This day in History - January 28

449 Historic Events for January 28
1878 Event Yale Daily News published, 1st college daily newspaper
1878 Event George W Coy hired as 1st full-time telephone operator
1878 Event 1st telephone exchange (New Haven, CT)
1878 Birth Walter Kollo [Kollodziepski], German composer (Der Juxbaron)
1880 Birth Herbert Strudwick, cricketer (Engld wicket-keeper before and after WW I)
1880 Birth Mary Boland, Phila, US, comedienne/actress (Ruggles of Red Gap)
1881 Event Battle at Laing's Neck Natal: Boers beat superior powered British
1884 Birth Jean Felix Piccard, Switzerland, scientist/explorer (balloonist)
1884 Birth Auguste Piccard, Switzerland, scientist/explorer (balloonist)
1884 Birth Lucien H d'Azambuja, France, astronomer (chromosome of sun)
1886 Birth Artur Rubinstein, L¢dz Poland, pianist
1887 Event England all out for 45 v Aust SCG, their lowest total ever
1887 Birth Lily Theresa Strickland, composer
1891 Birth Camille Melloy, [Paepe], Belgian poet (Parfum des Buis)
1891 Birth Karel Boleslav Jirak, composer
1892 Birth Ernst Lubitsch, Germany, actor (Love Parade)
1893 Event Edward Mcdowell's "Hamlet and Ophelia," premieres in Boston
1893 Birth Elliot Griffis, composer
1895 Death Fran‡ois Certain de Canrobert, French marshal, dies at 85
1896 Death Joseph Barnby, composer, dies at 57
1897 Birth Valentin Katayev, Odessa Ukraine, novelist/playwright (Embezzled)
1898 Death Alexandru Flechtenmacher, composer, dies at 74
1898 Birth Vittorio Rieti, composer
1898 Birth Wies Moens, Flemish writer/nazi
1899 Event American Social Science Association incorporated by Congress