January 28 January 28 is the 28th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar . There are 337 days remaining until the end of the year (338 in leap years ).
Events
Up to 1900
98 – Trajan becomes Emperor of the Roman Empire .814 – Holy Roman Emperor Charlemagne dies.1393 – King Charles VI of France narrowly escapes death when several dancers' costumes catch fire during a masquerade ball .1521 – The Diet of Worms begins.1547 – As a nine–year–old, Edward VI becomes King of England , following the death of his father, King Henry VIII of England .1573 – Articles of the Warsaw Confederation are signed, sanctioning freedom of religion in Poland .1624 – Thomas Warner founds a colony on Saint Kitts .1724 – The Russian Academy of the Sciences is founded by Tsar Peter I of Russia .1754 – Horace Walpole coins the word serendipity in a letter to Horace Mann .1813 – Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen is first published.1820 – A Russian expedition led by Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen first sights the Antarctic continent .1821 – Bellingshausen's Antarctic expedition discovers an island just off the coast of Antarctica , which later becomes known as Alexander Island .1841 – James Clark Ross ' Antarctic expedition discovers the Ross Ice Shelf .1846 – The Battle of Aliwal in India is won by British forces under Harry Smith .1855 – In Panama , a locomotive travels from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean for the first time.1870 – After leaving Halifax , Nova Scotia , British passenger steamer City of Boston disappears without trace in the North Atlantic Ocean , along with the 191 people on board.1871 – Franco-Prussian War : The Siege of Paris ends in a French defeat and an armistice .1878 – The Yale Daily News becomes the first daily (meaning it is published every day) college newspaper in the United States .1878 – The first telephone box opens in New Haven, Connecticut .1887 – The world's largest snowflakes are recorded at Fort Keogh, Montana .1887 – Building of the Eiffel Tower begins.1896 – Walter Arnold of East Peckham, Kent is the first person convicted of a speeding offence.1897 – The Criminal Tribes Act of 1871 was amended on the 28th of January by the British Raj within British India respectively.1900 – The DFB , German Football Federation, is founded.– 20001908 – Some members of the Portuguese Republican Party fail in their attempted coup against the dictatorship of Joao Franco .1909 – US troops leave Cuba , except for Guantanamo Bay Naval Base , having been there since 1898 .1915 – An Act of Congress creates the United States Coast Guard .1917 – City –owned streetcars take to the streets of San Francisco for the first time.1918 – Finnish Civil War : Rebels seize Helsinki .1922 – The Knickerbocker Storm causes Washington, DC 's biggest snowfall .1932 – Japanese forces attack Shanghai .1933 – Choudhary Rahmat Ali Khan chooses the name "Pakistan" on this date. Today it is one of the official national holidays of the 'Islamic Republic '.1933 – Kurt von Schleicher resigns as Chancellor of Germany and suggests to Paul von Hindenburg to name Adolf Hitler as the next Chancellor.1934 – The first ski tow in the United States begins operation in Vermont .1935 – Iceland legalises abortion .1938 – Rudolf Caracciola sets the World Land Speed Record on a public road, with 432.7 kilometers per hour (268.9 miles per hour).1941 – French-Thai War : A Japanese –mediated armistice goes into effect.1945 – World War II : Supplies begin to reach the Republic of China over the newly re–opened Burma Road .1956 – Elvis Presley makes his first appearance on US television .1958 – The Lego company patents its now–famous toy bricks.1958 – The last episode of British radio show The Goon Show 1959 – Thailand adopts a new constitution .1964 – An unarmed United States Air Force T–39 Sabreliner on a training misiion is shot down over Erfurt , then–East Germany , by a Soviet MiG–19.1965 – The design for the current Flag of Canada is chosen in an Act of Parliament .1977 – The Great Lakes Blizzard (snowstorm ), lasting until February 1 , affects parts of upstate New York .1979 – Pope John Paul II visits Mexico .1980 – The ship USCGC Blackthorn collides with the tanker Capricorn off Tampa , Florida , killing 23 people.1982 – United States Army general James L. Dozier is rescued by Italian anti–terrorist forces.1984 – Tropical Storm Domoina makes landfall in Mozambique , where it causes widespread flooding and kills 214 people.1985 – Supergroup USA for Africa records the hit single We Are the World to help raise funds for Ethiopian famine relief.1986 – The Space Shuttle Challenger breaks up 73 seconds after lift off at Cape Canaveral, Florida , killing all 7 astronauts on board.1987 – Mikhail Gorbachev , in a speech, sets out plans for liberal reforms, including Perestroika and Glasnost .From 2001
2002 – TAME Flight 120, a Boeing 727 –100, crashes in the Colombian Andes , killing 92 people.2006 – At the Katowice International Fair in Poland , the roof of one of the buildings collapses, killing 65 people.2011 – 2011 Egyptian protests : Hundreds of thousands of people take to the streets in Egypt , in protest against Hosni Mubarak , who cuts internet access on the same day.2013 – Three days before her 75th birthday , Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands announces her intention to give up the throne on April 30 of the same year, when Willem-Alexander, Prince of Orange becomes the Netherlands ' first king since 1890 .2014 – After strong protests, Ukraine withdraws a controversial anti–protest law introduced over a week earlier.2014 – The United Nations Court in The Hague defines the maritime border between Peru and Chile .2017 – Serena Williams wins her 23rd Grand Slam tennis Singles title at the Australian Open, surpassing Steffi Graf 's Open Era record of 22.2018 – Roger Federer wins his 20th Grand Slam singles tennis title, at the Australian Open .Births
Up to 1850
1225 – Saint Thomas of Aquinas (d. 1274 ).1312 – Joan II of Navarre (d. 1349 ).1453 – Simonetta Vespucci , Italian Renaissance figure (d. 1476 ).1457 – King Henry VII of England (d. 1509 ).1507 – Ferrante Gonzaga , Viceroy of Sicily (d. 1557 ).1533 – Paul Luther , German physician and son of Martin Luther (d. 1593 ).1540 – Ludolph von Ceulen , German mathematician (d. 1610 ).1582 – 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 , Polish astronomer and Mayor of Gdansk (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 writer and printmaker (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 ).1768 – King Frederick VI of Denmark and Norway (d. 1669 ).1784 – George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen , Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1860 ).1806 – William Aitken, Jr. , Governor of South Carolina (d. 1887 ).1807 – Robert McClure , Irish seafarer and explorer (d. 1873 ).1809 – Theodor Benfey , German philologist (d. 1881 ).1815 – Andrew Jackson Hamilton , 12th Governor of Texas (d. 1875 ).1818 – George S. Boutwell , 20th Governor of Massachusetts and 28th United States Secretary of the Treasury (d. 1905 ).1822 – Alexander Mackenzie , 2nd Prime Minister of Canada (d. 1892 ).1833 – Charles George Gordon , British general (d. 1885 ).1838 – James Craig Watson , American astronomer (d. 1880 ).1841 – Henry Morton Stanley , Welsh–born explorer, journalist and colonialist (d. 1904 ).– 19001853 – Jose Marti , Cuban revolutionary (d. 1891 ).1853 – Vladimir Solovyov , Russian philosopher (d. 1890 ).1858 – Tannatt William Edgworth David , Welsh –born Australian geologist and explorer (d. 1934 ).1858 – Stoyan Danev , Prime minister of Bulgaria (d. 1949 ).1863 – Ernest William Christmas , Australian painter (d. 1918 ).1864 – Charles W. Nash , American automobile entrepreneur (d. 1948 ).1864 – Herbert Akroyd Stuart , English inventor (d. 1927 ).1865 – Kaarlo Juho Stahlberg , 1st President of Finland (d. 1952 ).1865 – Lala Lajpat Rai , Indian freedom fighter (d. 1928 ).1872 – Otto Braun , Prussian politician (d. 1955 ).1873 – Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette , French writer (d. 1954 ).1875 – Julian Carrillo , Mexican composer, conductor, violinist and music theorist (d. 1965 ).1884 – Auguste Piccard , Swiss scientist (d. 1962 ).1884 – Jean Piccard , Swiss scientist (d. 1963 ).1886 – Marthe Bibesco , Romanian writer (d. 1973 ).1886 – Hidetsugu Yagi , Japanese electrical engineer (d. 1976 ).1887 – Arthur Rubinstein , Polish pianist (d. 1982 ).1889 – Ramon Iglesias i Navarri , Catalan Bishop of Urgel, Spanish Co–Prince Andorra (d. 1972 ).1890 – Robert Stroud , American convict , "Birdman of Alcatraz " (d. 1963 )1891 – Bill Doak , American baseball player (d. 1954 ).1892 – Ernst Lubitsch , German director (d. 1947 ).1897 – Valentin Kataev , Soviet dramatist (d. 1986 ).– 19501902 – Alfred H. Barr, Jr. , American art historian (d. 1981 ).1909 – John Thomson , Scottish footballer (d. 1931 ).1910 – John Banner , Austrian–born actor (d. 1973 ).1911 – Johan van Hulst , Dutch politician (d. 2018 ).1912 – Jackson Pollock , American painter (d. 1956 ).1918 – Sandro Puppo , Italian footballer (d. 1986 ).1919 – Francis Gobreski , American fighter pilot (d. 2002 ).1922 – Robert W. Holley , American biochemist (d. 1993 ).1923 – Richard Herrmann , German footballer (d. 1962 ).1924 – Marcel Broodthaers , Belgian artist (d. 1976 ).1926 – Abdul-Karim Mousavi Ardebili , former Interim President of Iran (d. 2016 ).1926 – Harry L. Ettlinger , German–American engineer (d. 2018 ).1927 – Hiroshi Teshigahara , Japanese director (d. 2001 ).1927 – Per Oscarsson , Swedish actor (d. 2010 ).1929 – Acker Bilk , English jazz clarinettist (d. 2014 ).1929 – Edith M. Flanigen , American chemist .1929 – Claes Oldenburg , Swedish–American artist.1930 – Kurt Biedenkopf , German politician.1930 – Jasraj , Indian classical singer (d. 2020 ).1930 – Roy Clarke , English television scriptwriter.1934 – Juan Manuel Bordeu , Argentine racing driver (d. 1990 ).1935 – David Lodge , British writer.1936 – Alan Alda , American actor, director and writer.1936 – Waldyr Boccardo , Brazilian basketball player (d. 2018 ).1936 – Ismail Kadare , Albanian writer (d. 2024 ).1937 – Donald Crothers , American academic and educator (d. 2014 ).1938 – Tomas Lindahl , Swedish biologist and geneticist .1938 – Leonid Zhabotinsky , Ukrainian weightlifter (d. 2016 ).1939 – John M. Fabian , American pilot and astronaut .1940 – Carlos Slim , Mexican businessman.1941 – Joel Crothers , American actor (d. 1985 ).1941 – King Tubby , Jamaican musician (d. 1989 ).1942 – Sjoukje Dijkstra , Dutch figure skater.1943 – Paul Henderson , Canadian ice hockey player.1943 – Dick Taylor , British musician.1944 – Susan Howard , American actress.1944 – John Tavener , English composer (d. 2013 ).1945 – Marthe Keller , Swiss actress.1945 – Robert Wyatt , English musician.1947 – Jeanne Shaheen , American politician, United States Senator for New Hampshire 1948 – Charles Taylor , former President of Liberia .1948 – Heinz Flohe , German footballer (d. 2013 ).1949 – Mike Moore , 32nd Prime Minister of New Zealand .1949 – Thomas Downey , American politician.1949 – Gregg Popovich , American basketball coach.1950 – David C. Hilmers , American astronaut .1950 – Hamad Ibn Isa al Khalifah , King of Bahrain .– 19751951 – Leonid Kadeniuk , Ukrainian cosmonaut (d. 2018 ).1953 – Richard Anconina , French actor.1954 – Bruno Metsu , French footballer and coach (d. 2013 )1954 – Robin Smith, Canadian voice actor1955 – Nicolas Sarkozy , former President of France .1955 – Vinod Khosla , Indian–American businessman, co–founded Sun Microsystems .1957 – Frank Skinner , English comedian.1957 – Nick Price , Zimbabwean golfer .1961 – Arnaldur Indridason , Icelandic writer.1961 – Normand Rochefort , Canadian ice hockey player.1962 – Joan McAlpine , Scottish politician.1964 – Dave McPherson , Scottish footballer 1964 – Juergen Teller , German artist and photographer .1966 – Andrea Berg , German singer.1968 – Sarah McLachlan , Canadian singer/songwriter1968 – DJ Muggs , American musician1969 – Kathryn Morris , American actress.1971 – Anthony Hamilton , American singer1972 – Nicky Southall , English footballer and manager1974 – Magglio Ordóñez , Venezuelan baseball player1975 – Lee Latchford-Evans , English singer (Steps )From 1976
1976 – Lee Ingleby , English actor.1976 – Rick Ross , American rapper.1977 – Daunte Culpepper , American football player.1977 – Joey Fatone , American singer (*NSYNC )1978 – Gianluigi Buffon , Italian footballer1978 – Jamie Carragher , English footballer1978 – Papa Bouba Diop , Senegalese footballer1979 – Ali Boulala , Swedish skateboarder1980 – Nick Carter , American singer (Backstreet Boys )1980 – Yasuhito Endo , Japanese footballer 1980 – Michael Hastings , American journalist (d. 2013 )1981 – Elijah Wood , American actor1984 – Andre Iguodala , American basketball player1984 – Anne Panter , English field hockey player1985 – Daniel Carcillo , Canadian ice hockey player1985 – Arnold Mvuemba , French footballer1985 – Libby Trickett , Australian swimmer1985 – J. Cole , American rapper1985 – Andras Kallay-Saunders , American–Hungarian singer1986 – Shruti Haasan , Indian actress1986 – Jessica Ennis-Hill , British athlete 1989 – Siem de Jong , Dutch footballer 1991 – Calum Worthy , Canadian actor1991 – Carl Klingberg , Swedish ice hockey player1992 – Andrei Savchenko , Russian footballer1993 – Richmond Boakye , Ghanaian footballer 1993 – John Anthony Brooks , German–American soccer player1993 – Will Poulter , English actor1998 – Ariel Winter , American actress and singerDeaths
Up to 1950
592 – Guntram , King of the Franks (b. 532 )814 – Charlemagne , King of the Franks (b. early 700s )1271 – Isabella of Aragon , Queen of France (b. 1247 )1443 – Robert Le Masson , Chancellor of France1547 – Henry VIII of England (b. 1491 )1596 – Francis Drake , English naval officer, explorer and pirate (b. 1540 )1613 – Thomas Bodley , English diplomat and library founder (b. 1545 )1621 – Pope Paul V (b. 1550 )1672 – Pierre Seguier , Chancellor of France (b. 1588 )1687 – Johannes Hevelius , Polish astronomer and Mayor of Gdansk (b. 1611 )1697 – John Fenwick , English conspirator 1754 – Ludvig Holberg , Norwegian historian and writer (b. 1684 )1859 – Frederick John Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich , Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1782 )1859 – Carl Adolph Agardh , Swedish botanist (b. 1785 )1864 – Emile Chappeyron , English engineer and physicist (b. 1799 )1912 – Gustave de Molinari , Belgian economist (b. 1819 )1918 – John McCrae , Canadian poet (b. 1872 )1924 – Teofilo Braga , Portuguese statesman (b. 1843 )1928 – Vicente Blasco Ibanez , Spanish writer (b. 1867 )1936 – Oscar K. Allen , Governor of Louisiana (b. 1882 )1937 – Anastasios Metaxas , Greek architect and shooter (b. 1862 )1938 – Bernd Rosemeyer , German racing driver (b. 1909 )1939 – William Butler Yeats , Irish writer (b. 1865 )1947 – Reynaldo Hahn , Venezuelan –French composer, conductor and critic (b. 1875 )1949 – Jean-Pierre Wimille , French racing driver (b. 1908 )1950 – Nicolai Luzin , Russian mathematician (b. 1883 )– 20001951 – Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim , President of Finland (b. 1867 )1953 – Derek Bentley , British victim of a miscarriage of justice (b. 1933 ) (hanged)1953 – James Scullin , Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1876 )1953 – Neyzen Tefvik , Turkish poet and satirist (b. 1879 )1956 – Marie Juchacz , German social reformer (b. 1883 )1959 – Walter Beall , American baseball (b. 1899 )1960 – Zora Neale Hurston , American writer (b. 1891 )1963 – Jean Piccard , Swiss scientist (b. 1884 )1963 – John Farrow , Australian screenwriter and director (b. 1904 )1965 – Maxime Weygand , French military (b. 1867 )1973 – John Banner , Austrian–born actor (b. 1910 )1975 – Ola Raknes , Norwegian psychoanalyst and philologist (b. 1887 )1976 – Marcel Broodthaers , Belgian artist (b. 1924 )1983 – Frank Forde , shortest–serving Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1890 )1983 – Billy Fury , British singer (b. 1940 )1985 – Alfredo Foni , Italian footballer (b. 1911 )1986 – Deaths in the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster:
1988 – Klaus Fuchs , German atomic spy (b. 1911 )1989 – Choekyi Gyaltsen, 10th Panchen Lama , Tibetan religious leader (b. 1938 )1991 – Red Grange , American football player (b. 1903 )1993 – Helen Sawyer Hogg , Canadian astronomer (b. 1905 )1994 – Hal Smith , American actor (b. 1916 )1996 – Joseph Brodsky , Russian poet (b. 1940 )1996 – Jerry Siegel , American cartoonist (b. 1914 )1998 – Shotaro Ishinomori , Japanese writer (b. 1938 )1999 – Torgny Torgnysson Segerstedt , Swedish sociologist and philosopher (b. 1908 )From 2001
2002 – Astrid Lindgren , Swedish writer (b. 1907 )2005 – Jim Capaldi , British musician (b. 1944 )2007 – Karel Svoboda , Czech composer (b. 1938 )2008 – Christodoulos I , Archbishop of Athens (b. 1939 )2008 – Marie Takvam , Norwegian writer (b. 1926 )2009 – Billy Powell , American musician (Lynyrd Skynyrd ) (b. 1952 )2009 – Glenn Davis , American athlete (b. 1934 )2011 – Margaret Price , Welsh soprano (b. 1941 )2014 – Jorge Obeid , Argentine politician (b. 1947 )2014 – Dwight Gustafson , American composer and conductor (b. 1930 )2015 – Yves Chauvin , French chemist (b. 1930 )2015 – Suraj Abdurrahman , Nigerian army officer (b. 1954 )2016 – Buddy Cianci , American politician (b. 1941 )2016 – Paul Kantner , American rock musician (b. 1941 )2016 – Signe Toly Anderson , American singer (b. 1941 )2016 – Yisroel Belsky , American rabbi (b. 1938 )2017 – Christopher Bland , British businessman (b. 1938 )2017 – Many Clouds , British racehorse (b. 2007 )2017 – Geoff Nicholls , British musician (b. 1948 )2017 – Lennart Nilsson , Swedish cinematographer (b. 1922 )2017 – Alexander Tikhanovich , Belarusian singer (b. 1952 )2017 – Bobby Freeman , American singer-songwriter and record producer (b. 1940 )2017 – Guitar Gable , American singer-songwriter and record producer (b. 1937 )2017 – Sang Chul Lee , Russian–born Canadian Christian minister (b. 1924 )2017 – John N. Mather , American mathematician (b. 1942 )2017 – Bharati Mukherjee , American writer (b. 1940 )2017 – Richard Portman , American sound engineer (b. 1934 )2017 – Thomas Joseph Simpson , Canadian World War II veteran (b. 1921 )2017 – Dan Spiegle , American comic book artist (b. 1920 )2017 – Darryl Sutton , Australian rules footballer (b. 1952 )2017 – Stuart Timmons , American historian and activist (b. 1957 )2018 – Dharmasena Pathiraja , Sri Lankan movie director and screenwriter (b. 1943 )2018 – Coco Schumann , German jazz guitarist (b. 1924 )2018 – Gene Sharp , American political scientist (b. 1928 )2019 – Jurrie Koolhof , Dutch footballer (b. 1960 )2019 – Mourad Medelci , Algerian politician (b. 1943 )2019 – Pepe Smith , Filipino rock guitarist (b. 1947 )Observances
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