December 28: Day of the Holy Innocents (Western Christianity)
A pair of huia
- 893 – An earthquake destroyed the city of Dvin, Armenia, causing about 30,000 casualties.
- 1768 – Taksin the Great was crowned king of the newly established Thonburi Kingdom in the new capital at Thonburi, present-day Thailand.
- 1907 – The last confirmed sighting of the extinct huia took place in the Tararua Ranges, North Island, New Zealand.
- 1973 – U.S. President Richard Nixon signed the Endangered Species Act into law, a wide-ranging environmental law designed to protect critically imperiled species from extinction as a "consequence of economic growth and development untempered by adequate concern and conservation."
- 2009 – A suicide bomber attacked a Shi'ite commemoration in Karachi, Pakistan, during a procession on the Day of Ashura, the holiest of days for followers of Shia Islam.
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