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.
- 1547 –Henry VIII dies. His nine year old son, Edward VI becomes King, and the first Protestant ruler of England.
- 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.
- 1760 –Pownal, Vermont is created by Benning Wentworth as one of the New Hampshire Grants.
- 1821 –Alexander Island is first discovered by Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen.
- 1846 –The Battle of Aliwal, India, is won by British troops commanded by Sir Harry Smith.
- 1855 –The first locomotive runs from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean on the Panama Railway.
- 1871 –Franco-Prussian War: the Siege of Paris ends in French defeat and an armistice.
- 1878 –Yale Daily News becomes the first daily college newspaper in the United States.
- 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.
- 1941 –French-Thai War: Final air battle of the conflict. Japanese-mediated armistice goes into effect later in the day.
- 1958 –The last episode of the British radio comedy programme Goon Show was broadcast.
- 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.
- 1985 –Supergroup USA for Africa (United Support of Artists for Africa) records the hit single We Are the World, to help raise funds for Ethiopian famine relief.
- 1986 –Space Shuttle program: STS-51-L mission – Space Shuttle Challenger breaks apart after liftoff killing all seven astronauts on board.
- 1998 –New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Earth Tiger in Chinese astrology.
- 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.
- 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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