January 28th, 1984

Born on January 28th, 1984

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What happened on January 28th, 1984?

January 28th, 1984

Tropical Storm Domoina makes landfall in southern Mozambique, eventually causing 214 deaths and some of the most severe flooding so far recorded in the region.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tropical_Storm_Domoina

January 28th, 1984

Tropical Storm Domoina made landfall in southern Mozambique, causing some of the most severe flooding recorded in the region.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tropical_Storm_Domoina

What else happened on January 28th?

January 28th, 0661

Ali, the fourth Islamic caliph, was assassinated, effectively ending the Rashidun Caliphate.

January 28th, 1986

The Space Shuttle Challenger disintegrated 73 seconds into its tenth mission, killing all seven crew members.

January 28th, 1964

An unarmed U.S. Air Force T-39 Sabreliner on a training mission was shot down over Erfurt, East Germany, by a Soviet MiG-19, killing all three aboard.

January 28th, 1958

The Lego Group, a Danish toy company, filed a patent in Denmark for the design of Lego bricks (pictured).

January 28th, 1941

The Uline Arena in Washington, D.C., opened to host the Ice Capades.

January 28th, 1933

Choudhry Rahmat Ali published a pamphlet in which he called for the creation of a Muslim state in north-western India that he termed "Pakstan".

January 28th, 1922

The largest recorded snowstorm in the history of Washington, D.C., collapsed the Knickerbocker Theatre, killing 98 people.

January 28th, 1813

English author Jane Austen's novel Pride and Prejudice was published, using material from an unpublished manuscript originally written between 1796 and 1797.

January 28th, 1754

Horace Walpole coined the word "serendipity" in a letter he wrote to a friend, saying that he derived the term from the Persian fairy tale The Three Princes of Serendip.

January 28th, 1547

Nine-year-old Edward VI, the first English monarch to be raised as a Protestant, became king.

January 28th, 1393

King Charles VI of France was nearly killed when several dancers' costumes caught fire during a masquerade ball.

January 28th, 1142

Despite having saved the southern Song dynasty from attempts by the northern Jin dynasty to conquer it, Chinese general Yue Fei was executed by the Song government.

January 28th, 2023

Protests begin after police beat and kill Tyre Nichols.

Birthdays
... of famous people, actors, celebrities and stars on January 28th

Born on January 28th, 1984

39

Andre Iguodala

American basketball player

*January 28th, 1984, Springfield

39

Stephen Gostkowski

American football player (born 1984)

*January 28th, 1984, Baton Rouge

39

Ya Boy

Rapper

*January 28th, 1984, San Francisco

39

Simon Laner

Italian footballer

*January 28th, 1984, Merano

39

Vanesa Butera

Argentinian actress

*January 28th, 1984, Adrogué

39

Hollow da Don

American rapper

*January 28th, 1984, Queens

39

Jordan Harvey

American soccer player

*January 28th, 1984, Mission Viejo

Same Day
Who's birthday is on January 28th?

49

Ty Olsson

Canadian actor (born 1974)

*January 28th, 1974, Halifax

45

Jamie Carragher

English footballer and sportcaster

*January 28th, 1978, Bootle

45

Gianluigi Buffon

Former Italian footballer (born 1978)

*January 28th, 1978, Carrara

38

Eduardo Aranda

Paraguayan association football player

*January 28th, 1985, Asunción

71

Mike Moore

Prime Minister of New Zealand in 1990

*January 28th, 1949, Whakatāne †February 2nd, 2020, Auckland

38

Kállay Saunders

American/Hungarian recording artist

*January 28th, 1985, New York City

43

Nick Carter

American singer (born 1980)

*January 28th, 1980, Jamestown

42

Elijah Wood

American actor

*January 28th, 1981, Cedar Rapids

68

Nicolas Sarkozy

President of France from 2007 to 2012

*January 28th, 1955, Paris

37

Shruti Haasan

Indian actress

*January 28th, 1986, Chennai

41

Adi Bielski

Israeli actress

*January 28th, 1982, Jerusalem

51

Amy Coney Barrett

US Supreme Court justice since 2020 (born 1972)

*January 28th, 1972, New Orleans

43

Lee Yu-ri

South Korean actress

*January 28th, 1980, South Korea

75

Bennie Thompson

American politician (born 1948)

*January 28th, 1948, Bolton

87

Alan Alda

American actor, director, and writer

*January 28th, 1936, Manhattan

38

Tom Hopper

British actor (b. 1985)

*January 28th, 1985, Coalville

38

Seema Jaswal

British television and radio presenter

*January 28th, 1985, Richmond

38

Arnold Mvuemba

Association football player

*January 28th, 1985, Alençon

40

Chris Wondolowski

American soccer player

*January 28th, 1983, Danville

31

Shireen Sungkar

Indonesian singer

*January 28th, 1992, Jakarta

Same year
Born in 1984

38

Basshunter

Swedish singer, record producer and DJ

*December 22nd, 1984, Halmstad

39

Marc Zwiebler

German badminton player

*March 13th, 1984, Bonn

39

Helene Fischer

German singer

*August 5th, 1984, Krasnoyarsk

39

Robert Huth

German association football player

*August 18th, 1984, East Berlin

39

Salakjit Ponsana

Badminton player

*February 14th, 1984, Bangkok

39

Juliette Armanet

French singer

*March 4th, 1984, Lille

39

Sony Dwi KuncoroKuncoro

Indonesian badminton player

*July 7th, 1984, Surabaya

39

Chanan Colman

Danish-American-Israeli former basketball player

*March 10th, 1984, Gladsaxe Municipality

39

Avril Lavigne

Canadian singer (born 1984)

*September 27th, 1984, Belleville

39

Andrés Iniesta

Spanish association football player

*May 11th, 1984, Fuentealbilla

38

LeBron James

American basketball player (born 1984)

*December 30th, 1984, Akron

39

Fernando Torres

Spanish association football player

*March 20th, 1984, Fuenlabrada

39

Nigel Reo-Coker

English association football player (born 1984)

*May 14th, 1984, Southwark

39

Sarah Meier

Swiss figure skater

*May 4th, 1984, Bülach

39

Scarlett Johansson

American actress (born 1984)

*November 22nd, 1984, Manhattan

39

Daniel Wende

Figure skater

*July 24th, 1984, Essen

39

Simon Stone

Australian theatre director, writer and actor

*August 19th, 1984, Basel

39

Johnny Weir

American figure skater and television commentator

*July 2nd, 1984, Coatesville

39

Jennifer Kirk

American figure skater

*August 15th, 1984, Newton

39

French Montana

American rapper

*November 9th, 1984, Casablanca

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Leap year

Yes: 1984 is a leap year, therefore has a 29th of February with an additional leap day and a total of 366 days (instead of the usual 365 days in a normal year).

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