January 28

On This Day In History
	1986: Explosion of the space shuttle Challenger On this day in 1986, the U.S. space shuttle Challenger exploded 73 seconds after its liftoff from Florida, killing all seven aboard, including a schoolteacher who was the first private citizen to fly on a shuttle.
The U.S. space shuttle Challenger exploding shortly after liftoff, killing all ?
Biography Of The Day
	Mikhail Baryshnikov Mikhail Baryshnikov, whose elegance, great physical prowess, and unsurpassed leaping ability made him the preeminent male ballet dancer of the 1970s and '80s, was born in Riga, Latvia, this day in 1948.
Mikhail Baryshnikov and the dancers of the Bolshoi Ballet performing Swan ?
More Events On This Day In History
1915	1915 Congress created the U.S. Coast Guard by combining the Revenue Cutter Service with the U.S. Lifesaving Service.
1912	1912 American painter Jackson Pollock, a leading exponent of Abstract Expressionism who received widespread publicity and serious recognition for the radical poured, or "drip," technique he used to create his major works, was born.
1881	1881 Russian novelist and short-story writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky died in St. Petersburg.
	1873 French writer Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette was born in Saint-Sauveur-en-Puisaye.
1871	1871 The French capital, Paris, fell following a four-month siege during the Franco-German War.
	1457 King Henry VII of England, who succeeded in ending the Wars of the Roses, was born in Pembrokeshire, Wales.
	814 Charlemagne, ruler of the Holy Roman Empire, died at Aachen (Germany).