What are the important events that happened on January 28? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.

January 28: Facts & Myths About This Day

January 28 is the 28^th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 337 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday.

Under the Julian calendar, this day is January 15, 2025 – a Tuesday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?

When this day started, 1,738,022,400 seconds has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.

Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘icosioctagon’ day.

Aquarius is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Garnet is the modern birthstone for this month. Emerald is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.

According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there is one day remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.

The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,421 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.

January 28 Historical Events

• 1573 –
  Articles of the Warsaw Confederation are signed, sanctioning freedom of religion in Poland.
• 1754 –
  Horace Walpole coins the word serendipity in a letter to Horace Mann.
• 1820 –
  A Russian expedition led by Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen and Mikhail Petrovich Lazarev discovers the Antarctic continent approaching the Antarctic coast.
• 1896 –
  Walter Arnold of East Peckham, Kent became the first person to be convicted of speeding. He is fined 1 shilling, plus costs, for speeding at 8 mph, thus exceeding the contemporary speed limit of 2 mph.
• 1902 –
  The Carnegie Institution of Washington is founded in Washington, D.C. with a $10 million gift from Andrew Carnegie.
• 1915 –
  An act of the U.S. Congress creates the United States Coast Guard.
• 1964 –
  An unarmed USAF T-39 Sabreliner on a training mission is shot down over Erfurt, East Germany, by a Soviet MiG-19.
• 1986 –
  Space Shuttle program: STS-51-L mission – Space Shuttle Challenger breaks apart after liftoff killing all seven astronauts on board.
• 2002 –
  TAME Flight 120, a Boeing 727-100 crashes in the Andes mountains in southern Colombia killing 92.
• 2036 –
  New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Fire Dragon in Chinese astrology.

Who were born on January 28?

• 1719 –
  Johann Elias Schlegel, German critic and poet (d. 1749)
• 1861 –
  Julián Felipe, Filipino musician (d. 1944)
• 1873 –
  Colette, French writer (d. 1954)
• 1880 –
  Herbert Strudwick, English cricketer (d. 1970)
• 1904 –
  Canuplin, Filipino magician and bodabil entertainer (d. 1979)
• 1930 –
  Kurt Biedenkopf, German politician
• 1940 –
  Carlos Slim, Mexican businessman
• 1949 –
  Gregg Popovich, American basketball coach
• 1951 –
  Leonid Kadeniuk, Ukrainian cosmonaut
• 1968 –
  Sarah McLachlan, Canadian singer and songwriter

Who died on January 28?

• 1271 –
  Isabella of Aragon, queen of Philip III of France (b. 1247)
• 1621 –
  Pope Paul V (b. 1550)
• 1939 –
  William Butler Yeats, Irish writer, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1865)
• 1947 –
  Reynaldo Hahn, French composer (b. 1875)
• 1948 –
  Arthur Liebehenschel, Commandant at Auschwitz concentration camp (b. 1901)
• 1960 –
  Zora Neale Hurston, American author (b. 1891)
• 1986 –
  Michael J. Smith – crew of Space Shuttle Challenger (b. 1945)
• 1996 –
  Jerry Siegel, American cartoonist (b. 1914)
• 2002 –
  Gustaaf Deloor, Belgian cyclist (b. 1913)
• 2007 –
  Carlo Clerici, Swiss road racing cyclist (b. 1929)