1. 28 декабря 169 BC - Roman Emperor Augustus celebrated his triple triumph over Dalmatia, Pannonia, and Aquitania. The triumph marked the end of a series of military victories that expanded the Roman Empire's territories.

2. 28 декабря 1832 - Charles Darwin, the British naturalist and author of "On the Origin of Species," set sail on the HMS Beagle for a five-year voyage that would lead to his groundbreaking theory of evolution.

3. 28 декабря 1846 - Iowa was admitted as the 29th state of the United States, making it the first state to be admitted west of the Mississippi River.

4. 28 декабря 1895 - The Lumière brothers, Auguste and Louis, held the first public screening of their short films in Paris, marking the birth of cinema as we know it today.

5. 28 декабря 1972 - Kim Il-sung, the founder and first leader of North Korea, was named President for Life by the country's Supreme People's Assembly, solidifying his control over the nation.