What happened on 28 December?

6 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 Paris audience watches cinema for the first time.
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, having already led 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.