| 11311 | January 28 | Event | 1977 – The first day of the Great Lakes Blizzard of 1977 which dumps 10 feet (3.0 m) of snow in one-day in Upstate New York, with Buffalo, Syracuse, Watertown, and surrounding areas most affected. |
| 11312 | January 28 | Event | 1979 – CBS News Sunday Morning debuts with original host and cocreator Charles Kuralt. |
| 11313 | January 28 | Event | 1979 – Pope John Paul II starts his first pastoral visit to Mexico. |
| 11314 | January 28 | Event | 1980 – USCGC Blackthorn collides with the tanker Capricorn while leaving Tampa, Florida and capsizes, killing 23 Coast Guard crewmembers. |
| 11315 | January 28 | Event | 1981 – Ronald Reagan lifts remaining domestic petroleum price and allocation controls in the United States helping to end the 1979 energy crisis and begin the 1980s oil glut. |
| 11316 | January 28 | Event | 1982 – US Army general James L. Dozier is rescued by Italian anti-terrorism forces from captivity by the Red Brigades. |
| 11317 | January 28 | Event | 1984 – Tropical Storm Domoina makes landfall in southern Mozambique, eventually causing 214 deaths and some of the most severe flooding so far recorded in the region. |
| 11318 | January 28 | Event | 1985 – Supergroup USA for Africa (United Support of Artists for Africa) records the hit single We Are the World, to help raise funds for Ethiopian famine relief. |
| 11319 | January 28 | Event | 1986 – Space Shuttle program: STS-51-L mission – Space Shuttle Challenger explodes after liftoff, killing all seven astronauts on board. |
| 11320 | January 28 | Event | 1988 – In R v Morgentaler the Supreme Court of Canada strikes down all anti-abortion laws, effectively allowing abortions in Canada in all 9 months of pregnancy. |
| 11321 | January 28 | Event | 2002 – TAME Flight 120, a Boeing 727-100 crashes in the Andes mountains in southern Colombia, killing 92. |
| 11322 | January 28 | Event | 2006 – The roof of one of the buildings at the Katowice International Fair in Chorzów/Katowice, Poland, collapses due to the weight of snow, killing 65 and injuring more than 170 others. |
| 11323 | January 28 | Event | 2010 – Five murderers of President Sheikh Mujibur Rahman of Bangladesh are hung. |
| 11324 | January 28 | Birth | 1312 – Joan II of Navarre (d. 1349) |
| 11325 | January 28 | Birth | 1457 – Henry VII of England (d. 1509) |
| 11326 | January 28 | Birth | 1540 – Ludolph van Ceulen, German-Dutch mathematician and academic (d. 1610) |
| 11327 | January 28 | Birth | 1578 – Cornelius Haga, Dutch diplomat (d. 1654) |
| 11328 | January 28 | Birth | 1582 – John Barclay, French-Scottish poet and author (d. 1621) |
| 11329 | January 28 | Birth | 1600 – Pope Clement IX (d. 1669) |
| 11330 | January 28 | Birth | 1608 – Giovanni Alfonso Borelli, Italian physiologist and physicist (d. 1679) |
| 11331 | January 28 | Birth | 1611 – Johannes Hevelius, Polish astronomer and politician (d. 1687) |
| 11332 | January 28 | Birth | 1622 – Adrien Auzout, French astronomer and instrument maker (d. 1691) |
| 11333 | January 28 | Birth | 1693 – Gregor Werner, Austrian composer (d. 1766) |
| 11334 | January 28 | Birth | 1701 – Charles Marie de La Condamine, French mathematician and geographer (d. 1774) |
| 11335 | January 28 | Birth | 1706 – John Baskerville, English printer and typographer (d. 1775) |
| 11336 | January 28 | Birth | 1712 – Tokugawa Ieshige, Japanese shogun (d. 1761) |
| 11337 | January 28 | Birth | 1717 – Mustafa III, Ottoman sultan (d. 1774) |
| 11338 | January 28 | Birth | 1719 – Johann Elias Schlegel, German poet and critic (d. 1749) |
| 11339 | January 28 | Birth | 1719 – Christian Felix Weiße, German writer and pedagogue (d. 1802) |
| 11340 | January 28 | Birth | 1755 – Samuel Thomas von Sömmerring, Polish-German physician, anthropologist, and paleontologist (d. 1830) |