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On this day: January 28

POSTED: 02:20 PM PST Jan 25, 2013 UPDATED: 11:00 PM PST Jan 27, 2013

"Pride and Prejudice" is first published, Elvis makes his national TV debut, "We Are the World" is recorded, and the space shuttle Challenger breaks apart after liftoff, all on this day.

OTD January 28 - speeding ticket — 11 / 39

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1896: Walter Arnold of East Peckham, Kent, England, becomes the first person to be convicted of speeding. He was fined 1 shilling, plus costs, for speeding at 8 miles per hour, thus exceeding the contemporary speed limit of 2 mph.

OTD January 28 - Charlemagne

OTD January 28 - Thomas Aquinas

OTD January 28 - Diet of Worms

OTD January 28 - Henry VIII

OTD January 28 - serendipity

OTD January 28 - Pride and Prejudice

OTD January 28 - Antarctica

OTD January 28 - Colette

OTD January 28 - Yale Daily News

OTD January 28 - Ernst Lubitsch

OTD January 28 - speeding ticket

OTD January 28 - American League

OTD January 28 - Jackson Pollock

OTD January 28 - Coast Guard

OTD January 28 - Louis Brandeis

OTD January 28 - Knickerbocker snowstorm

OTD January 28 - ski tow

OTD January 28 - Alan Alda

OTD January 28 - land speed road record

OTD January 28 - William Butler Yeats

OTD January 28 - Nicolas Sarkozy

OTD January 28 - Elvis

OTD January 28 - Lego patent

OTD January 28 - Frank Darabont

OTD January 28 - Sarah McLachlan

OTD January 28 - Rick Ross

OTD January 28 - Joey Fatone

OTD January 28 - Fantasy Island

OTD January 28 - Rosamund Pike

OTD January 28 - Canadian Caper

OTD January 28 - USCGC Blackthorn

OTD January 28 - Nick Carter

OTD January 28 - Ronald Reagan

OTD January 28 - Elijah Wood

OTD January 28 - We Are the World

OTD January 28 - Challenger explosion

OTD January 28 - Hal Smith

OTD January 28 - George W Bush

OTD January 28 - Katowice Trade Hall collapse

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