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December 28: Proclamation Day in South Australia (1836); Day of the Holy Innocents in Western Christianity
- 1065 – London's Westminster Abbey (pictured) was consecrated, becoming the traditional place of coronation for English, and now Monarchs of the Commonwealth Realms.
- 1768 – Taksin the Great was crowned king of the newly established Thonburi Kingdom in the new capital at Thonburi, present-day Thailand.
- 1836 – At the Old Gum Tree near present-day Adelaide, Royal Navy Rear–Admiral John Hindmarsh read a proclamation establishing the British province of South Australia.
- 1879 – The Tay Rail Bridge, spanning the Firth of Tay in Scotland between Dundee and the Wormit, collapsed during a violent storm while a train was passing over it, killing all on board.
- 1948 – The Douglas DC-3 airliner NC16002, en route from San Juan, Puerto Rico to Miami, Florida, USA, disappeared in the area known as the Bermuda Triangle.
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