January 28

January 28, 2026

It's January 28th

On this day in 1813 – Thomas Egerton published Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice. Although Austen was given a share of the profits from her publication of Sense and Sensibility, she was not made aware of how well that book sold until after she entered into a publishing agreement with Egerton. Austen made only £110 from the sale of Pride and Prejudice, while her publisher earned at least £450.
(https://lit-and-more.com/on-this-day-in-ela-a-year-of-literary-events/)

In 1958 – The Lego company patents the design of its Lego bricks, still compatible with bricks produced today.>

In 1985 - "We Are The World" audio and video is recorded in Los Angelas.

Birthdays:

Will Poulter
as Jack in "Kids in Love"

Elijah Wood

Big Freedia

Rakim

DJ Muggs

Dan Spitz

Keith Hamilton Cobb

Frank Darabont

Peter Schilling

Richard Danielpour

Richard Glatzer

Barbi Benton
as Codille in "Deathstalker"

Billy Bass Nelson

Dick Taylor

Joel Crothers

John Normington

Alan Alda
as Miles Clarkson in "The Mephisto Waltz"

All Movie Guide noted Alan Alda's performance as the film's only weak point. Roger Ebert gave the movie 2 stars, commenting: "If a horror movie is to be taken seriously, it has to pretend to take horror seriously. And this one doesn't. It reduces magic to a simpleminded ritual that anyone can perform: all our heroine has to do is steal some funny blue stuff and read pig Latin out of a book. The magic works for her, too...The casting is expensive, and so is the production. But you get the notion that the people who made the film didn't take magic seriously enough. I don't mean they should believe in it; but they should have made a film that pretended to.

Nicholas Pryor
as Man in Sportscar in "Night Terror" aka "Night Drive"