{"id":1798,"date":"2024-01-28T06:16:35","date_gmt":"2024-01-28T00:46:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/?p=1798"},"modified":"2024-01-25T15:11:30","modified_gmt":"2024-01-25T09:41:30","slug":"history-of-28-january","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/history-of-28-january\/","title":{"rendered":"History of 28 January"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>History of 28 January<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>1935<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2013&nbsp;Iceland&nbsp;becomes the first Western country to legalize therapeutic&nbsp;abortion.<\/li>\n<li><strong>1938&nbsp;<\/strong>\u2013 The&nbsp;World Land Speed Record&nbsp;on a&nbsp;public road&nbsp;is broken by&nbsp;Rudolf Caracciola&nbsp;in the&nbsp;Mercedes-Benz W195&nbsp;at a speed of 432.7 kilometers per hour (268.9&nbsp;mph).<\/li>\n<li><strong>1941&nbsp;<\/strong>\u2013&nbsp;Franco-Thai War: Final air battle of the conflict. A Japanese-mediated&nbsp;armistice&nbsp;goes into effect later in the day.<\/li>\n<li><strong>1945&nbsp;<\/strong>\u2013&nbsp;World War II: Supplies begin to reach the&nbsp;Republic of China&nbsp;over the newly reopened&nbsp;Burma Road.<\/li>\n<li><strong>1956&nbsp;<\/strong>\u2013&nbsp;Elvis Presley&nbsp;makes his first national television appearance.<\/li>\n<li><strong>1958&nbsp;<\/strong>\u2013 The&nbsp;Lego&nbsp;company patents the design of its Lego bricks, still compatible with bricks produced today.<\/li>\n<li><strong>1960&nbsp;<\/strong>\u2013 The&nbsp;National Football League&nbsp;announced expansion teams for&nbsp;Dallas&nbsp;to start in the 1960 NFL season and&nbsp;Minneapolis-St. Paul&nbsp;for 1961 NFL season.<\/li>\n<li><strong>1964&nbsp;<\/strong>\u2013 An unarmed&nbsp;United States Air Force&nbsp;T-39 Sabreliner&nbsp;on a training mission is&nbsp;shot down&nbsp;over&nbsp;Erfurt,&nbsp;East Germany, by a&nbsp;Soviet&nbsp;MiG-19.<\/li>\n<li><strong>1965&nbsp;<\/strong>\u2013 The current design of the&nbsp;Flag of Canada&nbsp;is chosen by an act of&nbsp;Parliament.<\/li>\n<li><strong>1977&nbsp;<\/strong>\u2013 The first day of the&nbsp;Great Lakes Blizzard of 1977&nbsp;which dumps 10 feet (3.0&nbsp;m) of snow in one day in&nbsp;Upstate New York, with&nbsp;Buffalo,&nbsp;Syracuse,&nbsp;Watertown, and surrounding areas are most affected.<\/li>\n<li><strong>1980&nbsp;<\/strong>\u2013&nbsp;USCGC&nbsp;<i>Blackthorn<\/i>&nbsp;collides with the tanker Capricorn while leaving&nbsp;Tampa, Florida&nbsp;and capsizes, killing 23 Coast Guard crewmembers.<\/li>\n<li><strong>1981&nbsp;<\/strong>\u2013&nbsp;Ronald Reagan&nbsp;lifts remaining domestic petroleum price and allocation controls in the United States helping to end the&nbsp;1979 energy crisis&nbsp;and begin the&nbsp;1980s oil glut.<\/li>\n<li><strong>1982&nbsp;<\/strong>\u2013&nbsp;US Army&nbsp;general&nbsp;James L. Dozier&nbsp;is rescued by Italian anti-terrorism&nbsp;forces from captivity by the&nbsp;Red Brigades.<\/li>\n<li><strong>1984&nbsp;<\/strong>\u2013&nbsp;Tropical Storm Domoina&nbsp;makes landfall in southern&nbsp;Mozambique, eventually causing 214 deaths and some of the most severe flooding so far recorded in the region.<\/li>\n<li><strong>1985&nbsp;<\/strong>\u2013 Supergroup&nbsp;USA for Africa&nbsp;(United Support of Artists for Africa) records the hit single&nbsp;<i>We Are the World<\/i>, to help raise funds for&nbsp;Ethiopian&nbsp;famine relief.<\/li>\n<li><strong>1986&nbsp;<\/strong>\u2013&nbsp;Space Shuttle program:&nbsp;STS-51-L&nbsp;mission:&nbsp;Space Shuttle Challenger&nbsp;disintegrates after liftoff, killing all seven astronauts on board.<\/li>\n<li><strong>1988&nbsp;<\/strong>\u2013 In&nbsp;<i>R v Morgentaler<\/i>&nbsp;the Supreme Court of Canada strikes down all anti-abortion laws.<\/li>\n<li><strong>2002&nbsp;<\/strong>\u2013&nbsp;TAME Flight 120, a&nbsp;Boeing 727-100 crashes in the&nbsp;Andes&nbsp;mountains in southern&nbsp;Colombia, killing 92.<\/li>\n<li><strong>2006&nbsp;<\/strong>\u2013 The roof of one of the buildings at the&nbsp;Katowice International Fair&nbsp;in Poland,&nbsp;collapses&nbsp;due to the weight of snow, killing 65 and injuring more than 170 others.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><strong>Celebrating Birthday&#8217;s Today<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>1980<\/strong> \u2013&nbsp;Michael Hastings, American journalist and author (d. 2013)<\/li>\n<li><strong>1980<\/strong> \u2013&nbsp;Brian Fallon, American singer-songwriter<\/li>\n<li><strong>1981&nbsp;<\/strong>\u2013&nbsp;Elijah Wood, American actor, and producer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1984&nbsp;<\/strong>\u2013&nbsp;Ben Clucas, English race car driver<\/li>\n<li><strong>1984<\/strong> \u2013&nbsp;Stephen Gostkowski, American Football player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1984<\/strong> \u2013&nbsp;Andre Iguodala, American Basketball player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1984<\/strong> \u2013&nbsp;Anne Panter, English field hockey player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1985&nbsp;<\/strong>\u2013&nbsp;J. Cole, American singer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1985<\/strong> \u2013&nbsp;Daniel Carcillo, Canadian ice hockey player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1985<\/strong> \u2013&nbsp;Lauris D\u0101rzi\u0146\u0161, Latvian ice hockey player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1985<\/strong> \u2013&nbsp;Arnold Mvuemba, French footballer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1985<\/strong> \u2013&nbsp;Libby Trickett, Australian swimmer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1986&nbsp;<\/strong>\u2013&nbsp;Jessica Ennis-Hill, English heptathlete and hurdler<\/li>\n<li><strong>1986<\/strong> \u2013&nbsp;Nathan Outteridge, Australian sailor<\/li>\n<li><strong>1986<\/strong> \u2013&nbsp;Asad Shafiq, Pakistani cricketer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1988&nbsp;<\/strong>\u2013&nbsp;Paul Henry, English footballer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1988<\/strong> \u2013&nbsp;Seiya Sanada, Japanese wrestler<\/li>\n<li><strong>1989&nbsp;<\/strong>\u2013&nbsp;Siem de Jong, Dutch footballer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1991&nbsp;<\/strong>\u2013&nbsp;Jordan Kahu, Australian rugby league player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1991<\/strong> \u2013&nbsp;Carl Klingberg, Swedish ice hockey player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1992<\/strong> \u2013 Sergio Araujo, the Argentinian footballer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1992<\/strong> \u2013&nbsp;Andrei Savchenko, Russian footballer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1993&nbsp;<\/strong>\u2013&nbsp;Richmond Boakye, Ghanaian footballer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1993<\/strong> \u2013&nbsp;Mitch Cornish, Australian rugby league player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1998&nbsp;<\/strong>\u2013&nbsp;Ariel Winter, American actress<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>History of 28 January 1935&nbsp;\u2013&nbsp;Iceland&nbsp;becomes the first Western country to legalize therapeutic&nbsp;abortion. 1938&nbsp;\u2013 The&nbsp;World Land Speed Record&nbsp;on a&nbsp;public road&nbsp;is broken by&nbsp;Rudolf Caracciola&nbsp;in the&nbsp;Mercedes-Benz W195&nbsp;at a speed of 432.7 kilometers per hour (268.9&nbsp;mph). 1941&nbsp;\u2013&nbsp;Franco-Thai War: Final air battle of the conflict. A Japanese-mediated&nbsp;armistice&nbsp;goes into effect later in the day. 1945&nbsp;\u2013&nbsp;World War II: Supplies begin to reach [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1295,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[82],"tags":[503,83,498],"class_list":{"0":"post-1798","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-history","8":"tag-28-january","9":"tag-history","10":"tag-todays-history"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/today-history-img2.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pab1DJ-t0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1798"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23406,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1798\/revisions\/23406"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}