protesting against policy of compulsory hijab, sparking other protests
52nd Peach Bowl (College Football Playoff semi final): #1 LSU beats #4 Oklahoma, 63-28
Test cricket debutant Scott Boland takes 6 for 7 as Australia retain the Ashes (3-0) with an innings & 14 run win against England in the 3rd Test in Melbourne
L’Oréal heiress and businesswoman Françoise Bettencourt Meyers is the first woman to be worth $100 billion, after a rise in the company's share price [1]
Mexican passenger train derails near Nizanda, Oaxaca, and partially plummets down an embankment, killing at least 13, and injuring 100 of the 250 passengers and crew members aboard