January 28th in history:
On January 28th, 1959, Vince Lombardi was hired to coach the Green Bay Packers. Under Lombardi, the Packers won five NFL championships, including the first two Super Bowls.
In Super Bowl XXX, played on this date in 1996, the Dallas Cowboys became the first team to win three Lombardi Trophies in four years. Dallas defeated Pittsburgh, 27-17. The halftime entertainer that night was Diana Ross.
January 28th, 1985, was the night Diana Ross and almost 40 other celebrity singers gathered to record “We Are the World,” an American response to the Band Aid recording in England to fight starvation in Africa. The stars got together in a recording studio after a live broadcast of the American Music Awards.
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