| 146071 | December 28 | Event | 1978 – With the crew investigating a problem with the landing gear, United Airlines Flight 173 runs out of fuel and crashes in Portland, Oregon, killing ten. As a result, United Airlines instituted the industry's first crew resource management program. |
| 146072 | December 28 | Event | 1989 – A magnitude 5.6 earthquake hits Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia, killing 13 people. |
| 146073 | December 28 | Event | 2000 – U.S. retail giant Montgomery Ward announces it is going out of business after 128 years. |
| 146074 | December 28 | Event | 2006 – War in Somalia: The militaries of Somalia's Transitional Federal Government and Ethiopian troops capture Mogadishu unopposed. |
| 146075 | December 28 | Event | 2009 – Forty-three people die in a suicide bombing in Karachi, Pakistan, where Shia Muslims are observing the Day of Ashura. |
| 146076 | December 28 | Event | 2010 – Arab Spring: Popular protests begin in Algeria against the government. |
| 146077 | December 28 | Event | 2011 – Roboski airstrike: Turkish warplanes bomb 34 Kurds of Turkish nationality in the district of Uludere. |
| 146078 | December 28 | Event | 2014 – Indonesia AirAsia Flight 8501 crashes into the Karimata Strait en route from Surabaya to Singapore, killing all 162 people aboard. |
| 146079 | December 28 | Birth | 1164 – Emperor Rokujō of Japan (d. 1176) |
| 146080 | December 28 | Birth | 1522 – Margaret of Parma (d. 1583) |
| 146081 | December 28 | Birth | 1619 – Antoine Furetière, French author and scholar (d. 1688) |
| 146082 | December 28 | Birth | 1635 – Elizabeth Stuart, English daughter of Charles I of England (d. 1650) |
| 146083 | December 28 | Birth | 1651 – Johann Krieger, German organist and composer (d. 1735) |
| 146084 | December 28 | Birth | 1655 – Charles Cornwallis, 3rd Baron Cornwallis, English politician, Lord Lieutenant of Suffolk (d. 1698) |
| 146085 | December 28 | Birth | 1665 – George FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Northumberland, English general and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Berkshire (d. 1716) |
| 146086 | December 28 | Birth | 1722 – Eliza Lucas, Caribbean-American agriculturalist (d. 1793) |
| 146087 | December 28 | Birth | 1763 – John Molson, English-Canadian brewer, founded the Molson Brewery (d. 1836) |
| 146088 | December 28 | Birth | 1775 – Jean-Gabriel Eynard, Swiss banker and photographer (d. 1863) |
| 146089 | December 28 | Birth | 1798 – Thomas Henderson, Scottish astronomer and mathematician (d. 1844) |
| 146090 | December 28 | Birth | 1818 – Carl Remigius Fresenius, German chemist and academic (d. 1897) |
| 146091 | December 28 | Birth | 1842 – Calixa Lavallée, Canadian-American lieutenant and composer (d. 1891) |
| 146092 | December 28 | Birth | 1856 – Woodrow Wilson, American historian and politician, 28th President of the United States, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1924) |
| 146093 | December 28 | Birth | 1859 – Venustiano Carranza, Mexican politician, 37th President of Mexico (d. 1920) |
| 146094 | December 28 | Birth | 1866 – Szymon Askenazy, Polish historian, educator, and diplomat, founded the Askenazy school (d. 1935) |
| 146095 | December 28 | Birth | 1870 – Charles Bennett, English runner (d. 1949) |
| 146096 | December 28 | Birth | 1878 – Harry Brown, Australian public servant (d. 1967) |
| 146097 | December 28 | Birth | 1882 – Arthur Eddington, English astronomer, physicist, and mathematician (d. 1944) |
| 146098 | December 28 | Birth | 1882 – Lili Elbe, Danish artist and model (d. 1931) |
| 146099 | December 28 | Birth | 1887 – Werner Kolhörster, German physicist and academic (d. 1946) |
| 146100 | December 28 | Birth | 1888 – F. W. Murnau, German-American director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1931) |