FRIDAY, JANUARY 28, 2011

Today is Friday, January 28, the 28th day of 2011. There are 337 days left in the year.

1099 ― First Crusaders begins siege of Hosn-el-Akrad Syria

1613 ― Galileo may have unknowingly viewed undiscovered planet Neptune

1689 ― English parliament ends king Charles II reign

1807 ― London's Pall Mall is first street lit by gaslight

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

1918 ― Trotsky becomes leader of Reds

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 New York City, N.Y., after 118 performances

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