Six months after the congress of the Republic of Texas
accepts U.S. annexation, Texas was admitted into the
United States as the 28th state.

After gaining independence from Spain in the 1820s,
Mexico welcomed foreign settlers to sparsely populated
Texas, and a large group of Americans led by Stephen F.
Austin settled along the Brazos River.

In March 1836, in the midst of armed conflict with the
Mexican government, Texas declared its independence
from Mexico.

The 39th president of the United States.

The Carter Center  announced in a statement made today,
Jimmy Carter passed away peacefully Dec. 29 at his home
in Plains, Georgia, surrounded by family.  

Carter, the oldest living U.S. president of all time, died less
than three months after his 100th birthday and more than
a year after the Carter Center said he had opted to receive
hospice care at home with his family after "a series of short
hospital stays."

His specific cause of death was unclear. Carter’s death
followed the passing of his wife Rosalynn on Nov. 19,
2023. She died at the age of 96.
(FOX NEWS)

On December 29, 1778, British Lieutenant Colonel Archibald
Campbell and his force of between 2,500 and 3,600 troops,
which included the 71st Highland regiment, New York
Loyalists, and Hessian mercenaries, launched a surprise
attack on American forces defending Savannah, Georgia.

On December 28, 1895, the world’s first commercial movie
screening took place at the Grand Cafe in Paris. The film
was made by Louis and Auguste Lumière, two French
brothers who developed a camera-projector called the
Cinematographe.

On December 28, the entrepreneurial siblings screened a 
series of short scenes from everyday French life and they
charged admission for the first time.

       
        
        
        
       
Brothers Auguste and Louis Lumière, the fathers of
cinema.        

The brothers developed a combination movie camera
and projecting, capable of projecting images on a
screen to be seen by audiences.

N8082U, the United Airlines DC-8-61 involved, pictured in
1972 sporting a previous identifying design. Photo taken
at Seattle / Tacoma – Int. (SEA). 

       
        
       
Originating at John F. Kennedy Airport in New York, United
Airlines Flight 173 stopped in Denver, and continued to
Portland on Thursday, December 28, 1978.

The pilot reported a problem with the plane’s nose landing
gear to the Portland tower, and, according to the National
Transportation Safety Board report, failed to monitor properly
the aircraft’s fuel state and to properly respond to the low
fuel state. The Board blamed pilot error for the crash

After circling Portland International Airport the DC-8 ran out
of fuel and crashed into two vacant houses and a grove of
trees at East Burnside Street, five miles southeast of the
airport and about 200 feet east of 157th Avenue  at around
6:15 P.M.

The jetliner, reportedly was carrying 172 adult passengers,
five infants and eight crew members.

     
    
    
Capt. Malburn "Buddy" McBroom (52), a World War II Navy
veteran and longtime United pilot, recovers in a Gresham,
Oregon hospital.  (KATU)        

United Flight 173 survivor Lynn Egli, right, stands with
KATU’s Steve Dunn at the memorial for the passengers
aboard United Flight 173 that killed 10 people. (KATU)