January 29


January 29 is the 29th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. There are
336 days remaining, (337 in leap years).

Events

   * 1676 - Feodor III becomes Tsar of Russia
   * 1845 - The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe is published for the first time
     (New York Evening Mirror).
   * 1850 - Henry Clay introduces the Compromise of 1850 to the United
     States Congress
   * 1856 - Queen Victoria institutes the Victoria Cross
   * 1861 - Kansas is admitted as the 34th U.S. state.
   * 1886 - Karl Benz patents the first successful gasoline-driven
     automobile.
   * 1891 - Liliuokalani proclaimed Queen of Hawaii
   * 1900 - The American Baseball League is organized in Philadelphia,
     Pennsylvania with 8 founding teams.
   * 1916 - World War I: Paris is bombed by German zeppelins for the first
     time.
   * 1922 - Union of Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador is
     dissolved
   * 1929 - Seeing Eye Dog organization is formed
   * 1933 - President of Germany Paul von Hindenburg appoints Adolf Hitler
     as Chancellor of Germany
   * 1936 - First inductees into the Baseball Hall of Fame are announced
   * 1944 - Battle of Cisterna in central Italy
   * 1963 - First inductees into the Football Hall of Fame are announced
   * 1964 - 1964 Winter Olympic Games open in Innsbruck, Austria
   * 1958 - Police capture Charles Starkweather in Wyoming.
   * 1966 - The first of 608 performances of Sweet Charity opens at the
     Palace Theatre in New York City.
   * 1990 - The trial of the former skipper of the Exxon Valdez, Joseph
     Hazelwood, begins in Anchorage, Alaska. He is accused of negligence
     that resulted in America's worst oil spill.
   * 1995 - Super Bowl XXIX: The San Francisco 49ers defeat the San Diego
     Chargers 49-26 and become the NFL team to win five Super Bowl titles.
   * 1996 - President Jacques Chirac announces a "definitive end" to French
     nuclear testing.
   * 1998 - In Birmingham, Alabama a bomb explodes at an abortion clinic
     killing one and severely wounding another. Serial bomber Eric Rudolph
     is suspected as the culprit.
   * 2001 - Thousands of student protesters in Indonesia storm parliament
     and demand that President Abdurrahman Wahid resign due to alleged
     involvement in corruption scandals.

Births

   * 1688 - Emanuel Swedenborg, naturalist and theosophist (+ 1772)
   * 1717 - Jeffrey Amherst, British Military leader (+ 1797)
   * 1737 - Thomas Paine, patriot, radical, pamphleteer (+ 1809)
   * 1749 - King Christian VII of Denmark (+ 1808)
   * 1843 - William McKinley, 25th President of the United States (+ 1901
   * 1860 - Anton Chekhov, playwright and short story writer (+ 1904)
   * 1862 - Frederick Delius, composer (+ 1934)
   * 1866 - Romain Rolland, dramatist, winner of Nobel Prize in Literature
     in 1915 (+ 1944)
   * 1874 - John D. Rockefeller Jr., entrepreneur
   * 1880 - W.C. Fields, actor (+ 1946)
   * 1885 - Leadbelly, musician (+ 1949)
   * 1901 - Allen Du Mont, television pioneer
   * 1905 - Barnett Newman, painter (+ 1970)
   * 1911 - Peter von Siemens, industrialist (+ 1986)
   * 1913 - Peter von Zahn, journalist and writer
   * 1915 - Victor Mature, actor (+ 1999)
   * 1917 - John Raitt, actor, singer
   * 1918 - John Forsythe, actor
   * 1923 - Paddy Chayefsky, writer (+ 1981)
   * 1924 - Luigi Nono, composer (+ 1990)
   * 1927 - Edward Abbey, environmentalist (+ 1989)
   * 1939 - Germaine Greer, writer, feminist
   * 1945 - Tom Selleck, actor
   * 1954 - Oprah Winfrey, actress, talk show host, producer, publisher
   * 1960 - Greg Louganis, Olympics gold medalist in swimming
   * 1968 - Edward Burns, actor
   * 1970 - Heather Graham, actress
   * 1981 - Jonny Lang, musician

Deaths

   * 1820 - King George III of the United Kingdom
   * 1837 - Aleksandr Pushkin, Russian poet

   * 1906 - King Christian IX of Denmark
   * 1928 - Douglas Haig, British soldier
   * 1946 - Harry Hopkins, politician
   * 1963 - Robert Frost, poet
   * 1964 - Alan Ladd, actor
   * 1969 - Allen Dulles, Director of the Central Intelligence Agency
   * 1977 - Freddie Prinze, actor, comedian
   * 1980 - Jimmy Durante, actor, singer, comedian, vaudevillian
   * 1991 - Yasushi Inoue, historian
   * 1992 - Willie Dixon, composer, musician
   * 1999 - Lili St. Cyr, exotic dancer
   * 2002 - Harold Russell, actor
   * 2002 - Daniel Pearl, journalist (one possible date)