Sunday, January 28 Camillo Borghese, Pope Paul V from 1605, died. 1768 - Frederick VI, king of Denmark from 1808-1839 and of Norway from 1808-14, born. 1822 - Alexander Mackenzie, first liberal prime minister of Canada from 1873-78, born. 1833 - General Charles George Gordon British commander who captured Khartoum and massacred thousands of Sudanese, born. 1932 - The Japanese Army occupied Shanghai to force an end to a Chinese boycott of Japanese goods. 1939 - William Butler Yeats, Irish poet and dramatist, died; he won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1923. 1943 - Adolf Hitler mobilized the whole of the German adult population for the country's war effort. 1945 - A convoy of U.S. trucks from India crossed the Burmese-Chinese border, opening the famous "Burma Road". 1950 - The French Assembly ratified the agreement under which Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos became independent states within the French Union. 1955 - U.S. president Dwight Eisenhower received full authority from the Senate to use armed forces abroad to defend Taiwan against possible attacks by the Chinese. 1963 - Black student Harvey Gantt entered Clemson College in South Carolina, the last U.S. state to hold out against integration. 1986 - Seven astronauts died when the space shuttle Challenger exploded 72 seconds after liftoff from Cape Canaveral. 1988 - Soviet spy Klaus Fuchs died; information he had obtained enabled Moscow to detonate its first nuclear weapon in August 1949. 1994 - Christian Democrat Giovanni Goria became Italy's second former prime minister to be committed for trial on corruption charges. 1996 - General San Yu, president of Burma from 1981-88, died. 1997 - At South Africa's Truth Commission, police confessed to the 1977 murder of black civil rights leader Steve Biko. 1998 - An Indian judge sentenced to death all 26 people accused of conspiring to assassinate former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi. 1998 - Japan's finance minister Hiroshi Mitsuzuka was forced to step down because of a bribery case.