Tukuk-OS📅 January 28
17 events · 12 births · 12 deaths
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What happened on January 28? Below are the notable events chosen by Wikipedia’s editors for this date, followed by celebrated births, deaths and the observances recognised around the world.
Events
- 1986 — The Space Shuttle Challenger disintegrated 73 seconds into its tenth mission (video featured), killing all seven crew members.
- 1984 — Tropical Storm Domoina made landfall in southern Mozambique, causing some of the most severe flooding recorded in the region.
- 1981 — U.S. president Ronald Reagan lifted price controls from petroleum products, contributing to the 1980s oil glut.
- 1964 — Three U.S. Air Force pilots aboard an unarmed T-39 Sabreliner were killed when the aircraft was shot down over Erfurt, East Germany, by a Soviet MiG-19.
- 1961 — In Gitarama, Rwanda, local and other government officials initiated a coup to overthrow the monarchy and establish a republic.
- 1958 — The Lego Group, a Danish toy company, filed a patent in Denmark for the design of Lego bricks.
- 1941 — World War II: About three hours after Thai bombers raided Sisophon, a ceasefire paused hostilities in the Franco-Thai War.
- 1933 — Choudhry Rahmat Ali published a pamphlet in which he called for the creation of a Muslim state in north-western India that he termed "Pakstan".
- 1922 — The largest recorded snowstorm in the history of Washington, D.C., collapsed the Knickerbocker Theatre (damage pictured), killing 98 people.
Knickerbocker stormWashington, D.C.Knickerbocker Theatre (Washington, D.C.)
- 1916 — The province of Manitoba passed a law that first granted some Canadian women the right to vote.
- 1754 — The word serendipity, derived from the Persian fairy tale The Three Princes of Serendip, was coined by Horace Walpole (pictured) in a letter to a friend.
- 1671 — Anglo-Spanish War: In pursuit of retreating Spanish troops, English soldiers sacked the city of Panama.
Anglo-Spanish War (1654–1660)Henry Morgan's Panama expedition
- 1568 — Delegates of the Three Nations of Transylvania adopted the Edict of Torda, allowing local communities to elect their preachers freely, in an unprecedented act of religious tolerance.
- 1547 — Nine-year-old Edward VI, the first English monarch to be raised as a Protestant, became king.
- 1521 — Charles V and the estates of the Holy Roman Empire met at the Diet of Worms to discuss Martin Luther and the effects of the Protestant Reformation.
Charles V, Holy Roman EmperorEstates of the realmHoly Roman Empire
- 1393 — King Charles VI of France (pictured) was nearly killed when several other dancers' costumes caught fire during a masquerade ball in Paris.
- 1069 — Robert de Comines, Earl of Northumbria, was killed in Durham, causing William the Conqueror to embark on a campaign to subjugate northern England.
Births
- 2007 — That Girl Lay Lay, American rapper
- 2006 — Beckett Sennecke, Canadian ice hockey player
- 2004 — Emoni Bates, American basketball player
- 2004 — Liam Öhgren, Swedish ice hockey player
- 2003 — Whitney Peak, Ugandan-Canadian actress
- 2003 — Carson Hocevar, American professional stock car racing driver
- 2002 — Tabyana Ali, American actress and author
- 2002 — Yoo Seon-ho, South Korean actor
- 2000 — Abel Ruiz, Spanish footballer
- 2000 — Dušan Vlahović, Serbian footballer
- 1998 — Payton Pritchard, American basketball player
- 1998 — Ariel Winter, American actress
Deaths
- 2026 — Ajit Pawar, Indian politician, former Deputy Chief Minister of Maharashtra (born 1959)
- 2021 — Cicely Tyson, American actress (born 1924)
- 2019 — Pepe Smith, Filipino rock musician (born 1947)
- 2017 — Alexander Chancellor, British journalist (born 1940)
- 2017 — Geoff Nicholls, British musician (born 1948)
- 2016 — Signe Toly Anderson, American singer (born 1941)
- 2016 — Paul Kantner, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1941)
- 2016 — Franklin Gene Bissell, American football player and coach (born 1926)
- 2016 — Buddy Cianci, American lawyer and politician, 32nd Mayor of Providence (born 1941)
- 2016 — Bob Tizard, New Zealand lawyer and politician, 6th Deputy Prime Minister of New Zealand (born 1924)
- 2015 — Suraj Abdurrahman, Nigerian general, architect, and engineer (born 1954)
- 2015 — Yves Chauvin, French chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1930)
Observances & holidays
- Christian feast day: Joseph Freinademetz
- Christian feast day: Julian of Cuenca
- Christian feast day: Thomas Aquinas
- Christian feast day: January 28 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
- Army Day (Armenia)
- Data Privacy Day
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