Good morning! Today is Wednesday, Jan. 28, 2026.
Today in History: I’m going to take this one out of chronological order. On this day in 1986, I had just finished my morning show at the local jazz station. I wasn’t in the car for more than 10 minutes when I caught reports of the Space Shuttle Challenger exploding about 70 seconds after takeoff. That event shook our country as few others had.
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1754: British writer Horace Walpole, in a letter to Horace Mann, coins the word “serendipity.”
1813: Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice is published.
1878: George Coy, Herrick Frost, and Walter Lewis open the first commercial telephone exchange in New Haven, Conn.
1915: U.S. President Woodrow Wilson refuses to prohibit the immigration of illiterates.
1917: Municipally owned streetcars take
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