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
- 1521 –The Diet of Worms begins, lasting until May 25.
- 1624 –Sir Thomas Warner founds the first British colony in the Caribbean, on the island of Saint Kitts.
- 1754 –Horace Walpole coins the word serendipity in a letter to Horace Mann.
- 1851 –Northwestern University becomes the first chartered university in Illinois.
- 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.
- 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 –New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Water Dog in Chinese astrology.
- 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.
- 1945 –World War II: Supplies begin to reach the Republic of China over the newly reopened Burma Road.
- 1956 –Elvis Presley made his first US TV appearance
- 1958 –The Lego company patents the design of its Lego bricks, still compatible with bricks produced today.
- 1964 –An unarmed USAF T-39 Sabreliner on a training mission is shot down over Erfurt, East Germany, by a Soviet MiG-19.
- 1965 –The current design of the Flag of Canada is chosen by an act of Parliament.
- 1980 –USCGC Blackthorn collides with the tanker Capricorn while leaving Tampa Florida and capsizes killing 23 Coast Guard crewmembers.
- 1982 –US Army general James L. Dozier is rescued by Italian anti-terrorism forces from captivity by the Red Brigades.
- 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.
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