On This Date: January 28

On This Date, January 28

814 – Charlemagne died
1547 – England's King Henry VIII died and his son, Edward VI, became king
1788 – The first British penal settlement was founded at Botany Bay, Australia
1813 – Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice was first published
1820 – Antarctica was first spotted by Russians Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen and Mikhail Petrovich Lazarev
1846 – At the Battle of Aliwal, India defeated the British
1871 – France surrendered in the Franco-Prussian War
1878 – The first daily college newspaper in America, The Yale News, was published
1902 – The Carnegie Institution was founded in Washington, DC
1915 – The United States Coast Guard was created by an act of Congress
1916 – Louis D. Brandeis was appointed by President Woodrow Wilson to the U.S. Supreme Court, becoming its first Jewish member
1921 – The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier was created beneath the Arc de Triomphe in Paris, France to honor the unknown dead of World War I
1935 – Iceland became the first country to legalize abortion
1938 – The first ski tow in the United States opened in Woodstock, Vermont
1956 – Elvis Presley made his first appearance on TV
1973 – Barnaby Jones debuted on NBC-TV
1986 – The United States Space Shuttle Challenger exploded just after takeoff, killing all seven of its crewmembers, including teacher Christa McAuliffe
1998 – Gunmen held over 400 children and teachers hostage for several hours at an elementary school in Manila, Phillipines

Famous Birthdays, January 28:

Henry VII of England 1457, Pope Clement IX 1600, George Hamilton Hamilton-Gordon 1784, Alexander Mackenzie 1822, Sir Henry M. Stanley 1841, John Banner 1910, Jackson Pollock 1912, Alan Alda 1936, Susan Howard 1943, Barbi Benton 1950, Sara McLachlan 1968, Magglio Ordonez 1974, Jermaine Dye 1974, Junior Spivey 1975, Joey Fatone 1977, Daunte Culpepper 1977, Nick Carter 1980, Elijah Wood 1981

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On This Date: January 27

On This Date in History: January 27

1606 – The trial of Guy Fawkes and his fellow conspirators began
1825 – The United States Congress approved the formation of the Indian Territory, now Oklahoma
1870 – The first college sorority was formed, Kappa Alpha Theta, at DePauw University
1888 – The National Geographic Society was founded in Washington, DC
1926 – John Baird, a Scottish inventor, demonstrated a pictorial transmission machine called television
1945 – Soviet troops liberated the Nazi concentration camps Auschwitz and Birkenau in Poland
1951 – Nuclear testing began at the Nevada Test Site
1967 – At Cape Kennedy, Florida, astronauts Gus Grissom, Ed White and Roger Chaffee died in a flash fire during a test aboard their Apollo I spacecraft
1967 – More than 60 nations signed the Outer Space Treaty, which banned the orbiting of nuclear weapons and placing weapons on celestial bodies or space stations
1973 – The Vietnam peace accords were signed in Paris, officially ending the Vietnam War
1976 – Laverne and Shirley debuted on ABC-TV
1992 – Former world boxing champion Mike Tyson went on trial for raping an 18-year-old contestant in the 1991 Miss Black America Contest
1993 – Professional wrestler Andre the Giant died at the age of 46
1996 – Mahamane Ousmane, the first democratically elected president of Niger, was overthrown by a military coup
1996 – Germany observed its first Holocaust Remembrance Day
2001 – Ten members of the Oklahoma State University’s men’s basketball team died in a plane crash in Colorado


Famous Birthdays for January 27:

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1756, Lewis Carroll 1832, Edward J. Smith 1850, Wilhelm II of Germany 1859, Art Rooney 1901, William Randolph Hearst Jr. 1908, Donna Reed 1921, Troy Donahue 1936, James Cromwell 1940, Mikhail Baryshnikov 1948, Peter Laird 1954, John Roberts Jr. 1954, Mimi Rogers 1956, Frank Miller 1957, Chris Collinsworth 1959, Keith Olbermann 1959, Bridget Fonda 1964, Tracy Lawrence 1968, Josh Groban 1981


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On This Date: A Day-By-Day Look At Historical Events

On This Date: A Day-By-Day Look at Historical Events is a new book that was published last December. It takes a look at events in history and famous birthdays for all calendar dates, from January 1 to December 31. It was written by a Maine teacher, Brian Merrill, after years of research.

Example: On January 21:
In 1793: King Louis XVI was executed at the guillotine.
In 1799: Edward jenner's smallpox vaccine was introduced.
In 1908: New York City made it illegal for women to smoke in public.
In 1915: The first Kiwanis Club was formed in Detroit, Michigan.
In 1924: Soviet leader Vladamir Lenin died.
In 1944: 447 German bombers attacked London.
In 1954: The Nautilus, the first atomic powered submarine, was launched.
In 1998: Pope John Paul II visited Cuba.

Famous Birthdays for January 21:
Stonewall Jackson (1824), Telly Savalas (1924), Benny Hill (1925), Audrey Dalton (1934) Wolfman Jack (1939), Jack Nicklaus (1940), Placido Domingo (1941), Mac Davis (1942), Jill Eikenberry (1947), Billy Ocean (1950), Robby Benson (1956), Geena Davis (1957), Hakeem Olajuwon (1963), Charlotte Ross (1968), and Karina Lombard (1969).

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