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My name is Jack, and today I have another episode of this day in World History for December 28.
On December 28, 1832, John C.
Calhoun became the first vice president president of the United States to resign, stepping down over differences with President Andrew Jackson.
On December 28, 1846, Iowa became the 29th state to be admitted to the United States.
On December 28, 1895, the Lumiere brothers, Augusta and Louis Lumiere, held the first public screening of films in Paris marking the birth of cinema.
On December 28, 1912, the first municipally owned streetcars began operating in San Francisco.
On December 28, 1945, the US Congress officially recognized the Pledge of Allegiance.
On December 28, 1973, the Endangered Species act was signed into law by President Richard Nixon.
On December 28, 1981, Elizabeth Jordan Carr, the first american test tube baby, was born in Norfolk, Virginia.
And on December 28, 2000, us retail giant Montgomery Ward announced it was going out of business after 128 years.
And these are just a few events that have occurred throughout history.
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