January 28

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January 28 is the 28th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 337 days remaining (338 in leap years).

Table of contents

1 Events

2 Births

3 Deaths

4 Holidays and observances

Events

1521 - Diet of Worms begins, lasting until May 25.
1547 - Edward VI becomes King of England.
1573 - articles of Warsaw Confederation are signed, sanctioning religious freedom in Poland
1788 - The first penal colony is founded at Botany Bay, Australia.
1846 - Battle of Aliwal, India won by British troops commanded by Sir Harry Smith.
1855 - The first locomotive runs from the Atlantic to the Pacific on the Panama Railway.
1871 - France surrenders to end the Franco-Prussian War.
1878 - The Yale News becomes the first daily, college newspaper in the United States.
1902 - The Carnegie Institution is founded in Washington, DC with a $10 million gift from Andrew Carnegie.
1909 - United States troops leave Cuba after being there since the Spanish-American War.
1915 - An act of the United States Congress creates the United States Coast Guard.
1916 - Louis D. Brandeis becomes the first Jew appointed to the United States Supreme Court.
1917 - United States ends search for Pancho Villa.
1918 - Civil War in Finland begins.
1932 - World War II: Japan occupies Shanghai.
1935 - Iceland becomes the first country to legalize abortion.
1938 - The first ski tow in America begins operation in Vermont.
1945 - World War II: Supplies begin to reach China over the newly reopened Burma Road.
1946 - Bluenose, Canada's greatest sailing ship, founders on a Haitian reef.
1958 - Charles Starkweather and Caril Ann Fugate begin their murder spree with the killings of her parents and infant sister.
1973 - Barnaby Jones premieres on CBS.
1982 - James L. Dozier is rescued by Italian anti-terrorism forces after 42 days of captivity under the Red Brigades.
1986 - Space Shuttle Challenger explodes just after takeoff killing all seven astronauts onboard.
1990 - Super Bowl XXIV: The San Francisco 49ers are crowned "Team of the 1980s" by defeating the Denver Broncos, 55-10.
1994 - The first trial of accused murderer Lyle Menendez ends in a mistrial. He and his brother Erik are later found guilty and sentenced to life in prison without parole.
1996 - Super Bowl XXX: The Dallas Cowboys win their fifth Super Bowl title by defeating the Pittsburgh Steelers, 27-17.
1997 - Clive Davis receives a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
1998 - Ford Motor Company announces the buyout of Volvo for $6.45 billion.
1998 - Gunmen hold at least 400 children and teachers hostage for several hours at an elementary school in Manila, Philippines.
2001 - Super Bowl XXXV: The Baltimore Ravens defeat the New York Giants, 34-7.
2002 - An Ecuadoran airline Boeing 727-100 crashes in the Andes mountains in southern Colombia killing 92.
2004 - September Dossier: Lord Hutton publishes his report into the death of UN weapons inspector Dr. David Kelly.

Births

1600 - Pope Clement IX (d. 1669)
1706 - John Baskerville, printer, typefounder (d. 1775)
1784 - George Hamilton Gordon Aberdeen, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1860)
1822 - Alexander Mackenzie, second Prime Minister of Canada (d. 1892)
1833 - Charles George 'Chinese' Gordon, British soldier and administrator (d. 1885)
1841 - Henry Morton Stanley, explorer, journalist (d. 1904)
1853 - Jos� Mart�, revolutionary (d. 1895)
1855 - William Seward Burroughs, inventor of the calculator (d. 1898)
1873 - Colette, writer (d. 1954)
1879 - Francis Picabia, painter, poet (d. 1953)
1884 - Auguste Piccard, physicist (d. 1962)
1887 - Artur Rubinstein, musician, conductor (d. 1982)
1892 - Ernst Lubitsch, film director (d. 1947)
1900 - Heinrich Kesten, author (d. 1996)
1912 - Jackson Pollock, painter, initiator of Dripping painting (d. 1956)
1923 - Ivo Robić, singer - Croatia, Mister Morgen (d. 2001)
1927 - Hiroshi Teshigahara, director (d. 2001)
1929 - Claes Oldenbourg, artist
1929 - Acker Bilk, musician
1933 - Susan Sontag, novelist, philosopher, essayist, director, playwright
1935 - David Lodge, author
1936 - Alan Alda, American actor, writer and director
1945 - Marthe Keller, actress
1948 - Mikhail Baryshnikov, dancer
1960 - Robert von Dassanowsky, cultural historian, writer, producer
1968 - Sarah McLachlan, singer/songwriter
1974 - Tony Delk, basketball player
1977 - Joey Fatone, performer
1978 - Gianluigi Buffon, Italian football star
1979 - Marcel Chang, Firmware Enginner
1980 - Nick Carter, performer
1981 - Elijah Wood, actor

Deaths

814 - Charlemagne (b. 742)
1547 - King Henry VIII of England (b. 1491)
1596 - Sir Francis Drake, explorer, soldier (b. ca. 1540)
1599 - Cristofano Malvezzi, Italian composer.
1621 - Pope Paul V (b. 1550)
1754 - Ludvig Holberg, historian and writer (b. 1684)
1903 - Augusta Holm�s, French composer
1912 - Gustave de Molinari, Belgian economist
1939 - William Butler Yeats, writer (b. 1865)
1949 - Jean-Pierre Wimille, race car driver (b. 1908)
1953 - James Scullin, ninth Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1876)
1960 - Zora Neale Hurston, author (b. 1891)
1965 - Maxime Weygand, soldier (b. 1867)
1971 - Donald Winnicott, British psychoanalyst (b. 1896)
1977 - Freddie Prinze, actor (b. 1954)
1983 - Frank Forde, fifteenth Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1890)
1986 - Crew of Space Shuttle Challenger: Francis R. Scobee (b. 1939), Michael J. Smith (b. 1945), Judith Resnik (b. 1949), Ellison Onizuka (b. 1946), Ronald McNair (b. 1950), Greg Jarvis (b. 1944), Christa McAuliffe (b. 1948)
1996 - Jerry Siegel, cartoonist, creator of "Superman" (b. 1914)
1996 - Joseph Brodsky, poet (b. 1940?)
2002 - Astrid Lindgren, author (b. 1907)
2004 - Don Cholito, radio host, hosted the longest running uninterrupted radio show according to the 2003 Guinness Book of World Records (b. 1923)

Holidays and observances

Catholicism - Feast day of St. Thomas Aquinas

January 27 - January 29 - December 28 - February 28 -- listing of all days

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