Today in History
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1986 Space Shuttle “Challenger” explodes
The orbiter disintegrated 73 seconds after launch, killing all seven astronauts on board.
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1985 USA for Africa record “We Are the World”
Over 20 million copies of the charity single were sold.
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1958 The Lego brick is patented
Since then, the Lego company has produced 500 billion Lego elements, enough to build ten lego towers from Earth to the Moon.
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1820 Fabian von Bellinghausen discovers the Antarctic
The Baltic German explorer is thought to have been the first to see the Earth’s southernmost continent.
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1813 Jane Austen’s novel, Pride and Prejudice, is published
It is one of the best-known works of English literature and it was sold about 20 million times.
Births On This Day, January 28
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1978 Gianluigi Buffon
Italian footballer
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1968 Sarah McLachlan
Canadian singer-songwriter, pianist, producer
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1955 Nicolas Sarkozy
French politician, 23rd President of France
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1912 Jackson Pollock
American painter
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1853 José Martí
Cuban journalist, poet, theorist
Deaths On This Day, January 28
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2002 Astrid Lindgren
Swedish author, screenwriter
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1975 Ola Raknes
Norwegian psychoanalyst, philologist
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1939 W. B. Yeats
Irish poet, Nobel Prize laureate
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1547 Henry VIII of England
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814 Charlemagne
Frankish king
