January 28 All Events |
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| January 28th, 2008 (January 28 2008) | Death | Christodoulos, Archbishop of Athens and All Greece (born in 1939) | |
| January 28th, 2008 (January 28 2008) | Death | Bengt Lindstrom, Swedish artist (born in 1925) | |
| January 28th, 2007 (January 28 2007) | Death | Carlo Clerici, Swiss professional road racing cyclist (born in 1929) | |
| January 28th, 2007 (January 28 2007) | Death | Father Robert Drinan, Roman Catholic Priest and American politician (born in 1920) | |
| January 28th, 2007 (January 28 2007) | Death | Karel Svoboda, Czech composer of popular music (born in 1938) | |
| January 28th, 2007 (January 28 2007) | Death | Hsu Wei Lun, Taiwanese actress (born in 1978) | |
| January 28th, 2007 (January 28 2007) | Death | Yelena Romanova, Russian athlete (born in 1963) | |
| January 28th, 2007 (January 28 2007) | Death | Emma Tillman, the world s oldest living person from January 24-28, 2007 (born in 1892) | |
| January 28th, 2006 (January 28 2006) | Death | Yitzchak Kaduri, rabbi (born in around 1900) | |
| January 28th, 2006 (January 28 2006) | Death | Henry McGee, English comedian (born in 1929) | |
| January 28th, 2005 (January 28 2005) | Death | Jim Capaldi, English singer and songwriter (born in 1944) | |
| January 28th, 2005 (January 28 2005) | Death | Karen Lancaume, French actress (suicide) (born in 1973) | |
| January 28th, 2005 (January 28 2005) | Death | Jacques Villeret, French actor (born in 1951) | |
| January 28th, 2004 (January 28 2004) | Death | Lloyd M. Bucher, U.S. Navy officer (born in 1927) | |
| January 28th, 2004 (January 28 2004) | Death | Don Cholito, Puerto Rican radio host (born in 1923) | |
| January 28th, 2004 (January 28 2004) | Death | Elroy Hirsch, American football player (born in 1923) | |
| January 28th, 2004 (January 28 2004) | Death | Don Stansauk, American professional wrestler (born in 1936) | |
| January 28th, 2004 (January 28 2004) | Death | Joe Viterelli, American actor (born in 1937) | |
| January 28th, 2002 (January 28 2002) | Event | TAME Flight 120, a Boeing 727-100 crashes in the Andes mountains in southern Colombia killing 92. | |
| January 28th, 2002 (January 28 2002) | Death | Astrid Lindgren, Swedish author (born in 1907) | |
| January 28th, 2001 (January 28 2001) | Death | Curt Blefary, American baseball player (born in 1943) | |
| January 28th, 1999 (January 28 1999) | Death | Markey Robinson, Irish painter (born in 1918) | |
| January 28th, 1999 (January 28 1999) | Death | Torgny T:son Segerstedt, Swedish sociologist and philosopher (born in 1908) | Philo Quotes |
| January 28th, 1996 (January 28 1996) | Death | Joseph Brodsky, Russian-born poet, Nobel Laureate (born in 1940) | Joseph Brodsky Quotes |
| January 28th, 1996 (January 28 1996) | Death | Jerry Siegel, American cartoonist (born in 1914) | Jerry Siegel Quotes |
| January 28th, 1996 (January 28 1996) | Death | Burne Hogarth, American cartoonist (born in 1911) | |
| January 28th, 1994 (January 28 1994) | Death | Hal Smith, American actor (born in 1916) | |
| January 28th, 1988 (January 28 1988) | Birth | Henry Mortensen (actor), American actor | |
| January 28th, 1988 (January 28 1988) | Death | Klaus Fuchs, German physicist (born in 1911) | |
| January 28th, 1986 (January 28 1986) | Event | Space Shuttle program: STS-51-L mission (Space Shuttle Challenger disaster)Space Shuttle Challenger breaks apart after liftoff killing all seven astronauts onboard. | |
| January 28th, 1986 (January 28 1986) | Birth | Jessica Ennis, English heptathlete | |
| January 28th, 1986 (January 28 1986) | Birth | Shruti Haasan, Indian actress | |
| January 28th, 1986 (January 28 1986) | Death | Greg JarvisCrew of Space Shuttle Challenger (born in 1944) | |
| January 28th, 1986 (January 28 1986) | Death | Christa McAuliffeCrew of Space Shuttle Challenger (born in 1948) | |
| January 28th, 1986 (January 28 1986) | Death | Ronald McNairCrew of Space Shuttle Challenger (born in 1950) | |
| January 28th, 1986 (January 28 1986) | Death | Ellison OnizukaCrew of Space Shuttle Challenger (born in 1946) | |
| January 28th, 1986 (January 28 1986) | Death | Judith ResnikCrew of Space Shuttle Challenger (born in 1949) | |
| January 28th, 1986 (January 28 1986) | Death | Francis R. ScobeeCrew of Space Shuttle Challenger (born in 1939) | |
| January 28th, 1986 (January 28 1986) | Death | Michael J. SmithCrew of Space Shuttle Challenger (born in 1945) | |
| January 28th, 1985 (January 28 1985) | Birth | Arnold Mvuemba, French footballer | |
| January 28th, 1984 (January 28 1984) | Birth | Andre Iguodala, American basketball player | |
| January 28th, 1983 (January 28 1983) | Death | Billy Fury, British singer (born in 1940) | |
| January 28th, 1983 (January 28 1983) | Death | Frank Forde, 15th Prime Minister of Australia (born in 1890) | |
| January 28th, 1982 (January 28 1982) | Event | US Army general James L. Dozier is rescued by Italian anti-terrorism forces from captivity under the Red Brigades. | |
| January 28th, 1981 (January 28 1981) | Event | Ronald Reagan lifts remaining domestic petroleum price and allocation controls in the United States helping to end the 1979 energy crisis and begin the 1980s oil glut. | Ronald Reagan Quotes |
| January 28th, 1981 (January 28 1981) | Birth | Rick Razzano, American football player | |
| January 28th, 1981 (January 28 1981) | Birth | Elijah Wood, American actor | |
| January 28th, 1980 (January 28 1980) | Event | USCGC Blackthorn (WLB-391) collides with the tanker Capricorn while leaving Tampa Florida and capsizes killing 23 Coast Guard crewmembers. | |
| January 28th, 1980 (January 28 1980) | Birth | Nick Carter, American singer (Backstreet Boys) | |
| January 28th, 1980 (January 28 1980) | Birth | Jesse James Hollywood, American drug dealer and fugitive | James Wood Quotes |
| January 28th, 1979 (January 28 1979) | Birth | Pixie, English model | |
| January 28th, 1979 (January 28 1979) | Birth | Ali Boulala, Swedish skateboarder | |
| January 28th, 1979 (January 28 1979) | Death | Eileen Shanahan, Irish Poet (born in 1901) | |
| January 28th, 1978 (January 28 1978) | Birth | Gianluigi Buffon, Italian footballer | |
| January 28th, 1978 (January 28 1978) | Birth | Jamie Carragher, English footballer | |
| January 28th, 1978 (January 28 1978) | Birth | Papa Bouba Diop, Senegalese footballer | |
| January 28th, 1977 (January 28 1977) | Birth | Daunte Culpepper, American football player | |
| January 28th, 1977 (January 28 1977) | Birth | Joey Fatone, American singer (*NSYNC) | |
| January 28th, 1977 (January 28 1977) | Birth | Matt DeVries, American guitarist (Chimaira) | |
| January 28th, 1977 (January 28 1977) | Birth | Takuma Sato, Japanese Formula One driver | |
| January 28th, 1977 (January 28 1977) | Birth | Lyle Overbay, American baseball player | |
| January 28th, 1976 (January 28 1976) | Birth | Mark Madsen, American basketball player | |
| January 28th, 1976 (January 28 1976) | Birth | Jarrod Montague, American drummer (Taproot) | |
| January 28th, 1976 (January 28 1976) | Birth | Lee Ingleby, British actor | |
| January 28th, 1976 (January 28 1976) | Birth | Miltiadis Sapanis, Greek footballer | |
| January 28th, 1976 (January 28 1976) | Birth | Emiko Kado, Japanese professional wrestler (died in 1999) | |
| January 28th, 1975 (January 28 1975) | Birth | David Zingler, American writer | |
| January 28th, 1975 (January 28 1975) | Birth | Anne Montminy, Canadian Olympic diver | |
| January 28th, 1975 (January 28 1975) | Birth | Lee Latchford-Evans, English singer | Evans Quotes |
| January 28th, 1975 (January 28 1975) | Birth | Junior Spivey, American baseball player | |
| January 28th, 1975 (January 28 1975) | Birth | Terri Colombino, American Actress | |
| January 28th, 1974 (January 28 1974) | Birth | Tony Delk, American basketball player | |
| January 28th, 1974 (January 28 1974) | Birth | Jermaine Dye, American baseball player | |
| January 28th, 1974 (January 28 1974) | Birth | Magglio Ordonez, Venezuelan baseball player | |
| January 28th, 1973 (January 28 1973) | Death | John Banner, Austrian actor (born in 1910) | |
| January 28th, 1972 (January 28 1972) | Birth | Nicky Southall, English footballer | |
| January 28th, 1971 (January 28 1971) | Birth | Anthony Hamilton, American soul singer | |
| January 28th, 1971 (January 28 1971) | Death | Donald Winnicott, British psychoanalyst (born in 1896) | |
| January 28th, 1969 (January 28 1969) | Birth | Kathryn Morris, American actress | |
| January 28th, 1969 (January 28 1969) | Birth | Mo Rocca, American writer and comedian | |
| January 28th, 1969 (January 28 1969) | Birth | Linda Sanchez, American politician | |
| January 28th, 1968 (January 28 1968) | Birth | Sarah McLachlan, Canadian singer and songwriter | |
| January 28th, 1968 (January 28 1968) | Birth | DJ Muggs, American musician (Cypress Hill) | |
| January 28th, 1968 (January 28 1968) | Birth | Rakim, born William Michael Griffin Jr., American rapper | |
| January 28th, 1965 (January 28 1965) | Birth | Lynda Boyd, American actress | |
| January 28th, 1965 (January 28 1965) | Death | Tich Freeman, English cricketer (born in 1888) | |
| January 28th, 1965 (January 28 1965) | Death | Maxime Weygand, French soldier (born in 1867) | |
| January 28th, 1963 (January 28 1963) | Birth | Dan Spitz, American musician, guitarist for Anthrax | |
| January 28th, 1963 (January 28 1963) | Death | Gustave Garrigou, French cyclist (born in 1884) | |
| January 28th, 1962 (January 28 1962) | Birth | Keith Hamilton Cobb, American actor | |
| January 28th, 1962 (January 28 1962) | Birth | Sam Phillips, American singer | |
| January 28th, 1961 (January 28 1961) | Birth | Normand Rochefort, Canadian ice hockey player | |
| January 28th, 1960 (January 28 1960) | Birth | Robert von Dassanowsky, American cultural historian, writer, and producer | |
| January 28th, 1960 (January 28 1960) | Death | Zora Neale Hurston, American author (born in 1891) | Zora Neale Hurston Quotes |
| January 28th, 1959 (January 28 1959) | Birth | Frank Darabont, American filmmaker | |
| January 28th, 1959 (January 28 1959) | Birth | Burkhard Dallwitz, German-born composer | |
| January 28th, 1959 (January 28 1959) | Birth | Randi Rhodes, Nova M Radio personality | |
| January 28th, 1959 (January 28 1959) | Birth | Dave Sharp, Welsh guitarist (The Alarm) | |
| January 28th, 1959 (January 28 1959) | Death | Walter Beall, American baseball player (born in 1899) | |
| January 28th, 1958 (January 28 1958) | Event | The Lego company patented their design of Lego bricks, still compatible with bricks produced today. | |
| January 28th, 1957 (January 28 1957) | Birth | Frank Skinner English comedian | |
| January 28th, 1957 (January 28 1957) | Birth | Mark Napier, Canadian ice hockey player | |
| January 28th, 1955 (January 28 1955) | Birth | Nicolas Sarkozy, President of France | |
| January 28th, 1954 (January 28 1954) | Birth | Rick Warren, American pastor and author | Rick Warren Quotes |
| January 28th, 1953 (January 28 1953) | Birth | Colin Campbell, Canadian ice hockey player and executive | |
| January 28th, 1953 (January 28 1953) | Birth | Chris Carter, English musician (Throbbing Gristle, Chris & Cosey) | |
| January 28th, 1953 (January 28 1953) | Death | James Scullin, 9th Prime Minister of Australia (born in 1876) | |
| January 28th, 1953 (January 28 1953) | Death | Derek Bentley (born in 1933) (executed) | |
| January 28th, 1951 (January 28 1951) | Birth | Brian Bilbray, American politician | |
| January 28th, 1951 (January 28 1951) | Birth | Leonid Kadeniuk, Ukrainian cosmonaut | |
| January 28th, 1951 (January 28 1951) | Death | Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim, president of Finland (b.1867) | |
| January 28th, 1950 (January 28 1950) | Birth | Barbi Benton, American actress | |
| January 28th, 1950 (January 28 1950) | Birth | Hamad ibn Isa Al Khalifah, King of Bahrain | |
| January 28th, 1950 (January 28 1950) | Birth | Bob Hay, American songwriter and musician (Squalls, Bob Hay & the Jolly Beggars, Supercluster) | |
| January 28th, 1950 (January 28 1950) | Death | Nikolai Luzin, Russian mathematician (born in 1883) | |
| January 28th, 1949 (January 28 1949) | Birth | Gregg Popovich, NBA Basketball Coach | |
| January 28th, 1949 (January 28 1949) | Death | Jean-Pierre Wimille, French race car driver (born in 1908) | |
| January 28th, 1948 (January 28 1948) | Birth | Mikhail Baryshnikov, Russian dancer | |
| January 28th, 1948 (January 28 1948) | Birth | Charles Taylor, President of Liberia | |
| January 28th, 1947 (January 28 1947) | Death | Reynaldo Hahn, French composer (born in 1875) | |
| January 28th, 1945 (January 28 1945) | Event | World War II: Supplies begin to reach the Republic of China over the newly reopened Burma Road. | |
| January 28th, 1945 (January 28 1945) | Birth | Robert Wyatt, English musician | |
| January 28th, 1944 (January 28 1944) | Birth | Susan Howard, American actress | |
| January 28th, 1944 (January 28 1944) | Birth | John Tavener, English composer | |
| January 28th, 1943 (January 28 1943) | Birth | Paul Henderson, Canadian ice hockey player | |
| January 28th, 1943 (January 28 1943) | Birth | Dick Taylor, English musician (The Rolling Stones and The Pretty Things) | |
| January 28th, 1941 (January 28 1941) | Birth | Joel Crothers, American actor (died in 1985) | |
| January 28th, 1940 (January 28 1940) | Birth | Carlos Slim Helu, Mexican businessman | |
| January 28th, 1939 (January 28 1939) | Death | William Butler Yeats, Irish writer, Nobel Prize Laureate (born in 1865) | William Butler Yeats Quotes |
| January 28th, 1938 (January 28 1938) | Event | The World Land Speed Record on a public road is broken by driver Rudolf Caracciola in the Mercedes-Benz W195. | |
| January 28th, 1938 (January 28 1938) | Birth | Leonid Zhabotynsky, Ukrainian weightlifter | |
| January 28th, 1938 (January 28 1938) | Death | Bernd Rosemeyer, German racecar driver (born in 1909) | |
| January 28th, 1937 (January 28 1937) | Death | Anastasios Metaxas, Greek architect and shooter (born in 1862) | |
| January 28th, 1936 (January 28 1936) | Birth | Ismail Kadare, Albanian writer | |
| January 28th, 1936 (January 28 1936) | Birth | Alan Alda, American actor, writer, and director | Alan Alda Quotes |
| January 28th, 1935 (January 28 1935) | Event | Iceland becomes the first Western country to legalize therapeutic abortion. | |
| January 28th, 1935 (January 28 1935) | Birth | David Lodge, English author | David Lodge Quotes |
| January 28th, 1935 (January 28 1935) | Death | Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov, Russian composer (born in 1859) | |
| January 28th, 1934 (January 28 1934) | Event | The first ski tow in the United States begins operation in Vermont. | |
| January 28th, 1934 (January 28 1934) | Birth | Juan Manuel Bordeu, Argentine racing driver (died in 1990) | |
| January 28th, 1934 (January 28 1934) | Birth | Mitr Chaibancha, Thai actor (died in 1970) | |
| January 28th, 1933 (January 28 1933) | Event | 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. | |
| January 28th, 1933 (January 28 1933) | Birth | Jack Hill, American film director | |
| January 28th, 1932 (January 28 1932) | Event | Japanese forces attack Shanghai. | |
| January 28th, 1929 (January 28 1929) | Birth | Acker Bilk, English jazz clarinetist | |
| January 28th, 1929 (January 28 1929) | Birth | Claes Oldenburg, Swedish-born artist | |
| January 28th, 1927 (January 28 1927) | Birth | Ronnie Scott, British jazz tenor saxophonist and jazz club owner (died in 1996) | |
| January 28th, 1927 (January 28 1927) | Birth | Hiroshi Teshigahara, Japanese director (died in 2001) | |
| January 28th, 1922 (January 28 1922) | Event | Knickerbocker Storm, Washington D.C. s biggest snowfall, causes the city s greatest loss of life when the roof of the Knickerbocker Theater collapses. | |
| January 28th, 1922 (January 28 1922) | Birth | Robert W. Holley, American biochemist, Nobel Laureate (died in 1993) | Robert Ley Quotes |
| January 28th, 1921 (January 28 1921) | Event | A symbolic Tomb of the Unknown Soldier is installed beneath the Arc de Triomphe in Paris to honor the unknown dead of World War I. | |
| January 28th, 1919 (January 28 1919) | Birth | Francis Gabreski, American fighter pilot (died in 2002) | |
| January 28th, 1918 (January 28 1918) | Event | Finnish Civil War: Rebels seized control of the capital, Helsinki, and members of the Senate of Finland go underground. | |
| January 28th, 1918 (January 28 1918) | Birth | Harry Corbett, English puppeteer (Sooty) (died in 1989) | |
| January 28th, 1918 (January 28 1918) | Birth | Trevor Skeet, New Zealand-born British politician (died in 2004) | |
| January 28th, 1918 (January 28 1918) | Death | John McCrae, Canadian poet (born in 1872) | |
| January 28th, 1917 (January 28 1917) | Event | Municipally owned streetcars take to the streets of San Francisco, California. | |
| January 28th, 1916 (January 28 1916) | Event | Louis D. Brandeis becomes the first Jew appointed to the United States Supreme Court. | |
| January 28th, 1915 (January 28 1915) | Event | An act of the U.S. Congress creates the United States Coast Guard. | |
| January 28th, 1915 (January 28 1915) | Death | Nikolay Umov, Russian physicist (born in 1846) | |
| January 28th, 1912 (January 28 1912) | Birth | Jackson Pollock, American painter (died in 1956) | Jackson Pollock Quotes |
| January 28th, 1912 (January 28 1912) | Death | Gustave de Molinari, Belgian economist (born in 1819) | |
| January 28th, 1910 (January 28 1910) | Birth | John Banner, Austrian actor (died in 1973) | |
| January 28th, 1910 (January 28 1910) | Birth | Arnold Moss, American actor (died in 1989) | |
| January 28th, 1910 (January 28 1910) | Birth | Verda Bryant, American author | |
| January 28th, 1909 (January 28 1909) | Event | United States troops leave Cuba with the exception of Guantanamo Bay Naval Base after being there since the Spanish-American War. | |
| January 28th, 1909 (January 28 1909) | Birth | John Thomson, Scottish footballer (died in 1931) | John Scott Quotes |
| January 28th, 1908 (January 28 1908) | Birth | Paul Misraki, French composer and songwriter (died in 1998) | |
| January 28th, 1904 (January 28 1904) | Birth | Canuplin, Filipino magician and bodabil entertainer (died in 1979) | |
| January 28th, 1903 (January 28 1903) | Birth | Aleksander Kaminski, Polish writer (died in 1978) | |
| January 28th, 1903 (January 28 1903) | Death | Augusta Holmes, French composer (born in 1847) | |
| January 28th, 1902 (January 28 1902) | Event | The Carnegie Institution is founded in Washington, DC with a $10 million gift from Andrew Carnegie. | Andrew Carnegie Quotes |
| January 28th, 1899 (January 28 1899) | Birth | Elias Simojoki, Finnish clergyman and politician (died in 1940) | |
| January 28th, 1897 (January 28 1897) | Birth | Valentin Kataev, Russian writer (died in 1986) | |
| January 28th, 1892 (January 28 1892) | Birth | Ernst Lubitsch, German-born film director (died in 1947) | |
| January 28th, 1891 (January 28 1891) | Birth | Bill Doak, American baseball player (died in 1954) | |
| January 28th, 1890 (January 28 1890) | Birth | Robert Stroud, American convict, the Birdman of Alcatraz (died in 1963) | |
| January 28th, 1887 (January 28 1887) | Event | 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. | |
| January 28th, 1887 (January 28 1887) | Birth | Arthur Rubinstein, Polish pianist and conductor (died in 1982) | |
| January 28th, 1886 (January 28 1886) | Birth | Marthe Bibesco, Romanian writer (died in 1973) | |
| January 28th, 1884 (January 28 1884) | Birth | Auguste Piccard, Swiss physicist (died in 1962) | |
| January 28th, 1880 (January 28 1880) | Birth | Herbert Strudwick, English cricketer (died in 1970) | |
| January 28th, 1879 (January 28 1879) | Birth | Francis Picabia, French-born painter and poet (died in 1953) | |
| January 28th, 1878 (January 28 1878) | Event | Yale Daily News becomes the first daily, college newspaper in the United States. | |
| January 28th, 1874 (January 28 1874) | Birth | Vsevolod Meyerhold, Russian theatre director (died in 1940) | |
| January 28th, 1873 (January 28 1873) | Birth | Colette, French writer (died in 1954) | |
| January 28th, 1871 (January 28 1871) | Event | Franco-Prussian War: Siege of Paris ends in French defeat and an armistice. | |
| January 28th, 1865 (January 28 1865) | Birth | Lala Lajpat Rai, Indian freedom fighter (died in 1928) | |
| January 28th, 1865 (January 28 1865) | Birth | Kaarlo Juho Stahlberg, first president of Finland (died in 1952) | |
| January 28th, 1864 (January 28 1864) | Birth | Charles W. Nash, co-founder of Nash Motors, which would become American Motors as well as co-founder of Buick (died in 1948) | |
| January 28th, 1864 (January 28 1864) | Birth | Herbert Akroyd Stuart, English engineerinventor of the first compression ignition engine (died in 1927) | |
| January 28th, 1864 (January 28 1864) | Death | Emile Clapeyron, French engineer and physicist (born in 1799) | |
| January 28th, 1863 (January 28 1863) | Birth | Ernst William Christmas, Australian painter (died in 1918) | |
| January 28th, 1859 (January 28 1859) | Death | Frederick John Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (born in 1782) | |
| January 28th, 1855 (January 28 1855) | Event | The first locomotive runs from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean on the Panama Railway. | |
| January 28th, 1855 (January 28 1855) | Birth | William Seward Burroughs I, American inventor (died in 1898) | |
| January 28th, 1853 (January 28 1853) | Birth | Jose Marti, Cuban revolutionary (died in 1895) | Jose Marti Quotes |
| January 28th, 1846 (January 28 1846) | Event | Battle of Aliwal, India won by British troops commanded by Sir Harry Smith. | |
| January 28th, 1841 (January 28 1841) | Birth | Henry Morton Stanley, Welsh-born explorer and journalist (died in 1904) | |
| January 28th, 1833 (January 28 1833) | Birth | Charles George Chinese Gordon, British soldier and administrator (died in 1885) | |
| January 28th, 1832 (January 28 1832) | Death | Augustin Daniel Belliard, French general (born in 1769) | |
| January 28th, 1822 (January 28 1822) | Birth | Alexander Mackenzie, 2nd Prime Minister of Canada (died in 1892) | |
| January 28th, 1820 (January 28 1820) | Event | Russian expedition led by Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen and Mikhail Petrovich Lazarev discovered the Antarctic continent approaching the Antarctic coast. | |
| January 28th, 1818 (January 28 1818) | Birth | George S. Boutwell, 20th Governor of Massachusetts (died in 1905) | |
| January 28th, 1813 (January 28 1813) | Event | Pride and Prejudice is first published in the United Kingdom. | |
| January 28th, 1784 (January 28 1784) | Birth | George Hamilton Gordon Aberdeen, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (died in 1860) | |
| January 28th, 1760 (January 28 1760) | Event | Pownal, Vermont created by Benning Wentworth as one of the New Hampshire Grants. | |
| January 28th, 1755 (January 28 1755) | Birth | Samuel Thomas von Sommering, German physician (died in 1830) | |
| January 28th, 1754 (January 28 1754) | Event | Horace Walpole, in a letter to Horace Mann, coins the word serendipity. | Horace Mann Quotes |
| January 28th, 1754 (January 28 1754) | Death | Ludvig Holberg, Norwegian historian and writer (born in 1684) | |
| January 28th, 1724 (January 28 1724) | Event | 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. | |
| January 28th, 1719 (January 28 1719) | Birth | Johann Elias Schlegel, German critic and poet (died in 1749) | |
| January 28th, 1717 (January 28 1717) | Birth | Mustafa III, Ottoman Sultan (died in 1774) | |
| January 28th, 1712 (January 28 1712) | Birth | Tokugawa Ieshige, Japanese shogun (died in 1761) | |
| January 28th, 1706 (January 28 1706) | Birth | John Baskerville, English printer (died in 1775) | |
| January 28th, 1701 (January 28 1701) | Birth | Charles Marie de La Condamine, French mathematician and geographer (died in 1774) | |
| January 28th, 1697 (January 28 1697) | Death | John Fenwick, English conspirator | |
| January 28th, 1687 (January 28 1687) | Death | Johannes Hevelius, Polish astronomer (born in 1611) | |
| January 28th, 1681 (January 28 1681) | Death | Richard Allestree, English royalist churchman (born in 1619) | |
| January 28th, 1672 (January 28 1672) | Death | Pierre Seguier, Chancellor of France (born in 1588) | |
| January 28th, 1624 (January 28 1624) | Event | Sir Thomas Warner founds the first British colony in the Caribbean, on Saint Kitts. | |
| January 28th, 1622 (January 28 1622) | Birth | Adrien Auzout, French astronomer (died in 1691) | |
| January 28th, 1621 (January 28 1621) | Death | Pope Paul V (born in 1550) | |
| January 28th, 1613 (January 28 1613) | Death | Thomas Bodley, English diplomat and library founder (born in 1545) | |
| January 28th, 1611 (January 28 1611) | Birth | Johannes Hevelius, astronomer (died in 1687) | |
| January 28th, 1608 (January 28 1608) | Birth | Giovanni Alfonso Borelli, Italian physiologist and physicist (died in 1679) | |
| January 28th, 1600 (January 28 1600) | Birth | Pope Clement IX (died in 1669) | |
| January 28th, 1599 (January 28 1599) | Death | Cristofano Malvezzi, Italian composer (born in 1547) | |
| January 28th, 1596 (January 28 1596) | Death | Sir Francis Drake, English explorer and soldier | |
| January 28th, 1582 (January 28 1582) | Birth | John Barclay, Scottish writer (died in 1621) | John Scott Quotes |
| January 28th, 1573 (January 28 1573) | Event | Articles of Warsaw Confederation are signed, sanctioning freedom of religion in Poland. | |
| January 28th, 1547 (January 28 1547) | Event | Henry VIII dies. His nine year old son, Edward VI becomes King, and the first Protestant ruler of England. | |
| January 28th, 1547 (January 28 1547) | Death | King Henry VIII of England (born in 1491) | Henry VIII of England Quotes |
| January 28th, 1540 (January 28 1540) | Birth | Ludolph van Ceulen, German mathematician (died in 1610) | |
| January 28th, 1521 (January 28 1521) | Event | The Diet of Worms begins, lasting until May 25. | |
| January 28th, 1457 (January 28 1457) | Birth | King Henry VII of England (died in 1509) | |
| January 28th, 1443 (January 28 1443) | Death | Robert le Macon, Chancellor of France | |
| January 28th, 1312 (January 28 1312) | Birth | Queen Joan II of Navarre (died in 1349) | |
| January 28th, 1271 (January 28 1271) | Death | Isabella of Aragon, queen of Philip III of France (born in 1247) | |
| January 28th, 1225 (January 28 1225) | Birth | Saint Thomas Aquinas (died in 1274) | Thomas Aquinas Quotes |
| January 28th, 1077 (January 28 1077) | Event | Walk to Canossa: The excommunication of Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor is lifted. | |
| January 28th, 1061 (January 28 1061) | Death | Duke Spytihnev II of Bohemia (born in 1031) | |
| January 28th, 0814 (January 28 0814) | Death | Charlemagne (born in 742) | Charlemagne Quotes |
