Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/January 28

January 28:

Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen

• 1521 - The Diet of Worms was convened to discuss Martin Luther and the Protestant Reformation in the Holy Roman Empire.

• 1573 - The Warsaw Confederation was signed, sanctioning religious freedom in Poland.

• 1820 - A Russian expedition led by Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen (pictured) approached the coast of Antarctica.

• 1855 - A locomotive on the Panama Railway made the world's first transcontinental crossing.

• 1921 - A symbolic Tomb of the Unknown Soldier was installed beneath the Arc de Triomphe in Paris.

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