On This Day:
Saturday January 28, 2012
This is the 28th day of the year, with 338 days remaining
in 2012.
Fact of the Day: cat lifespan
Most cats will reach about 11 or 12 years of age. Some make
it to 18 and very few to 20 and beyond. Much depends on
whether the cat is exclusively an indoor cat. If this is the
case, these cats often reach 15+ years of age.
Holidays
Feast day of St. Thomas Aquinas, St. Amadeus of Lausanne,
St. Peter Nolasco, St. Peter Thomas, and St. Paulinus of
Aquileia.
Events
28 -
Roman Emperor Nerva
named Trajan,
an army general, as his successor.
1521
- The Diet
of Worms began, at which Protestant reformer Martin
Luther was declared an outlaw by the Roman
Catholic church.
1547
- Edward
VI, age nine, succeeded as King of England
(until 1553) upon the death of Henry
VIII.
1782
- Congress
approved the Great Seal of the United
States.
1902
- The Carnegie
Institute was established in Washington
D.C.
1908
- Author and activist Julia
Ward Howe, composer of "The
Battle Hymn of the Republic," became the first woman
elected to the American
Academy of Arts and Letters.
1915
- The Coast
Guard was created by an act of Congress,
to fight contraband trade and aid distressed vessels at sea.
1916
- Louis
D. Brandeis was appointed by President Woodrow
Wilson to the Supreme
Court, becoming its first Jewish member.
1918
- The Bolsheviks
occupied Helsinki,
Finland.
1935
- Iceland
became the first country to introduce legalized abortion.
1986
- The space shuttle Challenger
exploded 73 seconds after liftoff from Cape
Canaveral, killing all seven crew members.
2002
- TAME
Flight 120, a Boeing
727-100 crashes in the Andes
Mountains in southern Colombia
killing 92.
Births
1841
- Sir Henry
Morton Stanley, British journalist and explorer of
Africa.
1855
- William
Seward Burroughs, American inventor.
1884
- Auguste
Piccard, Swiss balloonist, physicist, and deep-sea
explorer.
1887
- Arthur
Rubinstein, Polish-American virtuoso pianist.
1912
- Jackson
Pollock, American artist.
1933
- Susan
Sontag, American author.
1936
- Alan
Alda (born Alphonso Joseph D'Abruzzo), American actor,
writer, and director.
1968
- Sarah
Ann McLachlan, Canadian musician, singer, and
songwriter.
1977
- Takuma
Sato, Japanese
Formula
One driver.
1981
- Elijah
Wood, American actor.
Deaths
814 -
Charlemagne,
King
of the Franks from 768 until his death.
1939
- W.B.(William
Butler) Yeats, Irish poet, dramatist, and prose
writer.
1983
- Frank
Forde, an Australian
politician and the 15th Prime
Minister of Australia.
1986
- Crew of Space
Shuttle Challenger: Greg
Jarvis, Christa
McAuliffe, Ronald
McNair, Ellison
Onizuka, Judith
Resnik, Francis
R. Scobee, and Michael
J. Smith.
2007
- Emma
Tillman, the world's oldest living person from January
24-28, 2007.
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