HISTORY AT A GLANCE
TODAY is Wednesday, December 28, the 362nd day of 2016. There are 3 days left in the year. Highlights in history on this date:
1895 – Wilhelm Röntgen publishes a paper detailing his discovery of a new type of radiation, which later will be known as x-rays. 1908 – A magnitude 7.2 earthquake rocks Messina, Sicily,
Italy killing over 75,000. 1918 – Constance Markievicz, while detained in Holloway prison, became the first woman to be elected MP to the British House of Commons. 1941 – World War II: Operation Anthropoid, the plot to assassinate high-ranking Nazi officer Reinhard Heydrich, commences. 1943 – World War II: After eight days of brutal house-tohouse fighting, the Battle of Ortona concludes with the victory of the 1st Canadian Infantry Division over the German 1st Parachute Division and the capture of the Italian town of Ortona. 1948 – The DC-3 airliner NC16002 disappears 50 miles south
of Miami. 1956 – Chin Peng, David Marshall and Tunku Abdul Rahman meet in Baling, Malaya to try and resolve the Malayan Emergency situation. 1972 – Kim Il-sung, already Prime Minister of North Korea and First Secretary of the Workers’ Party of Korea, becomes the first President of North Korea. 1978 – With the crew investigating a problem with the landing gear, United Airlines Flight 173 runs out of fuel and crashes in Portland, Oregon, killing ten. As a result, United Airlines instituted the industry’s first crew resource management program. 1989 – A magnitude 5.6 earthquake hits Newcastle, New
South Wales, Australia, killing 13 people. 2006 – War in Somalia: The militaries of Somalia’s Transitional Federal Government and Ethiopian troops capture Mogadishu unopposed. 2009 – Forty-three people die in a suicide bombing in Karachi, Pakistan, where Shia Muslims are observing the Day of Ashura. 2010 – Arab Spring: Popular protests begin in Algeria against
the government. 2014 – Indonesia AirAsia Flight 8501 crashes in the Karimata Strait on a scheduled flight from Surabaya to Singapore, with 162 people aboard. 2014 – Formal cessation of the War in Afghanistan via a
ceremony in the city of Kabul.