Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/January 28
This is a list of selected January 28 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
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| 661 – Ali, the fourth Islamic caliph, was assassinated, effectively ending the Rashidun Caliphate. | Article unsure of date |
| 1077 – Pope Gregory VII lifted the excommunication of Henry IV after the Holy Roman Emperor made his trek from Speyer to Canossa Castle to beg the pope for forgiveness for his actions in the Investiture Controversy. | refimprove |
| 1521 – Emperor Charles V and the estates of the Holy Roman Empire convened at the Diet of Worms to discuss Martin Luther and the effects of the Protestant Reformation. | unreferenced section |
| 1573 – The Warsaw Confederation was signed, sanctioning religious freedom in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. | refimprove section |
| 1724 – The Russian Academy of Sciences, the national academy of Russia, was established. | refimprove section, external links |
| 1846 – The British led by Sir Harry Smith defeated the Sikh Khalsa Army led by Ranjodh Singh Majithia at the Battle of Aliwal, sometimes regarded as the turning point of the First Anglo-Sikh War. | needs more footnotes |
| 1855 – A train on the Panama Railway made the world's first transcontinental crossing by rail, a 48-mile (77 km) trip from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific across the Isthmus of Panama. | multiple issues |
| 1871 – French forces surrendered at the Siege of Paris, leading to the end of the Franco-Prussian War and the establishment of the German Empire. | refimprove section |
| 1896 – Cited for travelling at 8 miles per hour (13 km/h), Walter Arnold of East Peckham, Kent, England, became the first person ever convicted of exceeding the speed limit, and was fined one shilling. | globalize |
| 1932 – The January 28 incident, a short war fought in and around Shanghai between the armies of the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan, began. | refimprove section |
| 1977 – A deadly blizzard hit upstate New York and Southern Ontario, creating snowdrifts of up to 30 ft (9 m) in affected areas. | refimprove section |
| 1981 – U.S. president Ronald Reagan lifted price controls from petroleum products, contributing to the 1980s oil glut. | refimprove |
| 1982 – After having been kidnapped by the Italian Red Brigade 42 days earlier, General James L. Dozier of the United States Army was freed by the anti-terrorist force NOCS. | refimprove section |
| 2006 – The roof of one of the buildings at the Katowice International Fair in Katowice, Poland, collapsed due to the weight of snow, killing 65 visitors. | needs more footnotes |
| Yazid II |d|724| | date not known for certain; see [1] |
| Kathleen Lonsdale |b|1903 | referencing |
Eligible
- 1142 – Despite having saved the southern Song dynasty from attempts by the northern Jin dynasty to conquer it, Chinese general Yue Fei was executed by the Song government.
- 1547 – Nine-year-old Edward VI, the first English monarch to be raised as a Protestant, became king.
- 1568 – Delegates of the Three Nations of Transylvania adopted the Edict of Torda, allowing local communities to freely elect their preachers in an unprecedented act of religious tolerance.
- 1813 – English author Jane Austen's novel Pride and Prejudice was published, using material from an unpublished manuscript originally written between 1796 and 1797.
- 1922 – The largest recorded snowstorm in the history of Washington, D.C., collapsed the Knickerbocker Theatre, killing 98 people.
- 1941 – The Uline Arena in Washington, D.C., opened to host the Ice Capades.
- 1958 – The Lego Group, a Danish toy company, filed a patent in Denmark for the design of Lego bricks (pictured).
- 1984 – Tropical Storm Domoina made landfall in southern Mozambique, causing some of the most severe flooding recorded in the region.
- 1986 – The Space Shuttle Challenger disintegrated 73 seconds into its tenth mission, killing all seven crew members.
- Born/died: | Joan II of Navarre |b|1312| Paul Luther |b|1533| Johannes Hevelius |bd|1611; 1687| Gregor Werner |b|1693| George S. Boutwell |b|1818| Colette |b|1873| Monty Noble |b|1873| Jasraj |b|1930| Paul Henderson |b|1943 Reynaldo Hahn |d|1947| Bobbi Campbell |b|1952| Helen Sawyer Hogg |d|1993
January 28: Chinese New Year's Eve (2025)
Horace Walpole
- 1069 – Robert de Comines, Earl of Northumbria, was killed in Durham, causing William the Conqueror to embark on a campaign to subjugate northern England.
- 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.
- 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".
- 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.
- William H. Prescott (d. 1859)
- W. B. Yeats (d. 1939)
- Eddie Buczynski (b. 1947)
- Astrid Lindgren (d. 2002)
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