8 Dey 1395

Events

• 893 (1133 years ago) An earthquake destroys the city of Dvin, Armenia.
• 1768 (258 years ago) King Taksin's coronation achieved through conquest as a king of Thailand and established Thonburi as a capital.
• 1835 (191 years ago) Osceola leads his Seminole warriors in Florida into the Second Seminole War against the United States Army.
• 1912 (114 years ago) The first municipally owned streetcars take to the streets in San Francisco.
• 1941 (85 years ago) World War II: Operation Anthropoid, the plot to assassinate high-ranking Nazi officer Reinhard Heydrich, commences.
• 1973 (53 years ago) The United States Endangered Species Act is signed into law by President Richard Nixon.
• 2006 (20 years ago) War in Somalia: The militaries of Somalia's Transitional Federal Government and Ethiopian troops capture Mogadishu unopposed.
• 2025 (a year ago) Unrest in the form of mass protests erupt across Iran, the largest uprising in the country since the Iranian Revolution.

Births

• 1856 (170 years ago) Woodrow Wilson, American historian and politician, 28th President of the United States, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1924)
• 1882 (144 years ago) Arthur Eddington, English astronomer, physicist, and mathematician (died 1944)
• 1903 (123 years ago) John von Neumann, Hungarian-American mathematician and physicist (died 1957)
• 1922 (104 years ago) Stan Lee, American publisher, producer, and actor (died 2018)
• 1934 (92 years ago) Maggie Smith, English actress (died 2024)
• 1954 (72 years ago) Denzel Washington, American actor, director, and producer
• 1955 (71 years ago) Liu Xiaobo, Chinese author, academic, and activist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2017)
• 1969 (57 years ago) Linus Torvalds, Finnish-American computer programmer, developed Linux kernel

Deaths

• 1622 (404 years ago) Francis de Sales, French bishop and saint (born 1567)
• 1694 (332 years ago) Mary II of England,
• 1937 (89 years ago) Maurice Ravel, French pianist and composer (born 1875)
• 1945 (81 years ago) Theodore Dreiser, American novelist and journalist (born 1871)
• 1947 (79 years ago) Victor Emmanuel III of Italy,
• 2004 (22 years ago) Susan Sontag, American novelist, essayist, critic, and playwright (born 1933)
• 2016 (10 years ago) Debbie Reynolds, American actress, singer and dancer (born 1932)
• 2025 (a year ago) Brigitte Bardot, French actress, singer and activist (born 1934)

All 345 events, births and deaths of December 28