Today in History.....December 28

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1832, John C. Calhoun became the first vice president of the United States to resign, stepping down over differences with President Jackson

1895, the world's first commercial movie screening takes place at the Grand Cafe in Paris. The film was made by Louis and Auguste Lumiere, two French brothers who developed a camera-projector called the Cinematographe. The Lumiere brothers unveiled their invention to the public in March 1895 with a brief film showing workers leaving the Lumiere factory. On December 28, the entrepreneurial siblings screened a series of short scenes from everyday French life and charged admission for the first time

1917, the New York Evening Mail published a facetious essay by H.L. Mencken on the history of bathtubs in America
1945, Congress officially recognized the Pledge of Allegiance

1973, Alexander Solzhenitsyn published "Gulag Archipelago," an expose of the Soviet prison system

1981, Elizabeth Jordan Carr, the first American "test-tube" baby, was born in Norfolk, Va.

1996, Leftist rebels in Peru released 20 more hostages, including two ambassadors, from Japan's embassy residence, following the first face-to-face talks between guerrillas and the government's negotiator

2001, the National Guard was called out to help Buffalo, New York, dig out from a paralyzing, five-day storm that had unloaded nearly seven feet of snow

2005,

A U.S. immigration judge ordered retired auto worker John Demjanjuk, accused of being a Nazi concentration camp guard, deported to his native Ukraine. (Demjanjuk is appealing the deportation order.)

Former top Enron Corp. accountant Richard Causey pleaded guilty to securities fraud and agreed to help pursue convictions against Enron founder Kenneth Lay and former CEO Jeffrey Skilling