On this day, Jan. 28
1547 England’s King Henry VIII died; he was succeeded by his 9-year-old son, Edward VI. 1813 The novel “Pride and Prejudice” by Jane Austen was first published anonymously in London.
1915 The United States Coast Guard was created as President Woodrow Wilson signed a bill merging the Life-Saving Service and Revenue Cutter Service.
1916 Louis D. Brandeis was nominated by President Woodrow Wilson to the Supreme Court, becoming the court’s first Jewish member.
1922 98 people were killed when the roof of the Knickerbocker Theatre in Washington, D.C., collapsed under the weight of nearly two feet of snow.
1945 During World War II, Allied supplies began reaching China over the newly reopened Burma Road.
1956 Elvis Presley made his first national TV appearance on “Stage Show,” a CBS program hosted by Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey.
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.
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. 1982 Italian anti-terrorism forces rescued U.S. Brig. Gen. James L. Dozier, 42 days after he had been kidnapped by the Red Brigades.
1986 The space shuttle Challenger exploded 73 seconds after liftoff from Cape Canaveral, killing all seven crew members, including schoolteacher Christa McAuliffe. 2011 Chaos engulfed Egypt as protesters seized the streets of Cairo, battling police, burning down the ruling party’s headquarters and defying a military curfew.
2013 Lynyrd Skynyrd keyboard player Billy Powell, who survived the 1977 plane crash that killed three other band members, died in Orange Park, Fla., at age 56.
2017 Serena Williams won her record 23rd Grand Slam singles title, defeating her sister, Venus, for what would be her final major championship. 2018 Bruno Mars won all six Grammy awards for which he was nominated, including album of the year for “24K Magic.”
2021 Cicely Tyson, the pioneering Black actor who gained an Oscar nomination for her role as the sharecropper’s wife in “Sounder” and touched TV viewers’ hearts in “The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman,” died at age 96.
Today’s birthdays: Actor Nicholas Pryor, 89. Actor Alan Alda, 88. Actor Susan Howard, 82. Actor Marthe (cq) Keller, 79. Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H.,, 77. Evangelical pastor Rick Warren, 70. Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy (sahr-koh-ZEE’), 69. Actor Harley Jane Kozak, 67. Movie director Frank Darabont, 65. Rock musician Dave Sharp, 65. Rock singer Sam Phillips, 62. Rock musician Dan Spitz, 61. Gospel singer Marvin Sapp, 57. Singer Sarah McLachlan, 56. Humorist Mo Rocca, 55. Rock/soul musician Jeremy Ruzumna (Fitz and the Tantrums), 54. R&B singer Anthony Hamilton, 53. Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett, 52. Singer Monifah, 52. Retired MLB AllStar Jermaine Dye, 50. Actor Terri Conn, 49. Singer Joey Fatone Jr. (’N Sync), 47. Rapper Rick Ross, 47. Actor Rosamund Pike, 45. Actor Angelique Cabral, 45. Singer Nick Carter (Backstreet Boys), 44.