FRIDAY, DECEMBER 28, 2007

Today is Friday, December 28, the 362nd day of 2007. There are 3 days left in the year.

418 _ St. Boniface I begins his reign as Catholic pope

1828 _ 6.8 earthquake strikes Echigo Japan, 30,000 killed

1850 _ Rangoon, Burma, destroyed by fire

1945 _ U.S. Congress officially recognizes the ``Pledge of Allegiance"

1949 _ 20th Century Fox announces it will produce TV programs

1950 _ Chinese troops cross the 38th Parallel into South Korea

1968 _ 100,000 attend Miami Pop Festival

1968 _ Israeli assault on Beirut Airport

1972 _ Kim Il-sung becomes president of North Korea

1976 _ ``Fiddler on the Roof" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 167 performances

1976 _ Winnie Mandela banished in South Africa

1984 _ Rajiv Gandhi's Congress party wins election in India

1985 _ Warring Lebanese Moslem and Christian leaders sign peace agreement

1989 _ Alexander Dubcek elected parliament chairman of Czechoslovakia