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   Today in History | OnThisDay.com to All   
   Today in History for 28th December 2018   
   28 Dec 18 04:11:17   
   
   From: today.in.history.|.onthisday.com@alt119.net.remove-eaz-this   
      
   Historical Events   
      
   1944 - Leonard Bernstein's musical "On the Town" premieres in NYC   
      
   1963 - "Double Dublin" closes at Little Theater NYC after 4 performances   
      
   1984 - Rajiv Gandhi's Congress party wins election in India   
      
   1987 - In Arkansas R Gene Simmons kills 2, later bodies of 14 of his relatives   
   are found at his home near Dover Ark   
      
   1989 - Earthquake at Newcastle Australia, 11 die   
      
   2015 - Japan and South Korea reach agreement over WWII "comfort women", Japan   
   apologies and pays 1bn yen compensation   
      
   More Historical Events ¯   
   Famous Birthdays   
      
   1805 - Tomas Genoves y Lapetra, composer   
      
   1921 - Eddy Doorenbos, Dutch vocalist/pianist/guitarist   
      
   1922 - Nyron Sultan Asgarali, cricketer (West Indian opening bat 1957)   
      
   1931 - Georg "Org" Marais, South African economist/underminister of Finance   
      
   1938 - Bruce Yarnell, American actor (Outlaws), born in Los Angeles,   
   California (d. 1973)   
      
   1982 - Cedric Benson, American football player, born in Midland, Texas   
      
   More Famous Birthdays ¯   
   Famous Deaths   
      
   1673 - Joan Blaeu, Dutch cartographer/publisher (Atlas Major), dies at 77   
      
   1795 - Eugenio Espejo, Ecuadorian scientist (b. 1747)   
      
   1862 - Joaquim Casimiro Junior, composer, dies at 54   
      
   1948 - Mahmud Nokrashy Pasha, PM of Egypt (19..-48), assassinated   
      
   1959 - Ante Pavelić, Croatian leader of Nazi Germany puppet Independent State   
   of Croatia, dies from wounds received in an attempted assassination two years   
   earlier at 70   
      
   2001 - Samuel A. Goldblith, American food scientist (b. 1919)   
      
   More Famous Deaths ¯   
      
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