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01/28/1878
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1st telephone exchange (New Haven, CT)
Type: Event
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01/28/1878
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George W Coy hired as 1st full-time telephone operator
Type: Event
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01/28/1878
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Yale Daily News published, 1st college daily newspaper
Type: Event
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01/28/1878
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Walter Kollo [Kollodziepski], German composer (Der Juxbaron)
Type: Birth
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01/28/1880
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Herbert Strudwick, cricketer (Engld wicket-keeper before and after WW I)
Type: Birth
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01/28/1880
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Mary Boland, Phila, US, comedienne/actress (Ruggles of Red Gap)
Type: Birth
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01/28/1881
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Battle at Laing's Neck Natal: Boers beat superior powered British
Type: Event
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01/28/1884
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Auguste Piccard, Switzerland, scientist/explorer (balloonist)
Type: Birth
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01/28/1884
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Jean Felix Piccard, Switzerland, scientist/explorer (balloonist)
Type: Birth
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01/28/1884
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Lucien H d'Azambuja, France, astronomer (chromosome of sun)
Type: Birth
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01/28/1886
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Artur Rubinstein, L˘dz Poland, pianist
Type: Birth
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01/28/1887
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England all out for 45 v Aust SCG, their lowest total ever
Type: Event
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01/28/1887
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Lily Theresa Strickland, composer
Type: Birth
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01/28/1891
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Camille Melloy, [Paepe], Belgian poet (Parfum des Buis)
Type: Birth
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01/28/1891
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Karel Boleslav Jirak, composer
Type: Birth
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01/28/1892
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Ernst Lubitsch, Germany, actor (Love Parade)
Type: Birth
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01/28/1893
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Edward Mcdowell's "Hamlet and Ophelia," premieres in Boston
Type: Event
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01/28/1893
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Elliot Griffis, composer
Type: Birth
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01/28/1895
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Fran‡ois Certain de Canrobert, French marshal, dies at 85
Type: Death
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01/28/1896
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Joseph Barnby, composer, dies at 57
Type: Death
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01/28/1897
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Valentin Katayev, Odessa Ukraine, novelist/playwright (Embezzled)
Type: Birth
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01/28/1898
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Vittorio Rieti, composer
Type: Birth
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01/28/1898
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Wies Moens, Flemish writer/nazi
Type: Birth
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01/28/1898
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Alexandru Flechtenmacher, composer, dies at 74
Type: Death
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01/28/1899
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American Social Science Association incorporated by Congress
Type: Event
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01/28/1899
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Zilner T Randolph, jazz trumpeter/arranger
Type: Birth
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01/28/1900
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Alexandre AM Stols [Chl van Halsbeke], publisher (History of Ecuador)
Type: Birth
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01/28/1900
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Anni Holdmann, Germany, 100m runner (Olympic-1928)
Type: Birth
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01/28/1900
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Hermann Kesten, German writer (Allert de Lange)
Type: Birth
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01/28/1900
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Michael Dewar Head, composer
Type: Birth
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01/28/1902
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Carnegie Institute founded in Wash DC
Type: Event
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01/28/1903
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Dame Kathleen Lonsdale, crystallographer (1st woman in Royal Society)
Type: Birth
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01/28/1903
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Augusta Mary Anne Holmes, composer, dies at 55
Type: Death
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01/28/1903
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Jean Robert Planquette, composer, dies at 54
Type: Death
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01/28/1904
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1st college sports letters given to Seniors who played on U of Chicago's football team are awarded blankets with letter "C" on them
Type: Event
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01/28/1905
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Gaston R‚bry, Flemish cyclist
Type: Birth
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01/28/1906
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Allan Walker, actor/writer (Red Buttons Show)
Type: Birth
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01/28/1906
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Harry van Kruiningen, [Henri A Janssen], painter/graphic artist
Type: Birth
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01/28/1906
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Henry Foley, cricketer (batted in New Zealand's 1st Test 1930)
Type: Birth
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01/28/1907
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Constantin Regamey, composer
Type: Birth
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01/28/1908
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Hans [Hendrik AJ] Tiemeijer, Dutch actor/director/writer (Fear)
Type: Birth
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01/28/1909
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US milt forces leave Cuba for 2nd time
Type: Event
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01/28/1909
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Lionel KP "Buster" Crabb, British diver (WW II-George Medal)
Type: Birth
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01/28/1910
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Arnold Moss, Bkln, actor (Loves of Carmen, Kim, Qu‚bec, Viva Zapata)
Type: Birth
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01/28/1910
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John Banner, Vienna Austria, actor (Sgt Hans Schultz-Hogan's Heroes)
Type: Birth
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01/28/1910
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Jose Garcia Robles, composer, dies at 74
Type: Death
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01/28/1911
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Frenchman Henri Rougier wins 1st Rally of Monte Carlo
Type: Event
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01/28/1912
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Jackson Pollock, Cody Wyoming, expressionist painter (Lavender Mist)
Type: Birth
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01/28/1912
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William "Bill" Henson, English diplomat (Prague 1939)
Type: Birth
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01/28/1913
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Jan Masseus, composer
Type: Birth
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