Today is Tuesday, January 28, the 28th day of 2014. There are 337 days left in the year.
1077 ― Pope Gregory VII pardons German emperor Heinrich IV
1099 ― First Crusaders begins siege of Hosni-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
1932 ― Japan occupies Shanghai
1935 ― Iceland becomes first country to legalize abortion
1958 ― Construction began on first private thorium-uranium nuclear reactor
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