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December 28th, 1856
“We stand in the presence of an awakened nation. Plainly it is a new age. ”
President Woodrow Wilson who led the United States during World War I is born in Virginia. Wilson tried yet failed after the war to persuade the U.S. to join the League of Nations, the [-----1-----] of the United Nations .
Also born on this day, actor Denzel Washington.

1832
John C. Calhoun becomes the first vice president of the United States to resign. Calhoun [-----2-----] President Andrew Jackson.

1973
The first parts of Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s work "Gulag Archipelago", an expose of the Soviet prison system, are published in Paris. Solzhenitsyn is later arrested and charged with [-----3-----] in the Soviet Union for his work then [-----4-----].

1944
In New York, the musical "On the Town" of music by Leonard Bernstein opens on Broadway.

And 1922
[-----5-----] Stan Lee is born in New York. Among his characters: Spider-Man, the Incredible Hulk, the X-man and the Fantastic Four.

Today in History. December 28th. Ross Simpson, the Associated Press.