January 28, 2024
QUOTE
“My mother believed in all superstitions, plus she made some up.”
--Donald E. Westlake
BIRTHDAYS
1457 Henry VII, king of England
1912 Jackson Pollock, American painter from Cody Wyoming
IN MEMORY
1547 – Henry VIII, king of England (b. 1491)[45]
1988 – Klaus Fuchs, German physicist and politic
IN ON THIS DAY
1986 – Space Shuttle program: STS-51-L mission: Space Shuttle Challenger disintegrates after liftoff, killing all seven astronauts on board.
1909 – United States troops leave Cuba, with the exception of Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, after being there since the Spanish–American War.
1915 – An act of the U.S. Congress creates the United States Coast Guard as a branch of the United States Armed Forces
1958 – The Lego company patents the design of its Lego bricks, still compatible with bricks produced today.