Daily Almanac: Jan. 28, 2022
Sunrise/Sunset
RISE: 8:00 a.m.
SET: 6:02 p.m.
High/Low Temperatures
High: 26°F
Low: 21°F
Wacky Holiday Today
• National Blueberry Pancake Day
• National Big Wig Day
• National Fun at Work Day
What Happened On This Day
• 1986 Space Shuttle “Challenger” explodes
• 1958 The Lego brick is patented
Births On This Day
• 1912 Jackson Pollock
American painter
• 1968 Sarah McLachlan
Canadian singer-songwriter, pianist, producer
Deaths On This Day
• 1547 Henry VIII of England
• 1939 W. B. Yeats Irish poet, Nobel Prize laureate