JANUARY 28, 2026

WEDNESDAY
Min Wage Hourly$7.25
Median Home Price$408,800.00
Gas Price Avg$4.09
Bread Price Avg$2.05
Movie Ticket Avg$12.50
First Class Stamp$0.78
Milk Price Avg$4.07
Spy Close$695.42
Qqq Close$633.22
Dia Close$490.13
Screen Releases & Special Events on January 28, 2026
Films, performances and special screenings from this day. Open a card for its story, date details and trivia.
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1 The Wrecking Crew
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The Wrecking Crew
2 Velvicide
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Velvicide
3 Kevin Nealon: Loose in the Crotch
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Kevin Nealon: Loose in the Crotch
4 Isabel Hagen at the Bitter End
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Isabel Hagen at the Bitter End
5 Drifting Laurent
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Drifting Laurent
6 The Red Shoe
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The Red Shoe
7 Menstruation
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Menstruation
8 Bold
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Bold
9 No Love 1/2
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No Love 1/2
10 Horse Power
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Horse Power

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Television from this era · January 28, 2026
The Rookie poster
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The Rookie
Grey's Anatomy poster
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Grey's Anatomy
The Simpsons poster
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The Simpsons
Fallout poster
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Fallout
NCIS poster
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NCIS
Criminal Minds poster
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Criminal Minds
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Family Guy
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Law & Order

Exact-date daily brief

January 28, 2026

January 28, 2026 paired wartime disruption, institutional change, and a deadly regional flight crash. Overnight Russian attacks killed three people across the Kyiv region, Dnipropetrovsk, and Odesa as Ukraine said 146 drones and o...

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Popular recordings and roots/country selections associated with the year

Headlines From January 28, 2026

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  • Headline: Russian Overnight Attacks Kill Three Across the Kyiv Region, Dnipropetrovsk, and Odesa. Impact: The barrage kept Ukraine’s infrastructure and civilian vulnerability at the center of the day while ceasefire talks were still being discussed.
  • Headline: Sarah Mullally Becomes the 106th Archbishop of Canterbury. Impact: The confirmation turned the date into a church-governance milestone with direct institutional consequences inside the Church of England.
  • Headline: SATENA Flight 9R8849 Crashes Near Ocaña, Killing All 15 Aboard. Impact: The crash fixed the day to a specific regional transport disaster with a named route, aircraft type, and investigating agency.
  • Headline: The Wrecking Crew Leads the Movie Slate. Impact: The film gave the capsule a same-day theatrical anchor instead of a generic entertainment placeholder.
  • Headline: Underground Opens the Television Slate. Impact: The series gave the page a concrete same-day television marker to pair with the movie release lane.
  • Headline: SPY Closes at $695.42 as QQQ Finishes at $633.22 and DIA at $490.13. Impact: The closing prices pinned the day to a specific trading-session checkpoint instead of a floating market summary.
  • Headline: Meta Maps AI Performance Gains Across Apps and Ads. Impact: The post turned January 28 into a concrete checkpoint for consumer AI distribution and ad-system performance, not just a broad strategy memo. Fact: Meta also said daily actives generating media inside Meta AI tripled year over year in Q4 2025.
  • Headline: OpenAI Launches EU Economic Blueprint 2.0. Impact: The program shifted the AI lane from product talk to workforce adoption, grant funding, and country-level rollout in one dated package. Fact: OpenAI said EU users consume 17% more thinking capabilities on average than the rest of the world.

Market Close Snapshot

Recorded close: Selected market trackers and technology leaders. Weekends and holidays use the latest prior trading close.
Rank #1
SPY
SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust
Closing price
$695.42
Price date
2026-01-28

SPY closed at $695.42 on 2026-01-28.

Rank #2
QQQ
Invesco QQQ Trust
Closing price
$633.22
Price date
2026-01-28

QQQ closed at $633.22 on 2026-01-28.

Rank #3
DIA
SPDR Dow Jones Industrial Average ETF Trust
Closing price
$490.13
Price date
2026-01-28

DIA closed at $490.13 on 2026-01-28.

Rank #4
NVDA
NVIDIA Corporation
Closing price
$191.52
Price date
2026-01-28

NVDA closed at $191.52 on 2026-01-28.

Rank #5
MSFT
Microsoft Corporation
Closing price
$481.63
Price date
2026-01-28

MSFT closed at $481.63 on 2026-01-28.

Rank #6
GOOGL
Alphabet Inc.
Closing price
$336.01
Price date
2026-01-28

GOOGL closed at $336.01 on 2026-01-28.