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