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 28^th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 337 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday.

Under the Julian calendar, this day is January 15, 2025 – a Tuesday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?

When this day started, 28,967,040 minutes 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 is one day 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 4,421 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.

January 28 Historical Events

• 1521 –
  The Diet of Worms begins, lasting until May 25.
• 1855 –
  The first locomotive runs from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean on the Panama Railway.
• 1909 –
  United States troops leave Cuba with the exception of Guantanamo Bay Naval Base after being there since the Spanish-American War.
• 1918 –
  Finnish Civil War: Rebels seized control of the capital, Helsinki, and members of the Senate of Finland go underground.
• 1956 –
  Elvis Presley made his first US TV appearance
• 1981 –
  Ronald Reagan lifts remaining domestic petroleum price and allocation controls in the United States helping to end the 1979 energy crisis and begin the 1980s oil glut.
• 1998 –
  New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Earth Tiger in Chinese astrology.
• 2002 –
  TAME Flight 120, a Boeing 727-100 crashes in the Andes mountains in southern Colombia killing 92.
• 2006 –
  The roof of one of the buildings at the Katowice International Fair in Chorzów / Katowice, Poland, collapses due to the weight of snow, killing 65 and injuring more than 170 others.
• 2010 –
  Five murderers of President Sheikh Mujibur Rahman of Bangladesh: Lieutenant Colonel Syed Faruq Rahman, Lieutenant Colonel Sultan Shahriar Rashid Khan, Major AKM Mohiuddin Ahmed, Major Bazlul Huda and Lieutenant Colonel Mohiuddin Ahmed are hanged.

Who were born on January 28?

• 1312 –
  Queen Joan II of Navarre (d. 1349)
• 1719 –
  Johann Elias Schlegel, German critic and poet (d. 1749)
• 1892 –
  Ernst Lubitsch, German-born film director (d. 1947)
• 1903 –
  Aleksander Kamiński, Polish writer (d. 1978)
• 1904 –
  Canuplin, Filipino magician and bodabil entertainer (d. 1979)
• 1922 –
  Robert W. Holley, American biochemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1993)
• 1927 –
  Ronnie Scott, British tenor saxophonist and club owner (d. 1996)
• 1945 –
  Robert Wyatt, English musician
• 1975 –
  Terri Colombino, American actress
• 1993 –
  Will Poulter, English actor

Who died on January 28?

• 1061 –
  Duke Spytihněv II of Bohemia (b. 1031)
• 1547 –
  King Henry VIII of England (b. 1491)
• 1903 –
  Augusta Holmès, French composer (b. 1847)
• 1935 –
  Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov, Russian composer (b. 1859)
• 1986 –
  Christa McAuliffe – American teacher, member of the crew of Space Shuttle Challenger (b. 1948)
• 2004 –
  Joe Viterelli, American actor (b. 1937)
• 2005 –
  Jacques Villeret, French actor (b. 1951)
• 2007 –
  Carlo Clerici, Swiss road racing cyclist (b. 1929)
• 2007 –
  Father Robert Drinan, Roman Catholic priest and American politician (b. 1920)
• 2009 –
  Billy Powell, American musician (b. 1952)