TODAY IN HISTORY
TODAY IS SUNDAY, JAN. 28, the 28th day of 2018. There are 337 days left in the year.
TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT IN HISTORY: On this date in 1973, a cease-fire officially went into effect in the Vietnam War, a day after the signing of the Paris Peace Accords by the United States, North Vietnam and South Vietnam.
In A.D. 814, Holy Roman Emperor Charlemagne died in Aachen in present-day Germany.
In 1547, England’s King Henry VIII died; he was succeeded by his 9-year-old son, Edward VI.
In 1915, the United States Coast Guard was created as President Woodrow Wilson signed a bill merging the LifeSaving Service and Revenue Cutter Service.
In 1939, Irish poet-dramatist William Butler Yeats died in Menton, France.
In 1945, during World War II, Allied supplies began reaching China over the newly reopened Burma Road.
In 1956, Elvis Presley made his first national TV appearance on “Stage Show,” a CBS program hosted by Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey.
In 1978, fire swept through the historic downtown Coates House hotel in Kansas City, Mo., killing 20 people.
In 1980, six U.S. diplomats who had avoided being taken hostage at their embassy in Tehran flew out of Iran with the help of Canadian diplomats.
In 1986, the space shuttle Challenger exploded 73 seconds after liftoff from Cape Canaveral, Fla., killing all seven crew members, including schoolteacher Christa McAuliffe.
In 1999, Ford Motor Co. announced it was buying the Volvo car division in a $6.45 billion deal. (Ford later sold the Volvo unit in 2010 to a Chinese firm.)
TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS: Actor Nicholas Pryor is 83. Actor Alan Alda is 82. Actress Susan Howard is 76. Actress Marthe Keller is 73. Actress-singer Barbi Benton is 68. Actress Harley Jane Kozak is 61. Movie director Frank Darabont and rock musician Dave Sharp are 59. Rock singer Sam Phillips is 56. Rock musician Dan Spitz is 55. Gospel singer Marvin Sapp is
51. Singer Sarah McLachlan, Rapper Rakim and DJ Muggs (Cypress Hill) are 50. Actress Kathryn Morris and humorist Mo Rocca are 49. Rock/soul musician Jeremy Ruzumna (Fitz and the Tantrums) is 48. Actress Terri Conn is 43. Singer Joey Fatone Jr. (’N Sync) and rapper Rick Ross are 41. Actresses Rosamund Pike and Angelique Cabral are 39. Singer Nick Carter (Backstreet Boys) is 38. Actor Elijah Wood is 37. Rapper J. Cole is 33. Actress Alexandra Krosney and actor Yuri Sardarov are
30. Actress Ariel Winter is 20.