January 28 is:
Fun at Work Day
National Blueberry Pancake Day
National Kazoo Day
Henry VII was born on Jan 28, 1457.
England’s King Henry VIII died on January 28, 1547. His nine-year-old son, Edward VI became King, and the first Protestant ruler of England.
1624 – Sir Thomas Warner founded the first British colony in the Caribbean, on the Island of Saint Kitts.
1754 – Horace Walpole coined the word serendipity in a letter to Horace Mann. Serendipity means a “fortunate or happy unplanned coincidence”.
1813 – Jane Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice” was first published in the United Kingdom. “Sense and Sensibility” had been published two years earlier in 1811. It is in the public domain and can be read at nextdoor-e-store.com
1820 – A Russian expedition led by Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen and Mikhail Petrovich Lazarev discovered the Antarctic continent, approaching the Antarctic coast.
Birthday of Sir Henry Morton Stanley (January 28, 1841), Anglo-American explorer remembered for his finding the explorer David Livingstone
Birthday of William Seward Burroughs (January 28, 1855), American inventor of the calculating machine.
Birthday of (Sidonie-Gabrielle) Colette (January 28, 1873), French writer of “Gigi” It was made into a movie in 1958 starring Leslie Caron, Louis Jourdan, Maurice Chevalier, and Hermione Gingold and featuring songs “Thank Heaven for Little Girls” and “I’m Glad I’m Not Young Anymore”.
In 1909 the United States troops left Cuba with the exception of Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, after being there since the Spanish–American War.
Birthday of Jackson Pollock (January 28, 1912), American painter, a major figure in the abstract expressionist movement. Not my cup of tea but samples of his works can be viewed at Wikiart
Anniversary of the establishment of the U.S. Coast Guard (1915), combining the Life Saving Service and the Revenue Cutter Service. The Coast Guard March can be heard at benneynlinda.com
Anniversary of the death of John McCrae (1918), author of “In Flanders Field”
In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place: and in the sky
The larks still bravely singing fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
On Jan. 28, 1986, space shuttle Challenger exploded 73 seconds after liftoff from Cape Canaveral, killing all seven crew members. (front row) Michael J. Smith, Dick Scobee, Ronald McNair; (back row) Ellison Onizuka, Christa McAuliffe, Gregory Jarvis, Judith Resnik.