Today In History - Saturday, January 28th
2002
TAME Flight 120, a Boeing 727-100 crashes in the Andes mountains in southern Colombia killing 92.
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1986
Space Shuttle program: STS-51-L mission (Space Shuttle Challenger disaster) - Space Shuttle Challenger breaks apart after liftoff killing all seven astronauts on board.
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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.
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1982
US Army general James L. Dozier is rescued by Italian anti-terrorism forces from captivity under the Red Brigades.
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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.
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1980
USCGC Blackthorn (WLB-391) collides with the tanker Capricorn while leaving Tampa Florida and capsizes killing 23 Coast Guard crewmembers.
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1977
The first day of the Great Lakes Blizzard of 1977, which severely affected and crippled much of Upstate New York, but Buffalo, NY, Syracuse, NY, Watertown, NY, and surrounding areas were most affected, each area accumulating close to 10 feet of snow on this one day.
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1965
The current design of the Flag of Canada was chosen by an act of Parliament.
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1958
The Lego company patented their design of Lego bricks, still compatible with bricks being produced today.
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1945
World War II: Supplies begin to reach the Republic of China over the newly reopened Burma Road.
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1941
French-Thai War: Final air battle of the conflict. Japanese-mediated armistice goes into effect later in the day.
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1938
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1935
Iceland becomes the first Western country to legalize therapeutic abortion.
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1934
The first ski tow in the United States begins operation in Vermont.
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1933
The name Pakistan is coined by Choudhary Rehmat Ali Khan and is accepted by the Indian Muslims who then thereby adopted it further for the Pakistan Movement seeking independence.
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1932
Japanese forces attack Shanghai.
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1922
Knickerbocker Storm, Washington D.C.'s biggest snowfall, causes the city's greatest loss of life when the roof of the Knickerbocker Theater collapses.
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1921
A symbolic Tomb of the Unknown Soldier is installed beneath the Arc de Triomphe in Paris to honor the unknown dead of World War I.
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1918
Finnish Civil War: The Red Guards seized control of the capital, Helsinki, and members of the Senate of Finland go underground.
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1917
Municipally owned streetcars take to the streets of San Francisco, California.
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1916
Louis D. Brandeis becomes the first Jew appointed to the United States Supreme Court.
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1915
An act of the U.S. Congress creates the United States Coast Guard.
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1909
United States troops leave Cuba with the exception of Guantanamo Bay Naval Base after being there since the Spanish-American War.
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1902
The Carnegie Institution is founded in Washington, D.C. with a $10 million gift from Andrew Carnegie.
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1887
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1878
''Yale Daily News'' becomes the first daily college newspaper in the United States.
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1871
Franco-Prussian War: the Siege of Paris ends in French defeat and an armistice.
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1855
The first locomotive runs from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean on the Panama Railway.
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1846
Battle of Aliwal, India is won by British troops commanded by Sir Harry Smith.
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1820
Russian expedition led by Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen and Mikhail Petrovich Lazarev discovers the Antarctic continent approaching the Antarctic coast.
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1813
Pride and Prejudice is first published in the United Kingdom.
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1760
Pownal, Vermont is created by Benning Wentworth as one of the New Hampshire Grants.
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1754
Horace Walpole, in a letter to Horace Mann, coins the following word, ''serendipity''.
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1724
The Russian Academy of Sciences is founded in St. Petersburg by Peter the Great, and implemented in the Senate decree. It was called the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences until 1917.
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1624
Sir Thomas Warner founds the first British colony in the Caribbean, on the island of Saint Kitts.
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1573
The articles of the Warsaw Confederation are signed, sanctioning freedom of religion in Poland.
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1547
Henry VIII dies. His nine year old son, Edward VI becomes King, and the first Protestant ruler of England.
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1521
The Diet of Worms begins, lasting until May 25.
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1077
Walk to Canossa: The excommunication of Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor is lifted.
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