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<p><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_28" title="January 28">January 28</a></b>
</p><ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1069" title="1069">1069</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_de_Comines" title="Robert de Comines">Robert de Comines, Earl of Northumbria</a>, was killed in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Durham,_England" title="Durham, England">Durham</a>, causing <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_the_Conqueror" title="William the Conqueror">William the Conqueror</a> to embark on <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrying_of_the_North" title="Harrying of the North">a campaign to subjugate northern England</a></b>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1754" title="1754">1754</a> – The word in a letter to a friend.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1933" title="1933">1933</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Choudhry_Rahmat_Ali" title="Choudhry Rahmat Ali">Choudhry Rahmat Ali</a> published <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pakistan_Declaration" title="Pakistan Declaration">a pamphlet</a></b> in which he called for the creation of a Muslim state in north-western <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Raj" title="British Raj">India</a> that he termed "Pakstan".</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1964" title="1964">1964</a> – Three U.S. Air Force pilots aboard an unarmed <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_Sabreliner" title="North American Sabreliner"><span class="nowrap">T-39</span> Sabreliner</a> were killed when <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1964_T-39_shootdown_incident" title="1964 T-39 shootdown incident">the aircraft was shot down</a></b> over <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erfurt" title="Erfurt">Erfurt</a>, East Germany, by a Soviet <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikoyan-Gurevich_MiG-19" title="Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-19"><span class="nowrap">MiG-19</span></a>.</li></ul>
<p><b>Births and Deaths: </b><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_H._Prescott" title="William H. Prescott">William H. Prescott</a></b>  (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 1859); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._B._Yeats" title="W. B. Yeats">W. B. Yeats</a></b>  (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 1939); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Buczynski" title="Eddie Buczynski">Eddie Buczynski</a></b>  (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1947); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astrid_Lindgren" title="Astrid Lindgren">Astrid Lindgren</a></b>  (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 2002)</p>