January 28

Today in History
• 1495 - Pope gives his son Cesare Borgia as hostage to Charles VIII of France
• 1521 - Emperor Charles V opens the Diet of Worms in Worms
• 1547 - 9-year-old Edward VI succeeds Henry VIII as king of England
• 1807 - London's Pall Mall became the first street lit by gaslight
• 1871 - France surrendered in the Franco-Prussian War
• 1878 - The first telephone switchboard was installed in New Haven, CT
• 1871 - Paris surrenders to Prussians
• 1915 - The Coast Guard was created by an act of the U.S. Congress


Holidays - Traditional and Obscure
• Christa McAuliffe Day
• Data Privacy Day
• Global Community Engagement Day
• National Kazoo Day
• National Lego Day
• National Pediatrician Day
• Pop Art Day
• Rattlesnake Roundup Day

Birthdays
• 1457 - Henry VII, Pembroke Castle, 1st Tudor king of England
• 1600 - Clement IX, Giulio Rospigliosi, Pistoia, Italy, 238th pope
• 1693 - Anna "Ivanovna", tsarina of Russia
• 1717 - Mustapha III, Sultan of Turkey
• 1768 - Frederick VI, Danish king, lost Norway to Sweden
• 1775 - Peter the Great, Russia
• 1841 - Henry Stanley, England, explorer, found Livingston in Africa
• 1855 - William Seward Burroughs, inventor, recording adding machine