This day in History - January 28

449 Historic Events for January 28
1840 Birth douard Vaillant, French socialist politician/communard
1841 Birth Viktor Ernst Nessler, composer
1841 Birth Henry Stanley, Engld, journalist/explorer (found Livingston in Africa)
1846 Event Battle of Allwal, Brits beat Sikhs in Punjab (India)
1848 Event King of Naples grants his subjects a constitution
1851 Event Northwestern University (Chicago) chartered
1853 Birth Jos‚ Mart¡ y Perez, Cuba, poet/essayist/politician
1855 Birth William Seward Burroughs, NY, inventor (recording adding machine)
1858 Event John Brown organized raid on Arsenal at Harper's Ferry
1860 Event Britain formally returns Mosquito Coast to Nicaragua
1864 Event Battle of New Bern, NC
1865 Event Pres Jefferson Davis names 3 peace commissioners
1865 Birth Kaarlo Juho St†hlberg, 1st president of Finland (1919-25)
1868 Birth Frederick Archibald Lamond, composer
1868 Birth Julian Aguirre, composer
1868 Death Adalbert Stifter, Austrian author (Witiko), commits suicide at 62
1869 Birth Ozaki K“y“, Japan, novelist/essayist/haiku poet (The Heart)
1869 Death Prudent-Louis Aubery du Boulley, composer, dies at 72
1871 Event Paris surrenders to Prussians
1873 Birth Colette, writer
1873 Death Henry Hugo Pierson, composer, dies at 57
1873 Birth Sidonie Gabrielle Colette, Burgundy France, novelist (Ch‚ri, Gigi)
1873 Birth M A Noble, cricketer (great Australian all-rounder at turn of century)
1874 Birth Ernst Rabel, Austrian/US law historian (Grundzge)
1875 Birth Julian Antonio Carillo-Trujillo, composer