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Events on the 28th of January in history

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28 Jan 1077 German King Henry IV petitions Pope Gregory VII for forgiveness
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28 Jan 1077 Walk to Canossa: The excommunication of Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor is lifted.
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28 Jan 1077 Pope Gregory VII pardons German emperor Heinrich IV
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28 Jan 1099 1st Crusaders begins siege of Hosn-el-Akrad Syria
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28 Jan 1262 Flemish/Dutch coast ravaged by north western storm
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28 Jan 1393 King Charles VI of France is nearly killed when several dancers' costumes catch fire during a masquerade ball.
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28 Jan 1393 Fire during Royal Ball at Paris, 4 die (Ball of the Ardents)
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28 Jan 1495 Pope gives his son Cesare Borgia as hostage to Charles VIII of France
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28 Jan 1521 The Diet of Worms begins, lasting until May 25.
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28 Jan 1547 Henry VIII dies. His nine-year-old son, Edward VI becomes King, and the first Protestant ruler of England.
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28 Jan 1547 9-year-old Edward VI succeeds Henry VIII as king of England
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28 Jan 1561 By Edict of Orleans persecution of French Huguenots is suspended
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28 Jan 1573 Articles of the Warsaw Confederation are signed, sanctioning freedom of religion in Poland.
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28 Jan 1581 James VI signs the 2nd Confession of Faith in Scotland
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28 Jan 1613 Galileo may have unknowingly viewed undiscovered planet Neptune
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28 Jan 1624 Sir Thomas Warner founds the first British colony in the Caribbean, on the island of Saint Kitts.
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28 Jan 1689 English parliament ends king Charles II reign
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28 Jan 1701 The Chinese storm Dartsedo.
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28 Jan 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.
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28 Jan 1754 Horace Walpole coins the word serendipity in a letter to Horace Mann.
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28 Jan 1760 Pownal, Vermont is created by Benning Wentworth as one of the New Hampshire Grants.
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28 Jan 1787 Philadelphia's Free Africa Society organizes
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28 Jan 1788 Captain Arthur Phillip forms English colony at Sydney, Botany Bay, New South Wales
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28 Jan 1788 Lord Gordon found guilty of libel of queen of France
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28 Jan 1807 London's Pall Mall is 1st street lit by gaslight
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28 Jan 1813 Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice is first published in the United Kingdom.
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28 Jan 1814 Stendahl's 1st book is published
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28 Jan 1819 Sir Stamford Raffles 1st lands in Singapore
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28 Jan 1820 A Russian expedition led by Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen and Mikhail Petrovich Lazarev discovers the Antarctic continent, approaching the Antarctic coast.
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28 Jan 1821 Alexander Island is first discovered by Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen.
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28 Jan 1821 Bellingshausen discovers Alexander Island off Antarctica
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28 Jan 1824 William Kneass becomes 3rd US chief engraver (1824-40)
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28 Jan 1830 Opera "Fra Diavolo, " premieres in Paris
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28 Jan 1830 The opera "Fra Diavolo" is produced (Paris)
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28 Jan 1846 The Battle of Aliwal, India, is won by British troops commanded by Sir Harry Smith.
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28 Jan 1846 Battle of Allwal, Brits beat Sikhs in Punjab (India)
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28 Jan 1848 King of Naples grants his subjects a constitution
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28 Jan 1851 Northwestern University becomes the first chartered university in Illinois.
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28 Jan 1851 Northwestern University (Chicago) chartered
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28 Jan 1855 A locomotive on the Panama Canal Railway, runs from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean for the first time.
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28 Jan 1858 John Brown organized raid on Arsenal at Harper's Ferry
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28 Jan 1860 Britain formally returns Mosquito Coast to Nicaragua
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28 Jan 1864 Battle of New Bern, North Carolina
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28 Jan 1864 Battle of New Bern, NC
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28 Jan 1865 President Jefferson Davis names 3 peace commissioners
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28 Jan 1871 Franco-Prussian War: the Siege of Paris ends in French defeat and an armistice.
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28 Jan 1871 Paris surrenders to Prussians
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28 Jan 1878 Yale Daily News becomes the first daily college newspaper in the United States.
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28 Jan 1878 1st telephone exchange (New Haven CT)
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28 Jan 1878 George W Coy hired as 1st full-time telephone operator
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28 Jan 1878 Yale Daily News published, 1st college daily newspaper
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28 Jan 1881 Battle at Laing's Neck Natal Boers beat superior powered British
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28 Jan 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.
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28 Jan 1887 England all out for 45 vs Australia SCG, their lowest total ever
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28 Jan 1893 Edward Mcdowell's "Hamlet & Ophelia" premieres in Boston
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28 Jan 1896 Walter Arnold of East Peckham, Kent becomes the first person to be convicted of speeding. He was fined one shilling, plus costs, for speeding at 8 mph (13 km/h), thereby exceeding the contemporary speed limit of 2 mph (3.2 km/h).
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28 Jan 1899 American Social Science Association incorporated by Congress
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28 Jan 1902 The Carnegie Institution of Washington is founded in Washington, D.C. with a $10 million gift from Andrew Carnegie.
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28 Jan 1902 Carnegie Institute founded in Washington DC
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28 Jan 1904 1st college sports letters given to Seniors who played on University of Chicago's football team are awarded blankets with letter "C" on them
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28 Jan 1908 Members of the Portuguese Republican Party fail in their attempted coup d'état against the administrative dictatorship of Prime Minister João Franco.
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28 Jan 1909 United States troops leave Cuba with the exception of Guantanamo Bay Naval Base after being there since the Spanish–American War.
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28 Jan 1909 US military forces leave Cuba for 2nd time
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28 Jan 1911 Frenchman Henri Rougier wins 1st Rally of Monte Carlo
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28 Jan 1914 1st Millrose Games (athletics) held (New York City NY)
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28 Jan 1914 Beverly Hills, California, is incorporated
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28 Jan 1915 An act of the U.S. Congress creates the United States Coast Guard as a branch of the United States Armed Forces.
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28 Jan 1915 1st US ship lost in WWI, William P Frye (carrying wheat to UK)
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28 Jan 1915 US Coast Guard created from Life Saving & Revenue Cutter services
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28 Jan 1915 US President Wilson refuses to prohibit immigration of illiterates
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28 Jan 1916 1st Jewish Supreme Court Justice, Louis Brandeis, appointed by Wilson
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28 Jan 1916 Opera "Goyescas, " premieres (NYC)
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28 Jan 1916 The opera "Goyescas" is 1st performed (New York City NY)
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28 Jan 1916 German colony of Cameroon surrenders to Britain & France
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28 Jan 1917 Municipally-owned streetcars take to the streets of San Francisco.
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28 Jan 1918 Finnish Civil War: Rebels seize control of the capital, Helsinki, and members of the Senate of Finland go underground.
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28 Jan 1918 Strike on Berlin ammunitions factory
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28 Jan 1918 Trotsky becomes leader of Reds
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28 Jan 1922 American Pro Football Association renamed "National Football League"
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28 Jan 1922 Knickerbocker Storm, Washington D.C.'s biggest snowfall, causes the city's greatest loss of life when the roof of the Knickerbocker Theatre collapses.
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28 Jan 1922 J E Clair turns Green Bay franchise back to NFL
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28 Jan 1923 1st "Reichs Party" (NSDAP) forms in Munich
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28 Jan 1923 1st "Reichs Party" (NSDAP) forms in Munich
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28 Jan 1923 Demonstration against a Dutch University in Ghent
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28 Jan 1923 NSDAP 1st election in Munich
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28 Jan 1925 -46
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28 Jan 1927 Serbian-Croatian-Slavic government of Oezonowitsj falls
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28 Jan 1928 Christopher Hornsrud chosen Prime Minister of Norway at age 101
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28 Jan 1931 Bradman scores 220 New South Wales vs Victoria, 308 minutes, 13 fours
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28 Jan 1932 Japanese forces attack Shanghai.
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28 Jan 1932 1st US state unemployment insurance act enacted-Wisconsin
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28 Jan 1932 Japan occupies Shanghai
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28 Jan 1933 The name Pakistan is coined by Choudhry Rahmat Ali Khan and is accepted by the Indian Muslims who then thereby adopted it further for the Pakistan Movement seeking independence.
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28 Jan 1933 French government of Paul Boncour falls
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28 Jan 1933 German government of Von Schleicher falls
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28 Jan 1934 1st US ski tow (rope) begins operation (Woodstock Vermont)
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28 Jan 1934 The first ski tow in the United States begins operation in Vermont.
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28 Jan 1935 Iceland becomes the first Western country to legalize therapeutic abortion.
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28 Jan 1935 Iceland becomes 1st country to legalize abortion
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28 Jan 1936 Pravda criticizes Shostakovich's "Lady Macbeth" opera
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28 Jan 1938 The World Land Speed Record on a public road is broken by Rudolf Caracciola in the Mercedes-Benz W195 at a speed of 432.7 kilometres per hour (268.9 mph).
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28 Jan 1941 Franco-Thai War: Final air battle of the conflict. A Japanese-mediated armistice goes into effect later in the day.
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28 Jan 1942 General Timoshenko's troops move into Ukraine
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28 Jan 1942 German troops occupy Benghazi Libya
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28 Jan 1943 Forward Doug Bentley sets NHL record with 5 points in a game
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28 Jan 1943 Chicago Blackhawks beats New York Rangers 10-1, Max Bentley scores 4 goals
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28 Jan 1944 683 British bombers attack Berlin
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28 Jan 1944 Leonard Bernstein's "Jeremiah" premieres in Pittsburgh
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28 Jan 1944 U-271 & U-571 sunk off Ireland
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28 Jan 1945 Gen "Vinegar Joe" Stillwell and truck convoy reopen Burma Road to China
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28 Jan 1945 World War II: Supplies begin to reach the Republic of China over the newly reopened Burma Road.
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28 Jan 1945 Dutch airplanes dump pamphlets on Java
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28 Jan 1945 Swedish ships bring food to starving Netherlands
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28 Jan 1947 "Bay Psalm" book auctioned for a record $151,000
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28 Jan 1949 New York Giants sign their 1st black players, Monte Irvin & Ford Smith
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28 Jan 1949 UN Security council condemns Dutch aggression in Indonesia
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28 Jan 1950 Preston Tucker, auto maker, found not guilty of mail fraud
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28 Jan 1951 "La Vie Commence Demain, " which depicted artificial insemination and is the 1st X-rated movie, opened in London
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28 Jan 1953 WJTV TV channel 12 in Jackson, MS (CBS) begins broadcasting
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28 Jan 1956 Elvis Presley makes his first US television appearance
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28 Jan 1956 Elvis Presley's 1st TV appearance (Dorsey Brothers Stage Show)
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28 Jan 1957 "Tonight! America After Dark" premieres, with Jack Lescoulie and Al (Jazzbo) Collins on NBC (between Steve Allen and Jack Paar)
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28 Jan 1958 The last episode of the British radio comedy programme The Goon Show is broadcast.
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28 Jan 1958 The Lego company patents the design of its Lego bricks, still compatible with bricks produced today.
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28 Jan 1958 Construction began on 1st private thorium-uranium nuclear reactor
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28 Jan 1958 Dodger catcher Roy Campanella is paralyzed in an automobile wreck
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28 Jan 1959 Soviet Union wins 62-37 for 1st international basketball loss by US
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28 Jan 1960 The National Football League announced expansion teams for Dallas to start in the 1960 NFL season and Minneapolis-St. Paul for 1961 NFL season.
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28 Jan 1960 1st photograph bounced off Moon, Washington DC
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28 Jan 1960 NFL announces Dallas Cowboys (1960) & Minnesota Vikings (1961) franchises
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28 Jan 1960 Goon Show's final episode on BBC
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28 Jan 1961 Republic of Rwanda proclaimed
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28 Jan 1962 Johanne Relleke gets stung by bees 2,443 times in Rhodesia & survives
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28 Jan 1963 -34
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28 Jan 1964 An unarmed United States Air Force T-39 Sabreliner on a training mission is shot down over Erfurt, East Germany, by a Soviet MiG-19.
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28 Jan 1965 The current design of the Flag of Canada is chosen by an act of Parliament.
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28 Jan 1965 The Who make their 1st appearance on British TV
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28 Jan 1967 Rolling Stones release "Let's Spend the Night Together"
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28 Jan 1968 29th PGA Seniors Golf Championship Chandler Harper
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28 Jan 1968 Goose Goslin & Kiki Cuyler elected to baseball Hall of Fame
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28 Jan 1969 Barbara Jo Rubin becomes 1st woman jockey to win in North America
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28 Jan 1969 2nd ABA All-Star Game West 133 beats East 127 at Louisville
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28 Jan 1970 Lubom
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28 Jan 1972 Oral Roberts' Eddie Woods grabs 30 rebounds for 2nd consecutive game
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28 Jan 1973 "Barnaby Jones" premieres on CBS TV
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28 Jan 1973 Henry Boucha, Detroit Red Wings, scores 6 seconds into a game vs. Montreal
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28 Jan 1973 Ron Howard appears on M*A*S*H in "Sometimes You Hear the Bullet"
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28 Jan 1973 "Barnaby Jones" premieres on CBS TV
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28 Jan 1973 Mickey Welch, George Kelly & Billy Evans elected to Hall of Fame
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28 Jan 1974 Sam Thompson, Jim Bottomley, & Jocko Conlan elected to Hall of Fame
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28 Jan 1975 8th ABA All-Star Game East 151 beats West 124 at San Antonio
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28 Jan 1976 NBA Atlanta Hawks begin a 28 game road losing streak
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28 Jan 1976 Erapalli Prasanna takes 8-76 to rip through New Zealand at Eden Park
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28 Jan 1977 The first day of the Great Lakes Blizzard of 1977 which dumps 10 feet (3.0 m) of snow in one-day in Upstate New York, with Buffalo, Syracuse, Watertown, and surrounding areas most affected.
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28 Jan 1978 "Fantasy Island" starring Ricardo Montalban premieres on ABC TV
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28 Jan 1978 Ranger's Don Murdoch failed on 4th penalty shot against Islanders
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28 Jan 1978 Ted Nugent autographs a fan's arm with his knife
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28 Jan 1979 "Wiz" closes at Majestic Theater NYC after 1672 performances
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28 Jan 1979 Pope John Paul II starts his first pastoral visit to Mexico.
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28 Jan 1979 CBS News Sunday Morning debuts with original host and cocreator Charles Kuralt.
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28 Jan 1979 "Wiz" closes at Majestic Theater New York City NY after 1672 performances
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28 Jan 1979 Arthur Kopit's "Wings" premieres in New York City NY
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28 Jan 1980 USCGC Blackthorn collides with the tanker Capricorn while leaving Tampa, Florida and capsizes, killing 23 Coast Guard crewmembers.
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28 Jan 1980 37th Golden Globes Dustin Hoffman & Sally Field wins
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28 Jan 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.
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28 Jan 1981 Olympic Glory tanker at Galveston Bay, Texas, spills 1 million gallons of oil in a ship collision
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28 Jan 1981 "5 O'Clock Girl" opens at Helen Hayes Theater New York City NY for 12 performances
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28 Jan 1981 William J Casey becomes the 13th director of CIA (until 1987)
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28 Jan 1982 US Army general James L. Dozier is rescued by Italian anti-terrorism forces from captivity by the Red Brigades.
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28 Jan 1982 US General Dozier freed from Red Brigade of Padua Italy
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28 Jan 1982 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
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28 Jan 1984 Tropical Storm Domoina makes landfall in southern Mozambique, eventually causing 214 deaths and some of the most severe flooding so far recorded in the region.
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28 Jan 1984 Los Angeles Kings stop Wayne Gretzky 51 game scoring streak
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28 Jan 1984 Mr Glynn Wolfe marries for non-bigamous record 26th time, Las Vegas NV
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28 Jan 1984 Record 295,000 dominoes toppled, Fuerth, West Germany
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28 Jan 1984 41th Golden Globes Thornbirds wins
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28 Jan 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.
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28 Jan 1985 12th American Music Award
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28 Jan 1986 Space Shuttle program: STS-51-L mission – Space Shuttle Challenger explodes after liftoff, killing all seven astronauts on board.
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28 Jan 1986 25th Space Shuttle (51L)-Challenger 10 explodes 73 seconds after liftoff
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28 Jan 1986 "Uptown... It's Hot!" opens at Lunt-Fontanne Theater New York City NY for 24 performances
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28 Jan 1986 Angolan Unity Leader Jonas Savimbi visits Washington, DC
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28 Jan 1987 US Foreign minister George Shultz meets ANC-leader Oliver Tambo
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28 Jan 1987 Wrestler Jim Neidhart indicted for assaulting a flight attendant
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28 Jan 1988 "Saratina!" opens at Cort Theater NYC for 597 performances
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28 Jan 1988 In R v Morgentaler the Supreme Court of Canada strikes down all anti-abortion laws, effectively allowing abortions in Canada in all 9 months of pregnancy.
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28 Jan 1988 "Saratina!" opens at Cort Theater New York City NY for 597 performances
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28 Jan 1988 Canada's Supreme court declares anti-abortion law unconstitutional
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28 Jan 1989 46th Golden Globes Rain Man, Working Girl
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28 Jan 1989 63rd Australian Open Women's Tennis Steffi Graf beats Helena Sukova (64 64)
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28 Jan 1989 Boon completes 7th Test century, 149 vs West Indies at SCG
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28 Jan 1990 "Independent on Sunday" begins publishing in London
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28 Jan 1990 East German agreement to form all-party government
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28 Jan 1990 78th Australian Men's Tennis Ivan Lendl beats Stefan Edberg (46 76 52-ret)
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28 Jan 1990 Super Bowl XXIV San Francisco 49ers beat Denver Broncos, 55-10 in New Orleans; Super Bowl MVP Joe Montana, San Francisco, Quarterback
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28 Jan 1991 "A Closer Look" with Faith Daniels premieres on NBC-TV
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28 Jan 1991 Boon completes ninth Test century, 121 vs. England at Adelaide
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28 Jan 1991 18th American Music Award M C Hammer & Janet Jackson
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28 Jan 1991 Dictator Siad Barre flees Somalia ending 22 year rule
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28 Jan 1992 Boon completes twelfth Test century, 135 vs. India at Adelaide
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28 Jan 1992 Stan Hansen beats Jumbo Tsuruta to win All Japan Triple Crown
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28 Jan 1994 Helicopter crashes into office building in San Jose California, 1 dead
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28 Jan 1994 Actress Lorraine Bracco (39) weds actor Edward James Olmos (46)
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28 Jan 1994 Inna Lassovskaja jumps ladies world record (14.78m)
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28 Jan 1995 69th Australian Open Women's Tennis Mary Pierce beats Arantxa Sanchez Vicario (63 62)
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28 Jan 1995 83rd Australian Open Men's Tennis Andre Agassi beats Pete Sampras (46 61 76 64)
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28 Jan 1995 Memphis Mad Dogs granted CFL's 13th franchise
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28 Jan 1996 "Hello Dolly!" closes at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC after 118 performances
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28 Jan 1996 Super Bowl XXX: Dallas Cowboys beat Pittsburgh Steelers, 27-17 in Tempe Super Bowl MVP
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28 Jan 1996 "Hello Dolly!" closes at Lunt-Fontanne Theater New York City NY after 118 performances
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28 Jan 1996 84th Australian Men's Tennis Boris Becker beats Michael Chang (62 64 26 62)
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28 Jan 1996 Super Bowl XXX Dallas Cowboys beat Pittsburgh Steelers, 27-17 in Tempe; Super Bowl MVP Larry Brown, Dallas, Defensive Back
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28 Jan 1998 Michelangelo, "Christ & the Woman of Samaria, " sold for $7.4 million
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28 Jan 2002 TAME Flight 120, a Boeing 727-100 crashes in the Andes mountains in southern Colombia, killing 92.
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28 Jan 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.
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28 Jan 2010 Five murderers of President Sheikh Mujibur Rahman of Bangladesh are hung.
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