Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/January 28

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 * 1142 – Despite having saved the southern Song dynasty from attempts by the northern Jin dynasty to conquer it, Chinese general Yue Fei was executed by the Song government.
 * 1547 – Nine-year-old Edward VI, the first English monarch to be raised as a Protestant, became king.
 * 1568 – Delegates of the Three Nations of Transylvania adopted the Edict of Torda, allowing local communities to freely elect their preachers in an unprecedented act of religious tolerance.
 * 1813 – English author Jane Austen's novel Pride and Prejudice was published, using material from an unpublished manuscript originally written between 1796 and 1797.
 * 1922 – The largest recorded snowstorm in the history of Washington, D.C., collapsed the Knickerbocker Theatre, killing 98 people.
 * 1941 – The Uline Arena in Washington, D.C., opened to host the Ice Capades.
 * 1958 – The Lego Group, a Danish toy company, filed a patent in Denmark for the design of Lego bricks (pictured).
 * 1984 – Tropical Storm Domoina made landfall in southern Mozambique, causing some of the most severe flooding recorded in the region.
 * 1986 – The Space Shuttle Challenger disintegrated 73 seconds into its tenth mission, killing all seven crew members.
 * Born/died: | Joan II of Navarre |b|1312| Paul Luther |b|1533| Johannes Hevelius |bd|1611; 1687| Gregor Werner |b|1693| George S. Boutwell |b|1818|  Colette |b|1873| Monty Noble |b|1873| Jasraj |b|1930|  Paul Henderson |b|1943 Reynaldo Hahn |d|1947| Bobbi Campbell |b|1952|  Helen Sawyer Hogg |d|1993

January 28


 * 1069 – Robert de Comines, Earl of Northumbria, was killed in Durham, causing William the Conqueror to embark on a campaign to subjugate northern England.


 * 1754 – The word serendipity, derived from the Persian fairy tale The Three Princes of Serendip, was coined by Horace Walpole (pictured) in a letter to a friend.
 * 1933 – Choudhry Rahmat Ali published a pamphlet in which he called for the creation of a Muslim state in north-western India that he termed "Pakstan".
 * 1964 – Three U.S. Air Force pilots aboard an unarmed T-39 Sabreliner were killed when the aircraft was shot down over Erfurt, East Germany, by a Soviet MiG-19.