December 28

Westminster Abbey, rebuilt by Edward the Confessor, was consecrated on Holy Innocents' Day, about a week before the king's death.

Francis de Sales, Bishop of Geneva and later named a Doctor of the Church, died in Lyon after suffering a stroke.

Arthur Eddington, the astrophysicist who proposed that stars shine by nuclear fusion and helped test general relativity at the 1919 solar eclipse, was born in Kendal, England.

John von Neumann, a mathematician whose work spanned game theory, quantum mathematics, and the architecture of the stored-program computer, was born in Budapest.