About January 28
January 28, 2025 is the 28th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 337 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday.
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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 is one day remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On January 28
- 1077 –Walk to Canossa: The excommunication of Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor is lifted.
- 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.
- 1871 –Franco-Prussian War: the Siege of Paris ends in French defeat and an armistice.
- 1887 –In a snowstorm at Fort Keogh, Montana, the world’s largest snowflakes are reported, 15 in wide and 8 in thick.
- 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.
- 1908 –Members of the Portuguese Republican Party fail in their attempted coup d'état against the administrative dictatorship of Prime Minister João Franco.
- 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.
- 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 the United States begins operation in Vermont.
- 1941 –French-Thai War: Final air battle of the conflict. Japanese-mediated armistice goes into effect later in the day.
- 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.
- 1965 –The current design of the Flag of Canada is chosen by an act of Parliament.
- 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.
- 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.
- 2011 –Hundreds of thousands of protesters filled up the Egyptian’s streets in demonstrations referred to as “Friday of Anger” against the Mubarak regime.
- 2036 –New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Fire Dragon in Chinese astrology.
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