January 28 Events |
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| 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, 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, 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, 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, 1958 (January 28 1958) | Event | The Lego company patented their design of Lego bricks, still compatible with bricks produced today. | |
| 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, 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, 1935 (January 28 1935) | Event | Iceland becomes the first Western country to legalize therapeutic abortion. | |
| January 28th, 1934 (January 28 1934) | Event | The first ski tow in the United States begins operation in Vermont. | |
| 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, 1932 (January 28 1932) | Event | Japanese forces attack Shanghai. | |
| 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 1878 (January 28 1878) | Event | Yale Daily News becomes the first daily, college newspaper in the United States. | |
| January 28th, 1871 (January 28 1871) | Event | Franco-Prussian War: Siege of Paris ends in French defeat and an armistice. | |
| 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, 1846 (January 28 1846) | Event | Battle of Aliwal, India won by British troops commanded by Sir Harry Smith. | |
| 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, 1813 (January 28 1813) | Event | Pride and Prejudice is first published in the United Kingdom. | |
| January 28th, 1760 (January 28 1760) | Event | Pownal, Vermont created by Benning Wentworth as one of the New Hampshire Grants. | |
| January 28th, 1754 (January 28 1754) | Event | Horace Walpole, in a letter to Horace Mann, coins the word serendipity. | Horace Mann Quotes |
| 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, 1624 (January 28 1624) | Event | Sir Thomas Warner founds the first British colony in the Caribbean, on Saint Kitts. | |
| 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, 1521 (January 28 1521) | Event | The Diet of Worms begins, lasting until May 25. | |
| January 28th, 1077 (January 28 1077) | Event | Walk to Canossa: The excommunication of Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor is lifted. | |
