Following are some of the major events to have occurred on Jan 28
Mr. Mandela, 92, left Milpark Hospital in Johannesburg on Friday. He was treated for an acute respiratory infection. Credit Siphiwe Sibeko/Reuters
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1939 - Irish poet and dramatist William Butler Yeats died; he won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1923.
1986 - Seven astronauts died when the space shuttle Challenger exploded 72 seconds after liftoff from Cape Canaveral.
1997 - At South Africa's Truth Commission, police confessed to the 1977 murder of black civil rights leader Steve Biko.
1998 - Japan's Finance Minister Hiroshi Mitsuzuka was forced to step down because of a bribery case.
2002 - Astrid Lindgren, popular Swedish children's author and creator of Pippi Longstocking, died. She was 94.
2002 - A Boeing 727 belonging to Ecuadorean carrier TAME with 92 passengers and crew on board crashed into Colombia's Cumbal volcano killing all on board.
2003 - Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's right-wing Likud party swept to victory in a general election.
2008 - Archbishop Christodoulos, the head of Greece's powerful Orthodox Church, who mended ties with the Vatican but clashed with the Greek state, died.
2009 - President Raul Castro began the first visit to Russia by a Cuban leader since the end of the Cold War. The last time a Cuban leader visited Russia was Fidel Castro's trip to Moscow in 1986.
2011 - Nelson Mandela arrives home from hospital.
2016 - World Health Organisation announces outbreak of Zika Virus.
