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

  • 1521 –
    The Diet of Worms begins, lasting until May 25.
  • 1547 –
    Henry VIII dies. His nine year old son, Edward VI becomes King, and the first Protestant ruler of England.
  • 1573 –
    Articles of the Warsaw Confederation are signed, sanctioning freedom of religion in Poland.
  • 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.
  • 1846 –
    The Battle of Aliwal, India, is won by British troops commanded by Sir Harry Smith.
  • 1902 –
    The Carnegie Institution of Washington is founded in Washington, D.C. with a $10 million gift from Andrew Carnegie.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 1932 –
    Japanese forces attack Shanghai.
  • 1934 –
    The first ski tow in the United States begins operation in Vermont.
  • 1935 –
    Iceland becomes the first Western country to legalize therapeutic abortion.
  • 1941 –
    French-Thai War: Final air battle of the conflict. Japanese-mediated armistice goes into effect later in the day.
  • 1958 –
    The Lego company patents the design of its Lego bricks, still compatible with bricks produced today.
  • 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.
  • 1988 –
    The last episode of the British TV series Yes, Prime Minister, entitled The Tangled Web, was broadcast.
  • 1998 –
    New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Earth Tiger in Chinese astrology.
  • 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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