On This Day January 28th

 OTD

January 28th is the Twenty-eighth day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 338 days remain until the end of the year.

 

Events

814 – The death of Charlemagne, the first Holy Roman Emperor, brings about the accession of his son Louis the Pious as ruler of the Frankish Empire.

1521 – The Diet of Worms begins, lasting until May 25.

1591 – Execution of Agnes Sampson, accused of witchcraft in Edinburgh.

1624 – Sir Thomas Warner found the first British colony in the Caribbean on Saint Kitts.

1754 – Sir Horace Walpole coins the word serendipity in a letter to a friend.

1813 – Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice is first published in the United Kingdom.

1896 – Walter Arnold of East Peckham, Kent, becomes the first person convicted of speeding. He was fined one shilling and charged for speeding at eight mph (13 km/h), exceeding the contemporary speed limit of 2 mph (3.2 km/h).

1915 – An act of the U.S. Congress created the United States Coast Guard as a branch of the United States Armed Forces.

1932 – Japanese forces attack Shanghai.

1956 – Elvis Presley makes his first national television appearance.

1958 – The Lego company patents the design of its Lego bricks, which are still compatible with bricks produced today.

1960 – The National Football League announces expansion teams for Dallas to start in the 1960 NFL season and Minneapolis-St. Paul for the 1961 NFL season.

1986 – Space Shuttle program: STS-51-L mission: Space Shuttle Challenger disintegrates after liftoff, killing all seven astronauts on board.

 

Birthdays

598 – Taizong, emperor of the Tang dynasty (d. 649)

1457 – Henry VII, king of England (d. 1509)

1712 – Tokugawa Leshige, Japanese shogun (d. 1761)

1608 – Giovanni Alfonso Borelli, Italian physiologist and physicist (d. 1679

1873 – Colette, French novelist and journalist (d. 1954)

1912 – Jackson Pollock, American painter (d. 1956)

1936 – Alan Alda, American actor, director, and writer

1962 – Sam Phillips, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

1977 – Daunte Culpepper, an American football player

1995 – Mimi-Isabella Cesar, British rhythmic gymnast

 

Holiday Spotlight

Pop Art Day

  Art is life. It is all around us if we take a moment to look. It is the sun's rising each morning and the setting. It is in the stars as they twinkle in a bright night sky, the little kids who run across the road, the young farm girl who sits on a stool and slowly milks her cows, and the proud sailor who poses in his uniform.

 Art has existed over 70,000 years since prehistoric man, with engravings and drawings of their day-to-day lives, hunts, animals, symbols, and events on cave walls. Over the years, art has evolved, and so has its appreciation, especially with the works of such artists as Leonardo Da Vinci, Michelangelo, and Raphael, which gained wide international acclaim in the Renaissance period from the 14th to the 16th century.

 The pop-art revolution took off in America and Britain, drawing insights from popular and commercial cultures. Pop art developed as a unique type of art in the 20th century due to younger artists raising concerns that the art taught in schools had almost nothing to do with their physical and contemporary lives. Art, before that time, was a field of abstract expressionism.

 Pop art encompasses works featured in comics, cartoons, celebrity art, newspapers, magazines, television, and advertisements, and any art with fun colors, catchy fonts, big words, and bold and sharp designs. Pop art has since then gone on to impact another sphere of artistic works, as elements of the art have been appropriated into other arts.

 

 

 Other Include

Child Labor Day

Christa McAuliffe Day

Daisy Day

Global Community Engagement Day

International Lego Day

National Bible Sunday

National Blueberry Pancake Day

National Data Privacy Day

National Kazoo Day

National Pediatrician Day

Rattlesnake Round-Up

Rubber Ducky Day

Thank a Plugin Developer Day (WordPress)

World Leprosy Day 

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