January 28

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 .
1788 - The first penal colony is founded at Botany Bay[?], Australia.
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.
1932 - World War II: Japan occupies Shanghai.
1935 - Iceland becomes the first country to legalize abortion.
1938 - The first ski tow[?] begins operation (Vermont).
1945 - World War II: Supplies begin to reach China over the newly reopened Burma Road[?].
1946 - Bluenose 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.
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.
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.

Births

1784 - George Hamilton Gordon Aberdeen, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
1841 - Henry Morton Stanley, explorer, journalist (+ 1904)
1853 - Jose Marti, revolutionary (+ 1895)
1855 - William Seward Burroughs, inventor of the calculator (+ 1898)
1873 - Colette, writer (+ 1954)
1879 - Francis Picabia, painter, poet (+ 1953)
1884 - Auguste Piccard, physicist (+ 1962)
1887 - Artur Rubinstein[?], musician, conductor (+ 1982)
1891 - Alexander Mackenzie, second Prime Minister of Canada
1892 - Ernst Lubitsch, film director (+ 1947)
1900 - Heinrich Kesten[?], author (+ 1996)
1912 - Jackson Pollock, painter, initiator of Dripping painting[?] (+ 1956)
1927 - Hiroshi Teshigahara[?], director
1929 - Claes Oldenbourg, artist
1929 - Acker Bilk, musician
1933 - Susan Sontag[?], novelist, philosopher, essayist, director, playwright
1936 - Alan Alda, actor
1945 - Marthe Keller[?], actress
1968 - Sarah McLachlan, singer
1977 - Joey Fatone[?], musician
1980 - Nick Carter, musician
1981 - Elijah Wood, actor

Deaths

814 - Charlemagne
1547 - King Henry VIII of England
1596 - Sir Francis Drake, explorer, soldier
1939 - William Butler Yeats, writer
1949 - Jean-Pierre Wimille[?], race car driver
1965 - Maxime Weygand, soldier
1977 - Freddie Prinze, actor
1986 - Crew of Space Shuttle Challenger: Francis R. Scobee, Michael J. Smith, Judith Resnik, Ellison Onizuka, Ronald McNair, Greg Jarvis, Christa McAuliffe
1996 - Jerry Seigel[?], cartoonist, creator of "Superman"
2002 - Astrid Lindgren, author

Holidays and observances

Catholicism - Feast day of St. Thomas Aquinas[?].

See Also: January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December

January 27 - January 29 - December 28 - February 28 - Historical anniversaries

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