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January 28th


- Christian Feast Day
- Data Privacy Day

January 28th


- 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 were hanged.
- 2002 - TAME Flight 120, a Boeing 727-100 crashes in the Andes mountains in southern Colombia killing 92.
- 1986 - Space Shuttle program: STS-51-L mission – Space Shuttle Challenger breaks apart after liftoff killing all seven astronauts on board.
- 1985 - Supergroup USA for Africa (United Support of Artists for Africa) records the hit single We Are the World, to help raise funds for Ethiopian famine relief.
- 1982 - US Army general James L. Dozier is rescued by Italian anti-terrorism forces from captivity by the Red Brigades.
- 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.
- 1980 - USCGC Blackthorn collides with the tanker Capricorn while leaving Tampa Florida and capsizes killing 23 Coast Guard crewmembers.
- 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 feet (3.0 m) of snow on this one day.
Disintegration of the Space Shuttle Challenger.
- 1965 - The current design of the Flag of Canada is chosen by an act of Parliament.
- 1958 - The Lego company patents the design of its Lego bricks, still compatible with bricks produced today.
- 1945 - World War II: Supplies begin to reach the Republic of China over the newly reopened Burma Road.
- 1941 - French-Thai War: Final air battle of the conflict. Japanese-mediated armistice goes into effect later in the day.
- 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 kilometres per hour (268.9 mph).
- 1935 - Iceland becomes the first Western country to legalize therapeutic abortion.
- 1934 - The first ski tow in the United States begins operation in Vermont.
- 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.
- 1932 - Japanese forces attack Shanghai.
- 1922 - Knickerbocker Storm, Washington D.C.'s biggest snowfall, causes the city's greatest loss of life when the roof of the Knickerbocker Theater collapses.
- 1921 - A symbolic Tomb of the Unknown Soldier is installed beneath the Arc de Triomphe in Paris to honor the unknown dead of World War I.
- 1918 - Finnish Civil War: Rebels seized control of the capital, Helsinki, and members of the Senate of Finland go underground.
- 1917 - Municipally owned streetcars take to the streets of San Francisco, California.
- 1916 - Louis D. Brandeis becomes the first Jew appointed to the United States Supreme Court.
- 1915 - An act of the U.S. Congress creates the United States Coast Guard.
- 1909 - United States troops leave Cuba with the exception of Guantanamo Bay Naval Base after being there since the Spanish-American War.
- 1902 - The Carnegie Institution is founded in Washington, D.C. with a $10 million gift from Andrew Carnegie.
- 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 (13 km/h), thus exceeding the contemporary speed limit of 2 mph (3.2 km/h).
- 1887 - In a snowstorm at Fort Keogh, Montana, the world's largest snowflakes are reported, 15 inches (38 cm) wide and 8 inches (20 cm) thick.
- 1878 - Yale Daily News becomes the first daily college newspaper in the United States.
- 1871 - Franco-Prussian War: the Siege of Paris ends in French defeat and an armistice.
- 1855 - The first locomotive runs from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean on the Panama Railway.
- 1846 - The Battle of Aliwal, India, is won by British troops commanded by Sir Harry Smith.
- 1820 - A Russian expedition led by Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen and Mikhail Petrovich Lazarev discovers the Antarctic continent approaching the Antarctic coast.
- 1813 - Pride and Prejudice is first published in the United Kingdom.
- 1760 - Pownal, Vermont is created by Benning Wentworth as one of the New Hampshire Grants.
- 1754 - Horace Walpole coins the word serendipity in a letter to Horace Mann.
- 1724 - The Russian Academy of Sciences is founded in St. Petersburg by Peter the Great, and implemented by Senate decree. It is called the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences until 1917.
- 1624 - Sir Thomas Warner founds the first British colony in the Caribbean, on the island of Saint Kitts.
- 1573 - Articles of the Warsaw Confederation are signed, sanctioning freedom of religion in Poland.
- 1547 - Henry VIII dies. His nine year old son, Edward VI becomes King, and the first Protestant ruler of England.
- 1521 - The Diet of Worms begins, lasting until May 25.
- 1077 - Walk to Canossa: The excommunication of Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor is lifted.

January 28th


- 1991 - Calum Worthy, Canadian actor and musician
- 1989 - Siem de Jong, Dutch footballer
- 1987 - Chelsea Brummet, American actress
- 1986 - Jessica Ennis, British athlete
- 1986 - Shruti Haasan, Indian actress
- 1985 - Daniel Carcillo, Canadian hockey player
- 1985 - Arnold Mvuemba, French footballer
- 1985 - Libby Trickett, Australian swimmer
- 1984 - Andre Iguodala, American basketball player
- 1984 - Stephen Gostkowski, American football player
- 1981 - Elijah Wood, American actor
- 1980 - Nick Carter, American singer (Backstreet Boys)
- 1980 - Jesse James Hollywood, American drug dealer and fugitive
- 1980 - Yasuhito Endo, Japanese footballer
- 1979 - Ali Boulala, Swedish skateboarder
- 1978 - Gianluigi Buffon, Italian footballer
- 1978 - Jamie Carragher, English footballer
- 1978 - Papa Bouba Diop, Senegalese footballer
- 1978 - Stephen Farrelly, Irish professional wrestler
- 1977 - Daunte Culpepper, American football player
- 1977 - Matt DeVries, American guitarist (Chimaira)
- 1977 - Joey Fatone, American singer (*NSYNC)
- 1977 - Lyle Overbay, American baseball player
- 1977 - Takuma Sato, Japanese racing driver
- 1976 - Jarrod Montague, American drummer (Taproot)
- 1976 - Rick Ross, Rapper
- 1976 - Miltiadis Sapanis, Greek footballer
- 1976 - Lee Ingleby, British actor
- 1976 - Emiko Kado, Japanese wrestler (d. 1999)
- 1976 - Mark Madsen, American basketball player
- 1975 - Terri Colombino, American actress
- 1975 - Tanya Chua, Singaporean singer
- 1975 - Lee Latchford-Evans, English singer
- 1975 - Anne Montminy, Canadian diver
- 1975 - Junior Spivey, American baseball player
- 1975 - David Zingler, American writer
- 1974 - Tony Delk, American basketball player
- 1974 - Jermaine Dye, American baseball player
- 1974 - Magglio Ordóñez, Venezuelan baseball player
- 1973 - Rick Houghton, English radio/TV presenter
- 1972 - Nicky Southall, English footballer
- 1971 - Anthony Hamilton, American soul singer
- 1969 - Kathryn Morris, American actress
- 1969 - Mo Rocca, American writer and comedian
- 1969 - Linda Sanchez, American politician
- 1968 - Sarah McLachlan, Canadian singer and songwriter
- 1968 - DJ Muggs, American musician (Cypress Hill)
- 1968 - Rakim (William Michael Griffin Jr.), American rapper
- 1967 - Jan Lamb, Chinese disc jockey & comedian
- 1965 - Lynda Boyd, American actress
- 1963 - Dan Spitz, American musician, guitarist (Anthrax)
- 1962 - Keith Hamilton Cobb, American actor
- 1962 - Creflo Dollar, American televangelist
- 1962 - Sam Phillips, American singer
- 1961 - Normand Rochefort, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1961 - Arnaldur Indridason, Icelandic writer
- 1960 - Robert von Dassanowsky, American historian, writer, and producer
- 1959 - Randi Rhodes, radio personality
- 1959 - Dave Sharp, Welsh guitarist (The Alarm)
- 1959 - Burkhard Dallwitz, German-born composer
- 1959 - Frank Darabont, American filmmaker
- 1957 - Mark Napier, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1955 - Nicolas Sarkozy, President of France
- 1954 - Rick Warren, American pastor and author
- 1953 - Colin Campbell, Canadian ice hockey player and executive
- 1953 - Chris Carter, English musician (Throbbing Gristle, Chris & Cosey)
- 1951 - Brian Bilbray, American politician
- 1951 - Leonid Kadeniuk, Ukrainian cosmonaut
- 1950 - Barbi Benton, American actress
- 1950 - David C. Hilmers, NASA astronaut
- 1950 - Hamad ibn Isa Al Khalifah, King of Bahrain
- 1950 - Bob Hay, American songwriter and musician
- 1949 - Gregg Popovich, American basketball coach
- 1948 - Charles Taylor, President of Liberia
- 1948 - Mikhail Baryshnikov, Soviet-born dancer and actor
- 1947 - Jeanne Shaheen, American politician
- 1945 - Marthe Keller, Swiss actress
- 1945 - John Perkins, American author and activist
- 1945 - Robert Wyatt, English musician
- 1944 - Susan Howard, American actress
- 1944 - John Tavener, English composer
- 1943 - John Beck, American actor
- 1943 - Paul Henderson, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1943 - Dick Taylor, English musician (The Rolling Stones and The Pretty Things)
- 1941 - Joel Crothers, American actor (d. 1985)
- 1940 - Carlos Slim, Mexican businessman
- 1939 - John M. Fabian, NASA astronaut
- 1938 - Leonid Zhabotynsky, Ukrainian weightlifter
- 1936 - Alan Alda, American actor, writer, and director
- 1936 - Ismail Kadare, Albanian writer
- 1935 - David Lodge, English author
- 1934 - Juan Manuel Bordeu, Argentine racing driver (d. 1990)
- 1934 - Mitr Chaibancha, Thai actor (d. 1970)
- 1933 - Jack Hill, American film director
- 1930 - Kurt Biedenkopf, German politician
- 1929 - Acker Bilk, English jazz clarinetist
- 1929 - Claes Oldenburg, Swedish-born artist
- 1927 - Ronnie Scott, British tenor saxophonist and club owner (d. 1996)
- 1927 - Hiroshi Teshigahara, Japanese director (d. 2001)
- 1925 - Scotty Bloch, American stage and television actress
- 1924 - Marcel Broodthaers, Belgian painter (d. 1976)
- 1922 - Robert W. Holley, American biochemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1993)
- 1919 - Francis Gabreski, American fighter pilot (d. 2002)
- 1918 - Harry Corbett, English puppeteer (Sooty) (d. 1989)
- 1918 - Trevor Skeet, New Zealand-born British politician (d. 2004)
- 1915 - Nien Cheng, Chinese-born American writer (d. 2009)
- 1912 - Jackson Pollock, American painter (d. 1956)
- 1910 - John Banner, Austrian actor (d. 1973)
- 1910 - Arnold Moss, American actor (d. 1989)
- 1909 - John Thomson, Scottish footballer (d. 1931)
- 1908 - Paul Misraki, French composer and songwriter (d. 1998)
- 1904 - Canuplin, Filipino magician and bodabil entertainer (d. 1979)
- 1903 - Aleksander Kami?ski, Polish writer (d. 1978)
- 1900 - Alice Neel, American artist (d. 1984)
- 1899 - Elias Simojoki, Finnish clergyman and politician (d. 1940)
- 1897 - Valentin Kataev, Russian writer (d. 1986)
- 1892 - Ernst Lubitsch, German-born film director (d. 1947)
- 1891 - Bill Doak, American baseball player (d. 1954)
- 1890 - Robert Stroud, American convict, the Birdman of Alcatraz (d. 1963)
- 1887 - Arthur Rubinstein, Polish pianist (d. 1982)
- 1886 - Marthe Bibesco, Romanian writer (d. 1973)
- 1886 - Hidetsugu Yagi, Japanese electrical engineer (d. 1976)
- 1884 - Auguste Piccard, Swiss physicist (d. 1962)
- 1880 - Herbert Strudwick, English cricketer (d. 1970)
- 1874 - Vsevolod Meyerhold, Russian theatre director (d. 1940)
- 1873 - Colette, French writer (d. 1954)
- 1865 - Lala Lajpat Rai, Indian freedom fighter (d. 1928)
- 1865 - Kaarlo Juho Ståhlberg, first president of Finland (d. 1952)
- 1864 - Charles W. Nash, American automobile entrepreneur (d. 1948)
- 1864 - Herbert Akroyd Stuart, English inventor (d. 1927)
- 1863 - Ernst William Christmas, Australian painter (d. 1918)
- 1861 - Julián Felipe, Filipino musician (d. 1944)
- 1855 - William Seward Burroughs I, American inventor (d. 1898)
- 1853 - José Martí, Cuban revolutionary (d. 1895)
- 1841 - Henry Morton Stanley, Welsh-born explorer and journalist (d. 1904)
- 1833 - Charles George 'Chinese' Gordon, British soldier and administrator (d. 1885)
- 1822 - Alexander Mackenzie, 2nd Prime Minister of Canada (d. 1892)
- 1818 - George S. Boutwell, 20th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1905)
- 1784 - George Hamilton Gordon Aberdeen, Prime Minister of the UK (d. 1860)
- 1755 - Samuel Thomas von Sömmering, German physician (d. 1830)
- 1719 - Johann Elias Schlegel, German critic and poet (d. 1749)
- 1717 - Mustafa III, Ottoman sultan (d. 1774)
- 1712 - Tokugawa Ieshige, Japanese shogun (d. 1761)
- 1706 - John Baskerville, English printer (d. 1775)
- 1701 - Charles Marie de La Condamine, French mathematician and geographer (d. 1774)
- 1622 - Adrien Auzout, French astronomer (d. 1691)
- 1611 - Johannes Hevelius, Polish-born astronomer (d. 1687)
- 1608 - Giovanni Alfonso Borelli, Italian physiologist and physicist (d. 1679)
- 1600 - Pope Clement IX (d. 1669)
- 1582 - John Barclay, Scottish writer (d. 1621)
- 1540 - Ludolph van Ceulen, German mathematician (d. 1610)
- 1457 - King Henry VII of England (d. 1509)
- 1312 - Queen Joan II of Navarre (d. 1349)
- 1225 - Saint Thomas Aquinas (d. 1274)