| December 28: General Interest 1895: First commercial movie screened On this day in 1895, the world's first commercial movie screening takes place at the Grand Cafe in Paris. The film was made by Louis and Auguste Lumiere, two French brothers who developed a camera-projector called the Cinematographe. The Lumiere brothers unveiled their invention to the public in March 1895 with a brief film showing workers leaving the Lumiere factory. On December 28, the entrepreneurial siblings screened a series of short scenes from everyday French life and charged admission for the first time... read more American Revolution 1781 : British post troops on John's Island http://www.history.com/this- Automotive 1938 : Silent-film star and inventor of mechanical turn signal dies http://www.history.com/this- Civil War 1822 : Confederate General William Booth Taliaferro is born http://www.history.com/this- Cold War 1973 : Solzhenitsyn's The Gulag Archipelago published http://www.history.com/this- Crime 1793 : An American hero is arrested in France http://www.history.com/this- Disaster 1908 : Earthquake rocks Sicily http://www.history.com/this- General Interest 1832 : Calhoun resigns vice presidency http://www.history.com/this- 1869 : America's first Labor Day http://www.history.com/this- 1908 : Worst European earthquake http://www.history.com/this- 1989 : Dubcek returns to public office http://www.history.com/this- Hollywood 1954 : Denzel Washington born http://www.history.com/this- Literary 1932 : Argentine novelist Manuel Puig is born http://www.history.com/this- Music 1991 : Nine killed in a stampede outside a hip-hop celebrity basketball game http://www.history.com/this- Old West 1900 : Carry Nation attacks a Kansas saloon http://www.history.com/this- Presidential 1856 : Woodrow Wilson born in Staunton, Virginia http://www.history.com/this- Sports 1975 : Central Red Army defeats New York Rangers at MSG http://www.history.com/this- Vietnam War 1964 : South Vietnamese win costly battle at Binh Gia http://www.history.com/this- 1972 : Hanoi announces return to the Paris peace talks http://www.history.com/this- World War I 1856 : Woodrow Wilson is born http://www.history.com/this- World War II 1941 : Request made for creation of construction battalions http://www.history.com/this- |
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