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January 28
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{{PAGENAME}} is the 28th day of the year in the
Gregorian calendar. There are 337 days remaining (338 in
leap years).
Events
*
1077 -
Walk to Canossa: The
excommunication of
Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor is lifted.
*
1521 -
Diet of Worms begins, lasting until
May 25.
*
1547 -
Edward VI of England Edward VI becomes King, and the first
Protestant ruler of
England.
*
1573 - Articles of
Warsaw Confederation are signed, sanctioning
religious freedom in
Poland.
*
1754 -
Horace Walpole, in a letter to Horace Mann, coins the word ''
serendipity''.
*
1788 - The first penal colony is founded at
Botany Bay,
Australia.
*
1813 -
Pride and Prejudice is first published in the
United Kingdom.
*
1820 -
Imperial Russia Russian expedition led by
Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen and
Mikhail Petrovich Lazarev discovered the
Antarctic continent approaching the
Antarctica Antarctic coast.
*
1846 -
Battle of Aliwal,
India won by
British troops commanded by
Harry Smith (army) Sir Harry Smith.
*
1855 - The first
locomotive runs from the
Atlantic Ocean Atlantic to the
Pacific Ocean Pacific on the
Panama Railway.
*
1871 -
Franco-Prussian War:
France surrenders, ending the war.
*
1878 - ''
The Yale News'' becomes the first daily, college
newspaper in the
United States.
*
1887 - In a
snowstorm at
Fort Keogh,
Montana, the world's largest
snowflakes are reported, being 15 inches (38 cm) wide and 8 inches (20 cm) thick.
*
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
Congress of the United States U.S. Congress creates the
United States Coast Guard.
*
1916 -
Louis D. Brandeis becomes the first
Jew appointed to the
Supreme Court of the United States United States Supreme Court.
*
1917 -
United States ends search for
Pancho Villa.
* 1917 - Municipally owned
streetcars take to the streets of
San Francisco, California San Francisco.
*
1918 -
Finnish Civil War:
Rebellion Rebels seized control of the capital,
Helsinki, and members of the
Senate of Finland go underground.
*
1921 - A symbolic
Tomb of the Unknown Soldier is installed beneath the
Arc de Triomphe in
Paris to honour the unknown dead of
World War I.
*
1932 -
Japan occupies
Shanghai.
*
1935 -
Iceland becomes the first country to legalize
abortion.
*
1938 - The first
ski tow in
United States America begins operation in
Vermont.
* 1938 - The
World Land Speed Record on a
public road is broken by driver
Rudolf Caracciola in the
Mercedes-Benz W195.
*
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 -
US Army general
James L. Dozier is rescued by
Italy Italian anti-
terrorism forces after 42 days of captivity under the
Red Brigades.
*
1986 -
Space Shuttle Challenger breaks apart 73 seconds after liftoff killing all seven
astronauts onboard. Failure blamed on leaking
Solid Rocket Booster.
*
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,
Dallas Cowboys - 27
Pittsburgh Steelers - 17; Attendance: 76,347;
MVP:
Larry Brown, Dallas Cowboys;
Tempe,
Arizona.
*
1997 -
Arista Records founder
Clive Davis receives a star on the
Hollywood Walk of Fame.
*
1998 - Gunmen hold at least 400 children and teachers hostage for several hours at an elementary school in
Manila,
Philippines.
*
1999 -
Ford Motor Company announces the buyout of
Volvo's passenger-vehicle business for $6.45 billion.
* 1999 - ''
The Washington Post'' becomes one of the last widely-circulated American daily newspapers to transition to color printing, with its first-ever color photograph on the front page.
*
2002 - An
Ecuadoran airline
Boeing 727-100 crashes in the
Andes mountains in southern
Colombia killing 92.
*
2004 -
September Dossier:
James Brian Edward Hutton Lord Hutton publishes his
Hutton Inquiry report into the death of
UN weapons inspector Dr.
David Kelly.
Births
*
1457 - King
Henry VII of England (d.
1509)
*
1540 -
Ludolph van Ceulen, German mathematician (d.
1610)
*
1582 -
John Barclay (1582-1621) John Barclay, Scottish writer (d.
1621)
*
1600 -
Pope Clement IX (d.
1669)
*
1608 -
Giovanni Alfonso Borelli, Italian physiologist and physicist (d.
1679)
*
1611 -
Johannes Hevelius, astronomer (d.
1687)
*
1622 -
Adrien Auzout, French astronomer (d.
1691)
*
1701 -
Charles Marie de La Condamine, French mathematician and geographer (d.
1774)
*
1706 -
John Baskerville, English printer (d.
1775)
*
1712 -
Tokugawa Ieshige, Japanese shogun (d.
1761)
*
1717 -
Mustafa III,
Ottoman Sultan (d.
1774)
*
1719 -
Johann Elias Schlegel, German critic and poet (d.
1749)
*
1755 -
Samuel Thomas von Sömmering, German physician (d.
1830)
*
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 Gordon Charles George 'Chinese' Gordon, British soldier and administrator (d.
1885)
*
1841 -
Henry Morton Stanley, Welsh-born explorer and journalist (d.
1904)
*
1853 -
José MartÃ, Cuban revolutionary (d.
1895)
*
1857 -
William Seward Burroughs, American inventor (d.
1898)
*
1873 -
Colette, French writer (d.
1954)
*
1874 -
Vsevolod Meyerhold, Russian theatre director (d.
1940)
*
1879 -
Francis Picabia, French-born painter and poet (d.
1953)
*
1880 -
Herbert Strudwick, English cricketer (d.
1970)
*
1884 -
Auguste Piccard, Swiss physicist (d.
1962)
*
1886 -
Marthe Bibesco, Romanian writer (d.
1973)
*
1887 -
Arthur Rubinstein, Polish pianist and conductor (d.
1982)
*
1890 -
Robert Stroud, American convict, the Birdman of Alcatraz (d.
1963)
*
1892 -
Ernst Lubitsch, German-born film director (d.
1947)
*
1897 -
Valentin Kataev, Russian writer (d.
1986)
*
1910 -
John Banner, Austrian actor (d.
1973)
* 1910 -
Arnold Moss, American character actor (d.
1989)
*
1912 -
Jackson Pollock, American painter (d.
1956)
*
1922 -
Robert W. Holley, American biochemist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d.
1993)
*
1923 -
Ivo Robić, Croatian singer (d.
2001)
*
1927 -
Ronnie Scott, British jazz tenor saxophonist and jazz club owner (d.
1996)
* 1927 -
Hiroshi Teshigahara, Japanese director (d.
2001)
*
1929 -
Acker Bilk, English jazz clarinetist
* 1929 -
Claes Oldenburg, Swedish-American artist
*
1933 -
Susan Sontag, American writer and activist (d.
2004)
*
1934 -
Mitr Chaibancha, Thai actor (d.
1970)
*
1935 -
David Lodge (author) David Lodge, English author
*
1936 -
Ismail Kadare, Albanian writer
* 1936 -
Alan Alda, American actor, writer, and director
*
1938 -
Leonid Zhabotinsky, Russian weightlifter
*
1941 -
Joel Crothers, American actor (d.
1985)
*
1944 -
John Tavener, English composer
*
1945 -
Robert Wyatt, English musician
*
1948 -
Mikhail Baryshnikov, Russian dancer
* 1948 -
Charles Taylor, leader of Liberia
*
1950 -
Barbi Benton, American actress
*
1951 -
Leonid Kadeniuk, Ukrainian cosmonaut
*
1954 -
Rick Warren, Pastor, Author of The Purpose Driven
*
1993 -
mackenzie, smartest kid on earth, also looks awesome
Life
*
1959 -
Randi Rhodes, American
radio talk show host
* 1959 -
Dave Sharp, Welsh guitarist (
The Alarm)
*
1960 -
Robert von Dassanowsky, American cultural historian, writer, and producer
*
1962 -
Sam Phillips (singer) Sam Phillips, American singer
*
1968 -
Sarah McLachlan, Canadian singer and songwriter
* 1968 -
DJ Muggs, American musician (
Cypress Hill)
* 1968 -
Rakim, American rapper
*
1969 -
Kathryn Morris, American actress
* 1969 -
Linda Sanchez, American politician
*
1974 -
Tony Delk, American basketball player
* 1974 -
Jermaine Dye, American baseball player
*
1975 -
David Zingler, American writer
*
1976 -
Mark Madsen, American basketball player
* 1976 -
Jarrod Montague, American drummer (
Taproot)
*
1977 -
Daunte Culpepper, American football player
* 1977 -
Joey Fatone, American singer (
*NSYNC)
*
1978 -
Gianluigi Buffon, Italian footballer
* 1978 -
Jamie Carragher, English footballer
* 1978 -
Papa Bouba Diop, Senegalese footballer
*
1979 -
Pixie (glamour model) Pixie, English model
*
1980 -
Nick Carter (singer) Nick Carter, American singer (
Backstreet Boys)
*
1981 -
Rick Razzano, American football player
* 1981 -
Elijah Wood, American actor
*
1984 -
Andre Iguodala, American basketball player
Deaths
*
814 -
Charlemagne (b.
742)
*
1061 - Duke
Spytihněv II of Bohemia (b.
1031)
*
1271 -
Isabella of Aragon, queen of
Philip III of France (b.
1247)
*
1443 -
Robert le Maçon, Chancellor of France
*
1547 - King
Henry VIII of England (b.
1491)
*
1596 - Sir
Francis Drake, English explorer and soldier (b. ca.
1540)
*
1599 -
Cristofano Malvezzi, Italian composer (b.
1547)
*
1613 -
Thomas Bodley, English diplomat and library founder (b.
1545)
*
1621 -
Pope Paul V (b.
1550)
*
1681 -
Richard Allestree, English royalist churchman (b.
1619)
*
1672 -
Pierre Séguier, Chancellor of France (b.
1588)
*
1687 -
Johannes Hevelius, astronomer (b.
1611)
*
1697 -
John Fenwick, English conspirator
*
1725 (O.S.) - Tsar
Peter I of Russia, (b.
1672)
*
1754 -
Ludvig Holberg, Norwegian historian and writer (b.
1684)
*
1864 -
Émile Clapeyron, French engineer and physicist (b.
1799)
*
1903 -
Augusta Holmès, French composer (b.
1847)
*
1912 -
Gustave de Molinari, Belgian economist (b.
1819)
*
1915 -
Nikolay Umov, Russian physicist (b.
1846)
*
1935 -
Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov, Russian composer (b.
1859)
*
1939 -
William Butler Yeats, Irish writer,
Nobel Prize in Literature Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1865)
*
1949 -
Jean-Pierre Wimille, French race car driver (b.
1908)
*
1953 -
James Scullin, ninth
Prime Minister of Australia (b.
1876)
*
1960 -
Zora Neale Hurston, American author (b.
1891)
*
1965 -
Tich Freeman, English cricketer (b.
1888)
* 1965 -
Maxime Weygand, French soldier (b.
1867)
*
1971 -
Donald Winnicott, British psychoanalyst (b.
1896)
*
1973 -
John Banner, Austrian actor (b.
1910)
*
1983 -
Frank Forde, fifteenth
Prime Minister of Australia (b.
1890)
*
1986 - Crew of
Space Shuttle Challenger:
**
Greg Jarvis (b.
1944)
**
Christa McAuliffe (b.
1948)
**
Ronald McNair (b.
1950)
**
Ellison Onizuka (b.
1946)
**
Judith Resnik (b.
1949)
**
Dick Scobee Francis R. Scobee (b.
1939)
**
Michael J. Smith (b.
1945)
*
1988 -
Klaus Fuchs, German physicist (b.
1911)
*
1991 -
Red Grange, American football player (b.
1903)
*
1994 -
Hal Smith (actor) Hal Smith, American actor (b.
1916)
*
1996 -
Joseph Brodsky, Russian-born poet,
Nobel Prize in Literature Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1940)
* 1996 -
Jerry Siegel, American cartoonist (b.
1914)
*
1999 -
Markey Robinson, Northern Irish painter (b.
1918)
* 1999 -
Torgny T:son Segerstedt, Swedish sociologist and philosopher (b.
1908)
*
2001 -
Curt Blefary, baseball player (b.
1943)
*
2002 -
Astrid Lindgren, Swedish author (b.
1907)
*
2004 -
Lloyd M. Bucher, US Navy officer (b.
1927)
* 2004 -
Don Cholito, Puerto Rican radio host (b.
1923)
* 2004 -
Elroy Hirsch, American football player (b.
1923)
*
2005 -
Jim Capaldi, English singer and songwriter (b.
1944)
* 2005 -
Karen Lancaume, French actress (suicide) (b.
1973)
* 2006 -
Yitzchak Kadouri, Jewish Orthodox rabbi (b. around 1900)
* 2006 -
Henry McGee, English Comedian (b.
1929)
Holidays and observances
*
Catholicism - Feast day of
Thomas Aquinas St. Thomas Aquinas
External links
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On this day in Canada
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NY Times: On this day
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BBC: On This Day
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