TODAY <$>is Saturday, January 28, the 28th day of 2006. There are 337 days left in the year.

ON THIS DATE<$>

1596 - English navigator Sir Francis Drake dies off Panama’s coast and is buried at sea.

1986 - Space shuttle Challenger explodes moments after liftoff from Cape Canaveral, Florida, killing all seven crew members.

1999 - India and Pakistan meet in their first cricket match in the subcontinent in 12 years. Pakistan walks away with a 12-run victory.

THOUGHT FOR TODAY

“A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.” — Henry Brooks Adams, American historian-author (1838-1918).