About January 28
January 28, 2023 is the 28th day of the year 2023 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 337 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.
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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 378 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On January 28
- 1521 –The Diet of Worms begins, lasting until May 25.
- 1760 –Pownal, Vermont is created by Benning Wentworth as one of the New Hampshire Grants.
- 1813 –Pride and Prejudice is first published in the United Kingdom.
- 1820 –A Russian expedition led by Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen and Mikhail Petrovich Lazarev discovers the Antarctic continent approaching the Antarctic coast.
- 1821 –Alexander Island is first discovered by Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen.
- 1846 –The Battle of Aliwal, India, is won by British troops commanded by Sir Harry Smith.
- 1851 –Northwestern University becomes the first chartered university in Illinois.
- 1878 –Yale Daily News becomes the first daily college newspaper in the United States.
- 1909 –United States troops leave Cuba with the exception of Guantanamo Bay Naval Base after being there since the Spanish-American War.
- 1918 –Finnish Civil War: Rebels seized control of the capital, Helsinki, and members of the Senate of Finland go underground.
- 1922 –Knickerbocker Storm, Washington D.C.'s biggest snowfall, causes the city’s greatest loss of life when the roof of the Knickerbocker Theatre collapses.
- 1922 –New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Water Dog in Chinese astrology.
- 1932 –Japanese forces attack Shanghai.
- 1935 –Iceland becomes the first Western country to legalize therapeutic abortion.
- 1945 –World War II: Supplies begin to reach the Republic of China over the newly reopened Burma Road.
- 1958 –The Lego company patents the design of its Lego bricks, still compatible with bricks produced today.
- 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.
- 1985 –Supergroup USA for Africa (United Support of Artists for Africa) records the hit single We Are the World, to help raise funds for Ethiopian famine relief.
- 2002 –TAME Flight 120, a Boeing 727-100 crashes in the Andes mountains in southern Colombia killing 92.
- 2006 –The roof of one of the buildings at the Katowice International Fair in Chorzów / Katowice, Poland, collapses due to the weight of snow, killing 65 and injuring more than 170 others.
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