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28 December 2015 at a glance
- Day of the week
- 28 December 2015 was a Monday.
- UK Number One
- The UK Number One single was “A Bridge over You” by The Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Choir.
- Top Film of 2015
- The highest-grossing film worldwide released in 2015 was Star Wars: The Force Awakens.
- Star sign
- The star sign for 28 December is Capricorn.
- Chinese zodiac
- In the Chinese zodiac, 28 December 2015 fell in the Year of the Goat.
- Birthstone
- The birthstone for December is Turquoise.
- Moon phase
- The moon phase on 28 December 2015 was Waning Gibbous.
On this day: 28 December
- 1956 Chin Peng, David Marshall and Tunku Abdul Rahman meet in Baling, Malaya to try to resolve the Malayan Emergency situation.
- 1967 American businesswoman Muriel Siebert becomes the first woman to own a seat on the New York Stock Exchange.
- 1973 The United States Endangered Species Act is signed into law by President Richard Nixon.
- 2006 War in Somalia: The militaries of Somalia's Transitional Federal Government and Ethiopian troops capture Mogadishu unopposed.
- 2025 Unrest in the form of mass protests erupt across Iran, the largest uprising in the country since the Iranian Revolution.
Famous people born on 28 December
- Sienna Miller, American-British actress and fashion designer (born 1981)
- Denzel Washington, American actor, director, and producer (born 1954)
- Stan Lee, American publisher, producer, and actor (1922–2018)
- Maitreyi Ramakrishnan, Canadian actress (born 2001)
Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Events of 2015 in the United Kingdom
A selection from Wikipedia's '2015 in the United Kingdom'. Not a complete list.
- 13 February – The Prime Minister, Deputy Prime Minister and Leader of the Opposition sign a cross-party, non-partisan agreement to tackle climate change, seek a strong global climate deal, and to end the use of coal for power generation in the UK.
- 10 March – Queen Elizabeth II names the new luxury cruise ship Britannia, the largest ever cruise ship designed for the British holiday market.
- 20 March – A partial solar eclipse occurs, ranging from 85% totality in London and southern England to 98% totality in northern Scotland.
Life in 2015
Prime Minister
David Cameron
Monarch
Elizabeth II
Pint of Beer
£3.35
Loaf of Bread
£1.42
Average House
£197,807
Weekly Wage
£768.00
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