What happened on January 28? There are more than 300 events that were made this day in history. Here are the important historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
Interesting Facts & Myths About January 28
January 28 is the 28th day of the year 2024. There are 338 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday. This day falls under the 4th week of the year 2024.
On this day in Davenport, Washington 99122 sunrise occured at 07:22 AM and sunset occured at 04:48 PM (local time).
The zodiac sign of a person born on this day is Aquarius. The modern birthstone for this month is Garnet while the mystical birthstone is Emerald.
According to the Chinese calendar, there are 13 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year (February 10, 2024).
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Historical Events For January 28
- 1077Walk to Canossa: The excommunication of Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor is lifted.
- 1521The Diet of Worms begins, lasting until May 25.
- 1547Henry VIII dies. His nine year old son, Edward VI becomes King, and the first Protestant ruler of England.
- 1573Articles of the Warsaw Confederation are signed, sanctioning freedom of religion in Poland.
- 1624Sir Thomas Warner founds the first British colony in the Caribbean, on the island of Saint Kitts.
- 1724The Russian Academy of Sciences is founded in St. Petersburg by Peter the Great, and implemented by Senate decree. It is called the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences until 1917.
- 1754Horace Walpole coins the word serendipity in a letter to Horace Mann.
- 1760Pownal, Vermont is created by Benning Wentworth as one of the New Hampshire Grants.
- 1813Pride and Prejudice is first published in the United Kingdom.
- 1820A Russian expedition led by Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen and Mikhail Petrovich Lazarev discovers the Antarctic continent approaching the Antarctic coast.
- 1821Alexander Island is first discovered by Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen.
- 1846The Battle of Aliwal, India, is won by British troops commanded by Sir Harry Smith.
- 1851Northwestern University becomes the first chartered university in Illinois.
- 1855The first locomotive runs from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean on the Panama Railway.
- 1871Franco-Prussian War: the Siege of Paris ends in French defeat and an armistice.
- 1878Yale Daily News becomes the first daily college newspaper in the United States.
- 1887In a snowstorm at Fort Keogh, Montana, the world’s largest snowflakes are reported, 15 in wide and 8 in thick.
- 1896Walter Arnold of East Peckham, Kent became the first person to be convicted of speeding. He is fined 1 shilling, plus costs, for speeding at 8 mph, thus exceeding the contemporary speed limit of 2 mph.
- 1902The Carnegie Institution of Washington is founded in Washington, D.C. with a $10 million gift from Andrew Carnegie.
- 1908Members of the Portuguese Republican Party fail in their attempted coup d'état against the administrative dictatorship of Prime Minister João Franco.
- 1909United States troops leave Cuba with the exception of Guantanamo Bay Naval Base after being there since the Spanish-American War.
- 1915An act of the U.S. Congress creates the United States Coast Guard.
- 1917Municipally owned streetcars take to the streets of San Francisco, California.
- 1918Finnish Civil War: Rebels seized control of the capital, Helsinki, and members of the Senate of Finland go underground.
- 1922Knickerbocker Storm, Washington D.C.'s biggest snowfall, causes the city’s greatest loss of life when the roof of the Knickerbocker Theatre collapses.
- 1922New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Water Dog in Chinese astrology.
- 1932Japanese forces attack Shanghai.
- 1933The name Pakistan is coined by Choudhary Rehmat Ali Khan and is accepted by the Indian Muslims who then thereby adopted it further for the Pakistan Movement seeking independence.
- 1934The first ski tow in the United States begins operation in Vermont.
- 1935Iceland becomes the first Western country to legalize therapeutic abortion.
- 1938The World Land Speed Record on a public road is broken by driver Rudolf Caracciola in the Mercedes-Benz W195 at a speed of 432.7 km/h.
- 1941French-Thai War: Final air battle of the conflict. Japanese-mediated armistice goes into effect later in the day.
- 1945World War II: Supplies begin to reach the Republic of China over the newly reopened Burma Road.
- 1956Elvis Presley made his first US TV appearance
- 1958The Lego company patents the design of its Lego bricks, still compatible with bricks produced today.
- 1958The last episode of the British radio comedy programme Goon Show was broadcast.
- 1964An unarmed USAF T-39 Sabreliner on a training mission is shot down over Erfurt, East Germany, by a Soviet MiG-19.
- 1965The current design of the Flag of Canada is chosen by an act of Parliament.
- 1977The first day of the Great Lakes Blizzard of 1977, which severely affects and cripples much of Upstate New York, but Buffalo, NY, Syracuse, NY, Watertown, NY, and surrounding areas are most affected, each area accumulating close to 10 ft of snow on this one day.
- 1980USCGC Blackthorn collides with the tanker Capricorn while leaving Tampa Florida and capsizes killing 23 Coast Guard crewmembers.
- 1981Ronald Reagan lifts remaining domestic petroleum price and allocation controls in the United States helping to end the 1979 energy crisis and begin the 1980s oil glut.
- 1982US Army general James L. Dozier is rescued by Italian anti-terrorism forces from captivity by the Red Brigades.
- 1984Tropical Storm Domoina makes landfall in southern Mozambique, eventually causing 214 deaths and some of the most severe flooding so far recorded in the region.
- 1985Supergroup USA for Africa (United Support of Artists for Africa) records the hit single We Are the World, to help raise funds for Ethiopian famine relief.
- 1986Space Shuttle program: STS-51-L mission – Space Shuttle Challenger breaks apart after liftoff killing all seven astronauts on board.
- 1988The last episode of the British TV series Yes, Prime Minister, entitled The Tangled Web, was broadcast.
- 2002TAME Flight 120, a Boeing 727-100 crashes in the Andes mountains in southern Colombia killing 92.
- 2006The roof of one of the buildings at the Katowice International Fair in Chorzów / Katowice, Poland, collapses due to the weight of snow, killing 65 and injuring more than 170 others.
- 2010Five murderers of President Sheikh Mujibur Rahman of Bangladesh: Lieutenant Colonel Syed Faruq Rahman, Lieutenant Colonel Sultan Shahriar Rashid Khan, Major AKM Mohiuddin Ahmed, Major Bazlul Huda and Lieutenant Colonel Mohiuddin Ahmed are hanged.
- 2011Hundreds of thousands of protesters filled up the Egyptian’s streets in demonstrations referred to as “Friday of Anger” against the Mubarak regime.
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Who Were Born On January 28?
- 1225Saint Thomas Aquinas (d. 1274)
- 1312Queen Joan II of Navarre (d. 1349)
- 1457King Henry VII of England (d. 1509)
- 1540Ludolph van Ceulen, German mathematician (d. 1610)
- 1582John Barclay, Scottish writer (d. 1621)
- 1600Pope Clement IX (d. 1669)
- 1608Giovanni Alfonso Borelli, Italian physiologist and physicist (d. 1679)
- 1611Johannes Hevelius, Polish-born astronomer (d. 1687)
- 1622Adrien Auzout, French astronomer (d. 1691)
- 1701Charles Marie de La Condamine, French mathematician and geographer (d. 1774)
- 1706John Baskerville, English printer (d. 1775)
- 1712Tokugawa Ieshige, Japanese shogun (d. 1761)
- 1717Mustafa III, Ottoman sultan (d. 1774)
- 1719Johann Elias Schlegel, German critic and poet (d. 1749)
- 1755Samuel Thomas von Sömmering, German physician (d. 1830)
- 1784George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen, Prime Minister of the UK (d. 1860)
- 1818George S. Boutwell, American politician, 20th Governor of Massachusetts and later the 28th United States Secretary of the Treasury (d. 1905)
- 1822Alexander Mackenzie, 2nd Prime Minister of Canada (d. 1892)
- 1833Charles George ‘Chinese’Gordon, British soldier and administrator (d. 1885)
- 1841Henry Morton Stanley, Welsh-born explorer and journalist (d. 1904)
- 1853José Martí, Cuban revolutionary (d. 1895)
- 1857William Seward Burroughs I, American inventor (d. 1898)
- 1858Tannatt William Edgeworth David, KBE, DSO, FRS, Welsh-born Australian geologist and Antarctic explorer (d. 1934)
- 1861Julián Felipe, Filipino musician (d. 1944)
- 1863Ernest William Christmas, Australian painter (d. 1918)
- 1864Charles W. Nash, American automobile entrepreneur (d. 1948)
- 1864Herbert Akroyd Stuart, English inventor (d. 1927)
- 1865Kaarlo Juho Ståhlberg, first president of Finland (d. 1952)
- 1865Lala Lajpat Rai, Indian freedom fighter (d. 1928)
- 1873Colette, French writer (d. 1954)
- 1874Vsevolod Meyerhold, Russian theatre director (d. 1940)
- 1880Herbert Strudwick, English cricketer (d. 1970)
- 1884Auguste Piccard, Swiss physicist (d. 1962)
- 1886Hidetsugu Yagi, Japanese electrical engineer (d. 1976)
- 1886Marthe Bibesco, Romanian writer (d. 1973)
- 1887Arthur Rubinstein, Polish pianist (d. 1982)
- 1890Robert Stroud, American convict, the Birdman of Alcatraz (d. 1963)
- 1891Bill Doak, American baseball player (d. 1954)
- 1892Ernst Lubitsch, German-born film director (d. 1947)
- 1897Valentin Kataev, Russian writer (d. 1986)
- 1899Elias Simojoki, Finnish clergyman and politician (d. 1940)
- 1900Alice Neel, American artist (d. 1984)
- 1903Aleksander Kamiński, Polish writer (d. 1978)
- 1904Canuplin, Filipino magician and bodabil entertainer (d. 1979)
- 1908Paul Misraki, French composer and songwriter (d. 1998)
- 1909John Thomson, Scottish footballer (d. 1931)
- 1910Arnold Moss, American actor (d. 1989)
- 1910John Banner, Austrian actor (d. 1973)
- 1911Johan van Hulst, Dutch politician
- 1912Jackson Pollock, American painter (d. 1956)
- 1915Nien Cheng, Chinese-born American writer (d. 2009)
- 1918Harry Corbett, English puppeteer (Sooty) (d. 1989)
- 1918Trevor Skeet, New Zealand-born British politician (d. 2004)
- 1919Francis Gabreski, American fighter pilot (d. 2002)
- 1922Robert W. Holley, American biochemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1993)
- 1924Marcel Broodthaers, Belgian painter (d. 1976)
- 1925Scotty Bloch, American stage and television actress
- 1927Hiroshi Teshigahara, Japanese director (d. 2001)
- 1927Per Oscarsson, Swedish actor (d. 2010)
- 1927Ronnie Scott, British tenor saxophonist and club owner (d. 1996)
- 1929Acker Bilk, English jazz clarinetist
- 1929Claes Oldenburg, Swedish-born artist
- 1930Kurt Biedenkopf, German politician
- 1933Jack Hill, American film director
- 1934Juan Manuel Bordeu, Argentine racing driver (d. 1990)
- 1934Mitr Chaibancha, Thai actor (d. 1970)
- 1935David Lodge, English author
- 1936Alan Alda, American actor, writer, and director
- 1936Ismail Kadare, Albanian writer
- 1938Leonid Zhabotynsky, Ukrainian weightlifter
- 1939John M. Fabian, NASA astronaut
- 1940Carlos Slim, Mexican businessman
- 1941Joel Crothers, American actor (d. 1985)
- 1941Osbourne ‘King Tubby’Ruddock, Jamaican musician and sound engineer (d. 1989)
- 1943Dick Taylor, English musician (The Rolling Stones and The Pretty Things)
- 1943John Beck, American actor
- 1943Paul Henderson, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1944John Tavener, English composer
- 1944Susan Howard, American actress
- 1945John Perkins, American author and activist
- 1945Karen Lynn Gorney, American actress
- 1945Marthe Keller, Swiss actress
- 1945Robert Wyatt, English musician
- 1947Jeanne Shaheen, American politician, senior senator of New Hampshire
- 1948Charles Taylor, former (22nd) President of Liberia
- 1949Gregg Popovich, American basketball coach
- 1949Tom Downey, former American Congressman
- 1950Barbi Benton, American actress
- 1950Bob Hay, American songwriter and musician
- 1950David C. Hilmers, NASA astronaut
- 1950Hamad ibn Isa Al Khalifah, King of Bahrain
- 1951Brian Bilbray, American politician
- 1951Leonid Kadeniuk, Ukrainian cosmonaut
- 1953Chris Carter, English musician (Throbbing Gristle, Chris & Cosey)
- 1953Colin Campbell, Canadian ice hockey player and executive
- 1954Rick Warren, American pastor and author
- 1955Nicolas Sarkozy, President of France
- 1957Frank Skinner, British comedian
- 1957Mark Napier, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1957Nick Price, Zimbabwean golfer
- 1959Burkhard Dallwitz, German-born composer
- 1959Dave Sharp, Welsh guitarist (The Alarm)
- 1959Frank Darabont, American filmmaker
- 1959Megan McDonald, American children’s literature author
- 1959Randi Rhodes, radio personality
- 1960Robert von Dassanowsky, American historian, writer, and producer
- 1961Arnaldur Indridason, Icelandic writer
- 1961Normand Rochefort, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1962Creflo Dollar, American televangelist
- 1962Keith Hamilton Cobb, American actor
- 1962Sam Phillips, American singer
- 1963Dan Spitz, American musician, guitarist (Anthrax)
- 1965Lynda Boyd, American actress
- 1967Jan Lamb, Chinese disc jockey & comedian
- 1968DJ Muggs, American musician (Cypress Hill)
- 1968Rakim (William Michael Griffin Jr.), American rapper
- 1968Sarah McLachlan, Canadian singer and songwriter
- 1969Kathryn Morris, American actress
- 1969Linda Sanchez, American politician
- 1969Mo Rocca, American writer and comedian
- 1971Anthony Hamilton, American soul singer
- 1972Nicky Southall, English footballer
- 1974Jermaine Dye, American baseball player
- 1974Magglio Ordóñez, Venezuelan baseball player
- 1974Tony Delk, American basketball player
- 1975Anne Montminy, Canadian diver
- 1975Junior Spivey, American baseball player
- 1975Lee Latchford-Evans, English singer
- 1975Tanya Chua, Singaporean singer
- 1975Terri Colombino, American actress
- 1976Emiko Kado, Japanese wrestler (d. 1999)
- 1976Jarrod Montague, American drummer (Taproot)
- 1976Lee Ingleby, British actor
- 1976Mark Madsen, American basketball player
- 1976Miltiadis Sapanis, Greek footballer
- 1976Rick Ross, rapper
- 1977Daunte Culpepper, American football player
- 1977Joey Fatone, American singer (*NSYNC)
- 1977Lyle Overbay, American baseball player
- 1977Matt DeVries, American guitarist (Chimaira)
- 1977Takuma Sato, Japanese racing driver
- 1978Gianluigi Buffon, Italian footballer
- 1978Jamie Carragher, English footballer
- 1978Papa Bouba Diop, Senegalese footballer
- 1978Stephen Farrelly, Irish professional wrestler
- 1979Ali Boulala, Swedish skateboarder
- 1980Jesse James Hollywood, American drug dealer and fugitive
- 1980Nick Carter, American singer (Backstreet Boys)
- 1980Yasuhito Endo, Japanese footballer
- 1981Elijah Wood, American actor
- 1984Andre Iguodala, American basketball player
- 1984Stephen Gostkowski, American football player
- 1985Arnold Mvuemba, French footballer
- 1985Daniel Carcillo, Canadian hockey player
- 1985J. Cole, American rapper
- 1985Libby Trickett, Australian swimmer
- 1986Jessica Ennis, British athlete
- 1986Shruti Haasan, Indian actress
- 1987Chelsea Brummet, American actress
- 1988Paul Henry, English footballer
- 1989Josh Coulson, English footballer
- 1989Siem de Jong, Dutch footballer
- 1990Alexandra Krosney, American actress
- 1990Kalifa Fai-Fai Loa, New Zealand rugby league footballer
- 1991Calum Worthy, Canadian actor and musician
- 1992Andrei Savchenko, Russian professional footballer
- 1993Will Poulter, English actor
- 1998Ariel Winter, American actress (Modern Family)
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Who Died On January 28?
- 814Charlemagne (b. 742)
- 1061Duke Spytihněv II of Bohemia (b. 1031)
- 1271Isabella of Aragon, queen of Philip III of France (b. 1247)
- 1443Robert le Maçon, Chancellor of France
- 1547King Henry VIII of England (b. 1491)
- 1613Thomas Bodley, English diplomat and library founder (b. 1545)
- 1621Pope Paul V (b. 1550)
- 1672Pierre Séguier, Chancellor of France (b. 1588)
- 1681Richard Allestree, English royalist churchman (b. 1619)
- 1687Johannes Hevelius, Polish astronomer (b. 1611)
- 1697John Fenwick, English conspirator
- 1754Ludvig Holberg, Norwegian historian and writer (b. 1684)
- 1832Augustin Daniel Belliard, French general (b. 1769)
- 1859Frederick John Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1782)
- 1864Émile Clapeyron, French engineer and physicist (b. 1799)
- 1903Augusta Holmès, French composer (b. 1847)
- 1912Gustave de Molinari, Belgian economist (b. 1819)
- 1915Nikolay Umov, Russian physicist (b. 1846)
- 1918John McCrae, Canadian poet (b. 1872)
- 1930Ema Destinnová, Czech opera singer (b. 1878)
- 1935Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov, Russian composer (b. 1859)
- 1937Anastasios Metaxas, Greek architect and shooter (b. 1862)
- 1938Bernd Rosemeyer, German racecar driver (b. 1909)
- 1939William Butler Yeats, Irish writer, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1865)
- 1947Reynaldo Hahn, French composer (b. 1875)
- 1948Arthur Liebehenschel, Commandant at Auschwitz concentration camp (b. 1901)
- 1948Hans Aumeier, German Nazi official and concentration camp commandant (b. 1906)
- 1948Therese Brandl, Nazi concentration camp guard (b. 1902)
- 1949Jean-Pierre Wimille, French race car driver (b. 1908)
- 1950Nikolai Luzin, Russian mathematician (b. 1883)
- 1951Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim, president of Finland (b. 1867)
- 1953Derek Bentley, British criminal (b. 1933)
- 1953James Scullin, 9th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1876)
- 1959Walter Beall, American baseball player (b. 1899)
- 1960Zora Neale Hurston, American author (b. 1891)
- 1963Gustave Garrigou, French cyclist (b. 1884)
- 1965Maxime Weygand, French soldier (b. 1867)
- 1965Tich Freeman, English cricketer (b. 1888)
- 1971Donald Winnicott, British psychoanalyst (b. 1896)
- 1973John Banner, Austrian actor (b. 1910)
- 1975Ola Raknes, Norwegian psychoanalyst and philologist (b. 1887)
- 1976Marcel Broodthaers, Belgian painter (b. 1924)
- 1979Eileen Shanahan, Irish poet (b. 1901)
- 1983Billy Fury, British singer (b. 1940)
- 1983Frank Forde, 15th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1890)
- 1986Christa McAuliffe – American teacher, member of the crew of Space Shuttle Challenger (b. 1948)
- 1986Ellison Onizuka – crew of Space Shuttle Challenger (b. 1946)
- 1986Francis Richard “Dick” Scobee – commander of Space Shuttle Challenger (b. 1939)
- 1986Gregory Jarvis – crew of Space Shuttle Challenger (b. 1944)
- 1986Judith Resnik – crew of Space Shuttle Challenger (b. 1949)
- 1986Michael J. Smith – crew of Space Shuttle Challenger (b. 1945)
- 1986Ronald McNair – crew of Space Shuttle Challenger (b. 1950)
- 1988Klaus Fuchs, German physicist (b. 1911)
- 1989Choekyi Gyaltsen, 10th Panchen Lama, Tibetan religious figure (b. 1938)
- 1990Puma Jones, American singer (Black Uhuru) (b. 1953)
- 1994Hal Smith, American actor (b. 1916)
- 1996Burne Hogarth, American cartoonist (b. 1911)
- 1996Jerry Siegel, American cartoonist (b. 1914)
- 1996Joseph Brodsky, Russian-born poet, Nobel Laureate (b. 1940)
- 1999Markey Robinson, Irish painter (b. 1918)
- 1999Torgny Torgnysson Segerstedt, Swedish sociologist and philosopher (b. 1908)
- 2001Curt Blefary, American baseball player (b. 1943)
- 2002Astrid Lindgren, Swedish author (b. 1907)
- 2002Gustaaf Deloor, Belgian cyclist (b. 1913)
- 2004Don Cholito, Puerto Rican radio host (b. 1923)
- 2004Don Stansauk, American professional wrestler (b. 1936)
- 2004Elroy Hirsch, American football player (b. 1923)
- 2004Joe Viterelli, American actor (b. 1937)
- 2004Lloyd M. Bucher, U.S. Navy officer (b. 1927)
- 2004Mel Pritchard, British Musician (b. 1948)
- 2005Jacques Villeret, French actor (b. 1951)
- 2005Jim Capaldi, English singer and songwriter (b. 1944)
- 2005Karen Lancaume, French actress (b. 1973)
- 2005Ronnie Paris, child abuse victim (b. 2001)
- 2006Henry McGee, English comedian (b. 1929)
- 2006Yitzchak Kaduri, rabbi
- 2007Carlo Clerici, Swiss road racing cyclist (b. 1929)
- 2007Father Robert Drinan, Roman Catholic priest and American politician (b. 1920)
- 2007Hsu Wei Lun, Taiwanese actress (b. 1978)
- 2007Karel Svoboda, Czech composer of popular music (b. 1938)
- 2007Yelena Romanova, Russian athlete (b. 1963)
- 2008Archbishop Christodoulos of Athens and All Greece (b. 1939)
- 2009Billy Powell, American musician (b. 1952)
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