Data protection is celebrated on this day as per the Council of European Convention. We have highlighted other major events that happened on January 28 in history.
Take a look!
- 1671 – Welsh pirate Henry Morgan captured Panama City from its Spanish defenders.
- 1770 – Frederick North became the Prime Minister of Great Britain after Augustus FitzRoy resigned.
- 1813 – Jane Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice” got published by Thomas Egerton in the United Kingdom.
- 1887 – Work began on the Eiffel Tower in Paris.
- 1915 – US President Woodrow Wilson refused to prohibit the immigration of illiterates.
- 1937 – Testing of the Rolls-Royce had begun on this day.
- 1940 – The popular TV program “Beat the Band” debuts on NBC radio.
- 1944 – Leonard Bernstein’s “Jeremiah” premiered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
- 1953 – Derek Bentley was hung at Wands worth Prison in London for his part in the murder of Pc Sidney Miles.
- 1956 – Elvis Presley’s 1st appearance on national TV on the Dorsey Brothers’s “Stage Show”.
- 1957 – Australian Championships Women’s Tennis: Shirley Fry Irvin won the all-American final.
- 1958 – Dodger catcher Roy Campanella got paralyzed in an automobile wreck.
- 1964 – Tension levels had risen between the U.S. and the Soviet Union dramatically during this time in history.
- 1981 -William J. Casey became the 13th director of CIA.
- 1985 -In the 12th American Music Awards: Cyndi Lauper & Lionel Richie won awards.
- 1987 -US Foreign minister George P. Shultz met with the African National Congress leader Oliver Tambo.
- 1997 -Four police officers, appeared before the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, pled guilty to the 1977 killing of Stephen Biko.
- 1998 -Michelangelo’s “Christ & the Woman of Samaria” sold for $7.4 million.
- 2007 -Australian Open Men’s Tennis: Swiss ace Roger Federer successfully defended his title.
- 2010 -Five murderers of Bangladeshi President Sheikh Mujibur Rahman were hanged.