January 28

fr: 28 janvierde: 28. Januares: 28 de eneroit: 28 gennaio

Events :

and the first Protestant ruler of England.
  • 1573 - Articles of Warsaw Confederation are signed, sanctioning freedom of religion in Poland.
  • 1754 - Horace Walpole, in a letter to Horace Mann, coins the word serendipity.
  • 1624 - Sir Thomas Warner founds the first British colony in the Caribbean, on Saint Kitts.
  • 1724 - The Russian Academy of Sciences was founded in St. Petersburg by Peter the Great, and implemented in the Senate decree. It was called St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences until 1917.
  • 1760 - Pownal, Vermont created by Benning Wentworth as one of the New Hampshire Grants.
  • 1813 - Pride and Prejudice is first published in the United Kingdom.
  • 1820 - Russian expedition led by Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen and Mikhail Petrovich Lazarev discovered the Antarctic continent approaching 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 - Franco-Prussian War: Siege of Paris ends in French defeat and an armistice.
  • 1878 - Yale Daily 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 with the exception of Guantanamo Bay Naval Base 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 - Municipally owned streetcars take to the streets of San Francisco.
  • 1918 - Finnish Civil War: 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.
  • 1922 - Knickerbocker Storm, Washington DC's biggest snowfall, causes Washington DC's greatest loss of life when the roof of the Knickerbocker Theater collapses.
  • 1932 - Japanese forces attack Shanghai.
  • 1933 - The 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.
  • 1934 - The first ski tow in America begins operation in Vermont.
  • 1935 - Iceland becomes the first Western country to legalize therapeutic abortion.
  • 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 the Republic of China over the newly reopened Burma Road.
  • 1946 - Bluenose, Canada's greatest sailing ship, founders on a Haitian reef.
  • 1953 - Derek Bentley hanged for a murder carried out by Christopher Craig.
  • 1958 - Charles Starkweather and Caril Ann Fugate begin their murder spree with the killings of her parents and infant sister.
  • 1980 - USCGC Blackthorn (WLB-391) collides with the tanker Capricorn while leaving Tampa Bay Florida and capsizes; killing 23 Coast Guard crewmembers.
  • 1981 - Ronald Reagan lifts remaining domestic petroleum price and allocation controls in the United States.
  • 1982 - US Army general James L. Dozier is rescued by Italian anti-terrorism forces after 42 days of captivity under the Red Brigades.

    • Births :

    • 1312 - Queen Joan II of Navarre (d. 1349)
    • 1457 - King Henry VII of England (d. 1509)
    • 1540 - Ludolph van 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, 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, 2nd Prime Minister of Canada (d. 1892)
    • 1833 - Charles George 'Chinese' Gordon, British soldier and administrator (d. 1885)
    • 1841 - Henry Morton Stanley, Welsh-born explorer and journalist (d. 1904)
    • 1853 - José Martí, Cuban revolutionary (d. 1895)
    • 1855 - William Seward Burroughs I, American inventor (d. 1898)
    • 1864 - Charles W. Nash, co-founder of Nash Motors, which would become American Motors as well as co-founder of Buick (d. 1948)
    • 1864 - Herbert Akroyd Stuart, English engineer - inventor of the first compression ignition engine (d. 1927)
    • 1865 - Lala Lajpat Rai, Indian freedom fighter (d. 1928)
    • 1865 - Kaarlo Juho Ståhlberg, first president of Finland (d. 1952)
    • 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)
    • 1891 - Bill Doak, American baseball player (d. 1954)
    • 1892 - Ernst Lubitsch, German-born film director (d. 1947)
    • 1897 - Valentin Kataev, Russian writer (d. 1986)
    • 1899 - Elias Simojoki, Finnish clergyman and politician (d. 1940)
    • 1903 - Aleksander Kamiski, Polish writer (d. 1978)
    • 1908 - Paul Misraki, French composer and songwriter (d. 1998)
    • 1910 - John Banner, Austrian actor (d. 1973)
    • 1910 - Arnold Moss, American actor (d. 1989)
    • 1912 - Jackson Pollock, American painter (d. 1956)
    • 1918 - Harry Corbett, English puppeteer (Sooty) (d. 1989)
    • 1922 - Robert W. Holley, American biochemist, Nobel Laureate (d. 1993)
    • 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-born artist
    • 1933 - Jack Hill, American film director
    • 1934 - Juan Manuel Bordeu, Argentine racing driver (d. 1990)
    • 1934 - Mitr Chaibancha, Thai actor (d. 1970)
    • 1935 - David Lodge, English author
    • 1936 - Ismail Kadare, Albanian writer
    • 1936 - Alan Alda, American actor, writer, and director
    • 1938 - Leonid Zhabotynsky, Ukrainian weightlifter
    • 1941 - Joel Crothers, American actor (d. 1985)
    • 1943 - Paul Henderson, Canadian ice hockey player
    • 1944 - John Tavener, English composer
    • 1945 - Robert Wyatt, English musician
    • 1948 - Mikhail Baryshnikov, Russian dancer
    • 1948 - Charles Taylor, President of Liberia
    • 1950 - Barbi Benton, American actress
    • 1950 - Hamad ibn Isa Al Khalifah, King of Bahrain
    • 1951 - Brian Bilbray, American politician
    • 1951 - Leonid Kadeniuk, Ukrainian cosmonaut
    • 1953 - Colin Campbell, Canadian ice hockey player and executive
    • 1953 - Chris Carter, English musician (Throbbing Gristle, Chris & Cosey)
    • 1954 - Rick Warren, American pastor and author
    • 1955 - Nicolas Sarkozy, President of France
    • 1957 - Mark Napier, Canadian ice hockey player
    • 1959 - Frank Darabont, American filmmaker
    • 1959 - Randi Rhodes, American personality
    • 1959 - Dave Sharp, Welsh guitarist (The Alarm)
    • 1960 - Robert von Dassanowsky, American cultural historian, writer, and producer
    • 1961 - Normand Rochefort, Canadian ice hockey player
    • 1962 - Sam Phillips, American singer
    • 1963 - Dan Spitz, American musician, guitarist for Anthrax
    • 1965 - Lynda Boyd, American actress
    • 1968 - Sarah McLachlan, Canadian singer and songwriter
    • 1968 - DJ Muggs, American musician (Cypress Hill)
    • 1968 - Rakim, born William Michael Griffin Jr., American rapper
    • 1969 - Kathryn Morris, American actress
    • 1969 - Mo Rocca, American writer and comedian
    • 1969 - Linda Sanchez, American politician
    • 1971 - Anthony Hamilton, American soul singer
    • 1972 - Nicky Southall, English footballer
    • 1974 - Tony Delk, American basketball player
    • 1974 - Jermaine Dye, American baseball player
    • 1974 - Magglio Ordóñez, Venezuelan baseball player
    • 1975 - David Zingler, American writer
    • 1975 - Anne Montminy, Canadian Olympic diver
    • 1975 - Lee Latchford-Evans, English singer
    • 1975 - Junior Spivey, American baseball player
    • 1975 - Terri Colombino, American Actress
    • 1976 - Mark Madsen, American basketball player
    • 1976 - Jarrod Montague, American drummer (Taproot)
    • 1976 - Lee Ingleby, British actor
    • 1976 - Miltiadis Sapanis, Greek footballer
    • 1976 - Emiko Kado, Japanese professional wrestler (d. 1999)
    • 1977 - Daunte Culpepper, American football player
    • 1977 - Joey Fatone, American singer (*NSYNC)
    • 1977 - Matt DeVries, American guitarist (Chimaira)
    • 1977 - Takuma Sato, Japanese Formula One driver
    • 1977 - Lyle Overbay, American baseball player
    • 1978 - Gianluigi Buffon, Italian footballer
    • 1978 - Jamie Carragher, English footballer
    • 1978 - Papa Bouba Diop, Senegalese footballer
    • 1979 - Pixie, English model
    • 1979 - Ali Boulala, Swedish skateboarder
    • 1980 - Nick Carter, American singer (Backstreet Boys)
    • 1980 - Jesse James Hollywood, American drug dealer and fugitive
    • 1981 - Rick Razzano, American football player
    • 1981 - Elijah Wood, American actor
    • 1984 - Andre Iguodala, American basketball player
    • 1985 - Arnold Mvuemba, French footballer
    • 1986 - Jessica Ennis, English heptathlete
    • 1986 - Shruti Haasan, Indian actress
    • 1988 - Henry Mortensen (actor), American actor

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