On this day in History - Jan 28

• 0028 - The Roman Emperor Nerva names Trajan, an army general, as his successor.
• 0814 - Charlemagne dies (b. 742).
• 1061 - Duke Spytihněv II of Bohemia dies (b. 1031)
• 1077 - Walk to Canossa: The excommunication of Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor is lifted.
• 1271 - Isabella of Aragon dies (b. 1247). Queen of Philip III of France.
• 1443 - Robert le Maçon dies. Chancellor of France.
• 1457 - King Henry VII of England was born (d. 1509).
• 1521 - Diet of Worms begins, lasting until May 25.
• 1540 - Ludolph van Ceulen was born (d. 1610). German mathematician.
• 1547 - King Henry VIII of England dies (b. 1491) and is succeeded by his nine-year-old son - Edward VI .
• 1573 - articles of Warsaw Confederation are signed, sanctioning religious freedom in Poland .
• 1582 - John Barclay was born (d. 1621). Scottish writer.
• 1596 - Sir Francis Drake dies, explorer, soldier (b. ca. 1540) .
• 1599 - Cristofano Malvezzi dies. Italian composer.
• 1600 - Pope Clement IX was born (d. 1669)
• 1608 - Giovanni Alfonso Borelli was born (d. 1679). Italian physiologist and physicist
• 1611 - Johannes Hevelius was born (d. 1687). Astronomer.
• 1613 - Thomas Bodley dies (b. 1545). English diplomat and library founder.
• 1621 - Pope Paul V dies (b. 1550) .
• 1622 - Adrien Auzout was born (d. 1691). French astronomer.
• 1672 - Pierre Séguier dies (b. 1588). Chancellor of France.
• 1681 - Richard Allestree dies (b. 1619). English royalist churchman.
• 1687 - Johannes Hevelius dies (b. 1611). Polish astronomer.
• 1693 - Anna Ivanovna was born. Tsarina of Russia.
• 1697 - John Fenwick dies. English conspirator
• 1701 - Charles Marie de La Condamine was born (d. 1774). French mathematician and geographer.
• 1706 - John Baskerville was born. English printer, inventor of the "hot-pressing" method.
• 1712 - Tokugawa Ieshige was born (d. 1761). Japanese shogun.
• 1717 - Mustafa III was born (d. 1774). Ottoman Sultan.
• 1719 - Johann Elias Schlegel was born (d. 1749). German critic and poet.
• 1725 (O.S.) - Tsar Peter I of Russia dies (b. 1672)
• 1754 - Horace Walpole, in a letter to Horace Mann, coins the word serendipity.
• 1754 - Ludvig Holberg dies (b. 1684). Norwegian historian and writer.
• 1755 - Samuel Thomas von Sömmering was born (d. 1830). German physician.
• 1757 - Ahmed Shah, the first King of Afghanistan, occupies Delhi and annexes the Punjab.
• 1760 - Pownal, Vermont created by Benning Wentworth as one of the New Hampshire Grants.
• 1784 - George Hamilton Gordon Aberdeen was born (d. 1860). Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
• 1788 - The first penal colony is founded at Botany Bay, Australia.
• 1792 - Rebellious slaves in Santo Domingo launch an attack on the city of Cap.
• 1808 - D. João VI, assina na Bahia, o Decreto de Abertura dos Portos à Nações Amigas, que colocava fim ao pacto colonial entre Portugal e Brasil. A “Abertura dos Portos” suspendeu os séculos de monopólio comercial português, uma das bases do chamado Pacto Colonial.
• 1813 - Pride and Prejudice is first published in the United Kingdom.
• 1820 - Russian expedition led by Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen and Mikhail Petrovich Lazarev discovered the Antarctic continent approaching the Antarctic coast.
• 1822 - Alexander Mackenzie was born (d. 1892). Second Prime Minister of Canada
• 1823 - Abdicación de Bernardo O'Higgins al cargo de Director Supremo de Chile.
• 1833 - Charles George 'Chinese' Gordon was born (d. 1885). British soldier and administrator.
• 1840 - Real orden por la que se crea en La Habana el Archivo General de la Real Hacienda, fundamento del Archivo Nacional de la República de Cuba.
• 1841 - Henry Morton Stanley was born (d. 1904). Welsh-born explorer and journalist.
• 1846 - Battle of Aliwal, India won by British troops commanded by Sir Harry Smith.
• 1853 - José Martí was born (d. 1895). Cuban revolutionary.
• 1855 - The first locomotive runs from the Atlantic to the Pacific on the Panama Railway.
• 1855 - William Seward Burroughs was born (d. 1898). Inventor of the calculator.
• 1859 - Frederick John Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich dies (b. 1782). Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
• 1864 - Émile Clapeyron dies (b. 1799). French engineer and physicist.
• 1865 - Lala Lajpat Rai was born. Indian freedom fighter
• 1867 - Vicente Blasco Ibáñez was born. Spanish novelist.
• 1871 - France surrenders to end the Franco-Prussian War.
• 1873 - Colette was born (d. 1954). French writer.
• 1874 - Vsevolod Meyerhold was born (d. 1940). Russian theatre director.
• 1878 - The Yale News becomes the first daily, college newspaper in the United States.
• 1879 - Francis Picabia was born (d. 1953). French-born painter and poet.
• 1880 - Herbert Strudwick was born (d. 1970). English cricketer.
• 1884 - Auguste Piccard was born (d. 1962). Swiss physicist.
• 1886 - José Linhares was born. 23th President of Brazil (29 Oct 1945 - 31 Jan 1946).
• 1886 - Marthe Bibesco was born (d. 1973). Romanian writer.
• 1887 - In a snowstorm at Fort Keogh, Montana, USA, the world's largest snowflakes are reported, being 15 inches (38cm) wide and 8 inches (20cm) thick.
• 1887 - Se pone la primera piedra de la Torre Eiffel.
• 1887 - Artur Rubinstein was born (d. 1982). Polish pianist and conductor.
• 1890 - Robert Stroud was born (d. 1963). American convict, the Birdman of Alcatraz.
• 1891 - Bill Doak was born (d. 1954). Baseball player.
• 1892 - Ernst Lubitsch was born (d. 1947). German-borm film director.
• 1894 - Fidela Campiña Ontiveros was born in Tijola (Almeria). Spanish opera singer.
• 1897 - Valentin Kataev was born (d. 1986). Russian writer.
• 1898 - Roberto Ivens dies (b. 12 Jun1850). Portuguese soldier and explorer.
• 1899 - Elias Simojoki was born (d. 1940). Finnish clergyman and politician.
• 1900 - Heinrich Kesten was born (d. 1996). Author.
• 1902 - The Carnegie Institution is founded in Washington, DC with a $10 million gift from Andrew Carnegie.
• 1903 - Aleksander Kamiński was born. Polish writer
• 1903 - Augusta Holmès dies. French composer.
• 1908 - Se inicia en Portugal un movimiento revolucionario controlado tres días después.
• 1908 - Paul Misraki was born (d. 1998). French composer and songwriter.
• 1909 - United States troops leave Cuba after being there since the Spanish-American War.
• 1910 - John Banner was born (d. 1973). Austrian actor.
• 1910 - Arnold Moss was born (d. 1989). American character actor.
• 1912 - Jackson Pollock was born (d. 1956). Painter, initiator of Dripping painting
• 1912 - Gustave de Molinari dies. Belgian economist.
• 1913 - Segismundo Moret dies. Spanish politician.
• 1915 - An act of the U.S. Congress creates the United States Coast Guard to fight contraband trade and aid distressed vessels at sea.
• 1915 - The German navy attacks the U.S. freighter William P. Frye, loaded with wheat for Britain.
• 1915 - Nikolay Umov dies (b. 1846). Russian physicist.
• 1916 - Vergílio Ferreira was born. Portuguese writer / Vergílio Ferreira nasceu neste dia, em Melo, concelho de Gouveia (Serra da Estrela), (O Caminho Fica Longe, Onde Tudo Foi Morrendo, Vagão «J», Mudança, Nitido Nulo, Em nome da Terra, Manhã Submersa, etc). «Há os livros que antes de lidos já estão lidos. «Há os que se lêem todos e ficam logo lidos todos. E há os que nos regateiam a leitura e a que pedimos humildemente que se deixem ler todos e não deixam e vão largando uma parte de si pelas gerações e jamais se deixam ler de uma vez para sempre.» (Vergílio Ferreira) .
• 1916 - Louis D. Brandeis becomes the first Jew appointed to the United States Supreme Court.
• 1917 - United States ends search for Pancho Villa.
• 1917 - Municipally owned streetcars take to the streets of San Francisco.
• 1918 - Finnish Civil War: Social democrats and communists seized control of the capital, Helsinki, and members of the Senate of Finland went underground.
• 1918 - John McCrae dies (b. 1872). Canadian poet.
• 1920 - Se funda en España la Legión.
• 1921 - A symbolic Tomb of the Unknown Soldier was installed beneath the Arc de Triomphe in Paris to honour the unknown dead of World War I.
• 1921 - Albert Einstein startles Berlin by suggesting the possibility of measuring the universe.
• 1922 - Robert W. Holley was born (d. 11 Feb 1993). American biochemist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1968 with Marshall Warren Nirenberg and Har Gobind Khorana.
• 1923 - Ivo Robić was born (d. 2001). Croatian singer, Mister Morgen
• 1924 - Teófilo Braga dies in Lisbon (b. in Ponta Delgada, 24 Feb 1843). President of Portugal (29 Mai 1915 - 05 Aug 1915), writer and essayst.
• 1927 - Hiroshi Teshigahara was born (d. 2001). Japanese film director.
• 1927 - Ronnie Scott was born (d. 1996). British jazz tenor saxophonist and jazz club owner
• 1928 - Vicente Blasco Ibáñez dies. Spanish writer
• 1929 - Claes Oldenbourg was born. Swedish-born artist
• 1929 - Acker Bilk was born. English jazz clarinetist.
• 1931 - Lucía Bosé was born. Italian actress.
• 1932 - Japan occupies Shanghai, China and declare martial law.
• 1933 - The name Pakistan is coined by Choudhary Rehmat Ali Khan and by a group of Cambridge University Students and is accepted by the Indian Muslims who then thereby adopted it further for the Pakistan Movement of the formal Indian Independence Act 1947 during World War II
• 1934 - Mitr Chaibancha was born (d. 1970). Thai actor.
• 1935 - Iceland becomes the first country to legalize abortion.
• 1935 - David Lodge was born. English author.
• 1935 - Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov dies (b. 1859). Russian composer.
• 1936 - Alan Alda was born. American actor, writer and director.
• 1936 - Ismail Kadare was born. Albanian writer
• 1936 - A fellow prison inmate slashes infamous kidnapper, Richard Loeb, to death.
• 1938 - The first ski tow in America 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.
• 1938 - Leonid Zhabotinsky was born. Russian weightlifter
• 1938 - Bernd Rosemeyer dies (b. 1909). German race car driver.
• 1939 - William Butler Yeats dies (b. 1865). Irish writer, Nobel Prize Laureate in 1923.
• 1941 - French General Charles DeGaulle's Free French forces sack south Libya oasis.
• 1941 - Joel Crothers was born (d. 1985). American actor.
• 1942 - Five power stations are blown up by pro-Axis saboteurs in an attempt to destabilise the Rand gold mines.
• 1943 - Paul Henderson was born. National Hockey League player
• 1944 - John Tavener was born. English composer
• 1945 - Chiang Kai-shek renames the Ledo-Burma Road the Stilwell Road, in honor of General Joseph Stilwell.
• 1945 - World War II: Supplies begin to reach China over the newly reopened Burma Road.
• 1945 - Marthe Keller was born in Basel. Swiss actress.
• 1945 - Robert Wyatt was born. English musician.
• 1946 - Bluenose, Canada's greatest sailing ship, founders on a Haitian reef.
• 1947 - Fernando Carvalho Rodrigues was born in Casal de Cinza, Guarda. Portuguese physicist (PoSAT-1).
• 1948 - Mikhail Baryshnikov was born. Russian dancer .
• 1948 - Charles Taylor was born. Former leader of Liberia.
• 1949 - Los miembros de la Comunidad Europea crean el Consejo de Europa.
• 1949 - Jean-Pierre Wimille dies (b. 1908). French race car driver.
• 1950 - A Assembléia Francesa ratifica um acordo no qual o Vietnã, Cambodjia, e Laos tornam-se estados independentes dentro da União Francesa.
• 1950 - Barbi Benton was born. American actress.
• 1950 - Hamad ibn Isa Al Khalifah was born. King of Bahrain.
• 1950 - Nikolai Luzin dies (b. 1883. Russian mathematician.
• 1951 - Brian Bilbray was born. American politician.
• 1951 - Leonid Kadeniuk was born. Ukrainian cosmonaut
• 1952 - href="http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%C3%A1ndido_M%C3%A9ndez">Cándido Méndez was born. UGT General- Secretary.
• 1953 - Colin Campbell was born. Canadian ice hockey player and executive.
• 1953 - James Scullin dies (b. 1876). 9th Prime Minister of Australia.
• 1953 - Derek Bentley dies executed (b. 1933).
• 1954 - Rick Warren was born. Pastor and author
• 1955 -The U.S. Congress passes a bill allowing mobilization of troops if China should attack Taiwan.
• 1955 - Fundación de la Academia Puertorriqueña de la Lengua Española.
• 1957 - Mark Napier was born. National Hockey League player
• 1958 - Charles Starkweather and Caril Ann Fugate begin their murder spree with the killings of her parents and infant sister.
• 1959 - Randi Rhodes was born. American personality
• 1959 - Dave Sharp was born. Welsh guitarist (The Alarm)
• 1959 - Frank Darabont was born. American filmmaker
• 1960 - Robert von Dassanowsky was born. American cultural historian, writer, producer .
• 1960 - Maitê Proença was born. Brazilian actress.
• 1960 - Zora Neale Hurston dies (b. 1891). American author.
• 1961 - Normand Rochefort was born. National Hockey League defenseman
• 1962 - Sam Phillips was born. American singer
• 1963 - Dan Spitz was born. American musician, guitarist for Anthrax
• 1963 - Gustave Garrigou dies (b. 1884). French cyclist
• 1964 - The Soviets down a U.S. jet over East Germany killing three.
• 1965 - Tich Freeman dies (b. 1888). English cricketer.
• 1965 - Maxime Weygand dies (b. 1867). French soldier.
• 1968 - Sarah McLachlan was born. Canadian singer and songwriter.
• 1968 - DJ Muggs was born. American musician (Cypress Hill)
• 1968 - Rakim was born. American rapper.
• 1969 - Kathryn Morris was born. American actress
• 1969 - Linda Sanchez was born. American politician
• 1969 - Mo Rocca was born. American writer and comedian
• 1970 - Israeli fighter jets attack the suburbs of Cairo.
• 1971 - Donald Winnicott dies (b. 1896). British psychoanalyst.
• 1972 - Nicky Southall was born. English footballer
• 1973 - Barnaby Jones premieres on CBS.
• 1973 - John Banner dies (b. 1910). Austrian actor.
• 1974 - Tony Delk was born. American basketball player.
• 1974 - Jason Dancisin was born. Graphic designer
• 1974 - Jermaine Dye was born. Baseball player
• 1975 - David Zingler was born. American writer
• 1975 - Anne Montminy was born. Quebec olympic diver
• 1975 - Lee Latchford-Evans was born. English singer
• 1975 - Junior Spivey was born. Baseball player.
• 1975 - Susana Feitor was born. Portuguese race walker.
• 1976 - Mark Madsen was born. American basketball player
• 1976 - Jarrod Montague was born. American drummer (Taproot)
• 1976 - Lee Ingleby was born. British actor
• 1976 - Emiko Kado was born (d. 1999). Wrestler.
• 1977 - Daunte Culpepper was born. American football player
• 1977 - Joey Fatone was born. American singer (*NSYNC)
• 1977 - Matt DeVries was born. American guitarist (Chimaira)
• 1977 - Takuma Sato was born. Japanese Formula One driver.
• 1977 - Freddie Prinze dies (b. 1954). Actor.
• 1978 - Gianluigi Buffon was born. Italian football player (goalkeeper).
• 1979 - Pixie was born. English model.
• 1979 - Ali Boulala was born. Swedish skateboarder
• 1980 - Nick Carter was born. American singer (Backstreet Boys)
• 1981 - Rick Razzano was born. American football player
• 1981 - Elijah Wood was born. American actor .
• 1982 - US Army general James L. Dozier is rescued by Italian anti-terrorism forces after 42 days of captivity under the Red Brigades.
• 1983 - Frank Forde dies (b. 1890). Fifteenth Prime Minister of Australia.
• 1984 - Andre Iguodala was born. American basketball player
• 1985 - 45 dos melhores músicos e compositores do mundo são convidados para produzir o álbum “USA for África”. O objetivo foi arrecadar fundos para aliviar a fome na Etiópia. A principal música gravada “We Are the World” chegou ao topo das paradas nos Estados Unidos e incluiu a participação de Michael Jackson, Kenny Rogers, Sting, Diana Ross, Paul Simon e Cyndi Lauper, dentre outros.
• 1986 - Space Shuttle Challenger explodes just after takeoff killing all seven astronauts onboard: Francis R. Scobee (b. 1939), Michael J. Smith (b. 1945), Judith Resnik (b. 1949), Ellison Onizuka (b. 1946), Ronald McNair (b. 1950), Greg Jarvis (b. 1944), Christa McAuliffe (b. 1948) .
• 1986 - Jessica Ennis was born. English heptathlete
• 1988 - Klaus Fuchs dies (b. 1911). German physicist.
• 1990 - Super Bowl XXIV: The San Francisco 49ers are crowned "Team of the 1980s" by defeating the Denver Broncos, 55-10.
• 1991 - Red Grange dies (b. 1903). American football player.
• 1993 - Troops in Zaire run riot, killing the French Ambassador.
• 1994 - The first trial of accused murderer Lyle Menendez ends in a mistrial. He and his brother Erik are later found guilty and sentenced to life in prison without parole.
• 1994 - O cristão democrata Giovanni Goria é o segundo primeiro-ministro da Itália a ser acusado de corrupção e julgado por um tribunal nacional.
• 1994 - Hal Smith dies (b. 1916). American actor.
• 1996 - Super Bowl XXX: The Dallas Cowboys win their fifth Super Bowl title by defeating the Pittsburgh Steelers, 27-17.
• 1996 - Joseph Brodsky dies (b. 1940). Russian-born poet, Nobel Prize Laureate
• 1996 - Jerry Siegel dies (b. 1914). American cartoonist.
• 1996 - Burne Hogarth dies (b. 1911). American cartoonist.
• 1997 - Antonio Calado dies. Brazilian journalist and writer. / Falece o jornalista e escritor Antônio Callado. Um dos principais romancistas brasileiros do século 20, ele escreveu “Bar Don Juan”(1971), “Quarup”(1967), e “Reflexos do Baile”(1976).
• 1998 - Ford Motor Company announces the buyout of Volvo for $6.45 billion.
• 1998 - Gunmen hold at least 400 children and teachers hostage for several hours at an elementary school in Manila, Philippines.
• 1999 - The creation of Element 114 is announced by scientists.
• 1999 - Markey Robinson dies (b. 1918). Irish painter.
• 1999 - Torgny T:son Segerstedt dies (b. 1908). Swedish sociologist and philosopher
• 2001 - Super Bowl XXXV: The Baltimore Ravens defeat the New York Giants, 34-7.
• 2001 - Curt Blefary dies (b. 1943). Baseball player.
• 2002 - An Ecuadoran airline Boeing 727-100 crashes in the Andes mountains in southern Colombia killing 92.
• 2002 - Astrid Lindgren dies (b. 1907). Swedish author.
• 2003 - Cícero Dias dies (b. 1907). Brazilian painter.
• 2004 - September Dossier: Lord Hutton publishes his report into the death of UN weapons inspector Dr. David Kelly.
• 2004 - Don Cholito dies (b. 1923). Puerto Rican radio host who hosted the longest running uninterrupted radio show
• 2004 - Lloyd M. Bucher dies (b. 1927). U.S. Navy officer.
• 2004 - Elroy Hirsch dies (b. 1923). American football player.
• 2004 - Don Stansauk dies (b. 1936). Professional wrestler.
• 2004 - Joe Viterelli dies (b. 1937). American actor.
• 2005 - Jim Capaldi dies (b. 1944). English singer and songwriter.
• 2005 - Karen Lancaume dies (suicide) (b. 1973). French actress
• 2005 - Jacques Villeret dies (b. 1951). French actor.
• 2006 - Yitzchak Kadouri dies (b. c. 1900). Rabbi.
• 2006 - Henry McGee dies (b. 1929). English comedian.
• 2007 - WWE's 20th annual Royal Rumble 2007 was held in San Antonio, Texas.
• Catholicism - Feast day of St. Thomas Aquinas
• World Leprosy Day