History for January 28

History for January 28 - On-This-Day.com:
Sir Henry Morton Stanley 1841, Jose Marti 1853, Jackson Pollock 1912


Susan Sontag 1933, Alan Alda 1936 - Actor ("M*A*S*H"), Barbi Benton 1950 - Actress


1871 - France surrendered in the Franco-Prussian War.


1878 - The first telephone switchboard was installed in New Haven, CT.


1909 - The United States ended direct control over Cuba.

1915 - The Coast Guard was created by an act of the U.S. Congress to fight contraband trade and aid distressed vessels at sea.


1922 - The National Football League (NFL) franchise in Decatur, IL, transferred to Chicago. The team took the name Chicago Bears.


1980 - Six Americans who had fled the U.S. embassy in Tehran, Iran, on November 4, 1979, left Iran using false Canadian diplomatic passports. The Americans had been hidden at the Canadian embassy in Tehran.


1986 - The U.S. space shuttle Challenger exploded just after takeoff. All seven of its crewmembers were killed.


1999 - Ford Motor Company announced the purchase of Sweden's Volvo AB for $6.45 billion.