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, 1,738,022,400 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 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

• 1754 –
  Horace Walpole coins the word serendipity in a letter to Horace Mann.
• 1896 –
  Walter Arnold of East Peckham, Kent became the first person to be convicted of speeding. He is fined 1 shilling, plus costs, for speeding at 8 mph, thus exceeding the contemporary speed limit of 2 mph.
• 1909 –
  United States troops leave Cuba with the exception of Guantanamo Bay Naval Base after being there since the Spanish-American War.
• 1960 –
  New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Metal Rat in Chinese astrology.
• 1965 –
  The current design of the Flag of Canada is chosen by an act of Parliament.
• 1980 –
  USCGC Blackthorn collides with the tanker Capricorn while leaving Tampa Florida and capsizes killing 23 Coast Guard crewmembers.
• 1982 –
  US Army general James L. Dozier is rescued by Italian anti-terrorism forces from captivity by the Red Brigades.
• 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.
• 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?

• 1873 –
  Colette, French writer (d. 1954)
• 1891 –
  Bill Doak, American baseball player (d. 1954)
• 1899 –
  Elias Simojoki, Finnish clergyman and politician (d. 1940)
• 1927 –
  Ronnie Scott, British tenor saxophonist and club owner (d. 1996)
• 1938 –
  Leonid Zhabotynsky, Ukrainian weightlifter
• 1953 –
  Chris Carter, English musician (Throbbing Gristle, Chris & Cosey)
• 1962 –
  Keith Hamilton Cobb, American actor
• 1975 –
  Lee Latchford-Evans, English singer
• 1976 –
  Miltiadis Sapanis, Greek footballer
• 1977 –
  Lyle Overbay, American baseball player

Who died on January 28?

• 814 –
  Charlemagne (b. 742)
• 1938 –
  Bernd Rosemeyer, German racecar driver (b. 1909)
• 1949 –
  Jean-Pierre Wimille, French race car driver (b. 1908)
• 1950 –
  Nikolai Luzin, Russian mathematician (b. 1883)
• 1951 –
  Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim, president of Finland (b. 1867)
• 1965 –
  Tich Freeman, English cricketer (b. 1888)
• 1976 –
  Marcel Broodthaers, Belgian painter (b. 1924)
• 1994 –
  Hal Smith, American actor (b. 1916)
• 1996 –
  Joseph Brodsky, Russian-born poet, Nobel Laureate (b. 1940)
• 2007 –
  Karel Svoboda, Czech composer of popular music (b. 1938)