January 28 in History

Historical Events on January 28

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.

1918 Finnish Civil War: The Red Guard rebels seize control of the capital, Helsinki; members of the Senate of Finland go underground.

1933 The name Pakistan is coined by Choudhry Rahmat Ali Khan and is accepted by Indian Muslims who then thereby adopted it further for the Pakistan Movement seeking independence.

1935 Iceland becomes the first Western country to legalize therapeutic abortion.

1945 World War II: Supplies begin to reach the Republic of China over the newly reopened Burma Road.

1956 Elvis Presley makes his first American television appearance.

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.

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Famous Birthdays on January 28

1833 Charles George Gordon

1955 Nicolas Sarkozy

1978 Gianluigi Buffon

1986 Jessica Ennis-Hill

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Famous Deaths on January 28

814 Charlemagne

1547 Henry VIII of England

1939 W. B. Yeats

1960 Zora Neale Hurston

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