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28 Jan 1099
1st Crusaders begins siege of Hosn-el-Akrad Syria
28 Jan 1262
Flemish Dutch coast ravaged by north westerly storm
28 Jan 1393
Fire during Royal Ball in Paris 4 die (Ball of the Ardents)
28 Jan 1495
Pope Alexander VI (Roderic Llanol i de Borgia) gives his son Cesare as hostage to Charles VIII of France
28 Jan 1561
By Edict of Orleans French persecution of Huguenots is suspended
28 Jan 1573
Articles of Warsaw Confederation are signed sanctioning freedom of religion in Poland.
28 Jan 1624
Sir Thomas Warner founds the first English colony in the Caribbean on Saint Kitts.
28 Jan 1689
English parliament resolves that the throne is vacant
28 Jan 1754
Horace Walpole in a letter to Horace Mann coins the word serendipity
28 Jan 1760
Pownal Vermont created by Benning Wentworth as one of the New Hampshire Grants
28 Jan 1788
Lord Gordon found guilty of libel of Queen of France
28 Jan 1807
Londons Pall Mall is 1st street lit by gaslight
28 Jan 1824
William Kneass becomes 3rd US chief engraver (-40)
28 Jan 1830
Opera Fra Diavolo by Daniel Auber premieres in Paris
28 Jan 1846
Battle of Allwal British beat Sikhs in Punjab
28 Jan 1848
King of Naples grants his subjects a constitution
28 Jan 1855
The first locomotive runs from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean on the Panama Railway
28 Jan 1860
Britain formally returns Mosquito Coast to Nicaragua
28 Jan 1878
1st telephone exchange (New Haven Connecticut)
28 Jan 1878
George W Coy hired as 1st full-time telephone operator
28 Jan 1878
Yale Daily News published 1st college daily newspaper
28 Jan 1881
Battle at Laings Neck Natal Boers beat superior powered British
28 Jan 1887
England all out for 45 v Aust SCG their lowest total ever
28 Jan 1904
1st college sports letters given to Seniors who played on University of Chicagos football team are awarded blankets with letter C on them
28 Jan 1911
Frenchman Henri Rougier wins 1st Rally of Monte Carlo
28 Jan 1915
1st US ship lost in WW I William P Frye (carrying wheat to UK)
28 Jan 1915
The United States Coast Guard is created by merging the US Life Saving Service & the US Revenue Cutter Service
28 Jan 1916
Louis Brandeis is appointed to the Supreme Court of the United States after being nominated by President Woodrow Wilson
28 Jan 1916
German colony of Cameroon surrenders to Britain & France
28 Jan 1917
Municipally owned streetcars take to the streets of San Francisco California
28 Jan 1918
Finnish Civil War Rebels seized control of the capital Helsinki and members of the Senate of Finland go underground.
28 Jan 1922
J E Clair turns Green Bay franchise back to NFL
28 Jan 1922
Knickerbocker Storm Washington D.C.s biggest snowfall causes the citys greatest loss of life when the roof of the Knickerbocker Theater collapses killing 98 patrons
28 Jan 1923
Demonstration against a Dutch University in Ghent
28 Jan 1925
-46F (-43C) Pittsburgh New Hampshire (state record)
28 Jan 1927
Serbian-Croatian-Slavic government of Oezonowitsj falls
28 Jan 1929
Australian Championships Womens Tennis Adelaide Daphne Akhurst retains title beats Louise Bickerton 6-1 5-7 6-2
28 Jan 1929
Australian Championships Mens Tennis Englishman Colin Gregory wins his only Grad Slam title beating Richard Schlesinger of Australia 6-2 6-2 5-7 7-5
28 Jan 1887
In a snowstorm at Fort Keogh Montana the worlds largest snowflakes are reported being 15 inches (38 cm) wide and 8 inches (20 cm) thick.
28 Jan 1893
Edward Mcdowells Hamlet & Ophelia premieres in Boston
28 Jan 1899
American Social Science Association incorporated by Congress
28 Jan 1902
Carnegie Institute founded in Washington D.C.
28 Jan 1932
1st US state unemployment insurance act enacted (Wisconsin)
28 Jan 1933
The name Pakistan is coined by Choudhry Rahmat Ali and gradually accepted by Muslims in the Indian sub-continent who use it to push for a separate Muslim homeland in South Asia
28 Jan 1934
1st US ski tow (rope) begins operation (Woodstock Vermont)
28 Jan 1935
Iceland becomes 1st western country to legalize abortion
28 Jan 1939
Australian Championships Womens Tennis In an all-Australian final Emily Hood Westacott beats Nell Hall Hopman 6-1 6-2 for her only Grand Slam singles title
28 Jan 1939
Australian Championships Mens Tennis Australian John Bromwich wins his 1st Australian title beats doubles partner Adrian Quist 6-4 6-1 6-3
28 Jan 1940
Chicagos Les Cunningham scores 5 points in one period to set an NHL record that stands until 1978 records 2 goals & 3 assists in a 1004 span during the 3d period of an 8-1 win over Montreal
28 Jan 1941
French-Thai War Final air battle of the conflict. Japanese-mediated armistice goes into effect later in the day.
28 Jan 1942
Soviet troops under General Timoshenkos troops move into Ukraine
28 Jan 1942
WW II Navy flier Don Mason sends message Sighted sub sank same
28 Jan 1943
Chic Blackhawks beats NY Rangers 10-1 Max Bentley scores 4 goals
28 Jan 1943
Forward Doug Bentley sets NHL record with 5 points in a game
28 Jan 1944
Leonard Bernsteins Jeremiah premieres in Pittsburgh
28 Jan 1945
General Vinegar Joe Stillwell and truck convoy reopen Burma Road to China
28 Jan 1945
Swedish ships bring food to starving Netherlands
28 Jan 1947
Bay Psalm book auctioned for a record 151000
28 Jan 1948
A plane crash in the Diablo mountains kills 28 bracero farm workers being sent back to Mexico inspiring Woodie Guthries song Deportee
28 Jan 1949
NY Giants sign their 1st black players Monte Irvin & Ford Smith
28 Jan 1949
UN Security council convicts Dutch aggression in Indonesia
28 Jan 1950
Preston Tucker auto maker found not guilty of mail fraud
28 Jan 1951
La Vie Commence Demain the 1st X-rated movie depicting artificial insemination opens in London
28 Jan 1952
Australian Championships Womens Tennis In an all-Australian final Thelma Coyne Long beats Helen Angwin 6-2 6-3 for 1st of her 2 Australian singles titles
28 Jan 1952
Australian Championships Mens Tennis Ken McGregor wins his first and only Grand Slam event upsets fellow Australian Frank Sedgman 7-5 12-10 2-6 6-2
28 Jan 1953
WJTV TV channel 12 in Jackson MS (CBS) begins broadcasting
28 Jan 1953
19-year old Derek Bentley is hanged in Wandsworth Prison London controversially convicted of the murder of a police officer. He was pardoned on 30th July 1998.
28 Jan 1954
NFL Draft Bobby Garrett from University of Stanford first pick by Cleveland Browns
28 Jan 1957
Tonight America After Dark premieres with Jack Lescoulie & Al (Jazzbo) Collins on NBC (between Steve Allen & Jack Paar)
28 Jan 1957
Australian Championships Womens Tennis Shirley Fry Irvin wins all-American final beats Althea Gibson 6-3 6-4 for her only Australian singles title
28 Jan 1958
Construction began on 1st private thorium-uranium nuclear reactor
28 Jan 1958
The Lego company patents their design of Lego bricks still compatible with bricks produced today
28 Jan 1959
Soviet Union wins 62-37 for 1st international basketball loss by US
28 Jan 1960
1st photograph bounced off Moon Washington D.C.
28 Jan 1960
NFL announces Dallas Cowboys () & Minnesota Vikings (1961) franchises
28 Jan 1962
Johanne Relleke gets stung by bees 2443 times in Rhodesia & survives
28 Jan 1963
-34F (-37C) Cynthiana Kentucky (state record)
28 Jan 1963
Still single released by Bill Anderson (Billboard no. 1 U.S. Hot Country Singles )
28 Jan 1965
The Who make their 1st appearance on British TV
28 Jan 1967
Rolling Stones release Lets Spend the Night Together
28 Jan 1968
29th PGA Seniors Golf Championship Chandler Harper
28 Jan 1968
Goose Goslin & Kiki Cuyler elected to baseball Hall of Fame
28 Jan 1968
Radiation alert following B-52 crash in Arctic air base of Thule in Greenland
28 Jan 1968
Thai boxer Chartchai Chionoi retains his world flyweight title with a 13th-round TKO of home favourite Efren Torres in Mexico City first of 3 meetings between the pair
28 Jan 1969
2nd ABA All-Star Game West 133 beats East 127 at Louisville
28 Jan 1969
Barbara Jo Rubin becomes 1st woman jockey to win in North America
28 Jan 1970
Lubomr Strougal succeeds Cernik as premier of Czechoslovakia
28 Jan 1971
NFL Draft Jim Plunkett from University of Stanford first pick by New England Patriots
28 Jan 1972
Oral Roberts Eddie Woods grabs 30 rebounds for 2nd consecutive game
28 Jan 1972
The Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association place special emphasis on the necessity for a peaceful incident-free day at the next march on 30 January in an effort to avoid violence
28 Jan 1973
Henry Boucha Detroit Red Wings scores 6 sec into a game vs Mont
28 Jan 1973
Mickey Welch George Kelly & Billy Evans elected to Hall of Fame
28 Jan 1973
Ron Howard appears on MASH in Sometimes You Hear the Bullet
28 Jan 1973
In the run up to the first anniversary of Bloody Sunday there is serious rioting in Derry North Ireland
28 Jan 1974
Sam Thompson Jim Bottomley & Jocko Conlan elected to Hall of Fame
28 Jan 1975
8th ABA All-Star Game East 151 beats West 124 at San Antonio
28 Jan 1975
NFL Draft Steve Bartkowski from University of California first pick by Atlanta Falcons
28 Jan 1976
Erapalli Prasanna takes 8-76 to rip through NZ at Eden Park
28 Jan 1976
NBA Atlanta Hawks begin a 28 game road losing streak
28 Jan 1978
Rangers Don Murdoch failed on 4th penalty shot against Islanders
28 Jan 1978
Ted Nugent autographs a fans arm with his knife
28 Jan 1979
Wiz closes at Majestic Theater NYC after 1672 performances
28 Jan 1980
USCGC Blackthorn (WLB-391) collides with the tanker Capricorn while leaving Tampa Florida and capsizes killing 23 Coast Guard crewmembers.
28 Jan 1980
New York coach Red Holzman wins his 600th NBA game only the second (after Red Auerbach) coach at the time to reach the plateau as the Knicks beat Golden State 107-103
28 Jan 1981
5 OClock Girl opens at Helen Hayes Theater NYC for 12 performances
28 Jan 1981
Olympic Glory tanker at Galveston Bay Texas spills 1 million gallons of oil in a ship collision
28 Jan 1982
US General Dozier freed from Red Brigade of Padua Italy
28 Jan 1982
Italian police rescue James Dozier a US Brigadier General held hostage by the Red Brigade for 6 weeks
28 Jan 1984
Edmonton center Wayne Gretzkys NHL record point scoring streak ends at 51 games when Oilers beaten 4-2 by LA Kings Gretzky totals 61-92-153 during the period
28 Jan 1984
LA Kings stop Wayne Gretzky 51 game scoring streak
28 Jan 1984
Record 295000 dominoes toppled in Fuerth West Germany
28 Jan 1985
Houstons Bill Fitch becomes the 6th coach in NBA history to post 600 wins as the Rockets beat the New Jersey Nets 97-93
28 Jan 1986
Uptown... Its Hot opens at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC for 24 performances
28 Jan 1986
Angolan Unity Leader Jonas Savimbi visits Washington D.C.
28 Jan 1987
US Foreign minister George P Shultz meets African National Congress leader Oliver Tambo
28 Jan 1987
Wrestler Jim Neidhart indicted for assaulting a flight attendant
28 Jan 1988
Saratina opens at Cort Theater NYC for 597 performances
28 Jan 1988
Canadas Supreme court declares anti-abortion law unconstitutional
28 Jan 1988
Denver Nuggets point guard Michael Adams takes record streak to 79 consecutive games with at least one 3-point field goal in 117-102 loss against Indiana at Market Square Arena streak ends next game
28 Jan 1989
David Boon completes 7th Test century 149 v WI at SCG
28 Jan 1989
Australian Open Womens Tennis Steffi Graf of Germany beats Czech Helena Sukov 6-4 6-4 for her 6th career Grand Slam title and her 2nd Australian singles crown
28 Jan 1990
Independent on Sunday begins publishing in London
28 Jan 1990
Romanian protest against Ion Iliescu government
28 Jan 1990
Australian Open Mens Tennis American-based Czech star Ivan Lendl of wins 8th and last career Grand Slam title beats Stefan Edberg 4-6 7-6 5-2 Edberg retires injured
28 Jan 1991
A Closer Look with Faith Daniels premieres on NBC-TV
28 Jan 1991
David Boon completes ninth Test century 121 v England at Adelaide
28 Jan 1991
Dictator Siad Barre flees Somalia ending 22 year rule
28 Jan 1992
David Boon completes twelfth Test century 135 v India at Adelaide
28 Jan 1992
Stan Hansen beats Jumbo Tsuruta to win All Japan Triple Crown
28 Jan 1994
Helicopter crashes into office building in San Jose California 1 dead
28 Jan 1994
Inna Lassovskaja jumps ladies world record (14.78m)
28 Jan 1995
Australian Open Womens tennis Mary Pierce of France beats Spains Arantxa Snchez Vicario 6-3 6-2 for her 1st career Grand Slam title and her only Australian singles title
28 Jan 1996
Hello Dolly closes at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC after 118 performances
28 Jan 1996
Super Bowl XXX Sun Devil Stadium Tempe AZ Dallas Cowboys beat Pittsburgh Steelers 27-17 MVP Larry Brown Dallas CB
28 Jan 1996
Australian Open Mens Tennis Boris Becker of Germany wins his 6th and last career Grand Slam title beats American Michael Chang 6-2 6-4 2-6 6-2
28 Jan 1996
12th Sundance Film Festival Welcome to the Dollhouse wins Grand Jury Prize Dramatic
28 Jan 2001
Australian Open Mens Tennis Andre Agassi retains title beats Frenchman Arnaud Clement 6-4 6-2 6-2 for his 3rd Australian trophy
28 Jan 2001
17th Sundance Film Festival The Believer directed by Henry Bean wins Grand Jury Prize Dramatic
28 Jan 2002
TAME Flight 120 a Boeing 727-100 crashes in the Andes mountains in southern Colombia killing 92.
28 Jan 2006
Australian Open Womens Tennis Amlie Mauresmo of France wins her first Grand Slam title beats Justine Henin 6-1 2-0 Henin retires from stomach cramps
28 Jan 1928
Christopher Hornsrud chosen Prime Minister of Norway
28 Jan 1956
Austrian skier Toni Sailer wins the giant slalom at the Cortina dAmpezzo Winter Olympics on his way to a sweep of the 3 alpine skiing events at the Games
28 Jan 1956
Italy goes 1-2 in the 2-man bobsleigh at the Cortina dAmpezzo Winter Olympics along with silver in 4-man event the only medals for the home nation at the Games
28 Jan 1971
NFL Draft Jim Plunkett from Stanford University first pick by New England Patriots
28 Jan 1976
E. A. S. Prasanna takes 8-76 to rip through NZ at Eden Park
28 Jan 1979
The Wiz closes at Majestic Theater in NYC after 1672 performances
28 Jan 1986
Angolan revolutionary and leader of UNITA Jonas Savimbi visits Washington D.C.
28 Jan 1878
George Coy Herrick Frost and Walter Lewis open first commercial telephone exchange in New Haven Connecticut [1]
28 Jan 1963
Still single released by Bill Anderson (Billboard no. 1 U.S. Hot Country Singles )
28 Jan 1965
The Who make their 1st appearance on British television programme Ready Steady Go
28 Jan 1973
Mickey Welch George Kelly & Billy Evans elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
28 Jan 1982
Italian police rescue US Brigadier General James Dozier held hostage for six weeks by the Red Brigade of Padua Italy
28 Jan 1988
South African Mbongeni Ngemas musical Sarafina opens at Cort Theater NYC for 597 performances
28 Jan 2007
23rd Sundance Film Festival Padre Nuestro directed by Christopher Zalla wins Grand Jury Prize Dramatic
28 Jan 1942
Revival of George Gershwins Porgy & Bess opens on The Majestic Theatre NYC with Anne Brown & Todd Duncan
28 Jan 1958
The Lego Group patents their design of interlocking Lego bricks still compatible with bricks produced today
28 Jan 1979
Charlie Smalls musical The Wiz an updated take on The Wizard of Oz starring Stephanie Mills Stu Gilliam and Dee Dee Bridgewater closes at Majestic Theater in NYC after 1672 performances 7 Tony and 6 Drama Desk Awards
28 Jan 1981
Revival of Brt Kalmar and Harry Rubys musical The Five5 OClock Girl opens at Helen Hayes Theater NYC runs for 12 performances
28 Jan 1393
Bal des Ardents - fire during a royal court ball in Paris kills four dancers dressed as wild men with King Charles VI narrowly escaping
28 Jan 1807
Londons Pall Mall becomes the first street lit by gaslight
28 Jan 1916
Manitoba women are the first in Canada to win the right to vote and to hold provincial office [1]
28 Jan 1948
David Diamonds 4th Symphony dedicated to Natalie Koussevitzky premieres with the Boston Symphony Orchestra conducted by Leonard Bernstein
28 Jan 1951
American and Bermudan naturalist discover nesting site of Bermuda petrel a sea bird also known as cahow the species was thought extinct since 1615 but sporadic sightings spawned an expedition to some remote rocky crags off of Bermuda
28 Jan 1957
Australian Championship Mens Tennis Ashley Cooper wins 1st of 2 straight Australian titles beats fellow Australian Neale Fraser 6-3 9-11 6-4 6-2
28 Jan 1973
NHL Detroit Red Wings Henry Boucha scores 6 seconds into game in 4-2 win over Canadiens at The Forum in Montreal Quebec
28 Jan 1988
South African Mbongeni Ngema and Hugh Masekelas musical Sarafina based on the Soweto Uprising against apartheid opens at the Cort Theater NYC runs for 597 performances
28 Jan 1996
Revival of Jerry Hermans musical Hello Dolly starring Carol Channing closes at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC after 118 performances
28 Jan 1754
British writer Horace Walpole in a letter to Horace Mann coins the word serendipity
28 Jan 1871
North German Confederation led by Prussian King Wilhelm I captures Paris after the city surrenders ending a four-month siege
28 Jan 1915
1st US ship lost in WW I William P. Frye (carrying wheat to UK)
28 Jan 1916
US President Woodrow Wilson nominates Louis Brandeis for the Supreme Court of the United States
28 Jan 1942
Soviet troops under General Semyon Timoshenkos troops move into Ukraine
28 Jan 1958
Construction begins on 1st private thorium-uranium nuclear reactor
28 Jan 2012
Death toll from coordinated bombing attacks in Kano Nigeria reaches 185
28 Jan 2013
10 people are killed and 11 are injured in after a freight train collides with a bus in Heihe City China
28 Jan 2013
20 people are killed after a Bombardier CRJ200 airliner crashes outside Almaty Kazakhstan
28 Jan 2013
Irans Pishgam rocket successfully completes a return trip of sending a monkey into space
28 Jan 2014
DNA analysis confirms that the 6th century Plague of Justinian was caused by a variant of Yersinia pestis (the same bacteria for the Black Death)
28 Jan 2014
Peter Cosgrove is named the next Governor-General of Australia
28 Jan 2016
Seventh Republican presidential candidates debate hosted by Fox held in Des Moines Iowa
28 Jan 2018
French drivers Sebastien Ogier and Julien Ingrassia win their 6th Monte Carlo Rally in an M-Sport Ford WRT
28 Jan 2018
Seven survivors from missing Kiribati ferry carrying 100 people rescued after week at sea
28 Jan 2019
Draft framework for peace agreement to end 17-year conflict in Afghanistan agreed by US and Afghan negotiators
28 Jan 2019
US Justice Department charges Chinese firm Huawei with bank and wire fraud
28 Jan 2021
Mexicos COVID-19 death toll becomes the worlds third highest overtaking Indias at 155145 [1]
28 Jan 2021
Share trading app Robinhood favored by Reddit suspends trading of Gamestop amid huge surge in share price of the previously short listed stock by Wall Street
28 Jan 2024
100 Ballads names The Wandring Prince of Troy the most popular ballad of the 17th century in project documenting the earliest form of commercial pop music in England [1]
28 Jan 2024
Drone attack on US military base in Jordan kills three American soldiers and injures 40 [1]
28 Jan 2024
England cricket spin bowler Tom Hartley follows Ollie Popes 196 with stunning debut figures of 762 as the tourists upset India by 28 runs in the 1st Test in Hyderabad
28 Jan 2024
Environmental protesters throw soup at Leonardo da Vincis Mona Lisa - protected by glass at the Louvre in Paris [1]
28 Jan 2024
The West Indies win their first cricket Test match in Australia in 27 years in Brisbane rookie fast bowler Shamar Joseph takes 768 to guide Windies to an 8 run victory and a 1-1 series tie
28 Jan 1099
The First Crusaders begin the siege of Hosn al-Akrad Syria
28 Jan 1573
Articles of the Warsaw Confederation are signed granting religious freedom in Poland
28 Jan 1814
French writer Stendhals first book is published
28 Jan 1824
William Kneass is appointed as the 3rd US Chief Engraver (-40)
28 Jan 1851
Northwestern University is chartered in Chicago
28 Jan 1860
Britain formally returns the Mosquito Coast to Nicaragua
28 Jan 1878
Yale Daily News is published the first college daily newspaper
28 Jan 1887
During a snowstorm at Fort Keogh Montana the worlds largest snowflakes are reported to be 15 inches (38 cm) wide and 8 inches (20 cm) thick
28 Jan 1887
England is all out for 45 against Australia at the SCG its lowest total ever
28 Jan 1933
The name Pakistan is coined by Choudhry Rahmat Ali and gradually accepted by Muslims in the Indian subcontinent who use it to push for a separate Muslim homeland in South Asia
28 Jan 1935
Iceland becomes the first Western country to legalize abortion
28 Jan 1942
Revival of George Gershwin DuBose Heyward and Ira Gershwins folk-opera Porgy and Bess featuring Anne Brown and Todd Duncan opens on The Majestic Theatre NYC
28 Jan 1944
WWII 683 British RAF bombers attack Berlin Germany
28 Jan 1944
WWII German submarines U-271 is sunk by US Navy air patrol and U-571 by Australian plane off the coast of Ireland
28 Jan 1951
La Vie Commence Demain the first X-rated movie depicting artificial insemination opens in London
28 Jan 1990
Romanians protest against Ion Iliescu government
28 Jan 2024
100 Ballads names The Wandering Prince of Troy the most popular ballad of the 17th century in a project documenting the earliest form of commercial pop music in England [1]