January 28
28 | The Roman Emperor Nerva names Trajan, an army general, as his successor. | |
1547 | Henry VIII of England dies and is succeeded by his nine-year-old son Edward VI. | |
1757 | Ahmed Shah, the first King of Afghanistan, occupies Delhi and annexes the Punjab. | |
1792 | Rebellious slaves in Santo Domingo launch an attack on the city of Cap. | |
1871 | Surrounded by Prussian troops and suffering from famine, the French army in Paris surrenders. During the siege, balloons were used to keep contact with the outside world. | |
1915 | The U.S. Coast Guard is founded 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. | |
1921 | Albert Einstein startles Berlin by suggesting the possibility of measuring the universe. | |
1932 | The Japanese attack Shanghai, China, and declare martial law. | |
1936 | A fellow prison inmate slashes infamous kidnapper, Richard Loeb, to death. | |
1941 | French General Charles DeGaulle's Free French forces sack south Libya oasis. | |
1945 | Chiang Kai-shek renames the Ledo-Burma Road the Stilwell Road, in honor of General Joseph Stilwell. | |
1955 | The U.S. Congress passes a bill allowing mobilization of troops if China should attack Taiwan. | |
1964 | The Soviets down a U.S. jet over East Germany killing three. | |
1970 | Israeli fighter jets attack the suburbs of Cairo. | |
1986 | The space shuttle Challenger explodes just after liftoff. | |
Born on January 28 | ||
1693 | Anna "Ivanovna", Tsarina of Russia. | |
1706 | John Baskerville, inventor of the "hot-pressing" method of printing. | |
1933 | Susan Sontag, American essayist and novelist (The Style of Radical Will, Illness as a Metaphor). |
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