Daily Calendar for Monday, December 28, 2026

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Woodrow Wilson (28th U.S. president) – 1856
Stan Lee (comic book writer [birth name Stanley Lieber]; was born in Manhattan, New York, N.Y.) – 1922
Nichelle Nichols (American actress ) – 1932
Maggie Smith (actress) – 1934
Denzel Washington (actor) – 1954
Sienna Miller (actress) – 1981
Mackenzie Rosman (actress) – 1989
Maitreyi Ramakrishnan (actress ) – 2001

Westminster Abbey in London was consecrated – 1065
Benjamin Franklin’s paper, The Pennsylvania Gazette, ran an ad for the first issue of Franklin’s own Poor Richard’s Almanack – 1732
Vice President John Calhoun, having serious disagreements with President Andrew Jackson, resigned from office. He was the first U.S. vice president to do so. – 1832
Iowa admitted to the Union as the 29th state – 1846
Second chewing gum patent went to William Semple, a dentist in Mt. Vernon, Ohio – 1869
H. L. Mencken published A Neglected History bathtub hoax – 1917
First sudden-death overtime game in NFL, Baltimore Colts vs. N.Y. Giants – 1958
The Endangered Species Act was signed into law by President Nixon – 1973
Endangered Species Act approved – 1973
President Nixon signed the Endangered Species Act of 1973 into law. It provided broad protection for threatened species of fish, wildlife, and plants. – 1973
U.S. patent #4,000,000 was issued – 1976

Temperatures throughout Iowa hovered near 24 degrees below zero F – 1924
83 inches of snow on the ground in Bathurst, New Brunswick – 1978
A severe snowstorm with periods of near-zero visibility resulted in an incredible 1,000 traffic accidents in Michigan – 1987
31.5 inches of snow fell in 24 hours in Victoria, British Columbia – 1996