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==Events== * 814 – Charlemagne dies of pleurisy in Aachen as the first Holy Roman Emperor. He is succeeded by his son Louis the Pious as king of the Frankish Empire. *1077 – Walk to Canossa: The excommunication of Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor is lifted. *1393 – King Charles VI of France is nearly killed when several dancers' costumes catch fire during a masquerade ball. *1521 – The Diet of Worms begins, lasting until May 25. *1547 – Henry VIII dies. His nine-year-old son, Edward VI becomes King, and the first Protestant ruler of England. *1573 – Articles of the Warsaw Confederation are signed, sanctioning freedom of religion in Poland. *1624 – Sir Thomas Warner founds the first British colony in the Caribbean, on the island of Saint Kitts. *1701 – The Chinese storm Dartsedo. *1724 – The Russian Academy of Sciences is founded in St. Petersburg by Peter the Great, and implemented by Senate decree. It is called the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences until 1917. *1754 – Horace Walpole coins the word ''serendipity'' in a letter to Horace Mann. *1760 – Pownal, Vermont, is created by Benning Wentworth as one of the New Hampshire Grants. *1813 – Jane Austen's ''Pride and Prejudice'' is first published in the United Kingdom. *1820 – A Russian expedition led by Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen and Mikhail Petrovich Lazarev discovers the Antarctic continent, approaching the Antarctic coast. *1821 – Alexander Island is first discovered by Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen. *1846 – The Battle of Aliwal, India, is won by British troops commanded by Sir Harry Smith. *1851 – Northwestern University becomes the first chartered university in Illinois. *1855 – A locomotive on the Panama Canal Railway, runs from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean for the first time. *1871 – Franco-Prussian War: the Siege of Paris ends in French defeat and an armistice. *1878 – ''Yale Daily News'' becomes the first daily college newspaper in the United States. *1887 – In a snowstorm at Fort Keogh, Montana, the world's largest snowflakes are reported, wide and thick. *1896 – Walter Arnold of East Peckham, Kent, becomes the first person to be convicted of speeding. He was fined one shilling, plus costs, for speeding at , thereby exceeding the contemporary speed limit of . *1902 – The Carnegie Institution of Washington is founded in Washington, D.C. with a $10 million gift from Andrew Carnegie. *1908 – Members of the Portuguese Republican Party fail in their attempted coup d'état against the administrative dictatorship of Prime Minister João Franco. *1909 – United States troops leave Cuba with the exception of Guantanamo Bay Naval Base after being there since the Spanish–American War. *1915 – An act of the U.S. Congress creates the United States Coast Guard as a branch of the United States Armed Forces. *1917 – Municipally-owned streetcars take to the streets of San Francisco. *1918 – Finnish Civil War: Rebels seize control of the capital, Helsinki, and members of the Senate of Finland go underground. *1922 – Knickerbocker Storm, Washington D.C.'s biggest snowfall, causes the city's greatest loss of life when the roof of the Knickerbocker Theatre collapses. *1932 – Japanese forces attack Shanghai. *1933 – The name Pakistan is coined by Choudhry Rahmat Ali Khan and is accepted by the Indian Muslims who then thereby adopted it further for the Pakistan Movement seeking independence. *1934 – The first ski tow in the United States begins operation in Vermont. *1935 – Iceland becomes the first Western country to legalize therapeutic abortion. *1938 – The World Land Speed Record on a public road is broken by Rudolf Caracciola in the Mercedes-Benz W195 at a speed of . *1941 – Franco-Thai War: Final air battle of the conflict. A Japanese-mediated armistice goes into effect later in the day. *1945 – World War II: Supplies begin to reach the Republic of China over the newly reopened Burma Road. *1956 – Elvis Presley makes his first US television appearance *1958 – The Lego company patents the design of its Lego bricks, still compatible with bricks produced today. * 1958 – The last episode of the British radio comedy programme ''The Goon Show'' is broadcast. * 1960 – The National Football League announced expansion teams for Dallas to start in the 1960 NFL season and Minneapolis-St. Paul for 1961 NFL season. *1964 – An unarmed United States Air Force T-39 Sabreliner on a training mission is shot down over Erfurt, East Germany, by a Soviet MiG-19. *1965 – The current design of the Flag of Canada is chosen by an act of Parliament. *1977 – The first day of the Great Lakes Blizzard of 1977 which dumps of snow in one-day in Upstate New York, with Buffalo, Syracuse, Watertown, and surrounding areas most affected. *1979 – CBS News Sunday Morning debuts with original host and cocreator Charles Kuralt. * 1979 – Pope John Paul II starts his first pastoral visit to Mexico. *1980 – collides with the tanker Capricorn while leaving Tampa, Florida and capsizes, killing 23 Coast Guard crewmembers. *1981 – Ronald Reagan lifts remaining domestic petroleum price and allocation controls in the United States helping to end the 1979 energy crisis and begin the 1980s oil glut. *1982 – US Army general James L. Dozier is rescued by Italian anti-terrorism forces from captivity by the Red Brigades. *1984 – Tropical Storm Domoina makes landfall in southern Mozambique, eventually causing 214 deaths and some of the most severe flooding so far recorded in the region. *1985 – Supergroup USA for Africa (United Support of Artists for Africa) records the hit single ''We Are the World'', to help raise funds for Ethiopian famine relief. *1986 – Space Shuttle program: STS-51-L mission – Space Shuttle Challenger explodes after liftoff, killing all seven astronauts on board. *1988 – In ''R v Morgentaler'' the Supreme Court of Canada strikes down all anti-abortion laws, effectively allowing abortions in Canada in all 9 months of pregnancy. *2002 – TAME Flight 120, a Boeing 727-100 crashes in the Andes mountains in southern Colombia, killing 92. *2006 – The roof of one of the buildings at the Katowice International Fair in Chorzów/Katowice, Poland, collapses due to the weight of snow, killing 65 and injuring more than 170 others. *2010 – Five murderers of President Sheikh Mujibur Rahman of Bangladesh are hung. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「January 28」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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