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)

Holidays and observances

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