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, 28,440,000 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 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
- 1813 –Pride and Prejudice is first published in the United Kingdom.
- 1851 –Northwestern University becomes the first chartered university in Illinois.
- 1908 –Members of the Portuguese Republican Party fail in their attempted coup d'état against the administrative dictatorship of Prime Minister João Franco.
- 1915 –An act of the U.S. Congress creates the United States Coast Guard.
- 1917 –Municipally owned streetcars take to the streets of San Francisco, California.
- 1932 –Japanese forces attack Shanghai.
- 1933 –The name Pakistan is coined by Choudhary Rehmat Ali Khan and is accepted by the Indian Muslims who then thereby adopted it further for the Pakistan Movement seeking independence.
- 1934 –The first ski tow in the United States begins operation in Vermont.
- 1938 –The World Land Speed Record on a public road is broken by driver Rudolf Caracciola in the Mercedes-Benz W195 at a speed of 432.7 km/h.
- 1960 –New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Metal Rat in Chinese astrology.
Who were born on January 28?
- 1225 –Saint Thomas Aquinas (d. 1274)
- 1608 –Giovanni Alfonso Borelli, Italian physiologist and physicist (d. 1679)
- 1706 –John Baskerville, English printer (d. 1775)
- 1864 –Charles W. Nash, American automobile entrepreneur (d. 1948)
- 1874 –Vsevolod Meyerhold, Russian theatre director (d. 1940)
- 1933 –Jack Hill, American film director
- 1943 –John Beck, American actor
- 1950 –Barbi Benton, American actress
- 1962 –Sam Phillips, American singer
- 1989 –Siem de Jong, Dutch footballer
Who died on January 28?
- 1613 –Thomas Bodley, English diplomat and library founder (b. 1545)
- 1859 –Frederick John Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1782)
- 1864 –Émile Clapeyron, French engineer and physicist (b. 1799)
- 1947 –Reynaldo Hahn, French composer (b. 1875)
- 1965 –Maxime Weygand, French soldier (b. 1867)
- 1986 –Francis Richard “Dick” Scobee – commander of Space Shuttle Challenger (b. 1939)
- 1986 –Judith Resnik – crew of Space Shuttle Challenger (b. 1949)
- 2001 –Curt Blefary, American baseball player (b. 1943)
- 2008 –Archbishop Christodoulos of Athens and All Greece (b. 1939)
- 2009 –Billy Powell, American musician (b. 1952)
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