Vero - Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/January 28

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• Edward VI of England
  Edward VI of England
• Space Shuttle Challenger explodes
  Space Shuttle Challenger explodes
• Challenger explodes
  Challenger explodes
• STS-51-L Insignia
  STS-51-L Insignia
• Jane Austen, Template:Circa
  Jane Austen, Template:Circa
• Aftermath of the Knickerbocker Theatre collapse
  Aftermath of the Knickerbocker Theatre collapse
• Lego bricks
  Lego bricks
• Horace Walpole
  Horace Walpole

Ineligible

Blurb	Reason
661 – Ali, the fourth Islamic caliph, was assassinated, effectively ending the Rashidun Caliphate.	Article unsure of date
1077 – [[Pope Gregory VII|Pope Template:Nowrap]] lifted the excommunication of [[Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor|Template:Nowrap]] 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, Holy Roman Emperor|Template:Nowrap]] 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 Template:Convert 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 Template:Convert, 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 Template:Convert in affected areas.	refimprove section
1981 – U.S. president Ronald Reagan lifted price controls from petroleum products, contributing to the 1980s oil glut.	refimprove
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
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]
Kathleen Lonsdale |b|1903	referencing

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.
• 1547 – Nine-year-old Edward VI, the first English monarch to be raised as a Protestant, became king.
• 1754 – The word serendipity, derived from the Persian fairy tale The Three Princes of Serendip, was coined by Horace Walpole (pictured) in a letter to a friend.
• 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.
• 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".
• 1941 – The Uline Arena in Washington, D.C., opened to host the Ice Capades.
• 1958 – The Lego Group, a Danish toy company, filed a patent in Denmark for the design of Lego bricks (pictured).
• 1964 – Three U.S. Air Force pilots aboard an unarmed [[North American Sabreliner|Template:Nowrap Sabreliner]] were killed when the aircraft was shot down over Erfurt, East Germany, by a Soviet [[Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-19|Template:Nowrap]].
• 1984 – Tropical Storm Domoina made landfall in southern Mozambique, causing some of the most severe flooding recorded in the region.
• 1986 – The Space Shuttle Challenger disintegrated 73 seconds into its tenth mission, killing all seven crew members.
• Born/died: | Paul Luther |b|1533| Johannes Hevelius |bd|1611; 1687| Gregor Werner |b|1693| George S. Boutwell |b|1818| William H. Prescott |d|1859| Monty Noble |b|1873| Jasraj |b|1930| Alan Alda |b|1936| W. B. Yeats |d|1939| Paul Henderson |b|1943| Reynaldo Hahn |d|1947| Eddie Buczynski |b|1947| Bobbi Campbell |b|1952| Nick Carter |b|1980| Helen Sawyer Hogg |d|1993| Astrid Lindgren |d|2002| Yelena Romanova |d|2007|

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• 1393 – King Charles VI of France (pictured) was nearly killed when several other dancers' costumes caught fire during a masquerade ball in Paris.
• 1568 – Delegates of the Three Nations of Transylvania adopted the Edict of Torda, allowing local communities to elect their preachers freely, in an unprecedented act of religious tolerance.
• 1671 – Anglo-Spanish War: In pursuit of retreating Spanish troops, English soldiers sacked the city of Panama.
• 1916 – The province of Manitoba passed a law that first granted some Canadian women the right to vote.
• 1941 – About three hours after Thai bombers raided Sisophon, a ceasefire paused hostilities in the Franco-Thai War.