Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/January 28

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.

To report an error when this appears on the Main Page, see Main Page errors. Please remember that this list defers to the supporting articles, so it is best to achieve consensus and make any necessary changes there first.

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  Sketch of Jane Austen
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  Space Shuttle Challenger explodes

Ineligible

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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.	Tagged with {{refimprove}}
1573 – The Warsaw Confederation was signed, sanctioning religious freedom in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.	{{no footnotes}}
1724 – The Russian Academy of Sciences, the national academy of Russia, was established.	{{refimprove section}}
1820 – A Russian expedition led by naval officers Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen and Mikhail Lazarev approached the coast of Antarctica.	{{no footnotes}} and {{refimprove}} respectively
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.	{{no 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 Ocean across the Isthmus of Panama.	{{refimprove}}
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.	{{more footnotes}}
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.	{{no footnotes}}
1958 – The Denmark toy company Lego Group patented their design of Lego bricks.	{{refimprove}}

Eligible

• 1754 – Horace Walpole first coined the word "serendipity<!-Not bolded, needs cleanup->" in a letter he wrote to a friend, saying that he derived the term from the Persian fairy tale The Three Princes of Serendip.

• 1813 – The novel Pride and Prejudice by English author Jane Austen was published, using material from an unpublished manuscript that she originally wrote between 1796 and 1797.

• 1964 – An unarmed USAF T-39 Sabreliner on a training mission was shot down over Erfurt, East Germany, by a Soviet MiG-19, killing all three aboard.

• 2006 – The roof of one of the buildings at the Katowice International Fair in Katowice, Poland, collapsed due to the weight of snow, coincidentally on the anniversary of the collapse of the roof of the Knickerbocker Theatre in Washington, D.C., US, also due to snow.

January 28

• 1077 – Walk to Canossa: 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.

• 1547 – Nine-year-old Edward VI (pictured) became the first Protestant ruler of England, during whose reign Protestantism was established for the first time in the country with reforms that included the abolition of clerical celibacy and the mass.

• 1887 – The largest-ever snowflakes, measuring 15 in (38 cm) in diameter and 8 in (20 cm) thick, were observed in Fort Keogh, Montana, US.

• 1896 – Walter Arnold of East Peckham, Kent, England, was the first person ever convicted of exceeding the speed limit. He was travelling at 8 miles per hour (13 km/h) when the limit was 2 mph (3.2 km/h), and he was fined one shilling.

• 1933 – Choudhary 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".

• 1986 – The NASA Space Shuttle Challenger disintegrated 73 seconds into its tenth mission, killing all seven crew members.

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