THURSDAY, JANUARY 28, 2010

Today is Thursday, January 28, the 28th day of 2010. There are 337 days left in the year.

1077 _ Pope Gregory VII pardons German emperor Heinrich IV

1613 _ Galileo may have unknowingly viewed undiscovered planet Neptune

1878 _ First telephone exchange (New Haven, Conn.)

1915 _ U.S. President Wilson refuses to prohibit immigration of illiterates

1918 _ Trotsky becomes leader of Reds

1932 _ Japan occupies Shanghai

1935 _ Iceland becomes first country to legalize abortion

1956 _ Elvis Presley's first TV appearance (Dorsey Brothers Stage Show)

1996 _ ``Hello Dolly!" closes at Lunt-Fontanne Theater in New York City after 118 performances

1998 _ Michelangelo's ``Christ & the Woman of Samaria," sold for $7.4 million