SATURDAY, JANUARY 28, 2012

Today is Saturday, January 28, the 28th day of 2012. There are 338 days left in the year.

1077 ― Pope Gregory VII pardons German emperor Heinrich IV

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

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

1918 ― Trotsky becomes leader of Reds

1935 ― Iceland becomes first country to legalize abortion

1959 ― Soviet Union wins 62-37 for first international basketball loss by U.S.

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

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