January 28
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January 28 is the 27th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 337 days remaining after January 28 until the end of the year (338 in leap years).
[change] Events
- 1547 – As a nine-year-old, Edward VI becomes King of England, following the death of his father, King Henry VIII of England.
- 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 by Jane Austen is first published.
- 1820 – A Russian expedition led by Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen first sights the Antarctic continent.
- 1841 – James Clark Ross' Antarctic expedition discovers the Ross Ice Shelf.
- 1855 – In Panama, a locomotive travels from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean for the first time.
- 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.
- 1918 – Finnish Civil War: Rebels seize Helsinki.
- 1922 – The Knickerbocker Storm causes Washington, DC's biggest snowfall.
- 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.
- 1958 – The Lego company patents its now-famous toy bricks.
- 1959 – Thailand adopts a new Constitution.
- 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.
- 1986 – The Space Shuttle Challenger breaks up 73 seconds after lift off, killing all 7 people on board.
- 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.
[change] Births
- 1225 – Saint Thomas of Aquinas (d. 1274).
- 1457 – King Henry VII of England (d. 1509).
- 1600 – Pope Clement IX (d. 1669).
- 1611 – Johannes Hevelius, Polish astronomer and Mayor of Gdansk (d. 1687)
- 1706 – John Baskerville, English writer and printmaker (d. 1775)
- 1712 – Tokugawa Ieshige, Japanese shogun (d. 1761)
- 1717 – Mustafa III, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1774)
- 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)
- 1822 – Alexander Mackenzie, 2nd Prime Minister of Canada (d. 1892)
- 1833 – Charles George Gordon, British general (d. 1885).
- 1841 – Henry Morton Stanley, Welsh-born explorer, journalist and colonialist (d. 1904)
- 1865 – Kaarlo Juho Stahlberg, 1st President of Finland (d. 1952)
- 1873 – Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette, French writer (d. 1954)
- 1884 – Auguste Piccard, Swiss scientist (d. 1962).
- 1884 – Jean Felix Piccard, Swiss scientist (d. 1963).
- 1886 – Marthe Bibesco, Romanian writer (d. 1973).
- 1891 – Bill Doak, American baseball player (d. 1954).
- 1892 – Ernst Lubitsch, German director (d. 1947).
- 1909 – John Thomson, Scottish footballer (d. 1931).
- 1910 – John Banner, Austrian-born actor (d. 1973).
- 1912 – Jackson Pollock, American painter (d. 1956).
- 1922 – Richard M. Holley, American biochemist (d. 1993).
- 1923 – Richard Herrmann, German footballer (d. 1962).
- 1929 – Acker Bilk, English jazz clarinettist.
- 1929 – Claes Oldenburg, American artist.
- 1930 – Kurt Biedenkopf, German politician.
- 1935 – David Lodge, British author.
- 1936 – Alan Alda, American actor.
- 1936 – Ismail Kadare, Albanian writer.
- 1940 – Carlos Slim, Mexican businessman.
- 1943 – Dick Taylor, British musician.
- 1944 – Susan Howard, American actress.
- 1944 – John Tavener, English composer.
- 1948 – Charles Taylor, former President of Liberia.
- 1948 – Heinz Flohe, German footballer.
- 1950 – Hamad Ibn Isa al Khalifah, King of Bahrain.
- 1955 – Nicolas Sarkozy, President of France.
- 1961 – Arnaldur Indridason, Icelandic writer.
- 1968 – Sarah McLachlan, Canadian singer/songwriter
- 1968 – DJ Muggs, American musician
- 1974 – Magglio Ordóñez, Venezuelan baseball player
- 1977 – Joey Fatone, American singer (*NSYNC)
- 1978 – Gianluigi Buffon, Italian footballer
- 1978 – Jamie Carragher, English footballer
- 1978 – Papa Bouba Diop, Senegalese footballer
- 1980 – Nick Carter, American singer (Backstreet Boys)
- 1980 – Yasuhito Endo, Japanese footballer
- 1981 – Elijah Wood, American actor
- 1986 – Jessica Ennis, British athlete
- 1998 – Ariel Winter, American actress and singer
[change] Deaths
- 814 – Charlemagne, King of the Franks (b. early 700s)
- 1271 – Isabella of Aragon, Queen of France (b. 1247)
- 1547 – Henry VIII of England (b. 1491)
- 1596 – Francis Drake, English naval officer, explorer and pirate (b. 1540)
- 1621 – Pope Paul V (b. 1550)
- 1687 – Johannes Hevelius, Polish astronomer and Mayor of Gdansk (b. 1611)
- 1859 – Frederick John Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1782)
- 1918 – John McCrae, Canadian poet (b. 1872)
- 1939 – William Butler Yeats, Irish writer (b. 1865)
- 1951 – 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)
- 1963 – Jean Felix Piccard, Swiss scientist (b. 1884)
- 1973 – John Banner, Austrian-born actor (b. 1910)
- 1975 – Ola Raknes, Norwegian psychoanalyst and philologist (b. 1887)
- 1983 – Frank Forde, shortest-serving Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1890)
- 1983 – Billy Fury, British singer (b. 1940)
- 1986 – Greg Jarvis, American astronaut (b. 1944)
- 1986 – Christa McAuliffe, American teacher and astronaut (b. 1948)
- 1986 – Ronald McNair, American astronaut (b. 1950)
- 1986 – Judith Resnik, American astronaut (b. 1949)
- 1986 – Francis R. Scobee, American astronaut (b. 1939)
- 1986 – Michael J. Smith, American astronaut (b. 1949)
- 1988 – Klaus Fuchs, German atomic spy (b. 1911)
- 1991 – Red Grange, American football player (b. 1903)
- 1996 – Joseph Brodsky, Russian poet (b. 1940)
- 1996 – Jerry Siegel, American cartoonist (b. 1914)
- 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)
