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Piper Marie McFadden arrived July 10, 2008 at 110:58AM MST (-6 GMT)

7 pounds 13 ounces
20 inches
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• The trial of National League for Democracy General Secretary Aung San Suu Kyi resumes after a six week break. (BBC) (The Times of India) (The Guardian)
• More than 400,000 people are evacuated following an earthquake in Yunnan, China. (Bangkok Post) (Xinhua)
• One person is killed by a bull, the first such fatality in 14 years, during the Running of the Bulls in Pamplona, Spain. (The Times) (CNN) (EITB)
• A senior Iranian cleric calls for changes to the election laws in the country to prevent further post-election unrest in the future. (Press TV) (The Los Angeles Times)
• Detained Nigerian leader for the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta Henry Okah accepts an amnesty by government. (BBC) (Vanguard)
• A Paris court convicts four men and a girl in the kidnapping, torture and murder of Ilan Halimi, sentencing the ringleader to life in prison. (AP via Yahoo)
• Automaker General Motors emerges from bankruptcy protection after 40 days under court supervision. (AP via Yahoo)

Selected events, tidbits and other information that has happened on the date Jan 28 (according to wikipedia)

• 988 – The city of Dublin is founded on the banks of the river Liffey.
• 1645 – English Civil War: The Battle of Langport takes place.
• 1778 – American Revolution: Louis XVI of France declares war on the Kingdom of Great Britain.
• 1859 – Big Ben rings for the first time.
• 1890 – Wyoming is admitted as the 44th U.S. state.
• 1913 – Death Valley, California hits 134 °F (~56.7 °C), the highest temperature recorded in the United States.
• 1938 – Howard Hughes sets a new record by completing a 91 hour airplane flight around the world.
• 1940 – World War II: Battle of Britain – The German Luftwaffe begins attacking British convoys in the English Channel thus starting the battle (this start date is contested, though).
• 1941 – Jedwabne Pogrom: the massacre of Jewish people living in and near the village of Jedwabne in Poland.
• 1973 – The Bahamas gain full independence within the Commonwealth of Nations.
• 1991 – Boris Yeltsin begins his 5-year term as the first elected President of Russia.
• 1998 – Roman Catholic sex abuse cases: The Diocese of Dallas agrees to pay $23.4 million to nine former altar boys who claimed they were sexually abused by former priest Rudolph Kos.
• 2002 – At a Sotheby's auction, Peter Paul Rubens' painting The Massacre of the Innocents is sold for £49.5million (US$76.2 million) to Lord Thomson.

Selected Births

• 1452 – King James III of Scotland (d. 1488)
• 1509 – John Calvin, French religious reformer (d. 1564)
• 1839 – Adolphus Busch, German-born brewer (d. 1913)
• 1867 – Prince Maximilian of Baden, Chancellor of Germany (d. 1929)
• 1980 – Jessica Simpson, American singer

Selected Deaths

• 1978 – John D Rockefeller III, American businessman (b. 1906)