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Today is Wednesday, Jan. 28, the 28th day of 2015. There are 337 days left in the year.

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1547: England’s King Henry VIII dies; he is succeeded by his 9-year-old son, Edward VI.

1813: The novel “Pride and Prejudice” by Jane Austen is first published anonymously in London.

1909: The United States withdraws its forces from Cuba as Jose Miguel Gomez becomes president.

1915: The United States Coast Guard is created as President Woodrow Wilson signs a bill merging the Life-Saving Service and Revenue Cutter Service.

The American merchant vessel SS William P. Frye, en route to England with a cargo of wheat, becomes the first U.S. ship to be sunk during World War I by a German cruiser, the SS Prinz Eitel Friedrich, even though the United States is not at war.

1939: Irish poet-dramatist William Butler Yeats dies in Menton, France.

1945: During World War II, Allied supplies begin reaching China over the newly reopened Burma Road.

1956: Elvis Presley makes his first national television appearance on “Stage Show,” a CBS program hosted by Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey.

1962: The last of Washington, D.C.’s original streetcars makes its final run.

1977: Actor-comedian Freddie Prinze, 22, co-star of the NBC-TV show “Chico and the Man,” shoots and mortally wounds himself at the Beverly Comstock Hotel (he died the following day).

1980: Six U.S. diplomats who had avoided being taken hostage at their embassy in Tehran fly out of Iran with the help of Canadian diplomats.

1985: The charity supergroup USA for Africa records the Michael Jackson-Lionel Richie song “We Are the World” at A&M Studios in Los Angeles.

1986: The space shuttle Challenger explodes 73 seconds after liftoff from Cape Canaveral, killing all seven crew members, including schoolteacher Christa McAuliffe.

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1990: Jack Lambert, a second-round pick out of Kent State who was the Pittsburgh Steelers’ leading tackler for 10 seasons, and Franco Harris of the Steelers, fourth career rusher in the NFL, are elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame.

For the second year, Anheuser Busch, the only national beer running Super Bowl commercials, will feature animated beer bottles in the “Bud Bowl,” a concept developed by Bill Oakley, a 1982 graduate of Youngstown State University, and David Henke.

Daniel DiNello, 18, will receive the Eagle Scout Award at a court of honor at the Boardman Methodist Church.

1975: Ohio Edison will brave customer revolt over high prices if necessary to gain the rates it needs to meet customer demands, says OE President D. Bruce Mansfield.

Warren City Council approves an ordinance allowing federal funding of a $45,000 “Safer City” program to be overseen by the Warren Urban League.

An angry bandit returns to the Martin Service Station at 307 W. Indianola Ave. and threatens to shoot the attendant for calling police after a stick-up the day before, then robs him of an undetermined amount of cash.

1965: Boardman School Supt. Irvin J. Nisonger says voters will be asked to approve a bond issue at the next election to build a new senior high school and convert the present one into a second junior high.

General Fireproofing Co. and Aeroquip Corp. both increase current dividends because of increased earnings and good prospects for the rest of 1965.

James Andrews, 60, an employee of Ohio Valley Painting Co., dies when he falls from a scaffold while painting the No. 3 blast furnace at the Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. Campbell Works.

1940: A thousand predominantly young couples dance at Stambaugh Auditorium at the seventh annual President Roosevelt birthday ball to raise funds to fight infantile paralysis.

Fire destroys the barn of Charles Noble a quarter of a mile west of Berlin Center with the loss estimated at $6,000. Noble and his neighbors got 15 cows, two horses, two ponies and a number of pigs to safety, but one small calf burned to death.

Jeannette Ramsey, 45, a former Sharon, Pa., resident and author of children’s books, is found drowned in a bathtub overflowing with scalding water in her New York apartment. Her latest book, “Singing Bird,” was published two weeks ago.