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January 28 is the 28th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 337 days remaining (338 in leap years).
Events
1521 - Diet of Worms begins, lasting until May 25.
1547 - Edward VI becomes King, and the first Protestant ruler of England.
1573 - Articles of Warsaw Confederation are signed, sanctioning religious freedom in Poland
1788 - The first penal colony is founded at Botany Bay, Australia.
1820 - Russian expedition lead by Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen and Mikhail Petrovich Lazarev approaches the Antarctic coast.
1846 - Battle of Aliwal, India won by British troops commanded by Sir Harry Smith.
1855 - The first locomotive runs from the Atlantic to the Pacific on the Panama Railway.
1871 - France surrenders to end the Franco-Prussian War.
1878 - The Yale News becomes the first daily, college newspaper in the United States.
1887 - In a snowstorm at Fort Keogh, Montana, USA, the world's largest snowflakes are reported, being 15 inches (38cm) wide and 8 inches (20cm) 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 U.S. 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.
1918 - Finnish Civil War: Rebels seized control of the capital, Helsinki, and members of the Senate of Finland went underground.
1921 - A symbolic Tomb of the Unknown Soldier was installed beneath the Arc de Triomphe in Paris to honour the unknown dead of World War I.
1932 - World War II: Japan occupies Shanghai.
1935 - Iceland becomes the first country to legalize abortion.
1938 - The first ski tow in America begins operation in Vermont.
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 - 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.
1990 - Super Bowl XXIV: The San Francisco 49ers are crowned "Team of the 1980s" by defeating the Denver Broncos, 55-10.
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: The Dallas Cowboys win their fifth Super Bowl title by defeating the Pittsburgh Steelers, 27-17.
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.
2001 - Super Bowl XXXV: The Baltimore Ravens defeat the New York Giants, 34-7.
2002 - An Ecuadoran airline Boeing 727-100 crashes in the Andes mountains in southern Colombia killing 92.
2004 - September Dossier: Lord Hutton publishes his report into the death of UN weapons inspector Dr. David Kelly.
Births
1600 - Pope Clement IX (d. 1669)
1611 - Johannes Hevelius, atronomer (d. 1687)
1706 - John Baskerville, printer, typefounder (d. 1775)
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 'Chinese' Gordon, British soldier and administrator (d. 1885)
1841 - Henry Morton Stanley, explorer, journalist (d. 1904)
1853 - José Martí, revolutionary (d. 1895)
1857 - William Seward Burroughs, inventor of the calculator (d. 1898)
1873 - Colette, writer (d. 1954)
1879 - Francis Picabia, painter, poet (d. 1953)
1884 - Auguste Piccard, physicist (d. 1962)
1887 - Artur Rubinstein, Polish pianist, conductor (d. 1982)
1890 - Robert Stroud, the "Birdman of Alcatraz" (d. 1963)
1892 - Ernst Lubitsch, film director (d. 1947)
1900 - Heinrich Kesten, author (d. 1996)
1910 - John Banner, Austrian actor (d. 1973)
1912 - Jackson Pollock, painter, initiator of Dripping painting (d. 1956)
1919 - Francis S. Gabreski, American flying ace (d. 2002)
1923 - Ivo Robić, singer - Croatia, Mister Morgen (d. 2001)
1927 - Hiroshi Teshigahara, director (d. 2001)
1929 - Claes Oldenburg, Swedish-American artist
1929 - Acker Bilk, musician
1933 - Susan Sontag, essayist, novelist, activist (d. 2004)
1935 - David Lodge, author
1936 - Alan Alda, American actor, writer and director
1944 - John Tavener, English composer
1945 - Marthe Keller, actress
1948 - Charles Taylor, former leader of Liberia
1948 - Mikhail Baryshnikov, Russian dancer
1950 - Barbi Benton, actress
1960 - Robert von Dassanowsky, cultural historian, writer, producer
1962 - Meister Eduard Gröller, visualizer
1962 - Sam Phillips, singer
1968 - Sarah McLachlan, singer/songwriter
1968 - Rakim, rapper
1968 - DJ Muggs, musician (Cypress Hill)
1969 - Kathryn Morris, American actress
1974 - Tony Delk, basketball player
1976 - Mark Madsen, NBA basketball player
1977 - Daunte Culpepper, American football quarterback
1977 - Joey Fatone, singer (*NSYNC)
1978 - Gianluigi Buffon, Italian football star
1979 - Pixie (glamour model)
1980 - Nick Carter, singer (Backstreet Boys)
1981 - Elijah Wood, American actor
Deaths
814 - Charlemagne (b. 742)
1547 - King Henry VIII of England (b. 1491)
1596 - Sir Francis Drake, explorer, soldier (b. ca. 1540)
1599 - Cristofano Malvezzi, Italian composer.
1621 - Pope Paul V (b. 1550)
1687 - Johannes Hevelius, astronomer (b. 1611)
1754 - Ludvig Holberg, historian and writer (b. 1684)
1903 - Augusta Holmčs, French composer
1912 - Gustave de Molinari, Belgian economist
1939 - William Butler Yeats, writer (b. 1865)
1949 - Jean-Pierre Wimille, race car driver (b. 1908)
1953 - James Scullin, ninth Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1876)
1960 - Zora Neale Hurston, author (b. 1891)
1965 - Maxime Weygand, soldier (b. 1867)
1971 - Donald Winnicott, British psychoanalyst (b. 1896)
1973 - John Banner, Austrian actor
1977:
Freddie Prinze, actor (b. 1954)
Burt Mustin, American actor
1983 - Frank Forde, fifteenth Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1890)
1986 - Crew of Space Shuttle Challenger:
Francis R. Scobee (b. 1939)
Michael J. Smith (b. 1945)
Judith Resnik (b. 1949)
Ellison Onizuka (b. 1946)
Ronald McNair (b. 1950)
Greg Jarvis (b. 1944)
Christa McAuliffe (b. 1948)
1988 - Klaus Fuchs, German physicist
1991 - Red Grange, American football player
1994 - Hal Smith, American actor and voice-over actor
1996:
Jerry Siegel, cartoonist, creator of Superman (b. 1914)
Joseph Brodsky, poet (b. 1940)
2001 - Curt Blefary, Major League Baseball player (b. 1943)
2002 - Astrid Lindgren, author (b. 1907)
2004:
Don Cholito, radio host, hosted the longest running uninterrupted radio show (b. 1923)
Elroy Hirsch, American football player
Lloyd M. Bucher, US Navy officer
2005 - Jim Capaldi, singer and songwriter (b. 1944)
Holidays and observances
Catholicism - Feast day of St. Thomas Aquinas
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