About January 28
January 28, 2024 is the 28th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 338 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday.
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Aquarius is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Garnet is the modern birthstone for this month. Emerald is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 13 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On January 28
- 1547 –Henry VIII dies. His nine year old son, Edward VI becomes King, and the first Protestant ruler of England.
- 1573 –Articles of the Warsaw Confederation are signed, sanctioning freedom of religion in Poland.
- 1851 –Northwestern University becomes the first chartered university in Illinois.
- 1855 –The first locomotive runs from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean on the Panama Railway.
- 1871 –Franco-Prussian War: the Siege of Paris ends in French defeat and an armistice.
- 1878 –Yale Daily News becomes the first daily college newspaper in the United States.
- 1896 –Walter Arnold of East Peckham, Kent became the first person to be convicted of speeding. He is fined 1 shilling, plus costs, for speeding at 8 mph, thus exceeding the contemporary speed limit of 2 mph.
- 1902 –The Carnegie Institution of Washington is founded in Washington, D.C. with a $10 million gift from Andrew Carnegie.
- 1915 –An act of the U.S. Congress creates the United States Coast Guard.
- 1934 –The first ski tow in the United States 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 at a speed of 432.7 km/h.
- 1941 –French-Thai War: Final air battle of the conflict. Japanese-mediated armistice goes into effect later in the day.
- 1956 –Elvis Presley made his first US TV appearance
- 1958 –The last episode of the British radio comedy programme Goon Show was broadcast.
- 1977 –The first day of the Great Lakes Blizzard of 1977, which severely affects and cripples much of Upstate New York, but Buffalo, NY, Syracuse, NY, Watertown, NY, and surrounding areas are most affected, each area accumulating close to 10 ft of snow on this one day.
- 1979 –New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Earth Sheep in Chinese astrology.
- 1982 –US Army general James L. Dozier is rescued by Italian anti-terrorism forces from captivity by the Red Brigades.
- 1986 –Space Shuttle program: STS-51-L mission – Space Shuttle Challenger breaks apart after liftoff killing all seven astronauts on board.
- 2002 –TAME Flight 120, a Boeing 727-100 crashes in the Andes mountains in southern Colombia killing 92.
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