January 28th, 1986, Space Shuttle Challenger explodes 73 seconds after takeoff from Cape Canaveral, Florida. All seven crew members on board the Challenger, among them school teacher Christa McAuliffe, are killed.

President Ronald Regan tells a shocked and grieving nation:”We’ll never forget them, nor the last time we saw them, this morning, as they prepared for their journey and waved goodbye and slipped the surly  bonds of earth to touch the face of God.”

1596, Sir Francis Drake, the mariner who became the first englishman to circumnavigate the globe, dies off the coast of Panama.

1853, Jose Marti, the Cuban revolutionary who fought for his country’s independence from Spain, is born in Habana.

1959, “I wanna say this that is a great game, the game of great lessons.” Vince Lombardi is named the head coach of the Green Bay Packers, in the following decade; he leads the Packers to victory in the first two Super Bowls.

Today in History, January 28th, Sandy Kozel, the Associated Press.

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