User:Jonathan Kovaciny
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[edit] January 28, 2012
- 98 – Trajan, namesake of a forum, a market and a column in Rome, succeeded his adoptive father Nerva as Roman emperor.
- 1813 – The novel Pride and Prejudice by English author Jane Austen (pictured) was published, using material from an unpublished manuscript that she originally wrote between 1796 and 1797.
- 1933 – Choudhry Rahmat Ali published a pamphlet entitled "Now or Never" in which he called for the creation of a Muslim state in northwest India that he termed "Pakstan".
- 1964 – An unarmed US 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.
- 1984 – Tropical Storm Domoina made landfall in southern Mozambique, causing some of the most severe flooding recorded in the region.
More anniversaries: January 27 – January 28 – January 29