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
- 1077 –Walk to Canossa: The excommunication of Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor is lifted.
- 1573 –Articles of the Warsaw Confederation are signed, sanctioning freedom of religion in Poland.
- 1724 –The Russian Academy of Sciences is founded in St. Petersburg by Peter the Great, and implemented by Senate decree. It is called the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences until 1917.
- 1754 –Horace Walpole coins the word serendipity in a letter to Horace Mann.
- 1821 –Alexander Island is first discovered by Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen.
- 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.
- 1915 –An act of the U.S. Congress creates the United States Coast Guard.
- 1917 –Municipally owned streetcars take to the streets of San Francisco, California.
- 1918 –Finnish Civil War: Rebels seized control of the capital, Helsinki, and members of the Senate of Finland go underground.
- 1934 –The first ski tow in the United States begins operation in Vermont.
- 1979 –New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Earth Sheep in Chinese astrology.
- 1981 –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.
- 1984 –Tropical Storm Domoina makes landfall in southern Mozambique, eventually causing 214 deaths and some of the most severe flooding so far recorded in the region.
- 1986 –Space Shuttle program: STS-51-L mission – Space Shuttle Challenger breaks apart after liftoff killing all seven astronauts on board.
- 1988 –The last episode of the British TV series Yes, Prime Minister, entitled The Tangled Web, was broadcast.
- 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.
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