What are the important events that happened on January 28? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
January 28: Facts & Myths About This Day
January 28 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.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is January 15, 2024 – a Sunday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 1,706,400,000 seconds has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.
Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘icosioctagon’ day.
Aquarius is the zodiac 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.
The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,055 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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January 28 Historical Events
- 1573 –Articles of the Warsaw Confederation are signed, sanctioning freedom of religion in Poland.
- 1851 –Northwestern University becomes the first chartered university in Illinois.
- 1878 –Yale Daily News becomes the first daily college newspaper in the United States.
- 1922 –New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Water Dog in Chinese astrology.
- 1941 –French-Thai War: Final air battle of the conflict. Japanese-mediated armistice goes into effect later in the day.
- 1958 –The Lego company patents the design of its Lego bricks, still compatible with bricks produced today.
- 1977 –The first day of the Great Lakes Blizzard of 1977, which severely affects and cripples much of Upstate New York, but Buffalo, NY, Syracuse, NY, Watertown, NY, and surrounding areas are most affected, each area accumulating close to 10 ft of snow on this one day.
- 1986 –Space Shuttle program: STS-51-L mission – Space Shuttle Challenger breaks apart after liftoff killing all seven astronauts on board.
- 1988 –The last episode of the British TV series Yes, Prime Minister, entitled The Tangled Web, was broadcast.
- 2002 –TAME Flight 120, a Boeing 727-100 crashes in the Andes mountains in southern Colombia killing 92.
Who were born on January 28?
- 1312 –Queen Joan II of Navarre (d. 1349)
- 1701 –Charles Marie de La Condamine, French mathematician and geographer (d. 1774)
- 1818 –George S. Boutwell, American politician, 20th Governor of Massachusetts and later the 28th United States Secretary of the Treasury (d. 1905)
- 1897 –Valentin Kataev, Russian writer (d. 1986)
- 1925 –Scotty Bloch, American stage and television actress
- 1940 –Carlos Slim, Mexican businessman
- 1941 –Joel Crothers, American actor (d. 1985)
- 1941 –Osbourne ‘King Tubby’Ruddock, Jamaican musician and sound engineer (d. 1989)
- 1985 –Daniel Carcillo, Canadian hockey player
- 1986 –Shruti Haasan, Indian actress
Who died on January 28?
- 814 –Charlemagne (b. 742)
- 1271 –Isabella of Aragon, queen of Philip III of France (b. 1247)
- 1754 –Ludvig Holberg, Norwegian historian and writer (b. 1684)
- 1971 –Donald Winnicott, British psychoanalyst (b. 1896)
- 1976 –Marcel Broodthaers, Belgian painter (b. 1924)
- 1986 –Gregory Jarvis – crew of Space Shuttle Challenger (b. 1944)
- 1990 –Puma Jones, American singer (Black Uhuru) (b. 1953)
- 1999 –Markey Robinson, Irish painter (b. 1918)
- 2002 –Astrid Lindgren, Swedish author (b. 1907)
- 2005 –Jacques Villeret, French actor (b. 1951)
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