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).
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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.
- 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 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 (+ 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
- 1876 - Havergal Brian, composer (+ 1972)
- 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
- 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
- 1981 - Jonny Lang, musician
- 1982 - Arthur O'Keeffe
Deaths
- 1743 - [[Andr�-Hercule de Fleury|Cardinal Andr�-Hercule de Fleury, Bishop of Fr�jus]], chief minister of France under Louis XV
- 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)
- 2003 - Frank Moss, U.S. Senator Utah
Holidays and observances
See Also:
January 28 - January 30 - December 29 - February 29 -- listing of all days
January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December
References
- Adapted from the Wikipedia article, "January 29" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_29 December 27, 2003
