Famous Birthdays, Deaths and Historical Events, December 28, 2010

The following is a list of famous birthdays, deaths and historical events on this day in history, December 28, 2010:

Famous Birthdays:

Woodrow Wilson (28th US President) - 1856
John Molson (Molson Beer) - 1763
Cliff Arquette (Charley Weaver) (Actor) - 1905
Sam Levinson (Humorist/Writer/Journalist) - 1911
Roebuck "Pop" Staples (Staples Singers) - 1915
Stan Lee (Artist/Creator of Marvel Comics) - 1922
Dorsey Burnette (Rockabilly Singer) - 1932
Charles Neville (The Neville Bros.) - 1938
Edgar Winter (Edgar Winter's White Trash) - 1946
Aurelio (Ituarte) Rodriguez (Baseball) - 1947
Alex Chilton (Box Tops) - 1950
Denzel Washington (Actor) - 1954
Joe Diffie (Country Singer) - 1958
Mike McGuire (Shenandoah) - 1958
Marty Roe (Diamond Rio) - 1960
Mackenzie Rosman (Actress) - 1989

Famous Deaths:

Robert Roy MacGregor, Scottish folk hero, 1734
Alfred Cellier, Composer (Dorothy), 1891
Eduard Strauss, Austrian Composer, 1916
Alexandre-Gustave Eiffel, Creator/Engineer (Eiffel Tower), 1923
Fletcher Henderson, American pianist/bandleader, 1952
Kathleen Clifford, American actress, 1962
Katharine McCormick, American women's rights activist, 1967
Freddie King, Rocker (The Texas Cannonball), 1976
Frederick Douglass Hall, composer, 1982
Dennis Wilson, drummer/singer (Beach Boys), 1983
William L Shirer, writer (Rise & Fall of Third Reich), 1993
James Owen "The Rev" Sullivan, American musician drummer of Avenged Sevenfold, 2009

Historical Events:

1732 - An ad for 'Poor Richard's Almanack' (Poor Richard was a pseudonym for Benjamin Franklin) was run in "The Pennsylvania Gazette," a paper owned also by Benjamin Franklin.

1846 - The 29^th state admitted to the Union was Iowa.

1877 - Boosting production by 70%, John Stevens patented his flour-rolling mill.

1897 - Edmond Rostand's "Cyrano de Bergerac," premiered in Paris, France.

1908 - In Messina in Sicily, over 75,000 were killed due to an earthquake.

1937 - The Republic of Ireland was formed when a new constitution established the country as a sovereign state thus eliminating the Irish Free State.

1945 - The "Pledge of Allegiance" was officially recognized by Congress.

1964 - Filming of "Dr. Zhivago" (the life of a Russian doctor/poet) began near Madrid, Spain.

1973 - "Gulag Archipelago" was published by Alexander Solzhenitsyn.

1981 - The very first test tube baby in the US, Elizabeth Jordan Carr, was born in Virginia.

2000 - Shannen Doherty (born in 1971) was arrested for DUI.

Sources: Historyorb.com, On-this-day.com