28 January: Hank Cinq, Frank Drake Die; Frogs Surrender To Krauts (1871 Version); Alfaro Burned To Death By Lynch Mob; WWII Underway As Japanese Occupy Shanghai

Today is Thursday, January 28, the 28th day of 2010. There are 337 days left in the year. The UPI Almanac.
Today's Highlight
1999: India and Pakistan meet in their first cricket match in the subcontinent in 12 years. Pakistan walks away with a 12-run victory after a nail-biting finish.
Other Notable Events
1547: England's King Henry VIII dies and is succeeded by his 9-year-old son, Edward VI.
1596: English navigator Sir Francis Drake dies off Panama's coast and is buried at sea.
1782: The U.S. Congress authorized creation of the Great Seal of the United States.
1853: Cuban revolutionary Jose Marti was born in Havana.
1871: France surrenders in the Franco-Prussian War.
1878: The first commercial telephone switchboard began operation in New Haven, Conn.
1885: British relief force reaches Khartoum, and the Sudan is evacuated.
1909: US control in Cuba is ended.
1912: A lynch mob drags former President Gen Eloy Alfaro and his lieutenants through the streets of Quito, Ecuador, and burn them to death.
1915: The Coast Guard was created by an act of Congress, as President Woodrow Wilson signed a bill merging the Life-Saving Service and Revenue Cutter Service.
1916: Louis D. Brandeis is appointed by President Woodrow Wilson to the Supreme Court, becoming its first Jewish member.

1932: Japanese troops occupy Shanghai in China.
1936: Richard Loeb, who as a teenager participated in a "thrill killing" with Nathan Leopold Jr. in Chicago in 1924, was stabbed to death by a fellow inmate in the Stateville Penitentiary in Illinois.
1945: Allied supplies began reaching China over the newly reopened Burma Road.
1949: UN Security Council adopts resolution to establish a cease-fire in Indonesia, then known as the Dutch East Indies.
1958: The Lego company receives a patent for their toy building blocks.
1959: Vince Lombardi was named head coach of the NFL's Green Bay Packers.
1960: The National Football League awarded franchises to Dallas and Minneapolis-St. Paul.
1961: Rwanda's provisional government proclaims republic.
1964: Riots break out in Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia -- known today as Harare, Zimbabwe.
1965: The Canadian Parliament accepts a new national flag design. The new flag includes a red maple leaf in its center.
1973: A cease-fire officially went into effect in the Vietnam War.
1974: Israel lifted its siege of Suez City and turned over 300,000 square miles of Egyptian territory to the United Nations, ending the occupation that had begun during the October 1973 war.
1978: Fire swept through the historic downtown Coates House hotel in Kansas City, Mo., killing 20 people.
1980: Six US diplomats who avoided being taken hostage at their embassy in Tehran fly out of Iran with the help of Canadian diplomats.
1982: Italian anti-terrorism forces rescued U.S. Brigadier General James L. Dozier 42 days after he had been kidnapped by the Red Brigades.
1983: Labour group Solidarity's underground leaders call on Poland's factory workers to prepare for nationwide general strike as "the only way to break down the existing dictatorship."
1986: Space shuttle Challenger explodes moments after lift-off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, killing all seven crew members.

1990: Life in Azerbaijani capital of Baku returns to normal as Armenian and Azerbaijani separatists withdraw from border regions.
1991: Soviet troops seize and shut down two Lithuanian customs posts.
1992: Leadership of National Liberation Front, which won Algeria's independence and ruled for three decades, resigns.
1993: France's ambassador to Zaire is killed by a stray bullet as soldiers riot and loot shops and foreigners' homes in Kinshasa. [Keep those damn bullets on a leash! — Ed.] A federal judge in Los Angeles ruled that the U.S. military's policy against homosexuals was unconstitutional because it was "based on cultural myths and false stereotypes."
1995: In the bloodiest day so far in Egypt's Islamic insurgency, police shoot to death 14 suspected militants, and extremists kill two policemen and two civilians. The United States and Vietnam agreed to exchange low-level diplomats and open liaison offices in each other's capital cities.
1997: Five former police officers in South Africa admitted to killing anti-apartheid activist Stephen Biko, who died in police custody in 1977 and whose death had been officially listed as an accident.
1998: A judge in Poonamallee, India, convicts 26 conspirators linked to Sri Lanka's separatist Tamil Tiger rebels in the 1991 suicide bombing assassination of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi and orders all to be hanged.
1999: Missouri Gov. Mel Carnahan, honoring a personal request for mercy from Pope John Paul II, spared a triple murderer from execution.
2000: A plane brings 19 sick and weak-looking adolescents home to Uganda after months -- or possibly years --of captivity under Ugandan rebels based in southern Sudan. Some 5,000 children are believed to have been kidnapped by the rebels over the past decade according to UNICEF. The U.S. government admitted that workers making nuclear weapons were exposed to radiation and chemicals that led to cancer and early death. Sister Jeanne O'Laughlin, the Florida nun selected by Attorney General Janet Reno as a neutral party in the custody battle over Elian Gonzalez, sought unsuccessfully to persuade Reno to change her mind about returning the six-year-old to Cuba.
2001: A Ukrainian vessel sinks in the Black Sea, killing at least 14 people. Five were reported missing and 32 were rescued.
2003: Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's right-wing Likud party wins the parliamentary elections, soundly defeating the centre-left Labour Party and extending Sharon's leadership for another four-year term. The Labour Party suffered its worst-ever defeat at the polls. President George W. Bush said in his State of the Union address that Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein had sought uranium from Africa. (The claim was later disputed by former ambassador Joseph Wilson, who had been asked by the CIA to investigate.) Bush also called for a sharp increase in U.S. funds dedicated to the global battle against AIDS, to $15 billion over the next five years. At least 42 passengers burned to death when a luxury tourist bus collided with a truck carrying paints and chemicals in India's eastern state of West Bengal.
2004: the chief U.S. weapons inspector in Iraq told Congress "we were almost all wrong" in believing Iraq had weapons of mass destruction and called for an outside independent investigation of the apparent intelligence failure.
2005: Condoleezza Rice was sworn in as the 66th U.S. secretary of State. She was the first African-American woman to hold the office. Also in 2005, European scientists confirmed the first known case of "mad cow" disease in a goat. Iraqis overseas began three days of voting in 14 nations. Senate Democrats criticized President George W. Bush's plan to add personal accounts to Social Security and accused his administration of improperly using the Social Security Administration to promote the idea. Consumer products giant Procter and Gamble Company and Gillette Company announced a $57 billion merger.
2007: The Israeli government overwhelmingly approves the appointment of Raleb Majadele, the country's first Muslim Cabinet minister, billing it as an important step for a long-suffering minority. U.S. and Iraqi forces killed a reported 300 enemy fighters in a major battle near Najaf in southern Iraq. The U.S. military death toll for the month was set at 84. Also in 2007, British researchers warned climate effects from global warming would be irreversible in 10 years without "serious reductions in carbon emissions."
2008: Thousands of machete-wielding youths riot in Kenya, setting buses and homes ablaze and hunting down members of President Mwai Kibaki's Kikuyu tribe. A month of violence triggered by rigged presidential elections gathers frightening momentum with a death toll topping 800. U.S. President George Bush delivered his final State of the Union address, focusing on the Iraq war, the uncertainty of the economy, a proposed tax rebate and another warning for Iran.
2009: A caterpillar plague in Liberia is spreading, and has now affected 400,000 people in more than 100 villages in the West African nation, the UN says. In a swift victory for President Barack Obama, the Democratic-controlled House approved a huge $819 billion stimulus bill 244-188 with Republicans unanimous in opposition, despite Obama's pleas for bipartisan support. Lynyrd Skynyrd keyboard player Billy Powell, who survived the 1977 plane crash that killed three band members, died in Orange Park, Fla. at age 56.
Today's Birthdays: Musician-composer Acker Bilk is 81. Sculptor Claes Oldenburg is 81. Actor Nicholas Pryor is 75. Actor Alan Alda is 74. Actress Susan Howard is 68. Actress Marthe Keller is 65. Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.) is 63. Former leader of Liberia Charles Taylor is 62. Ballet dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov is 62. Actress-singer Barbi Benton is 60. Evangelical pastor Rick Warren is 56. French President Nicolas Sarkozy is 55. Actress Harley Jane Kozak is 53. Movie director Frank Darabont is 51. Rock musician Dave Sharp is 51. Rock singer Sam Phillips is 48. Rock musician Dan Spitz is 47. Country musician Greg Cook (Ricochet) is 45. Gospel singer Marvin Sapp is 43. Singer Sarah McLachlan is 42. Rapper Rakim is 42. DJ Muggs (Cypress Hill) is 42. Actress Kathryn Morris ("Cold Case") is 41. Rhythm-and-blues singer Anthony Hamilton is 39. Rock musician Brandon Bush is 37. MLB player Jermaine Dye is 36. Singer Joey Fatone Jr. ('N Sync) is 33. Rapper Rick Ross is 33. Actress Rosamund Pike is 31. Singer Nick Carter (Backstreet Boys) is 30. Actor Elijah Wood is 29.
Those Born On This Date Include: Roman Catholic St. Thomas Aquinas (1225); John Barclay, Scottish satirist (1582-1621); John Baskerville, English typographer (1716-1775); Canadian Prime Minister and statesman Alexander MacKenzie (1822); French novelist Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette (1873); concert pianist Arthur Rubinstein (1887); abstract expressionist painter Jackson Pollock (1912).
Today In Entertainment History
1948: the first Emmy Awards were given for excellence in television. The first Emmy winner was Shirley Dinsdale and her puppet, Judy Splinters, for Most Outstanding Personality.
1955: the "Top Ten R&B Show," starring The Clovers and Fats Domino, among others, kicked off in New York.
1956: Elvis Presley made his first national TV appearance on "The Dorsey Brothers Stage Show" on CBS. After the appearance, sales of his "Heartbreak Hotel" single skyrocketed.
1965: The Who appeared for the first time on the British program "Ready, Steady, Go." The band's performance helped put the single "I Can't Explain" into the British top ten.
1980: entertainer Jimmy Durante died at the age of 87.
1985: the African famine relief benefit song "We Are The World" was recorded in Los Angeles after the American Music Awards ceremony.
1991: During the American Music Awards ceremony, Gloria Estefan performed for the first time since breaking her back in a bus accident. She got a standing ovation.
1992: First lady Hillary Rodham Clinton apologized to country singer Tammy Wynette, who was angry over comments Mrs. Clinton made on "60 Minutes." Mrs. Clinton had said "I'm not sitting here like some little woman standing by her man like Tammy Wynette."
1995: 27-year-old Edward Burns won the Sundance Film Festival's Grand Jury Prize for his homemade movie "The Brothers McMullen." He was able to quit his job as a production assistant for "Entertainment Tonight."
1996: the original Bert and Ernie Muppets were stolen from an exhibit in Germany. They were later returned.
1999: The Beastie Boys and Rage Against The Machine headlined a benefit concert for convicted cop killer Mumia Abu-Jamal. New Jersey police officers called for a boycott of both the concert and the bands.
2005: 45 Fiona Apple fans picketed outside Sony headquarters in New York in what they called Free Fiona Day. They wanted Sony to release Apple's "Extraordinary Machine" album, which had been shelved for two years.
2009: Lynyrd Skynyrd keyboard player Billy Powell, who survived the 1977 plane crash that killed three band members, died in Orange Park, Fla. at age 56.
AP Thought for Today: "Organisation can never be a substitute for initiative and for judgement." - Louis D. Brandeis, U.S. Supreme Court justice (1856-1941).
A UPI thought for the day: Edward George Bulwer-Lytton said, "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must."