Day Guide for Monday January 28th 2019

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General Information for January 28th 2019

• There are 7 observances on this day.
• This was 1517 days ago.
• Day 28 of 2019
• 337 days left in 2019
• Week 05 of the year

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On this Day in History

• 2002 - Author Astrid Lindgren dies.
• 1986 - The spaceship Challenger embarks on its final flight, having been in active service since 1983. The subsequent explosion of the craft in the air, and the death of all seven crew members, is a defining moment of the 1980s.
• 1955 - After a week of being stranded on Brighstone Ledge off the Isle Of Wight, the 7,150-ton freighter Kingsbridge is finally refloated when she was towed back to sea by several tugs and a helicopter.
• 1939 - Irish poet and dramatist William Butler Yeats dies in Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, France.
• 1547 - Death of king Henry VIII, whose dynastic aspirations resulted in England leaving the universal Roman Catholic Church and the creation of the Church of England.