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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