Today thru December 30th: Maui Film Festival’s First Light Screenings   

 HISTORICAL EVENTS ON THIS DAY – December 28th

•  1065: Westminster Abbey is consecrated 
• 1850: Rangoon Burma is destroyed by fire 
• 1869: William Finley Semple is granted a patent for chewing gum 
• 1902: The trans-Pacific cable links Hawaii to the mainland U.S. 
• 1905: The Intercollegiate Athletic Association is founded (becomes the NCAA) 
• 1926: Imperial Airways begins England-India mail & passenger service 
• 1935: The WPA’s Federal Art Project Gallery opens in New York City 
• 1937: The Republic of Ireland replaces the Irish Free State as a sovereign nation 
• 1945: The U.S. Congress officially recognizes the “Pledge of Allegiance”  
• 1973: Alexander Solzhenitsyn publishes “Gulag Archipelago”
• 1981: The first American “test-tube baby” is born (Elizabeth Jordan Carr) 
• 2000: The Census Bureau releases its first numbers from the 2000 national count, revealing that America’s population has risen to 281,421,906, up 13.2 percent from 1990 

 BORN ON THIS DAY – December 28th 

• 1856: Woodrow Wilson,  28th U.S. President/Nobel Laureate
• 1882: Arthur Eddington,  astrophysicist/cosmologist/mathematician
• 1902: Mortimer J Adler, author (Encyclopedia Brittanica)
• 1905: Earl “Fatha” Hines,  jazz pianist
• 1908: Lew Ayres, actor
• 1909: Billy Williams, singer
• 1911: Sam Levenson,  humorist
• 1934: Maggie Smith,  actress
• 1946: Edgar Winter, rock musician 
• 1947: Richard Diamonde, rock musician 
• 1950: Alex Chilton, rock musician 
• 1954: Denzel Washington, actor
• 1954: Rosie Vela, British singer
• 1956: Kenneth Grant, bass/vocalist
• 1956: Michael Gibbons, rock musician 
• 1978: John Legend, R&B singer
• 1981 Sienna Miller. actress
• 1987: Thomas Dekker, actor
• 1989: Mackenzie Rosman, actress