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Today, December 28, 2025

December 28: Pledge Of Allegiance Day: -- An annual commemoration of the date in 1945 that Congress adopted the "The Pledge" into the United States Flag Code (Chapter 5 of Title 4 of the United States Code, the official compilation and codification of the general and permanent federal statutes). Francis Bellamy receives credit for writing the Pledge Of Allegiance. The Youth's Companion, a magazine for young people, first published it anonymously on September 8, 1892, under the title "The Pledge." It was written in celebration of the 400th anniversary of the discovery of America. In 1923 and 1924, National Flag Conferences were held in Washington, D.C. by the Americanism Commission, known as The National Flag Conference. There, representatives from the Legion, Daughters of the American Revolution, the Boy Scouts, Knights of Columbus, the American Library Association, and more than 60 other patriotic, fraternal, civic and military organizations gathered to draw together one standard set of guidelines relating to the flag from the many traditions and variations rampant in the country at that time. They adopted a National Flag Code, into which they inserted the text of the pledge, and Congress signed that code into law as The U.S. Flag Code. Though modifications were made to the original pledge, it remained nearly the same. At the same time, the conference didn't designate it as the official pledge. In its original form, it read: "I pledge allegiance to my Flag and the Republic for which it stands, one nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all." The small changes resulted in this version: "I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all." On Flag Day in 1954, Congress added the words "under God" in response to the anti-Communist opinion sweeping the country during the Cold War. To observe Pledge Of Allegiance Day: Learn more about the Pledge Of Allegiance, its history and what it means. Recite the pledge. Use #PledgeOfAllegianceDay to post on social media. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/vietnam-war-films-2-dual-layer--dvd-se2.html

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Today, December 28, 2025

December 28: National Short Film Day: -- An annual commemorates the day the motion picture industry was born, when the Lumiere Brothers projected a program of short films to a public audience for the first time. In 1895 at the Grand Cafe in Paris, the two Lumiere brothers, Auguste and Louis, sparked the world's love of and fascination of cinema to life in the first motion picture showing to a paying audience with show attended by 33 customers. That day, the film pioneers presented 10 short films, each about 50 seconds in length. To the amazement of all those in attendance, the brothers captured everyday events on film and played them back as moving pictures. The experience of "watching movies" came alive that day. And it all began with those first 10 short films. Today, short films come in many genres, lengths, and styles. They entertain us with animation, fantasy, comedy, and drama. They also inform and educate us through documentary subjects that provide revealing insights into real-life stories we may have never known before. In short, short films continue to move us, just as they did that first time over a century ago! To observe National Short Film Day, watch short films all day - an share your favorite short films by using #NationalShortFilmDay on social media! On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/art-documentaries-and-films-dvd-mp4-video-download-usb-flash-driv4.html

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Today, December 28, 2025

December 28, 1832: The History Of The United States: The Constitution Of The United States: Nullification (U.S. Constitution): The Resignation As Vice President Of John C. Calhoun: -- John C. Calhoun becomes the first American ever to resign the office of vice president as tensions escalated over nullification -- the discredited legal theory that a state has the right to nullify, or invalidate, any federal law it deems unconstitutional, a doctruine with Calhoun said is "the right of a State to interpose, in the last resort, in order to arrest an unconstitutional act of the General Government, within its limits". South Carolina Senator Robert Y. Hayne was considered less capable than Calhoun to represent South Carolina in the Senate debates, so in late 1832 Hayne resigned to become governor; Calhoun resigned as vice president, and the South Carolina legislature elected Calhoun to fill Hayne's Senate seat. Van Buren had already been elected as Jackson's new vice president, meaning that Calhoun had less than three months left on his term anyway. Calhoun was the only vice president to resign his office until Spiro Agnew in 1973, 141 years later; as vice president, Calhoun made a record of 31 tie-breaking votes in the Senate, the most of any vice president in their capacity as Senate president until vice president Kamala Harris surpassed it in 2023. John Caldwell Calhoun (March 18, 1782: March 31, 1850) was an American statesman and political theorist from South Carolina, and the seventh Vice President of the United States from 1825 to 1832. He is remembered for strongly defending slavery and for advancing the concept of minority rights in politics, which he did in the context of defending white Southern interests from perceived Northern threats. He began his political career as a nationalist, modernizer, and proponent of a strong national government and protective tariffs. By the late 1820s, his views reversed and he became a leading proponent of states' rights, limited government, nullification, and opposition to high tariffs; he saw Northern acceptance of these policies as the only way to keep the South in the Union. His beliefs and warnings heavily influenced the South's secession from the Union in 1860-1861. Calhoun began his political career in the House of Representatives. As a prominent leader of the war hawk faction, Calhoun strongly supported the War Of 1812 to defend American honor against British infractions of American independence and neutrality during the Napoleonic Wars. He then served as Secretary of War under President James Monroe, and in this position reorganized and modernized the War Department. Calhoun was a candidate for the presidency in the 1824 election. After failing to gain support, he let his name be put forth as a candidate for vice president. The Electoral College elected Calhoun for vice president by an overwhelming majority. He served under John Quincy Adams and continued under Andrew Jackson, who defeated Adams in the election of 1828. Calhoun had a difficult relationship with Jackson primarily due to the Nullification Crisis and the Petticoat affair. In contrast with his previous nationalism, Calhoun vigorously supported South Carolina's right to nullify federal tariff legislation he believed unfairly favored the North, putting him into conflict with unionists such as Jackson. In 1832, with only a few months remaining in his second term, he resigned as vice president and entered the Senate. He sought the Democratic nomination for the presidency in 1844, but lost to surprise nominee James K. Polk, who went on to become president. Calhoun served as Secretary Of State under John Tyler from 1844 to 1845. As Secretary Of State, he supported the annexation of Texas as a means to extend the slave power, and helped settle the Oregon boundary dispute with Britain. He then returned to the Senate, where he opposed the Mexican-American War, the Wilmot Proviso, and the Compromise of 1850 before his death in 1850. Calhoun often served as a virtual party-independent who variously aligned as needed with Democrats and Whigs. Later in life, Calhoun became known as the "cast-iron man" for his rigid defense of white Southern beliefs and practices. His concept of republicanism emphasized approval of slavery and minority rights, as particularly embodied by the Southern states; he owned dozens of slaves in Fort Hill, South Carolina. Calhoun also asserted that slavery, rather than being a "necessary evil", was a "positive good", benefiting both slaves and slave owners. 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Today, December 28, 2025

December 28, 1856: #BOTD: #HBD! Woodrow Wilson, historian, academic, politician and statesman, Nobel Prize laureate, 28th President of the United States (d. February 3, 1924) is #born Thomas Woodrow Wilson in Staunton, Virginia. A member of the Democratic Party, Wilson served as the President of Princeton University from 1902 to 1910 and then ran and was elected as a progressive Democrat to the office of Governor of New Jersey. Wilson's victory in the 1912 presidential election made him the first Southerner elected to the presidency since Zachary Taylor in 1848. He served two terms from 1912 through 1921. Following the death of his first wife, he married Edith Bolling Galt in 1915. He also led the United States during World War I, establishing an activist foreign policy known as "Wilsonianism." He is best remembered for stating, "The world must be made safe for democracy," while asking Congress for a declaration of war against Germany in 1917. He was a major leader at the Paris [Versailles] Peace Conference in 1919, where he championed the proposed League Of Nations. However, he was unable to obtain Senate approval for U.S. membership. After he suffered debilitating strokes in September 1919, his wife and staff members handled most of his presidential duties. Woodrow Wilson died in Washington, D.C. of complications from a stroke at the age of 67. He was interred in Washington National Cathedral, being the only president whose final resting place lies within the nation's capital. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/portraits-of-the-presidency-roosevelt-wilson-hoover-taft-willkie.html

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Today, December 28, 2025

December 28, 1885: The History Of India: The British Raj (Crown Rule In India, Direct Rule In India, India, The Indian Empire): The Indian Independence Movement: The Indian National Congress (The Congress Party, The Congress, INC): -- The first modern nationalist movement to emerge in the British Empire in Asia and Africa is founded as The Indian National Congress in Bombay Presidency, British India, a political party in India with widespread roots. From the late 19th century, and especially after 1920, under the leadership of Mahatma Gandhi, Congress became the principal leader of the Indian independence movement. Congress led India to independence from Great Britain, and powerfully influenced other anti-colonial nationalist movements in the British Empire. Congress is one of the two major political parties in India, along with the Bharatiya Janata Party. Congress is a "big tent" party whose social democratic platform is generally considered in the centre to centre-left of Indian politics. Congress social policy is based upon the Gandhian principle of Sarvodaya-the lifting up of all sections of society-which involves the improvement of the lives of economically underprivileged and socially marginalised people. On social and economic issues, it advocates social justice, equality, welfare state, along with secular society. After India's independence in 1947, Congress formed the union government of India and many state governments of India. Congress became India's dominant political party; as of 2019, in the 17 general elections since independence, it has won an outright majority on seven occasions and has led the ruling coalition a further three times, heading the central government for more than 54 years. There have been six Congress Prime Ministers, the first being Jawaharlal Nehru (1947-1964), and the most recent Manmohan Singh (2004-2014). Although it did not fare well in the last two general elections in India in 2014 and 2019, it remains one of two major, nationwide, political parties in India, along with the right-wing, Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). In the 2014 general election, Congress had its poorest post-independence general election performance, winning only 44 seats of the 543-member Lok Sabha-the lower house of the Parliament of India. From 2004 to 2014, United Progressive Alliance, a coalition of Congress with several regional parties, formed the Indian government led by Manmohan Singh, the Prime Minister as the head of the coalition government. The leader of the party during the period, Sonia Gandhi has served the longest term as the president of the party. As of July 2019, the party is in power in six legislative assemblies: Punjab, Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Maharashtra (as part of the Maha Vikas Aghadi), and the union territory of Puducherry (in an alliance with Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam). On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/mahatma-mohandas-gandhi-nonviolent-revolution-biography-dvd.html

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Today, December 28, 2025

December 28, 1895: Aesthetics: Performing Arts: Premieres: Film Premieres: French Film Premieres: -- The Lumiere Brothers perform for their first paying audience at the Grand Cafe in Boulevard des Capucines, marking the debut of the cinema. The Lumiere brothers, Auguste Marie Louis Nicolas and Louis Jean, were among the first filmmakers in history. They patented an improved cinematograph, which in contrast to Thomas Edison's "peepshow" kinetoscope allowed simultaneous viewing by multiple parties, inventing thereby the audience-based movie show, the cinema show. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/hollywood-1980-tv-documentary-series-13-shows-4-dual-lay1980134.html

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Today, December 28, 2025

December 28, 1895: Great Discoveries: Great Discoveries Of Radiation: X-Rays (Rontgen Radiation, Roentgen Radiation): -- Wilhelm Roentgen, German mechanical engineer and physicist (1845-1923), publishes a paper detailing his discovery of a new type of radiation in a wavelength range known as X-rays or Roentgen rays, an achievement that earned him the first Nobel Prize in Physics in 1901. The month prior, on November 8, 1895, Wilhelm Conrad Rontgen (Anglicized: Roentgen) first produced, detected and discovered X-rays (electromagnetic rays) at the University of Wuerzburg in Germany. In honour of his accomplishments, in 2004 the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) named element 111, roentgenium, a radioactive element with multiple unstable isotopes, after him. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/duck-and-cover-and-more-atomic-war-films-2-dual-layer-dvd2.html

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Today, December 28, 2025

December 28, 1903: #BOTD: #HBD! Earl Hines, also known as Fatha Hines, African American jazz pioneer, pianist and bandleader, one of the most influential figures in the development of jazz piano (d. April 22, 1983) is #born Earl Kenneth Hines in Duquesne, Pennsylvania. Jazz trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie, a member of Hines's big band along with Charlie Parker, wrote "If it hadn't been for Earl Hines blazing the path for the next generation to come, it's no telling where or how they would be playing now. There were individual variations but the style of the modern piano came from Earl Hines.". Jazz pianist Lennie Tristano said, "Earl Hines is the only one of us capable of creating real jazz and real swing when playing all alone.". Jazz pianist Horace Silver said, "He has a completely unique style. No one can get that sound, no other pianist.". Jazz pianist Erroll Garner said, "When you talk about greatness, you talk about Art Tatum and Earl Hines.". Jazz pianist and bandleader Count Basie said that Hines was "the greatest piano player in the world.". Fatha Hines died of a heart attack in Oakland, California, aged 79. As he had wished, his Steinway was auctioned for the benefit of gifted low-income music students, still bearing its silver plaque: PRESENTED BY JAZZ LOVERS FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD. THIS PIANO IS THE ONLY ONE OF ITS KIND IN THE WORLD AND EXPRESSES THE GREAT GENIUS OF A MAN WHO HAS NEVER PLAYED A MELANCHOLY NOTE IN HIS LIFETIME ON A PLANET THAT HAS OFTEN SUCCUMBED TO DESPAIR. Hines is buried in Evergreen Cemetery in Oakland, California. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/satchmo-louis-armstrong-biography-dvd-mp4-usb-driv4.html

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Today, December 28, 2025

December 28, 1914: #BOTD: #HBD! Pops Staples, African American singer, songwriter, guitarist and civil rights activist of the musical genres of gospel, blues, R & B, protest, inspirational, civil rights and anti-war music (d. December 19, 2000) is #born Roebuck Staples near Winona, Mississippi, the youngest of 14 children. He grew up on a cotton plantation near Drew, Mississippi. From his earliest years he heard, and began to play with, local blues guitarists such as Charlie Patton (who lived on the nearby Dockery Plantation), Robert Johnson, and Son House. He dropped out of school after the eighth grade, then sang with a gospel group before marrying and moving to Chicago in 1935. A pivotal figure in gospel in the 1960s and 1970s,, he was the patriarch and member of singing group The Staple Singers, which included his son Pervis and daughters Mavis, Yvonne, and Cleotha. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/eyes-on-the-prize-ii-dvd-set-4-discs-complete-2nd-seri42.html

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December 28, 1921: #BOTD: #HBD! Johnny Otis, nicknamed "The Godfather Of Rhythm And Blues". Greek American (who "passed" as black) singer, songwriter, pianist, vibraphonists, drummer, percussionist, arranger, bandleader, talent scout, disc jockey, record producer, television show host, artist, author, journalist, minister, and impresario (d. January 17, 2012) is #born Ioannis Alexandres Veliotes in Vallejo, California, to Greek immigrant parents, Alexander J. Veliotes, a Mare Island longshoreman and grocery store owner, and his wife, the former Irene Kiskakes, a painter. He was a seminal influence on American R & B and rock and roll, and became famous with the 1958 hit single "Willie and the Hand Jive", a song with a guitar riff by Jimmy Nolen that British rock guitarist Jeff Beck asserts inspired him to become a guitarist himself. Otis chose to live his life on the R & B circuit as a black man in order to have access to the same facilities and play the same venues as the black musicians he worked with, a trick he was able to pull because he was a dark-skinned Greek American. Otis also discovered numerous artists early in their careers who went on to become highly successful in their own right, including Little Esther Phillips, Etta James, Big Mama Thornton, Johnny Ace, Jackie Wilson, Little Willie John, Hank Ballard, and The Robins (who eventually changed their name to The Coasters), among many others. Johnny Otis died of natural causes in the Altadena area of Los Angeles, aged 90. He died three days before Etta James, whom he had discovered in the early 1950s. He is interred with his wife at Mountain View Cemetery in Altadena, California, US. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/armed-forces-radio-presents-jubilee-otr-jazz-music-mp3-dv3.html

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December 28, 1922: #BOTD: #HBD! Stan Lee, American comic book writer, editor, publisher, producer and actor who rose through the ranks of the family-run business, Timely Comics, which later became Marvel Comics, Marvel's primary creative leader for two decades, expanding it from a small publishing house division to a multimedia corporation that dominated the comics and film industries (d. November 12, 2018) is #born Stanley Martin Lieber in the apartment of his Romanian-born Jewish immigrant parents, Celia (nee Solomon), originating in Husi, Romania, and Jack Lieber (born Iancu Lieber), originating in Botosani, Romania, at the corner of West 98th Street and West End Avenue. In collaboration with others at Marvel - particularly co-plotters and artists Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko - he co-created iconic characters, including Spider-Man, the X-Men, Iron Man, Thor, the Hulk, Ant-Man, the Wasp, the Fantastic Four, Black Panther, Daredevil, Doctor Strange, the Scarlet Witch, and Black Widow. These and other characters' introductions in the 1960s pioneered a more naturalistic approach in superhero comics. In the 1970s, Lee challenged the restrictions of the Comics Code Authority, indirectly leading to changes in its policies. In the 1980s, he pursued the development of Marvel properties in other media, with mixed results. Following his retirement from Marvel in the 1990s, Lee remained a public figurehead for the company. He frequently made cameo appearances in films and television shows based on Marvel properties, on which he received an executive producer credit, which allowed him to become the actor with the highest-grossing film total ever. Lee was inducted into the comic book industry's Will Eisner Award Hall of Fame in 1994 and the Jack Kirby Hall of Fame in 1995. He received the NEA's National Medal of Arts in 2008. He continued independent creative ventures until his death at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles after being rushed there for a medical emergency earlier in the day, aged 95. The immediate cause of death listed on his death certificate was cardiac arrest with respiratory failure and congestive heart failure as underlying causes. It also indicated that he suffered from aspiration pneumonia. His body was cremated and his ashes were given to his daughter. #StanLee #Cartoonists #ComicBookWriters #Publishers #Producers #Actors #MarvelComics #SpiderMan #X-Men #IronMan #ThorOdinson #TheHulk #AntMan #TheWasp #FantasticFour #BlackPantherComic #DaredevilComic #DoctorStrange #ScarletWitch #BlackWidowComic #SuperheroComics #ComicSky On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/old-time-radio-childrens-show-megaset-2-dual-layer-mp3-dvd-s23.html

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Today, December 28, 2025

December 28, 1932: #BOTD: #HBD! Nichelle Nichols, African American actress, singer, voice artist and beauty, best known for her portrayal of Nyota Uhura in Star Trek: The Original Series, and its film sequels, the individual most responsible for successfully recruiting women and blacks into NASA's space program (d. July 30, 2022) is #born Grace Dell Nichols in Robbins, Illinois, near Chicago, to Samuel Earl Nichols, a factory worker who was elected both town mayor of Robbins and its chief magistrate, and his wife, Salish (Parks) Nichols. Nichols' portrayal as Uhura was groundbreaking for African American female characters on American television. From 1977 to 2015, Nichols played a leading and important role in NASA to promote to and recruit blacks, women and other ethnic minorities to become astronauts and space program employees, an effort that had been wholely unsuccessful until Nichol made of it a great success. Nichelle Nichols died of heart failure in Silver City, New Mexico at the age of 89. Her ashes were launched into space inside a Peregrine spacecraft atop a fittingly-named Vulcan rocket. It was originally intended that the spacecraft, which contains the ashes of Nichols, Gene Roddenberry, Majel Barrett-Roddenberry, DeForest Kelley, James Doohan, and Star Trek director and visual effects supervisor Douglas Trumbull, would go to the moon, but in January 10, 2024 it was announced that the craft did not have enough power to make the trip and would instead go into deep space. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/black-stars-in-orbit-the-black-astronauts-of-nasa-mp4-download-or-dvd.html

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Today, December 28, 2025

( #JCKaelin here: We at EarthStation1 MediaOutlet greatly love this great and good man's loss; in our opinion, he truly was, and remains, the greatest documentary host of the cable television age -- and we sincerely grieve his loss. Thank you, Jack, for your bright generous smile, fine intellect, and great goodness. ) ========= December 28, 1933: #BOTD: #HBD! Jack Perkins, American broadast television news journalist, reporter, commentator, war correspondent, anchorman, photographer, author, and documentary host and narrator, dubbed "America's most literate correspondent" by the Associated Press (d. August 19, 2019) is #born Jack Morton Perkins in Cleveland, Ohio. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science from Case Western Reserve University in 1956. While at Case Western Reserve, Perkins joined the Fraternity of Phi Gamma Delta. Perkins appeared on NBC Nightly News and The Today Show, and on A & E as host of Biography. Until 2012, he hosted A Gulf Coast Journal, a weekly magazine show which aired on Tampa, Florida PBS member station WEDU-TV.He also hosted and narrated special programs on Chattanooga, Tennessee PBS member station WTCI-TV. From 1982 to 1986, Perkins was also a news anchor and commentator for NBC owned-and-operated station KNBC, in Los Angeles. Perkins devoted a great deal of his time to creating original photography and poetry which he brought together in books, titles including Island Prayers: Photographs and Poems of Praise (2006) and Nature of God: Exploring Nature to meet the Creator. His 2013 book Finding Moosewood, Finding God tells of the period in his life between 1984 and 1999 that he and his wife, Mary Jo, lived on Bar Island off Acadia National Park in Maine to live a simple life, and there found God. Perkins married Mary Jo Perkins in 1960. Together they had three children: Julie, Mark and Eric. Eric followed his father into journalism, serving as sports director at KARE-TV, the NBC affiliate station in the twin cities in Minnesota. Perkins died in Nokomis, Florida at age 85. His burial details are not publicly disclosed. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/the-future-that-never-happened-predictions-of-our-today-dvd-mp4-us4.html

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December 28, 1938: #BOTD: #HBD! Sugar Chile Robinson, African American jazz pianist, singer and child prodigy, is #born Frank Isaac Robinson in Detroit, Michigan. Robinson became famous as a child prodigy in the mid-1940s. At an early age he showed unusual gifts singing the blues and accompanying himself on the piano. According to contemporary newsreels, he was self-taught and managed to use techniques including slapping the keys with elbows and fists. Robinson won a talent show at the Paradise Theatre in Detroit at the age of three, and in 1945 played guest spots at the theatre with Lionel Hampton, who was prevented by child protection legislation from taking Robinson on tour with him. However, Robinson performed on radio with Hampton and Harry "The Hipster" Gibson, and also appeared as himself in the Hollywood film No Leave, No Love, starring Van Johnson and Keenan Wynn. In 1946, Robinson played for President Harry S. Truman at the White House Correspondents' Association Dinner, shouting out "How'm I Doin', Mr. President?" - which became his catchphrase - during his performance of "Caldonia". He was the first African American performer to appear at the annual WHCA dinner. He began touring major theaters, setting box office records in Detroit and California. In 1949, he was given special permission to join the American Federation of Musicians and record his first releases on Capitol Records, "Numbers Boogie" and "Caldonia", both reaching the Billboard R & B chart. In 1950, he toured and appeared on television with Count Basie and in a short film 'Sugar Chile' Robinson, Billie Holiday, Count Basie and His Sextet. The following year, he toured the United Kingdom, appearing at the London Palladium. He stopped recording in 1952, later explaining "I wanted to go to school_... I wanted some school background in me and I asked my Dad if I could stop, and I went to school because I honestly wanted my college diploma." Until 1956, Robinson continued to make occasional appearances as a jazz musician, billed as Frank Robinson, and performed on one occasion with Gerry Mulligan, but then gave up his musical career entirely. Continuing his academic studies, he earned a degree in history from Olivet College and one in psychology from the Detroit Institute of Technology. In the 1960s, he worked for WGPR-TV, and also helped set up small record labels in Detroit and opened a recording studio. In more recent years, Robinson has made occasional appearances as a musician with the help of the American Music Research Foundation. In 2002, Robinson appeared at a special concert celebrating Detroit music, and in 2007 he traveled to Britain to appear at a rock and roll weekend festival. In the last Dr Boogie show of 2013, Robinson was the featured artist, with four of his classic hits showcased amid biographical sketches of his early career. On April 30, 2016, Robinson attended the White House Correspondents' Dinner on the 70th anniversary of his appearance at the 1946 dinner. Robinson met President Barack Obama and was saluted during the dinner, receiving a standing ovation as the picture of him as a child appeared on the video screens. In 2016, Robinson was inducted into the Rhythm & Blues Music Hall of Fame. In 2013, Robinson lost his belongings in a house fire which led him into financial debt. The Music Maker Relief Foundation organization received a call from friends and sent him a bed and put him on a monthly sustenance program. Buddy Smith, who was inspired by Robinson in the 1940s, sent him a piano. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/swing-the-best-of-the-big-bands-dvd-complete-tv-series-2-disc2.html

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Today, December 28, 2025

December 28, 1948: Paranormal Triangles: The Bermuda Triangle (The Devil's Triangle): The 1948 Airborne Transport DC-3 Disappearance: -- The DC-3 airliner NC16002 disappears in the night 50 miles south of Miami near the end of a scheduled flight through the infamous Bermuda Triangle from San Juan, Puerto Rico to Miami, Florida. The aircraft carried 29 passengers and 3 crew members. No probable cause for the loss was determined by the official investigation and it remains unsolved. On January 4, 1949, two bodies were found 50-56 miles south of Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. It is unknown if this was connected to the missing plane. In subsequent years, researchers into unexplained disappearances have included the flight among others said to have disappeared in what came to be termed the Bermuda Triangle. A plane similar to the DC-3 has been found by divers in the Bermuda Triangle. It is possible that this is the aircraft that was lost, however it is impossible without certain parts and registrations to be certain. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/secrets-of-the-bermuda-triangle-dvd-1976-documen1976.html

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December 28, 1967: Aviation: The History Of Aviation: The History Of Military Aviation: Maiden Flights: Military Aviation Maiden Flights: -- The Harrier Jump Jet, the only truly successful V/STOL design of the many attempted during that era, makes its first flight. The Harrier, informally referred to as the Harrier Jump Jet, is a family of jet-powered attack aircraft capable of vertical/short takeoff and landing operations (V/STOL). Named after a bird of prey, it was originally developed by British manufacturer Hawker Siddeley in the 1960s. It was conceived to operate from improvised bases, such as car parks or forest clearings, without requiring large and vulnerable air bases. Later, the design was adapted for use from aircraft carriers. There are two generations and four main variants of the Harrier family, developed by both UK and US manufacturers: Generation 1 - Hawker Siddeley Harrier / British Aerospace Sea Harrier: The Hawker Siddeley Harrier is the first generation-version and is also known as the AV-8A or AV-8C Harrier; it was used by multiple air forces, including the Royal Air Force (RAF) and the United States Marine Corps (USMC). The Sea Harrier is a naval strike/air defence fighter derived from the Hawker Siddeley Harrier; it was operated by both the Royal Navy and the Indian Navy. Generation 2 - McDonnell Douglas AV-8B Harrier II / British Aerospace Harrier II: During the 1980s, a second generation Harrier emerged, manufactured in the United States as the AV-8B and in Britain as the British Aerospace Harrier II respectively. By the start of the 21st century, the majority of the first generation Harriers had been withdrawn, many operators having chosen to procure the second generation as a replacement. In the long term, several operators have announced their intention to supplement or replace their Harrier fleets with the STOVL variant of the F-35 Lightning II, designated as the F-35B. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/war-jets-the-harrier-jump-jet-dvd-mp4-usb-driv4.html

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December 28, 2024: #DOTD: #RIP: Charles Dolan, American billionaire businessman, best known as founder of Cablevision and HBO (b. October 16, 1926) #dies in New York, New York at the age of 98. His burial details are not publicly discosed. At the time of his death, his net worth was estimated at 5.4B USD. Charles Dolan was born in Cleveland, Ohio into the Irish Catholic family of Corinne (Henson) and David Dolan, an inventor who sold a patent to the Ford Motor Company. He served in the United States Army Air Forces at the end of World War II and studied at John Carroll University, before dropping out and entering the telecommunications field. Today, the Dolan family controls Madison Square Garden Sports, MSG Networks, Madison Square Garden Entertainment, Madison Square Garden, the Sphere, Radio City Music Hall, BBC America, and AMC Networks. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/tv-commercials-the-cable-age-classics-vol-5-mp4-video-download-dvd.html

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December 28: National Chocolate Candy Day: -- An annual opportunity for us to polish off the last of the specialty candies we received as gifts! The day points us to the truffles and chocolate oranges tucked into stockings. Check those boxes of candy that may or may not have guides to help us choose cream-filled or ganache. The word "chocolate" comes from the word "xocoatl" or "chocolatl." Mayan "school" means hot or bitter, and the Aztec "atl" means water. Chocolate comes from the seed of the tropical Theobroma cacao tree. Cacao has been cultivated for at least three millennia and grows in Mexico, Central America, and Northern South America. The earliest known documentation of using cacao seeds is from around 1100 BC. But before it was ever made into a sweet candy, it was ground into a beverage. In the ruling class society, the beverage was used for medical purposes. In 1828, Dutch inventor and chemist, Coenraad Van Houten, developed a way to produce chocolate in solid form. His hydraulic press made it possible to remove the cocoa butter from the cacao. His invention leds to producing a powder, opening the way for the first chocolate confections. It's thanks to Van Houten we can enjoy the variety of chocolates we do today! Whitman's produced their first box of chocolate in 1842. In 1847, British chocolate company J.S. Fry & Sons combined cocoa butter, cocoa powder, and sugar-producing the first edible chocolate bar. The invention of the conching machine by Rodolphe Lindt in 1879 ushered in the mass production of the creamy treat. The first chocolate Easter egg was made sometime in the early 19th century. In 1875 John Cadbury introduced his first chocolate egg. When Allied troops stormed the beach of Normandy on D-Day, part of emergency rations in soldiers' packs included the D ration bar designed by Hershey Chocolate company for the U.S. Army. Americans consume 12 pounds of chocolate each year. There are so many different kinds of chocolate candy. What's your favorite? Enjoy a piece or two. Do you have leftovers? Host a chocolate candy party. Taste and sample all the varieties. Discover new https://store.earthstation1.com/tv-commercials-the-classics-vol-2-dv2.html

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December 28: National Call A Friend Day: -- Christmas is over, and New Year's is on its way and today National Call a Friend Day reminds us all to take a few minutes, pick up the phone, and call that friend you've been meaning to get back in touch with! Between the stress of the daily grind at work, the needs of your family, and ensuring you have a little time for yourself, our lives can get awfully hectic. In modern times, technology has the capacity to unite us more than ever before. The internet isn't fazed by distance, time zones, or how much money you have in the bank. But in our day to day lives of whizzing from one task to the next (or even multi-tasking on all our projects at once), technology often has the opposite effect. Checking emails, answering texts, responding to Facebook notifications, and other tech-based tasks can fill up our lives and actually make us feel less connected to the people we're spending all our time connecting with! So with the holiday season rapidly drawing to a close this year, make an effort on December 28 to reach out with a phone call and connect, voice to voice, with a good friend. https://store.earthstation1.com/tv-commercials-the-cable-age-classics-iii-dvd.html

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December 28: Card Playing Day: -- Shuffle your cards and cut the deck! Card playing is the ideal activity to spend time with your family without having to chatter away or go on some big outing. The Christmas hustle and bustle is over, there is still time off from work, and the excitement from opening presents has diminished. There's nothing like a slow-paced game of cards to relax while having fun! Card Playing Day doesn't exactly have a founder or origin, it is just a go-to activity that is quickly turning into a tradition after the busy holiday season. Family game night is already a thing, but elaborate board games can be too competitive and take longer to set up. It doesn't take much to start playing a game of cards. Playing cards have been around for a long time, but they didn't start out as the 52-card deck we have today. It all began in 9th Century China when people from the Tang dynasty began developing games using paper and objects. These were nothing like the modern, sturdier cards, but they did spread from China to different parts of the world. In India, the card game Ganjifa played by The Great Mughals had 10 suits in a deck. Court artists would hand-paint detailed scenes onto each of the 120 cards. From Egyptian cards featuring geometric Mamluk designs to the arrival of playing cards in Europe during the Renaissance, the deck eventually evolved and was divided into four suits of swords, cups, sticks, and coins. These four suits were further developed into the modern deck we all know today, featuring hearts, diamonds, clubs, and spades. There are different ideas on how this happened. One theory says that these symbols represent the aristocracy, clergy, peasantry, and military. Another suggests that the four suits represent the four seasons. As for why there are 52 cards in a deck, it is believed that this number represents the total weeks in a year. Today, thousands of card games are enjoyed by people around the world. The most popular card games include Spades, Hearts, Solitaire, Gin Rummy, Black Jack, and, of course, Poker. https://store.earthstation1.com/vintage-nude-films-dvd-6-hours-92-vid692.html

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December 28, 1941: The European Civil War: World War II: The Second European War (The European Theater Of World War II): The Assassination Of Reinhard Heydrich (Operation Anthropoid): -- The plot to assassinate SS Obergruppenfuehrer and General der Polizei Reinhard Heydrich, head of the Reichssicherheitshauptamt (Reich Main Security Office, RSHA), the combined security services of Nazi Germany, and acting Reichsprotektor of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, commences. Operation Anthropoid was carried out in Prague, Czechoslovakia on May 27, 1942 after having been prepared by the British Special Operations Executive with the approval of the Czechoslovak government-in-exile. Wounded in the attack, Heydrich died of his injuries on June 4, 1942, aged 38. He was buried with great fanfare in Berlin's Invalidenfriedhof cemetery. After the war, the grave's markings were removed so it would not become a rallying point for neo-Nazis. On Thursday December 12, 2019, a worker at the cemetery discovered that the grave had been dug up but that his bones were undisturbed. His death led to a wave of merciless reprisals by German SS troops, including the destruction of the Czechoslovakian villages of Lidice and Lezaky and the mass execution or imprisonment of civilians in those and other villages. Anthropoid was the only successful assassination of a senior Nazi leader during World War II. Heydrich was one of the most powerful men in Nazi Germany and an important figure in the rise of Adolf Hitler; as a Nazi potentate, he was given overall charge of the so-called Final Solution (Holocaust) of the Jews in Europe. Despite the risks, the Czechoslovaks decided to undertake the operation to help confer legitimacy on the Edvard Benes government-in-exile in London, as well as for retribution against Heydrich's harsh rule. https://store.earthstation1.com/ss-19231945-dvd-schutzstaffel-history-doc19231945.html

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December 28, 1907: #BOTD: Erich Mielke, German communist official who served as head of the East German Ministry for State Security (Ministerium fur Staatsicherheit - MfS), better known as the Stasi, from 1957 until shortly after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 (d. May 21, 2000) is #born Erich Fritz Emil Mielke in a tenement in Berlin-Wedding, Brandenburg, Berlin, Germany; during the First World War, the neighborhood was known as "Red Wedding" due to many residents' Marxist militancy. A second-generation member of the Communist Party of Germany, Mielke was one of two triggermen in the 1931 murders of Berlin Police captains Paul Anlauf and Franz Lenck. After learning that a witness had survived, Mielke escaped arrest by fleeing to the Soviet Union, where the NKVD recruited him. He was one of the key figures in the decimation of Moscow's German Communists during the Great Purge as well as in the Stalinist witch-hunt for ideological dissent within the International Brigade during the Spanish Civil War. Following the end of World War II in 1945, Mielke returned to the Soviet Zone of Occupied Germany, which he helped organize into a Marxist-Leninist satellite state under the Socialist Unity Party (SED), later becoming head of the Stasi. The Stasi under Mielke has been called by historian Edward Peterson the "most pervasive police state apparatus ever to exist on German soil". In a 1993 interview, Holocaust survivor and Nazi-hunter Simon Wiesenthal said that, if one considers only the oppression of their own people, the Stasi under Mielke was "much, much worse than the Gestapo". During the 1950s and 1960s Mielke led the process of forcibly forming collectivised farms from East Germany's family-owned farms, which sent a flood of refugees to West Germany. In response, Mielke oversaw the construction (1961) of the Berlin Wall and co-signed orders to shoot fatally all East Germans who attempted to leave the country. He also oversaw the establishment of pro-Soviet police states and paramilitary insurgencies in Western Europe, Latin America, Africa, Southeast Asia, and the Middle East. In addition to his role as head of the Stasi, Mielke was also an Army General in the National People's Army (Nationale Volksarmee), and a member of the SED's ruling Politburo. Dubbed "The Master Of Fear" (German: Der Meister Der Angst) by the West German press, Mielke was one of the most powerful and most hated men in East Germany. After German reunification in 1990, Mielke was arrested (1991), prosecuted (1992), convicted, and incarcerated (1993) for the 1931 murders of Paul Anlauf and Franz Lenck. Released from prison early due to ill health in 1995, he died in a Berlin nursing home in 2000. https://store.earthstation1.com/stasi-dvd-the-east-german-secret-police-investigative-report.html

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December 28, 1989: #DOTD: Hermann Oberth, Austro-Hungarian-born Romanian-German physicist, engineer and rocket scientist, one of the founding fathers of rocketry and astronautics (b. June 25, 1894) #dies in Nuremberg, West Germany, just shortly after the fall of the Iron Curtain, aged 95. He is buried at Neuer Friedhof Feucht cemetery in Feucht, Nurnberger Land, Bavaria, Germany. According to an obituary by Stille Hilfe, a relief organization for arrested, condemned and fugitive SS members, Oberth was "a loyal supporter and donor" of this Nazi support organization. Hermann Oberth was born Hermann Julius Oberth into a Transylvanian Saxon family in Nagyszeben (Hermannstadt), Kingdom of Hungary (today Sibiu in Romania). He was a pioneer of modern rocketry, along with Robert Esnault-Pelterie, Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, Robert Goddard and Herman Potocnik. During World War II, he worked on Nazi Germany's Aggregat rocket program, a set of ballistic missile designs developed in 1933-1945 whose greatest success was the V-2, the world's first long-range guided ballistic missile. Later he worked on solid-propellant anti-aircraft rockets at the German WASAG military organization near Wittenberg, Germany. After the war, he went on to work on the American space program, eventually working under his former student Wernher Von Braun on such progjects as the Atlas missile. He was a supporter of the extraterrestrial hypothesis for the origin of Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs). that were seen from Earth. In an article in The American Weekly magazine of October 24, 1954, Oberth wrote "It is my thesis that flying saucers are real, and that they are space ships from another solar system. I think that they possibly are manned by intelligent observers who are members of a race that may have been investigating our earth for centuries..." He also wrote an article in the second edition of Flying Saucer Review titled "They Come From Outer Space". He discussed the history of reports of "strange luminous objects" in the sky, mentioning that the earliest historical case is of "Shining Shields" reported by Pliny the Elder. He wrote, "Having weighed all the pros and cons, I find the explanation of flying discs from outer space the most likely one. I call this the "Uraniden" hypothesis, because from our viewpoint the hypothetical beings appear to come from the sky (from the Greek "Uranos" (English: Uranus), meaning "Sky")." https://store.earthstation1.com/the-missiles-of-nazi-germany-in-world-war-ii-dvd-mp4-video-downloa4.html

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December 28, 2022: #DOTD: #RIP: Arata Isozaki, Japanese architect, urban designer, and theorist who taught at Columbia University, Harvard University, and Yale University, awarded the Royal Gold Medal in 1986 and the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 2019 (b. July 23, 1931) #dies at the age of 91 in Naha, Okinawa Prefecture, Japan. The funeral was held at the Inanse Funeral Home in Urasoe City, Okinawa Prefecture, on January 4 for close relatives. The chief mourner was his eldest son, Hiroshi, and the public offered incense from 4 pm. His burial details are not publicly disclosed. Arata Isozaki was born Isozaki Arata in Oita, the capital city of Oita Prefecture, located on the island of Kyushu, Japan. He grew up in the era of postwar Japan, the eldest of four children of Toji and Tetsu Isozaki. His father was a prominent businessmen. In 1945, he witnessed the destruction of Hiroshima on the shore opposite his hometown. When he accepted the Pritzker Prize in 2019 he stated: "There was no architecture, no buildings, and not even a city. So my first experience of architecture was the void of architecture, and I began to consider how people might rebuild their homes and cities." Isozaki completed his schooling at the Oita Prefecture Oita Uenogaoka High School (erstwhile Oita Junior High School). In 1954, he graduated from the University of Tokyo majoring in Architecture and Engineering. He completed a doctoral program in architecture from the same university in 1961. Isozaki also worked under Kenzo Tange before establishing his firm in 1963. Isozaki's early projects were influenced by European experiences with a style mixed between "New Brutalism" and "Metabolist Architecture" (Oita Medical Hall, 1959-1960), according to Reyner Banham. His style continued to evolve with buildings such as the Fujimi Country Club (1973-74) and Kitakyushu Central Library (1973-74). Later he developed a more modernistic style with buildings such as the Art Tower of Mito (1986-90) and Domus-Casa del Hombre (1991-1995) in Galicia, Spain. In 1983, he supported an apparently unbuildable entry for a sports club in Hong Kong by the then-unknown architect Zaha Hadid. In 1985 he designed the interior of New York City's Palladium nightclub. The Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) in Los Angeles, completed in 1986, was his second international project and his best known work in the U.S. In 2005, Arata Isozaki founded the Italian branch of his office, Arata Isozaki & Andrea Maffei Associates. Two major projects from this office are the Allianz Tower CityLife office tower, a redevelopment project in the former trade fair area in Milan and the new Town Library in Maranello, Italy. Despite designing buildings both inside and outside Japan, Isozaki was sometimes described as an architect who refused to be stuck in one architectural style, highlighting "how each of his designs is a specific solution born out of the project's context." Isozaki won the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 2019. https://store.earthstation1.com/perspectives-on-20th-century-architecture-japan-d20.html

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December 28, 1954: #BOTD: #HBD! Denzel Washington, African American actor, director, filmmaker and producer, is #born Denzel Hayes Washington Jr. in Mount Vernon, New York. Throughout his career spanning over four decades, Washington has received numerous accolades, including a Tony Award, two Academy Awards, three Golden Globe Awards and two Silver Bears. In 2016, he received the Cecil B. DeMille Lifetime Achievement Award, and in 2020, The New York Times named him the greatest actor of the 21st century. In 2022, Washington received the Presidential Medal Of Freedom bestowed upon him by President Joe Biden. Washington started his acting career in theatre, acting in performances off-Broadway, including William Shakespeare's Coriolanus in 1979. He first came to prominence in the medical drama St. Elsewhere (1982-1988). Washington's early film roles included Norman Jewison's A Soldier's Story (1984) and Richard Attenborough's Cry Freedom (1987). For his role as Private Silas Trip in the Civil War drama Glory (1989), he won his first Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. Throughout the 1990s, he established himself as a leading man in such varied films as Spike Lee's biographical film epic Malcolm X (1992), Kenneth Branagh's Shakespeare adaptation Much Ado About Nothing (1993), Alan J. Pakula's legal thriller The Pelican Brief (1993), Jonathan Demme's drama Philadelphia (1993), and Norman Jewison's legal drama The Hurricane (1999). Washington won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his role as corrupt detective Alonzo Harris in the crime thriller Training Day (2001). Washington has continued acting in diverse roles, such as football coach Herman Boone in Remember the Titans (2000), poet and educator Melvin B. Tolson in The Great Debaters (2007), drug kingpin Frank Lucas in American Gangster (2007) and an airline pilot with an addiction in Flight (2012). He won the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play for his role in the Broadway revival of the August Wilson play Fences in 2010. Washington later directed, produced, and starred in the film adaptation in 2016, which was nominated for four Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Actor for Washington. He also produced the film adaptation of Wilson's Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (2020). His stage credits include appearances in Broadway revivals of Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun in 2014, and Eugene O'Neill's The Iceman Cometh in 2018. Washington is one of only five male actors to be nominated for an Academy Award in five different decades, alongside Sir Laurence Olivier, Paul Newman, Sir Michael Caine, and Jack Nicholson. https://store.earthstation1.com/liberators-fighting-on-two-fronts-in-world-war-ii-mp4-download-dv4.html

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December 28, 2010: #DOTD: #RIP: Billy Taylor, African American jazz pianist, composer, broadcaster and educator (b. July 24, 1921) #dies of a heart attack on in Manhattan at the age of 89. Billy Taylor was born Billy Taylor in Greenville, North Carolina. He was the Robert L. Jones Distinguished Professor of Music at East Carolina University in Greenville, and from 1994 was the artistic director for jazz at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. A jazz activist, Taylor sat on the Honorary Founders Board of The Jazz Foundation of America, an organisation he founded in 1989, with Ann Ruckert, Herb Storfer and Phoebe Jacobs, to save the homes and the lives of America's elderly jazz and blues musicians, later including musicians who survived Hurricane Katrina. Taylor was a jazz educator, who lectured in colleges, served on panels and travelled worldwide as a jazz ambassador. Critic Leonard Feather once said, "It is almost indisputable that Dr. Billy Taylor is the world's foremost spokesman for jazz." https://store.earthstation1.com/the-history-of-jazz-by-billy-taylor-parts-i-amp-ii-dvd.html

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December 28, 1946: #BOTD: #HBD! Edgar Winter, American multi-instrumentalist, working as a keyboardist, guitarist, saxophonist, percussionist and singer, is #born Edgar Holland Winter in Beaumont, Texas. Both he and his late older brother Johnny Winter, himself a singer and guitarist, were born with albinism. His success peaked in the 1970s with his band the Edgar Winter Group and their popular songs "Frankenstein" and "Free Ride" which remain staple tracks of classic rock radio. https://store.earthstation1.com/wabc-musicradio-shows-mp3-dvd-60s80s-am-360807775.html

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December 28, 1993: #DOTD: #RIP: William L. Shirer, American print and radio journalist, war correspondent, historian and author (b. February 23, 1904) #dies in Boston, Massachusetts at the age of 89. He is buried at Mountain View Cemetery in Lenox, Massachusetts. Born William Lawrence Shirer in Chicago, Illinois, he wrote The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, a history of Nazi Germany that has been read by many and cited in scholarly works for more than 50 years. Originally a foreign correspondent for the Chicago Tribune and the International News Service, Shirer was the first reporter hired by Edward R. Murrow for what became a CBS radio team of journalists known as "Murrow's Boys". He became known for his broadcasts from Berlin, from the rise of the Nazi dictatorship through the first year of World War II (1940). With Murrow, he organized the first broadcast world news roundup, a format still followed by news broadcasts. Shirer wrote more than a dozen books besides The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, including Berlin Diary (published in 1941); The Collapse of the Third Republic (1969), which drew on his experience living and working in France from 1925 to 1933; and a three-volume autobiography, 20th Century Journey (1976 to 1990). https://store.earthstation1.com/william-l-shirer-radio-mp3-cd-world-war-ii-cbs-news-broadcast3.html

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December 28, 1972: The Cold War: The Korean Conflict: -- Kim Il-Sung, already Prime Minister of North Korea and First Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea, becomes the first President of North Korea. Kim Il-Sung (or Kim Il Sung), born Kim Song-Ju, North Korean commander and politician, President of North Korea (1912-1994) was the first Supreme Leader of North Korea, from its establishment in 1948 until his death in 1994. He held the posts of Premier from 1948 to 1972 and President from 1972 to 1994. He was also the leader of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) from 1949 to 1994 (titled Chairman from 1949 to 1966 and General Secretary after 1966). Coming to power after the end of Japanese rule in 1945, he authorized the invasion of South Korea in 1950, triggering an intervention in defense of South Korea by the United Nations led by the United States. Following the military stalemate in the Korean War, a ceasefire was signed on 27 July 1953. He was the second longest-serving non-royal head of state/government in the 20th century, in office for more than 48 years. Under his leadership, North Korea became a communist state with a publicly owned and planned economy. It had close political and economic relations with the Soviet Union. By the 1960s, North Korea enjoyed a relatively high standard of living, outperforming the South, which was fraught with political instability and economic crises. The situation reversed in the late 1980s, as a newly stable South Korea became an economic powerhouse fueled by Japanese and American investment, military aid and internal economic development while North Korea stagnated. Differences emerged between North Korea and the Soviet Union, central among them Kim Il-Sung's philosophy of Juche, which focused on Korean nationalism and self-reliance. Despite this, the country received funds, subsidies and aid from the USSR (and the Eastern Bloc) until the dissolution of the USSR in 1991. The resulting loss of economic aid adversely affected the North's economy, causing widespread famine in 1994. During this period, North Korea also remained critical of the United States defense force's presence in the region, which it considered imperialism, having seized the American ship USS Pueblo (AGER-2) in 1968. He outlived Joseph Stalin by four decades and Mao Zedong by two and remained in power during the terms of office of six South Korean Presidents, ten U.S. Presidents and twenty-one Japanese Prime Ministers. Known as the Great Leader (Suryong), he was the focus of a personality cult which dominated domestic politics in North Korea. At the 6th WPK Congress in 1980, his son Kim Jong-il was elected as a Presidium member and chosen as his heir apparent to the supreme leadership. Kim Il-Sung's birthday is a public holiday in North Korea called the "Day of the Sun". In 1998, Kim Il-Sung was given the title "Eternal President of the Republic". During his rule, North Korea was widely characterized as a totalitarian state with widespread human rights abuses, including mass executions and prison camps. https://store.earthstation1.com/the-parade-dvd-north-korea-rallies-during-1988-seoul-olym1988.html

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December 28, 1947: #DOTD: Victor Emmanuel III, the last king of Italy (b. November 11, 1869) #dies of pulmonary congestion while in exile in Alexandria, Egypt. He was buried the following year behind the altar of St. Catherine's Cathedral of Alexandria. On December 17, 2017, following an agreement between Italian President Sergio Mattarella and Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, an Italian air force military plane officially repatriated the remains of Victor Emmanuel III, which were transferred from Alexandria to the sanctuary of Vicoforte, near Turin, Italy. He is now interred alongside those of his wife - Elena Of Montenegro, Queen of Italy - which had been transferred two days earlier from her prior resting place in Montpellier, France. Victor Emmanuel III (Italian: Vittorio Emanuele III, Albanian: Viktor Emanueli III, Amharic: Vitoriyo Amanu'eli) reigned as King of Italy from July 29 1900 until his abdication on 9 May 1946. Born Vittorio Emanuele Ferdinando Maria Gennaro di Savoia in Naples, Kingdom of Italy, he held the thrones of Ethiopia and Albania as Emperor of Ethiopia (1936-1941) and King of the Albanians (1939-1943). During his reign of nearly 46 years, which began after the assassination of his father Umberto I, the Kingdom of Italy became involved in two world wars. His reign also encompassed the birth, rise, and fall of Italian Fascism and its regime. During the First World War, Victor Emmanuel III accepted the resignation of Prime Minister Paolo Boselli and named Vittorio Emanuele Orlando (the premier of victory) in his place. Following the March on Rome, he appointed Benito Mussolini as Prime Minister and later deposed him in 1943 during the Allied invasion of Italy of the Second World War. Victor Emmanuel abdicated his throne in 1946 in favour of his son Umberto II, hoping to strengthen support for the monarchy against an ultimately successful referendum to abolish it. He then went into exile to Alexandria, Egypt, where he died and was buried the following year in Saint Catherines's Cathedral of Alexandria. In 2017 his remains were returned to rest in Italy, following an agreement between Italian President Sergio Mattarella and Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi. Victor Emmanuel was also called by some Italians Sciaboletta ("little saber"), due to his height of 1.53 m (5 ft 0 in),[1] and il Re soldato (the Soldier King), for having led his country during both world wars. https://store.earthstation1.com/fascist-legacy-italian-war-criminals-of-wwii-dvd-both-tv-shows.html

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Today, December 28, 2025
December 28, 2002: #DOTD: #RIP: Albert Stubbins, English footballer (soccer player) (b. July 17, 1919) #dies after a short illness at the age of 82. He was born in Wallsend, Tyne and Wear, England, then spent his early years in the United States, then returned to Wallsend in 1929. He played in the position of centre forward, although his career was limited by the onset of World War II. While playing for Liverpool, he won the League Championship in 1947. He was later included on the front cover of The Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album. He attended Carville School in Wallsend. Stubbins first played for Newcastle United in 1937, appearing in official games 30 times and scoring six goals for the team. In wartime games (classified as friendlies) he scored 188 goals in just 231 appearances. In 1946 he was signed by Liverpool for a then club record of 12,500 Pounds Sterlin. Stubbins had also been approached by Liverpool's closest rivals, Everton, and he settled the decision with a toss of the coin. He made an immediate impact at the club: making his debut on September 14, 1946 in a league match at Burnden Park, he scored an 82nd-minute goal as the Reds left it late to claim a 3-1 victory over Bolton Wanderers. Following his move to Liverpool, Stubbins scored 28 goals (24 league goals) in the 1946-7 season (making him joint top scorer with Jack Balmer) helping Liverpool to win the League Championship, their first in 24 years. Stubbins also scored 24 goals the following season. Although a contractual dispute in the 1948-9 season limited his appearances for the Merseyside club, he then helped Liverpool reach the 1950 FA Cup Final, the first time Liverpool had appeared at Wembley. However, they lost to Arsenal by two goals to nil. On October 18, 1950, at Blackpool's Bloomfield Road, Stubbins netted five goals in the Football League's 6-3 victory over the Irish League in an exhibition match. Injuries forced him to retire in 1953, having scored 83 goals in 178 appearances, or 1 every 2.1 games. Despite his club success, he played for the England only once, in an unofficial international against Wales in 1945, a game England lost 1-0. Following his retirement, Stubbins entered a full-time career in sports journalism, although he briefly coached an American semi-professional side, the New York Americans in 1960. Stubbins later appeared on the front cover of The Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album, the only footballer to be depicted. He also has a Liverpool FC fan club named in his honour. He also featured as a minor character in Stephen Baxter's time-travelling novel The Time Ships. He died in 2002, aged 82, after a short illness. https://store.earthstation1.com/alternative-sgt-pepper39s-lonely-hearts-club-band-mp3-cd-download-393.html

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Today, December 28, 2025
December 28, 1908: #BOTD: #HBD! Lew Ayres, American actor whose film and television career spanned 65 years (d. December 30, 1996) is #born Lewis Frederick Ayres III in Minneapolis to Irma Bevernick and Louis Ayres, an amateur musician and court reporter. He is best known for starring as German soldier Paul Baumer in the film All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) and for playing Dr. Kildare in nine movies, and for the 1949-1951 radio series based on the Dr. Kildare character. He was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance in Johnny Belinda (1948). Ayres died in Los Angeles, California just two days after his 88th birthday. He was survived by his wife of 32 years, actress Diana Hall, and their son Justin Ayres. His body was buried under a simple headstone at Westwood Memorial Park in Westwood, Los Angeles. https://store.earthstation1.com/hollywood-without-makeup-dvd-film-star-home-movies.html

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Today, December 28, 2025
December 28, 1913: #BOTD: #HBD! Lou Jacobi, Canadian-American comedian, character actor of stage, film and television (d. October 23, 2009) is #born Louis Harold Jacobovitch in Toronto, Ontario, to Joseph and Fay Jacobivitch. His family was Jewish. Jacobi began acting as a boy, making his stage debut in 1924 at a Toronto theater, playing a violin prodigy in The Rabbi and the Priest. After working as the drama director of the Toronto Y.M.H.A., the social director at a summer resort, a stand-up comic in Canada's equivalent of the Borscht Belt, and the entertainment at various weddings and bachelor parties, Jacobi moved to London to work on the stage, appearing in Guys and Dolls and Pal Joey. Jacobi made his Broadway debut in 1955 in The Diary of Anne Frank playing Hans van Daan, the less-than-noble occupant of the Amsterdam attic where the Franks were hiding, and reprised the role in the 1959 film version. Other Broadway performances included Paddy Chayefsky's The Tenth Man (1959), Woody Allen's Don't Drink the Water (1966), and Neil Simon's debut play Come Blow Your Horn (1961), in which he portrayed the playboy protagonist's disappointed father. His reading of the film line "Aha!" stuck with the Times columnist William Safire so vividly that he cited it when writing about the meaning of the word 40 years later. Jacobi also made two dozen feature films. His film debut was in the 1953 British comedy, Is Your Honeymoon Really Necessary? with the country's blond sex symbol of the day, Diana Dors. Other notable films in which he appeared include, The Diary of Anne Frank (1959), Irma la Douce (1963), Penelope (1966), Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex* (*But Were Afraid to Ask) (1972) as Sam Musgrave, a middle-aged married man experimenting with women's clothes, Arthur (1981) as the lucky florist, My Favorite Year (1982) as Benjy's unsophisticated Uncle Morty, and in Amazon Women on the Moon (1987), as a man named Murray who got zapped into the television and is wandering throughout sketches looking for his wife. In Barry Levinson's Avalon (1990), in a semi-dramatic role, as one of four Russian brothers (elders) trying to build a future in Baltimore in the early 20th century, with the memorable comic relief catchprase, 'You cut the 'toikey without me'!? after he would notoriously arrive late to family Thanksgiving dinner, every year. His final film role was I.Q. (1994), playing philosopher/mathematician Kurt Godel. He guest-starred on such television shows as Playhouse 90, Too Close for Comfort, Tales from the Darkside, Love, American Style, That Girl, Sanford and Son and The Man from U.N.C.L.E., and was a regular on The Dean Martin Show. In the summer of 1976, Jacobi was the star of a CBS comedy series Ivan The Terrible, in which he played a Russian headwaiter living with nine other people in a small Moscow apartment. Comics Christopher Hewett, Phil Leeds, Alan Cauldwell and, in her TV series debut, Nana Visitor (here billed under her birth name, Nana Tucker). Harvey Korman appeared as a Soviet bureaucrat in an uncredited cameo at the close of each episode. The executive producer of the short-lived series was noted comic Alan King. The comedy series only lasted 5 episodes. Jacobi made successful comedy LP recordings with titles like "Al Tijuana and His Jewish Brass" and "The Yiddish Are Coming! The Yiddish Are Coming!" In 1999, Jacobi, who was 85 at the time, was inducted into Canada's Walk of Fame. On the occasion of the dedication, film critic Roger Ebert interviewed Jacobi, later writing, "I look at Lou, and I'm not afraid to be 85, if I can get there in Lou's style." Jacobi was married to Ruth Ludwin from 1957 until her death in 2004. Lou Jacobi died October 23, 2009, of natural causes, at his home in Manhattan. He was 95. He was survived by his brother, Avrom Jacobovitch, and sister, Rae Jacobovitch, both of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Jacobi was one of the voice inspirations for the Futurama character, Dr. Zoidberg. He died of natural causes at his home in Manhattan at the age of 95. https://store.earthstation1.com/golden-age-of-comedy-narrated-by-george-burns-5-album-set-mp3-53.html

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Today, December 28, 2025
December 28, 1912: The History Of Rail Transport (The History Of Railways): The History Of Rail Transportation In The United States: The History Of The Streetcar (The History Of The Trolley, The History Of The Tram): The San Francisco Municipal Railway (The SF Muni, The Muni): -- The public transit system for the city and county of San Francisco, California, begins to operate the first municipally owned streetcars. A streetcar or trolley, known as a tram outside of North America, is a rail vehicle that runs on light rail tracks along public urban streets. In the course of this article, the terms streetcar, trolley, tram and light rail will be used interchangeably. Streetcar or light rail vehicles are usually lighter and shorter than main line and rapid transit trains. Today, most streetcars use electrical power, usually fed by a pantograph sliding on an overhead line; older systems may use a trolley pole or a bow collector. In some cases, a contact shoe on a third rail is used. If necessary, they may have dual power systems - electricity in city streets and diesel in more rural environments. Occasionally, trams also carry freight. Some trams, known as tram-trains, may have segments that run on mainline railway tracks, similar to interurban systems. The differences between these modes of rail transport are often indistinct and a given system may combine multiple features. One of the advantages of rail vehicles over earlier forms of transit was the low rolling resistance of metal wheels on steel rails, allowing the trams to haul a greater load for a given effort. Problems included the high total cost of ownership of horses. Electric trams largely replaced animal power in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Improvements in other vehicles such as buses led to decline of trams in the mid 20th century. However, light rail transport has seen a resurgence in recent years. In 2014, the Aubagne tramway in Southern France became the first tram system in the world not to charge fares. https://store.earthstation1.com/trolley-the-cars-that-built-our-cities-history-of-us-light-rail.html

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Today, December 28, 2025
December 28, 1959: #DOTD: Ante Pavelic, Croatian fascist dictator during World War II, leader of the genocide of Eastern Orthodox Catholics, Serbians and Jews, who founded and headed the fascist ultranationalist organization known as the Ustase in 1929 and was dictator of the Independent State of Croatia (NDH), a fascist puppet state built out of parts of occupied Yugoslavia by the authorities of Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy, from 1941 to 1945 (b. July 14, 1889) #dies; on April 10, 1957, a Serbian hotel owner attempted to kill Pavelic by shooting him. The resulting injuries eventually led to his death two and a half years later aged 70 after spending those years in Francoist Spain. He is buried in San Isidro Cemetery in Madrid, Span, the city's oldest private burial ground. Ante Pavelic was born in the Herzegovinian village of Bradina on the slopes of Ivan Mountain north of Konjic, roughly 15 kilometres (9.3 miles) southwest of Hadzici, then part of the Ottoman Empire and occupied by Austrian-Hungarian Empire. Pavelic and the Ustase persecuted many racial minorities and political opponents in the NDH during the war, including Serbs, Jews, Romani, and anti-fascists, becoming one of the key figures of the genocide of Serbs, the Porajmos and the Holocaust in the NDH. At the start of his career, Pavelic was a lawyer and a politician of the Croatian Party of Rights in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia known for his nationalist beliefs and support for an independent Croatia. By the end of the 1920s, his political activity became more radical as he called on Croats to revolt against Yugoslavia, and schemed an Italian protectorate of Croatia separate from Yugoslavia. After King Alexander I declared his 6 January Dictatorship in 1929 and banned all political parties, Pavelic went abroad and plotted with the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization (IMRO) to undermine the Yugoslav state, which prompted the Yugoslav authorities to try him in absentia and sentence him to death. In the meantime, Pavelic had moved to Fascist Italy where he founded the Ustase, a Croatian nationalist movement with the goal of creating an independent Croatia by any means, including the use of terror. Pavelic incorporated terrorist actions in the Ustase program, such as train bombings and assassinations, staged a small uprising in Lika in 1932, culminating in the assassination of King Alexander in 1934 in conjunction with the IMRO. Pavelic was once again sentenced to death after being tried in France in absentia and, under international pressure, the Italians imprisoned him for 18 months, and largely obstructed the Ustase in the following period. At the behest of the Germans, senior Ustasa Slavko Kvaternik declared the NDH's establishment on 10 April 1941 in the name of Pavelic. Calling himself the Poglavnik, or supreme leader, Pavelic returned from Italy and took control of the puppet government. He created a political system similar to that of Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany. The NDH, though constituting a Greater Croatia, was forced by the Italians to relinquish several territorial concessions to the latter. After taking control, Pavelic imposed largely anti-Serbian and antisemitic policies that resulted in the deaths of over 100,000 Serbs and Jews in concentration and extermination camps in the NDH, murdering and torturing several hundred thousand Serbs, along with tens of thousands of Roma and Jews. These persecutions and killings have been described as the "single most disastrous episode in Yugoslav history". In 1945, Pavelic ordered the executions of prominent NDH politicians Mladen Lorkovic and Ante Vokic on charges of treason when they were arrested for plotting to oust him and align the NDH with the Allies. Following the surrender of Germany that May, Pavelic ordered his troops to keep fighting even after the surrender. He subsequently ordered the NDH to flee to Austria to surrender their armed forces to the advancing British Army, which refused and directed them to surrender to the Partisans. Sparked by attacks on their position, the Partisans began carrying out killings of the Ustase. Pavelic fled to Austria before obtaining a false passport from the Vatican and escaping to Argentina, where he continued to engage in fascist activities. He later served as a security advisor to President of Argentina Juan Peron, who provided sanctuary for many fascist war criminals. https://store.earthstation1.com/ratlines-wwii-escape-routes-for-fascist-war-criminals-mp4-download-dvd.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Monarchy In The UK: British Royal History MP4 Video Download DVD Set
Today, December 28, 2025
December 28, 1694: #DOTD: #RIP: Mary II Of England, Queen Of England, Scotland, and Ireland, co-reigning with her husband, William III & II, from 1689 until her death in 1694 (b. April 30, 1662) #dies from a fatal form of smallpox after midnight on the morning of 28 December, at the young age of 32. Her husband William, who had grown increasingly to rely on Mary, was devastated by her death, saying that "from being the happiest" he was "now going to be the miserablest creature on earth". She was widely mourned throughout Britain. During a cold winter, in which the Thames froze, her embalmed body lay in state in Banqueting House, Whitehall. On March 5, she was buried at Westminster Abbey. Her funeral service was the first of any royal attended by all the members of both Houses of Parliament. For the ceremony, composer Henry Purcell wrote Music for the Funeral of Queen Mary. She was born Mary Stuart at St James's Palace, London, England. Mary was the eldest daughter of James, Duke of York (the future King James II & VII), and his first wife Anne Hyde. Mary and her sister Anne were raised as Anglicans at the behest of their uncle, King Charles II, although their parents both converted to Roman Catholicism. Charles lacked legitimate children, making Mary second in the line of succession. She married her first cousin, William of Orange, a Protestant, in 1677. Charles died in 1685 and James took the throne, making Mary heir presumptive. James's attempts at rule by decree and the birth of his son from a second marriage, James Francis Edward (later known as "the Old Pretender"), led to his deposition in the Glorious Revolution of 1688 and the adoption of the English Bill of Rights. William and Mary became king and queen regnant. Mary mostly deferred to her husband - a renowned military leader and principal opponent of Louis XIV - when he was in England. She did, however, act alone when William was engaged in military campaigns abroad, proving herself to be a powerful, firm, and effective ruler. Mary's death from smallpox at the age of 32 left William as sole ruler until his death in 1702, when he was succeeded by Mary's sister, Anne. https://store.earthstation1.com/monarchy-in-the-uk-british-royal-history-mp4-video-download-dvd-set.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Eamon de Valera Documentary DVD, Video Download, USB Flash Drive
Today, December 28, 2025
December 28, 1918: Irish Nationalism: Abstentionism: The 1918 Irish General Election: The Election Of Constance Markievicz: == While detained in HM Prison Holloway in London, England for taking part in anti-conscription activities before the end of World War I, Constance Markievicz becomes the first woman to be elected MP to the British House Of Commons. Constance Georgine Markievicz (Polish: Markiewicz; nee Gore-Booth), also known as Countess Markievicz (1868-1927), was an Irish politician, revolutionary, nationalist, suffragist and socialist, and the first woman elected to the Westminster Parliament generally and the House Of Commons specifically. Countess Markievicz was also elected Minister for Labour in the First Dail, the first parliament of the revolutionary Irish Republic, becoming the first female cabinet minister in Europe. She served as a Teachta Dala (TD, a member of the Dail Eireann (Assembly of Ireland) of the Oireachtas (the Irish Parliament)) for the Dublin South constituency from 1921 to 1922 and 1923 to 1927. She was a Member of Parliament (MP) for Dublin St Patrick's from 1918 to 1922. A founder member of Fianna Eireann (known as The Fianna, is an Irish nationalist youth organisation, Fianna being small, semi-independent warrior bands in Irish mythology), Cumann na mBan (an Irish republican women's paramilitary organisation) and the Irish Citizen Army (a small paramilitary group of trained trade union volunteers from the Irish Transport and General Workers' Union (ITGWU)), she took part in the Easter Rising in 1916, when Irish republicans attempted to end British rule and establish an Irish Republic. She was sentenced to death but this was reduced on the grounds of her sex. On December 28, 1918, she was the first woman elected to the UK House Of Commons, though she did not take her seat and, along with the other Sinn Fein TDs, formed the first Dail Eireann. She was also one of the first women in the world to hold a cabinet position as Minister for Labour from 1919 to 1922. https://store.earthstation1.com/eamon-de-valera-dvd-irish-civil-war-leader-and-president.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: The Yom Kippur War: The 1973 Arab-Israeli War MP4 Download DVD Set
Today, December 28, 2025
December 28, 2004: #RIP: Susan Sontag, American novelist, essayist, critic, filmmaker, public intellectual and beauty (b. January 16, 1933) #dies in New York City aged 71 from complications of myelodysplastic syndrome which had evolved into acute myelogenous leukemia. She is buried in Paris, France at Cimetiere du Montparnasse. Her final illness has been chronicled by her son, David Rieff. Susan Sontag was born Susan Lee Sontag in New York City, the daughter of Mildred (nee Jacobson) and Jack Rosenblatt, both Jews of Lithuanian and Polish descent. She mostly wrote essays, but also published novels; she published her first major work, the essay "Notes on 'Camp'?", in 1964. Her best-known works include the critical works Against Interpretation (1966), On Photography (1977), Illness as Metaphor (1978) and Regarding the Pain of Others, as well as the fictional works The Way We Live Now (1986), The Volcano Lover (1992), and In America (1999). Sontag was active in writing and speaking about, or traveling to, areas of conflict, including during the Vietnam War and the Siege of Sarajevo. She wrote extensively about literature, photography and media, culture, AIDS and illness, war, human rights, and left-wing politics. Her essays and speeches drew controversy, and she has been called "one of the most influential critics of her generation". At 17, Sontag married writer Philip Rieff, a sociology instructor at the University of Chicago, after a 10-day courtship; their marriage lasted eight years. Many of Sontag's obituaries failed to mention her significant same-sex relationships, most notably that with photographer Annie Leibovitz, Sontag maintained a close romantic relationship stretching from the later 1980s until her final years. Sontag lived with 'H', the writer and model Harriet Sohmers Zwerling, whom she first met at U. C. Berkeley from 1958 to 1959. Later, Sontag was the partner of Maria Irene Fornes, a Cuban-American avant garde playwright and director. Upon splitting with Fornes, she was involved with an Italian aristocrat, Carlotta Del Pezzo, and the German academic Eva Kollisch. Sontag was romantically involved with the American artists Jasper Johns and Paul Thek. During the early 1970s, she lived with Nicole Stephane, a Rothschild banking heiress turned movie actress, and, later, the choreographer Lucinda Childs. Sontag also had a relationship with the writer Joseph Brodsky, who made her truly understand the anti-communism of the writers persecuted by the Soviet regime, whom she had read and in some cases even known, without really understanding them. In an interview in The Guardian in 2000, Sontag was open about bisexuality: "Shall I tell you about getting older?', she says, and she is laughing. 'When you get older, 45 plus, men stop fancying you. Or put it another way, the men I fancy don't fancy me. I want a young man. I love beauty. So what's new?' She says she has been in love seven times in her life. 'No, hang on,' she says. 'Actually, it's nine. Five women, four men.'" https://store.earthstation1.com/the-yom-kippur-war-the-1973-arab-israeli-war-mp4-download-dvd-set.html

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Today, December 28, 2025
December 28, 2017: #DOTD: #RIP: Rose Marie, American actress, comedienne, singer and vaudeville performer with a career spanning over nine decades including film, radio, records, theater, night clubs and television (b. August 15, 1923) #dies at her home in the Van Nuys neighborhood of Los Angeles at the age of 94. Rose Marie's long-time friend and agent, Harlan Boll, who was with Marie shortly before she passed away, said her death had to do with "age problems"; he explained to reporters that Marie had laid down to rest that Thursday afternoon, and by the time her caregiver checked in on her, to see if she wanted something to eat, and discovered she had stopped breathing." She was born Rose Marie Mazzetta in Manhattan, New York into a family of Italian and Polish heritage. As a child performer during the years just after the silent film era, she had a successful singing career as Baby Rose Marie. As an adult, she became one of the first major stars to be known simply by her first names. Marie was widely known for her role on the CBS situation comedy The Dick Van Dyke Show (1961-1966), as television comedy writer Sally Rogers, "who went toe-to-toe in a man's world." Later she portrayed Myrna Gibbons on The Doris Day Show and was a 14-year panelist on The Hollywood Squares. She is the subject of a 2017 documentary film Wait for Your Laugh with interviews from co-stars including Carl Reiner, Dick Van Dyke, Peter Marshall and Tim Conway. https://store.earthstation1.com/tv-cigarette-commercials-dvds-2-dual-layer-disc-se2.html

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Today, December 28, 2025
December 28, 2016: #DOTD: #RIP: Debbie Reynolds, American actress, singer, dancer, businesswoman and beauty (b. April 1, 1932) #dies of a hemorrhagic stroke in the afternoon at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, aged 84. The family was in at the Los Angeles, California home of her son, Todd, to plan Carrie Fisher's burial arrangements. According to Todd, Reynolds had said, "I want to be with Carrie" immediately before she had the stroke. On January 5, 2017, a joint private memorial was held. Reynolds was buried in a crypt at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Hollywood Hills, California; Fisher was cremated and a portion of her ashes was placed beside Reynolds crypt. Debbie Reynolds was born Mary Frances Reynolds in El Paso, Texas. Her career spanned almost 70 years. She was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Most Promising Newcomer for her portrayal of Helen Kane in the 1950 film Three Little Words. Her breakout role was her first leading role, as Kathy Selden in Singin' in the Rain (1952). Her other successes include The Affairs of Dobie Gillis (1953), Susan Slept Here (1954), Bundle of Joy (1956 Golden Globe nomination), The Catered Affair (1956 National Board of Review Best Supporting Actress Winner), and Tammy and the Bachelor (1957), in which her performance of the song "Tammy" reached number one on the Billboard music charts. In 1959, she released her first pop music album, titled Debbie. She starred in Singin' in the Rain (1952), How the West Was Won (1962), and The Unsinkable Molly Brown (1964), a biographical film about the famously boisterous Molly Brown. Her performance as Brown earned her a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress. Her other films include The Singing Nun (1966), Divorce American Style (1967), What's the Matter with Helen? (1971), Charlotte's Web (1973), Mother (1996) (Golden Globe nomination), and In & Out (1997). Reynolds was also a cabaret performer. In 1979, she founded the Debbie Reynolds Dance Studio in North Hollywood, which was demolished in 2019 after being sold at auction, despite efforts to turn it into a museum. In 1969, she starred on television in The Debbie Reynolds Show, for which she received a Golden Globe nomination. In 1973, Reynolds starred in a Broadway revival of the musical Irene and was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Lead Actress in a Musical. She was also nominated for a Daytime Emmy Award for her performance in A Gift of Love (1999) and an Emmy Award for playing Grace's mother Bobbi on Will & Grace. At the turn of the millennium, Reynolds reached a new, younger generation with her role as Aggie Cromwell in Disney's Halloweentown series. In 1988, she released her autobiography, titled Debbie: My Life. In 2013, she released a second autobiography, Unsinkable: A Memoir. Reynolds also had several business ventures, including ownership of a dance studio and a Las Vegas hotel and casino, and she was an avid collector of film memorabilia, beginning with items purchased at the landmark 1970 MGM auction. She served as president of The Thalians, an organization dedicated to mental-health causes. Reynolds continued to perform successfully on stage, television, and film into her 80s. In January 2015, Reynolds received the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award. In 2016, she received the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award. https://store.earthstation1.com/rowan-and-martin-discount-set-2-albums-2-blooper-reel-sets-mp3-mp4-dvd.html