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January 28th |
 | | of January 1725, died Peter I, Czar of Russia, deservedly named the Great; one of the most extraordinary men that ever appeared on the great theatre of the world, in any age or country—a being full of contradictions, yet consistent in all he did; a promoter of literature, arts, and sciences, yet without education himself. |
 | | When well advanced in the manual art, he proceeded, in January 1698, to England, to study the theory of ship-building, and the method of making draughts and laying them off in the mould-lofts. |
 | | January 28, 1807, Pall Mall was lighted with gas,—the first street of any city so illuminated. |
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