1956 – Elvis Presley makes his first national television appearance.
1958 – The Lego company patents the design of its Lego bricks, 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.
1965 – The current design of the Flag of Canada is chosen by an act of Parliament.
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.
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Jan 28 2021 The International Chamber of Shipping (ICS) has published the latest Flag State Performance Table (2020/2021) which finds that many of the largest flag states – including the Marshall Islands, Hong Kong (China), Singapore as well as the Bahamas and Cyprus– continue to perform to an exceptionally high standard, with traditional flags and open registers performing equally well. ICS Secretary General, Guy Platten, says: “The Table clearly indicates that distinctions between ‘traditional’ flags and open registers are no longer meaningful. Alongside several European registers, and flags such as Japan, we have seen many open registers amongst the very top performers”. Amongst the 10 largest ship registers (by dead weight tonnage), covering more than 70% of the world fleet, none have more than two indicators of potentially negative performance, and five have no negative indicators at all.
Construction worker killed after excavator falls into Arthur Kill
Updated Jan 28, 2021;
A construction worker died Thursday when the excavator he was operating tumbled into the chilly Arthur Kill in Linden and trapped him inside, authorities said.
Rescue crews freed the man from the cab in water that separates New Jersey and Staten Island, New York after about an hour and brought him to Trinitas Regional Medical Center in Elizabeth, where he was pronounced dead.
His identity was not released, pending family notification.
The man was part of a crew working at a construction site on the 4900 block of Tremley Point Road shortly after 8 a.m. when the excavator toppled and landed in the water, Linden police said in a statement.
PORT ANGELES, Wash. - The United States Coast Guard and Canadian Coast Guard have suspended search efforts for a missing pilot Wednesday afternoon after a plane reportedly went down off the waters of Port Angeles. The Port Angeles Airport received a mayday call Tuesday evening and alerted the Clallam County Sheriff's Office. Shortly after the Coast Guard started investigating the reports of a plane down in the water.
Military and coast guard personnel scoured the waters off Victoria, B.C. Tuesday evening after receiving reports of a downed aircraft with one person on board.