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Birthday January 28, 1457 Henry VII, king of England (1485-1509) |
Birthday January 28, 1611 Johannes Hevelius, Danzig star cataloguer |
Birthday January 28, 1822 Alexander MacKenzie, (L), 2nd prime minister of Canada (1873-78) |
Birthday January 28, 1828 Thomas Hindman born |
Birthday January 28, 1841 Henry Stanley, explorer who found Livingstone |
Birthday January 28, 1853 Jose Marti, Cuban poet and essayist and politician |
Birthday January 28, 1855 William Seward Burroughs, inventor of recording adding machine |
Birthday January 28, 1869 Ozaki Koyo, Japanese novelist and essayist and haiku poet (The Heart) |
Birthday January 28, 1873 Colette is born |
Birthday January 28, 1884 Auguste & Jean Felix Piccard, Swiss scientists and explorers |
Birthday January 28, 1887 Artur Rubinstein, pianist |
Birthday January 28, 1922 Robert W Holley, American biochemist and worked with tRNA (Nobel '68) |
Birthday January 28, 1929 Claes Oldenburg, sculptor |
Birthday January 28, 1933 Susan Sontag, author and film director |
Birthday January 28, 1936 Alan Alda, Actor (Hawkeye Pierce) |
Birthday January 28, 1948 Mikhail Baryshnikov, ballet dancer |
History January 28, 1613 Galileo may have unknowingly viewed undiscovered planet Neptune |
History January 28, 1687 Johannes Hevelius dies |
History January 28, 1777 British plan to isolate New England |
History January 28, 1807 London's Pall Mall is 1st st lit by gaslight |
History January 28, 1821 Bellingshausen discovers Alexander Island off Antarctica |
History January 28, 1855 First train crosses the Panamanian isthmus |
History January 28, 1860 Britain formally returns Mosquito Coast to Nicaragua |
History January 28, 1871 Paris surrenders to Germans |
History January 28, 1878 1st telephone exchange New Haven Connecticut George W Coy hired as 1st full-time telephone operator |
History January 28, 1878 Yale Daily News published - 1st college daily newspaper |
History January 28, 1909 US milt forces leave Cuba for 2nd time |
History January 28, 1915 Germans sink American merchant ship |
History January 28, 1915 US Coast Guard established |
History January 28, 1916 Wilson nominates Brandeis to the Supreme Court |
History January 28, 1917 U.S. ends search for Pancho Villa |
History January 28, 1932 1st US state unemployment insurance act enacted - Wisconsin |
History January 28, 1938 1st Ski Tow starts running (in Vermont) |
History January 28, 1945 Burma Road is reopened |
History January 28, 1953 J Fred Muggs (the chimp) joins Today show |
History January 28, 1956 Elvis Presley's 1st TV appearance (Dorsey Bros Stage Show) |
History January 28, 1958 Construction began on 1st private thorium-uranium nuclear reactor |
History January 28, 1958 Killer couple strikes the heartland |
History January 28, 1959 Vince Lombardi hired as Packers coach |
History January 28, 1960 1st photograph bounced off moon Washington DC |
History January 28, 1964 Soviets shoot down U.S. jet |
History January 28, 1973 Cease-fire goes into effect |
History January 28, 1975 Ford asks for additional aid |
History January 28, 1978 Ranger's Don Murdoch failed on 4th penalty shot against Islanders |
History January 28, 1985 American recording artists gather to record We Are the World |
History January 28, 1986 Challenger lost after liftoff |
History January 28, 1986 25th Space Shuttle - Challenger 10 explodes 73 sec after liftoff |
History January 28, 1997 Afrikaner police admit to killing Stephen Biko |
History January 28, 2006 Clint Eastwood honored by Directors Guild of America |
History January 28, 2009 Shuttin' Detroit Down debuts |