This Day in History
28 Jan 1099
1st Crusaders begins siege of Hosn-el-Akrad Syria
28 Jan 1262
Flemish Dutch coast ravaged by north westerly storm
28 Jan 1393
Fire during Royal Ball in Paris 4 die (Ball of the Ardents)
28 Jan 1495
Pope Alexander VI (Roderic Llanol i de Borgia) gives his son Cesare as hostage to Charles VIII of France
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Afrikaner police admit to killing Stephen Biko
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Challenger disaster
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Germans sink American merchant ship
In the countrys first such action against American shipping interests on the high seas the captain of a German cruiser orders the destruction of the Wi...
Ford asks for additional aid
President Gerald Ford asks Congress for an additional 522 million in military aid for South Vietnam and Cambodia. He revealed that North Vietnam now had 2890...
Cease-fire goes into effect
A cease-fire goes into effect at 8 a.m. Saigon time (midnight on January 27 Greenwich Mean Time).When the cease-fire went into effect Saigon controlled about...
Vince Lombardi hired as Packers coach
On January 28 1959 the Green Bay Packers of the National Football League (NFL) sign Vince Lombardi to a five-year contract as the teams coach and gene...
Wilson nominates Brandeis to the Supreme Court
President Woodrow Wilson nominates Louis Brandeis to the Supreme Court on this day in 1916. After a bitterly contested confirmation Brandeis became the first J...
First train crosses the Panamanian isthmus
The Panama Railway which carried thousands of unruly miners to California via the dense jungles of Central America dispatches its first train across the Isthm...
Colette is born
On this day French author Colette (born Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette) is born in a small town in Burgundy France. Raised in the country Colette married writer a...
Clint Eastwood honored by Directors Guild of America
On this day in 2006 Clint Eastwood becomes only the 31st filmmaker in 70 years of Directors Guild of America (DGA) history to be given the organization...
Challenger lost after liftoff
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Killer couple strikes the heartland
On this day in 1958 Charles Starkweather a 19-year-old high-school dropout from Lincoln Nebraska and his 14-year-old girlfriend Caril Ann Fugate kill a Li...
Soviets shoot down U.S. jet
The U.S. State Department angrily accuses the Soviet Union of shooting down an American jet that strayed into East German airspace. Three U.S. officers aboard t...
Thomas Hindman born
On this day in 1828 Confederate General Thomas Carmichael Hindman is born in Knoxville Tennessee.Hindman was raised in Alabama and educated in New York and Ne...
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