About January 28
January 28, 2021 is the 28th day of the year 2021 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 337 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday.
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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 15 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.
- 1754 –Horace Walpole coins the word serendipity in a letter to Horace Mann.
- 1813 –Pride and Prejudice is first published in the United Kingdom.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1958 –The Lego company patents the design of its Lego bricks, still compatible with bricks produced today.
- 1958 –The last episode of the British radio comedy programme Goon Show was broadcast.
- 1964 –An unarmed USAF T-39 Sabreliner on a training mission is shot down over Erfurt, East Germany, by a Soviet MiG-19.
- 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.
- 1980 –USCGC Blackthorn collides with the tanker Capricorn while leaving Tampa Florida and capsizes killing 23 Coast Guard crewmembers.
- 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.
- 2010 –Five murderers of President Sheikh Mujibur Rahman of Bangladesh: Lieutenant Colonel Syed Faruq Rahman, Lieutenant Colonel Sultan Shahriar Rashid Khan, Major AKM Mohiuddin Ahmed, Major Bazlul Huda and Lieutenant Colonel Mohiuddin Ahmed are hanged.
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