Wikipedia: January 29

January 29
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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 League is organized in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania with 8 founding teams.
1916 - World War I: Paris is bombed by German zeppelins for the first time.
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 - Battleship Missouri is launched
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 first NFL team to win five Super Bowl titles.
1996 - President Jacques Chirac announces a "definitive end" to French nuclear testing.
1996 - La Fenice, the opera house of Venice, Italy, is destroyed by fire.
1998 - In Birmingham, Alabama a bomb explodes at an abortion clinic killing one and severely wounding another. Serial bomber Eric Robert 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, (d. 1772)
1717 - Jeffrey Amherst, British Military leader, (d. 1797)
1737 - Thomas Paine, patriot, radical, pamphleteer, (d. 1809)
1749 - King Christian VII of Denmark, (d. 1808)
1843 - William McKinley, 25th President of the United States, (d. 1901
1860 - Anton Chekhov, playwright and short story writer, (d. 1904)
1862 - Frederick Delius, composer, (d. 1934)
1866 - Romain Rolland, dramatist, winner of Nobel Prize in Literature in 1915, (d. 1944)
1874 - John D. Rockefeller Jr, entrepreneur, (d. 1960)
1876 - Havergal Brian, composer, (d. 1972)
1880 - W.C. Fields, actor, (d. 1946)
1885 - Leadbelly, musician, (d. 1949)
1901 - Allen Du Mont, television pioneer
1905 - Barnett Newman, painter, (d. 1970)
1911 - Peter von Siemens, industrialist, (d. 1986)
1913 - Peter von Zahn, journalist and writer
1915 - Victor Mature, actor, (d. 1999)
1917 - John Raitt, actor, singer
1918 - John Forsythe, actor
1923 - Paddy Chayefsky, writer, (d. 1981)
1924 - Luigi Nono, composer, (d. 1990)
1927 - Edward Abbey, environmentalist, (d. 1989)
1939 - Germaine Greer, writer, feminist
1950 - Jody Scheckter, South Africa racing driver
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
1970 - Sean Scullion, activist & author
1975 - Sara Gilbert, actress
1981 - Jonny Lang, musician
1982 - Arthur O'Keeffe

Deaths

1743 - Cardinal André-Hercule de Fleury, Bishop of Fréjus, chief minister of France under Louis XV (b. 1653)
1820 - King George III of the United Kingdom (b. 1738)
1837 - Aleksandr Pushkin, Russian poet (b. 1799)
1906 - King Christian IX of Denmark (b. 1818)
1928 - Douglas Haig, British soldier (b. 1861)
1933 - Sara Teasdale, poet (b. 1884)
1946 - Harry Hopkins, politician
1963 - Robert Frost, poet (b. 1874)
1964 - Alan Ladd, actor
1969 - Allen Dulles, Director of the CIA (b. 1893)
1977 - Freddie Prinze, actor, comedian (b. 1954)
1980 - Jimmy Durante, actor, singer, comedian, vaudevillian (b. 1893)
1991 - Yasushi Inoue, historian
1992 - Willie Dixon, composer, musician (b. 1915)
1994 - Ulrike Maier, alpine skiing world champion, in a downhill skiing accident (b. 1967)
1999 - Lili St. Cyr, exotic dancer (b. 1918)
2002 - Harold Russell, actor
2002 - Daniel Pearl, journalist (one possible date) (b. 1963)
2003 - Frank Moss, U.S. Senator from Utah (b. 1911)

Holidays and observances

See Also:

January 28 - January 30 - December 29 - February 29 -- listing of all days

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