Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/January 28

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This is a list of selected January 28 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.

Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article or picture of the day.

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Edward VI of England
Space Shuttle Challenger explodes
Challenger explodes
STS-51-L Insignia
Jane Austen, c. 1810
Horace Walpole
Lego bricks

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Blurb	Reason
1077 – Pope Gregory VII lifted the excommunication of Henry IV after the Holy Roman Emperor made his trek from Speyer to Canossa Castle to beg the pope for forgiveness for his actions in the Investiture Controversy.	refimprove
1521 – Emperor Charles V and the estates of the Holy Roman Empire convened at the Diet of Worms to discuss Martin Luther and the effects of the Protestant Reformation.	unreferenced section
1573 – The Warsaw Confederation was signed, sanctioning religious freedom in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.	refimprove section
1724 – The Russian Academy of Sciences, the national academy of Russia, was established.	refimprove section, external links
1846 – The British led by Sir Harry Smith defeated the Sikh Khalsa Army led by Ranjodh Singh Majithia at the Battle of Aliwal, sometimes regarded as the turning point of the First Anglo-Sikh War.	needs more footnotes
1855 – A train on the Panama Railway made the world's first transcontinental crossing by rail, a 48-mile (77 km) trip from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific across the Isthmus of Panama.	multiple issues
1871 – French forces surrendered at the Siege of Paris, leading to the end of the Franco-Prussian War and the establishment of the German Empire.	refimprove section
1896 – Cited for travelling at 8 miles per hour (13 km/h), Walter Arnold of East Peckham, Kent, England, became the first person ever convicted of exceeding the speed limit, and was fined one shilling.	globalize
1932 – The January 28 incident, a short war fought in and around Shanghai between the armies of the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan, began.	refimprove section
1977 – A deadly blizzard hit upstate New York and Southern Ontario, creating snowdrifts of up to 30 ft (9 m) in affected areas.	refimprove section
1982 – After having been kidnapped by the Italian Red Brigade 42 days earlier, General James L. Dozier of the United States Army was freed by the anti-terrorist force NOCS.	refimprove section
1986 – The Space Shuttle Challenger disintegrated 73 seconds into its tenth mission, killing all seven crew members.	TFA for 2022
2006 – The roof of one of the buildings at the Katowice International Fair in Katowice, Poland, collapsed due to the weight of snow, killing 65 visitors.	needs more footnotes
Yazid II \|d\|724\|	date not known for certain; see [1]

Eligible

1069 – Robert de Comines, Earl of Northumbria, was killed in Durham, causing William the Conqueror to embark on a campaign to subjugate northern England.
1142 – Despite having saved the southern Song dynasty from attempts by the northern Jin dynasty to conquer it, Chinese general Yue Fei was executed by the Song government.
1568 – Delegates of the Three Nations of Transylvania adopted the Edict of Torda, allowing local communities to freely elect their preachers in an unprecedented act of religious tolerance.
1754 – Horace Walpole coined the word "serendipity" in a letter he wrote to a friend, saying that he derived the term from the Persian fairy tale The Three Princes of Serendip.
1933 – Choudhry Rahmat Ali published a pamphlet in which he called for the creation of a Muslim state in north-western India that he termed "Pakstan".
1958 – The Lego Group, a Danish toy company, filed a patent in Denmark for the design of Lego bricks.
1964 – An unarmed U.S. Air Force T-39 Sabreliner on a training mission was shot down over Erfurt, East Germany, by a Soviet MiG-19, killing all three aboard.
1981 – U.S. president Ronald Reagan lifted price controls from petroleum products, contributing to the 1980s oil glut.
Born/died: | Paul Luther |b|1533| Gregor Werner |b|1693| George S. Boutwell |b|1818| Monty Noble |b|1873| Colette |b|1873| Kathleen Lonsdale |b|1903| Jasraj |b|1930| Paul Henderson |b|1943| Helen Sawyer Hogg |d|1993

January 28

Aftermath of the Knickerbocker Theatre collapse

1393 – King Charles VI of France was nearly killed when several dancers' costumes caught fire during a masquerade ball.
1547 – Nine-year-old Edward VI, the first English monarch to be raised as a Protestant, became king.
1813 – English author Jane Austen's novel Pride and Prejudice was published, using material from an unpublished manuscript originally written between 1796 and 1797.
1922 – The largest recorded snowstorm in the history of Washington, D.C., collapsed the Knickerbocker Theatre (damage pictured), killing 98 people.
1984 – Tropical Storm Domoina made landfall in southern Mozambique, causing some of the most severe flooding recorded in the region.

Joan II of Navarre (b. 1312)
Johannes Hevelius (b. 1611; d. 1687)
Reynaldo Hahn (d. 1947)

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