1. In 814, Charlemagne, Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire, died on January 28.

2. In 1005, the Chanyuan Treaty was concluded between the Song and Liao Dynasties on January 28.

3. On January 28, 1115, Wanyan Aguda established the Jin Dynasty.

4. On January 28, 1132, the earliest record of the use of artillery in the Southern Song Dynasty.

5. On January 28, 1521, the Diet of Worms began.

6. On January 28, 1547, Henry VIII, the second king of the Tudor Dynasty in England, died.

7. On January 28, 1596, Sir Francis Drake, the first Englishman to circumnavigate the globe, died off the coast of Panama.

8. On January 28, 1662, Frederick Coyett, the governor of the Dutch in Taiwan, surrendered to Zheng Chenggong.

9. On January 28, 1754, the first performance of Handel's oratorio "Messiah" took place in Dublin, Ireland.

10. On January 28, 1788, the first European settlers arrived in Australia, landing at Sydney Cove.

11. On January 28, 1834, the first electric railway was demonstrated in Scotland.

12. On January 28, 1848, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels completed "The Communist Manifesto".

13. On January 28, 1853, Jose Marti, the Cuban revolutionary who fought for his country's independence from Spain, was born in Habana.

14. On January 28, 1861, Kansas became the 34th state to join the United States.

15. On January 28, 1871, the Paris Commune was established.

16. On January 28, 1881, the Russian writer Fyodor Dostoevsky died.

17. On January 28, 1887, the Eiffel Tower officially began construction.

18. On January 28, 1894, the first international skiing competition was held in Chamonix, France.

19. On January 28, 1901, the first wireless transatlantic communication was successfully carried out.

20. On January 28, 1908, a magnitude 7.5 earthquake struck the Messina Strait in Sicily, triggering a tsunami that caused heavy casualties.

21. On January 28, 1910, the Boy Scouts of America was founded.

22. On January 28, 1917, the "Jiayin Daily" was founded in Beijing.

23. On January 28, 1918, Leon Trotsky, the Russian revolutionary, returned from exile.

24. On January 28, 1920, the League of Women Voters was established in the United States.

25. On January 28, 1924, the first Winter Olympics opened in Chamonix, France.

26. On January 28, 1932, the January 28 Incident broke out. Japanese forces attacked Shanghai and the 19th Route Army of the Republic of China fought back.

27. On January 28, 1933, Adolf Hitler became Chancellor of Germany.

28. On January 28, 1938, scientists proposed that an atomic explosion could release 200 million volts of energy.

29. On January 28, 1939, Enrico Fermi of the University of Rome proposed at a theoretical physicists' conference in Washington that an atomic explosion could release 200 million volts of energy.

30. On January 28, 1940, Carlos Slim Helu, the richest man in Mexico, was born.

31. On January 28, 1941, the Japanese occupation of Hong Kong began.

32. On January 28, 1945, the Battle of the Bulge ended.

33. On January 28, 1948, the first Asian Games opened in New Delhi, India.

34. On January 28, 1949, the United Nations decided to pay $24 million for the construction of the United Nations headquarters.

35. On January 28, 1949, UN Secretary - General Trygve Lie approved the construction of the United Nations headquarters building.

36. On January 28, 1950, the China National Academy of Chinese Theatre Arts was established in Beijing.

37. On January 28, 1951, the first Asian Games opened in New Delhi, India.

38. On January 28, 1954, the direct train from Beijing to Moscow was opened for the first time.

39. On January 28, 1956, the Chinese mainland began to promote simplified Chinese characters through the "Table of Simplified Chinese Characters".

40. On January 28, 1960, the first suborbital spaceflight by a woman took place.

41. On January 28, 1966, the Chinese government implemented the family planning policy.

42. On January 28, 1972, the "Shanghai Communiqué" was issued, marking a turning point in Sino - US relations.

43. On January 28, 1980, the Yinshan Rock Paintings were discovered in Inner Mongolia and the Liaohe Oilfield was completed and put into production.

44. On January 28, 1982, the first personal computer with a graphical user interface, the Apple Lisa, was introduced.

45. On January 28, 1986, the Space Shuttle Challenger broke apart 73 seconds after liftoff, killing all seven astronauts on board.

46. On January 28, 1994, the State Council of the People's Republic of China issued the "Regulations for the Implementation of the Individual Income Tax Law of the People's Republic of China".

47. On January 28, 1997, the Zhongshan Warship was salvaged from the bottom of the Yangtze River 59 years after it sank.

48. On January 28, 2002, the Zhanjiang - Haikou section of the Yuehai Railway, the first cross - strait railway in China, was officially opened to traffic.

49. On January 28, 2007, the 6th Asian Winter Games opened in Changchun, Jilin Province, China.

50. On January 28, 2008, the National Aquatics Center, known as the "Water Cube", was completed.