Colonel Thomas Blood attempted to steal the Crown Jewels from the Tower of London.
28th January 1393: Charles VI of France and the Bal des Ardents
28th January 2021
Colonel Thomas Blood attempted to steal the Crown Jewels from the Tower of London.
The British ship RMS Lusitania sank after being attacked by the German U-boat U-20 off the coast of Ireland.
Mary Mallon, better known as Typhoid Mary, was confined to permanent quarantine on North Brother Island in New York.
The armed insurrection began on Easter Monday which, due to Easter being a moveable feast as a result of its relationship to the lunar calendar, in 1916 fell on the 24th April.