Today is Saturday, Dec. 28, the 362nd day of 2013. There are three days left in the year. Today in Nigerian History: In 2006 Governor Peter Obi of Anambra State impeachment was reversed by the courts. He was impeached a month earlier.
In 2009 Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) received official approval and registration as a political party.
On Dec. 28, 1973, the Endangered Species Act was signed into law by President Richard Nixon. Alexander Solzhenitsyn published "The Gulag Archipelago," an expose (eks-poh-SAY') of the Soviet prison system.
In 1612, Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei observed the planet Neptune, but mistook it for a star. (Neptune wasn't officially discovered until 1846 by Johann Gottfried Galle.)
In 1856, the 28th president of the United States, Thomas Woodrow Wilson, was born in Staunton (STAN'-tun), Va.
In 1961, the Tennessee Williams play "Night of the Iguana" opened on Broadway. Former first lady Edith Bolling Galt Wilson, the second wife of President Woodrow Wilson, died in Washington at age 89.
Ten years ago: Libya, for the first time, allowed U.N. nuclear officials to inspect four sites related to its nuclear weapons program.
Five years ago: A bomb-loaded SUV exploded at a military checkpoint in Afghanistan, claiming the lives of 14 school children in a heartbreaking flash captured by a U.S. security camera. The Detroit Lions completed an awful 0-16 season — the NFL's worst ever — with a 31-21 loss to the Green Bay Packers.
One year ago: Russia's President Vladimir Putin signed a law banning Americans from adopting Russian children.
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