Today in History
28 January
Sir Francis Drake
John Baskerville
Trotsky
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| 814 Emperor Charlemagne, king of the Franks 768-814, died. | ||
| 1077 German king Henry IV petitions Pope Gregory VII for forgiveness | ||
| 1077 Pope Gregory VII pardons German emperor Heinrich IV | ||
| 1099 1st Crusaders begins siege of Hosn-el-Akrad Syria | ||
| 1262 Flemish/Dutch coast ravaged by north western storm | ||
| 1393 Fire during Royal Ball at Paris, 4 die (Ball of the Ardents) |
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| 1457 Henry VII, Pembroke Castle, 1st Tudor king of England (1485-1509) was born | ||
| 1495 Pope gives his son Cesare Borgia as hostage to Charles VIII of France | ||
| 1547 King Henry VIII of England died and was succeeded by his son, Edward VI. | ||
| 1561 By Edict of Orleans persecution of French Huguenots is suspended | ||
| 1578 Cornelis Haga, Dutch lawyer/ambassador to Constantinople (1611-39) was born | ||
| 1581 James VI signs 2nd Confession of Faith in Scotland | ||
| 1596 Sir Francis Drake, seaman and adventurer who circumnavigated the world, died. | ||
| 1608 Giovanni Alfonso Borelli, Naples, mathematician/astronomer was born | ||
| 1613 Galileo may have unknowingly viewed undiscovered planet Neptune | ||
| 1621 Camillo Borghese, Pope Paul V from 1605 to 1621, died. His reign was noted for his conflicts with the Kingdom of Naples and the Venetian Republic. | ||
| 1689 English parliament ends king Charles II reign | Sir Francis Drake |
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| 1706 John Baskerville, English printer (typeface inventor) was born | ||
| 1714 Jean-Baptiste Pigalle, French sculptor (Child with Pigeon) was born | ||
| 1717 Mustapha III, Sultan of Turkey (1757-74) was born | ||
| 1757 Antonio Bartolomeo Bruni, composer was born | ||
| 1775 Peter the Great, Russia was born | ||
| 1787 Philadelphia's Free Africa Society organizes | ||
| 1788 Capitan Arthur Phillip forms English colony at Sydney, Botany Bay NSW | ||
| 1788 Lord Gordon found guilty of libel of queen of France | ||
| 1807 London's Pall Mall became the first street to be illuminated by gaslight. |
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| 1814 Stendahl's 1st book is published | ||
| 1819 Sir Stamford Raffles 1st lands in Singapore | ||
| 1821 Bellingshausen discovers Alexander Island off Antarctica | ||
| 1824 William Kneass becomes 3rd US chief engraver (1824-40) | ||
| 1829 Irish murderer and body-snatcher William Burke was hanged. | ||
| 1830 Opera "Fra Diavolo," premieres in Paris | ||
| 1833 Charles George Gordon, London, general (China, Khartoum) was born | ||
| 1841 Henry Stanley, Engld, journalist/explorer (found Livingston in Africa) was born | ||
| 1846 Battle of Allwal, Brits beat Sikhs in Punjab (India) | John Baskerville |
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| 1848 King of Naples grants his subjects a constitution | ||
| 1851 Northwestern University (Chicago) chartered | ||
| 1858 John Brown organized raid on Arsenal at Harper's Ferry | ||
| 1860 Britain formally returns Mosquito Coast to Nicaragua | ||
| 1871 Paris surrendered to the Prussians in the Franco-Prussian War. | ||
| 1878 The first commercial telephone switchboard went into operation in New Haven, Connecticut. |
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| 1885 A British relief force arrived in Khartoum following its capture by the Mahdi and the killing of British General Gordon two days earlier. | ||
| 1902 Scottish steel industrialist Andrew Carnegie established the Carnegie Institution in Washington. | ||
| 1909 US military forces leave Cuba for 2nd time | ||
| 1915 US President Wilson refuses to prohibit immigration of illiterates | ||
| 1915 Congress passed legislation creating the U.S. Coast Guard, combining the Life Saving Service and the Revenue Cutter Service. | ||
| 1918 Strike on Berlin ammunition's factory | ||
| 1918 Trotsky becomes leader of Reds | ||
| 1923 Demonstration against a Dutch University in Ghent | ||
| 1927 Serbian-Croatian-Slavic governament of Oezonowitsj falls | ||
| 1928 Vicente Blasco Ibanez, Spanish politician and writer, most notably "The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse," died. | ||
| 1930 The dictatorship of Miguel Primo de Rivera ended in Spain. | ||
| 1932 The Japanese army occupied Shanghai to force an end to a Chinese boycott of Japanese goods. | ||
| 1933 French govt of Paul Boncour falls | ||
| 1933 German governament of Von Schleicher falls | ||
| 1935 Iceland became the first country to legalise abortion on medical-social grounds. | ||
| 1939 William Butler Yeats, Irish poet and dramatist, died; he won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1923. | ||
| 1942 General Timoshenko's troops move into Ukraine |
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| 1942 German troops occupy Benghazi Libya | ||
| 1943 Adolf Hitler mobilized the entire German adult population for the country's war effort. | ||
| 1944 683 British bombers attack Berlin | ||
| 1944 U-271 & U-571 sunk off Ireland | ||
| 1944 Charles de Gaulle made his landmark appeal for a new relationship between France and Africa. | ||
| 1945 A convoy of U.S. trucks from India crossed the Burmese-Chinese border, opening the Burma Road. | ||
| 1945 Dutch airplanes dump pamphlets on Java | Trotsky |
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| 1945 Swedish ships bring food to starving Netherlands | ||
| 1949 UN Security council convicts Dutch aggression in Indonesia | ||
| 1950 The French Assembly ratified the agreement under which Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos became independent states within the French union. | ||
| 1953 James Scullin, Australian Labor prime minister 1929-31, died; he guided his country through the early years of the Great Depression. | ||
| 1955 President Eisenhower received full authority from the Senate to use armed forces abroad to defend Taiwan against possible attacks by the Chinese Communists. | ||
| 1961 Republic of Rwanda proclaimed | ||
| 1963 Black student Harvey Gantt entered Clemson College in South Carolina, the last state to hold out against integration. | ||
| 1970 Lubom¡r Strougal succeeds Cernik as premier of Czechoslovakia | ||
| 1981 Olympic Glory tanker at Galveston Bay, Texas, spills 1 million gallons of oil in a ship collision | ||
| 1982 - Italian anti-terrorist police rescued U.S. Brigadier-General James Dozier from Red Brigades guerrillas who had kidnapped him 42 days earlier. | ||
| 1986 Seven astronauts died after the Challenger space shuttle exploded 72 seconds after lift-off from Cape Canaveral. | ||
| 1988 Canada's Supreme court declares anti-abortion law unconstitutional | ||
| 1988 Soviet spy Klaus Fuchs died; his information enabled Moscow to detonate its first nuclear weapon in August 1949. | ||
| 1990 "Independent on Sunday" begins publishing in London | ||
| 1991 Dictator Siad Barre flees Somalia ending 22 year rule | ||
| 1994 Christian Democrat Giovanni Goria became Italy's second former prime minister to be committed for trial on corruption charges. | ||
| 1996 General San Yu, president of Burma 1981-88, died. | ||
| 1997 At South Africa's Truth Commission, police confessed to the 1977 murder of Steve Biko. | ||
| 1998 Michelangelo, "Christ & the Woman of Samaria," sold for $7.4 million | ||
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