January 28, 1962 (Sunday)
- The last streetcar in Washington, D.C. ran for the final time at 2:00 am, as the transit company retired its 27 car fleet. The day before, free rides were offered for all children accompanied by a paying adult and thousands took advantage of the offer. By 1962, only ten American cities still had trolleys.
- Johannes Relleke, a tin miner at Kamativi in Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), survived 2,443 bee stings and earned a spot in the Guinness category "Most bee stings removed".
- Wasfi al-Tal, who would later be assassinated, succeeded Bahjat al-Talhouni as Prime Minister of Jordan.
- Born: Peter Verhelst, Belgian writer, in Bruges
- Died: Robert J. O. Compston, 64, British World War I fighter pilot
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“Here lies interred in the eternity of the past, from whence there is no resurrection for the days—whatever there may be for the dust—the thirty-third year of an ill-spent life, which, after a lingering disease of many months sank into a lethargy, and expired, January 22d, 1821, A.D. leaving a successor inconsolable for the very loss which occasioned its existence.”
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