What happened on 28 December?

8 events from the Ever-When timeline, ranked by how much they mattered.

1. 1885 Indian National Congress founded First all-India political organisation; later vehicle of the independence movement.
2. 1895 Lumière brothers' first public film screening First paying Paris audience watches the Lumières' Cinématographe; traditionally regarded as the birth of cinema.
3. 1958 Che derails the train at Santa Clara Guevara's 300-strong column takes the last city on the road to Havana, bulldozing the rails to derail an armoured train packed with troops and munitions — whose demoralised defende
4. 1925 Sarojini Naidu elected president of the Indian National Congress The poet becomes the first Indian woman to lead the Congress; in 1930 she would lead the Dharasana salt raid in Gandhi's place.
5. 1942 Roosevelt authorises the atomic bomb Weeks after Fermi's pile goes critical, Roosevelt signs off on full-scale production — industrial plants on a scale no one has attempted, for a weapon no one has seen, on a budget
6. 1973 Endangered Species Act 1973 US law protecting endangered and threatened species.
7. 1732 Franklin's Poor Richard's Almanack Franklin's annual almanac, written as the hen-pecked astrologer 'Richard Saunders', sells up to 10,000 copies a year and fills colonial America with proverbs.
8. 1923 Shaw's Saint Joan Written just after Joan of Arc's canonisation, Shaw's chronicle play presents her as a Protestant and nationalist before her time, crushed by reasonable men of Church and state.