📜 This Day in History

December 28

• 484Alaric II succeeded his father Euric as King of the Visigoths.
• 1767Taksin the Great was crowned king of the newly established Thonburi Kingdom at the new capital of Thonburi in present-day Thailand.
• 1916Up to 1,000 lumber workers initiated a labor strike against the Virginia and Rainy Lake Lumber Company in Minnesota, United States, which lasted over a month.
• 1967American businesswoman Muriel Siebert became the first woman to own a seat on the New York Stock Exchange.
• 2009Tibetan dissident filmmaker Dhondup Wangchen was imprisoned for subversion by Chinese authorities after a secret trial.
• 2018Netflix released Black Mirror: Bandersnatch, its first interactive content for adults.

Born on this day

• 1856Woodrow Wilson, American historian and politician, 28th President of the United States, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1924)
• 1903John von Neumann, Hungarian-American mathematician and physicist (died 1957)
• 1955Liu Xiaobo, Chinese author, academic, and activist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2017)
• 1969Linus Torvalds, Finnish-American computer programmer, developed Linux kernel