[11:58] Wintry weather on its way: January to be colder with night frost

The temperature remained marginally below zero at Hoogeveen in Drenthe all Saturday, making December 28 the first Dutch “ice day”...

https://www.dutchnews.nl/2024/12/wintry-weather-on-its-way-january-to-be-colder-with-night-frost/

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December 28

This day in history:

• 418 – A papal election begins, resulting in the election of Pope Boniface I.
• 1956 – Chin Peng, David Marshall and Tunku Abdul Rahman meet in Baling, Malaya to try and resolve the Malayan Emergency situation.
• 1832 – John C. Calhoun becomes the first Vice President of the United States to resign. He resigned after being elected Senator from South Carolina.
• 2009 – Forty-three people die in a suicide bombing in Karachi, Pakistan, where Shia Muslims are observing the Day of Ashura.

Births:

• 1907 – Ze'ev Ben-Haim, Ukrainian-Israeli linguist and academic (d. 2013)
• 1922 – Stan Lee, American publisher, producer, and actor (d. 2018)
• 1958 – Terry Butcher, English footballer and manager

Deaths:

• 1622 – Francis de Sales, French bishop and saint (b. 1567)
• 2001 – Samuel Abraham Goldblith, American lieutenant, biologist, and engineer (b. 1919)
• 1989 – Hermann Oberth, Romanian-German physicist and engineer (b. 1894)

Holidays:

• King Taksin Memorial Day (Thailand)
• The fourth of the Twelve Days of Christmas (Western Christianity)
• Proclamation Day (South Australia), celebration started on the day following Christmas (South Australia)

Random Article of the day:

List of mammals of Colombia

This is a list of the mammal species recorded in Colombia. Of the mammals in Colombia, four are critically endangered, eight are endangered, twenty-seven are vulnerable, and six are near threatened. One of the species listed for Colombia is considered to be extinct.
The following tags are used to highlight each species' conservation status as assessed by the International Union for Conservation of Nature:

Song of the Day December 28 2024

In honor of the birth of Denzel Washington

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denzel_Washington

AND In honor of the birth of Gayle King

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gayle_King

CBS This Morning - Denzel Washington interview featuring a career retrospective and scenes from "Fences," (dated January 16 2017)

https://youtu.be/NxK05oQUB-k?si=bUhKtLiwPIyiWsf_

#SongOfTheDay #SOTD #SOTD2024 #December28 #DenzelWashington #Actor #GayleKing #Journalist #ViolaDavis #AugustWilson #Interview #TVPerformance #2010s

Song of the Day December 28 2024

In honor of the birth of Denzel Washington

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denzel_Washington

AND In honor of the birth of Gayle King

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gayle_King

CBS This Morning - Denzel Washington interview featuring a career retrospective and scenes from "Fences," (dated January 16 2017)

https://youtu.be/NxK05oQUB-k?si=bUhKtLiwPIyiWsf_

#SongOfTheDay #SOTD #SOTD2024 #December28 #DenzelWashington #Actor #GayleKing #Journalist #ViolaDavis #AugustWilson #Interview #TVPerformance #2010s

Happy birthday to our host Lori Rosales!

She has been with the show a long time, and we appreciate her so much!

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Song of the Day December 28 2023

In honor of the birth of Denzel Washington

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denzel_Washington

Denzel Washington accepts the AFI Lifetime Achievement Award - June 20 2019

https://youtu.be/aWrFppphs6w?si=a7sTzswVLfKejVKr

#SongOfTheDay #SOTD #SOTD2023 #December28 #DenzelWashington #Denzel #OscarWinner #AFI #AmeicanFilmInstitute #StageActor #FilmActor #TelevisionActor #TonyWinner #2010s

In 1879, three days before the New York premiere of the Gilbert and Sullivan opera Pirates of Penzance, Sullivan realised he'd left the music in England! Since they didn't have email or even faxes in "them days", Sullivan had to re-compose the entire opera from memory in time for the performance.

10 weird and wonderful things which happened on 28 December:

https://topicaltens.blogspot.com/2022/12/28-december.html

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