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
904 - Sergius III comes out of retirement to take over the papacy from the deposed Pope Christopher .
1595 - William Shakespeare 's play Romeo and Juliet 1676 - Feodor III becomes Tsar of Russia .
1814 - France defeated Russia and Prussia in the Battle of Brienne .
1845 - The Raven Edgar Allan Poe is published for the first time (New York Evening Mirror ).
1850 - Henry Clay introduces the Compromise of 1850 to the U.S. Congress .
1856 - Queen Victoria institutes the Victoria Cross .
1861 - Kansas is admitted as the 34th U.S. state .
1863 - Bear River Massacre
1886 - Karl Benz patents the first successful gasoline -driven automobile .
1891 - Liliuokalani is proclaimed Queen of Hawaii , its last monarch.
1900 - The American League is organized in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania with 8 founding teams.
1916 - World War I : Paris is first bombed by German zeppelins .
1929 - The Seeing Eye Dog organization is formed.
1933 - President of Germany Paul von Hindenburg appoints Adolf Hitler as Chancellor of Germany .
1936 - The first inductees into the Baseball Hall of Fame are announced.
1944 - Battleship Missouri is launched.
1944 - World War II : The Battle of Cisterna takes place in central Italy .
1944 - World War II: About 300 men, women, and children die in the Massacre in Koniuchy in Poland .
1959 - Sleeping Beauty Walt Disney to be based upon a fairy tale , was first released.
1963 - First inductees into the Pro 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 New York City .
1986 - The Height 611 UFO Incident
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 , Venice 's opera house, is destroyed by fire.
1996 - First release of Duke Nukem 3D .
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.
2002 - In his State of the Union Address , United States President George W. Bush describes "regimes that sponsor terror " as an Axis of Evil 2004 - A whale explodes in the town of Tainan , Taiwan . A build-up of gas in the decomposing 56-foot long Sperm whale is suspected of causing the explosion .
Births
1688 - Emanuel Swedenborg , naturalist and theosophist (d. 1772 )
1717 - Jeffrey Amherst , British Military leader (d. 1797 )
1737 - Thomas Paine , American 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 , Russian playwright and short story writer (d. 1904 )
1862 - Frederick Delius , English composer (d. 1934 )
1866 - Romain Rolland , French dramatist, winner of Nobel Prize in Literature in 1915 (d. 1944 )
1874 - John D. Rockefeller Jr. , American entrepreneur (d. 1960 )
1876 - Havergal Brian , composer (d. 1972 )
1880 - W.C. Fields , American actor (d. 1946 )
1885 - Leadbelly , musician (d. 1949 )
1898 - Angel Ortíz de Villajos Cano , Spanish musician and composer
1901 - Allen Du Mont , television pioneer
1905 - Barnett Newman , painter (d. 1970 )
1911 - Peter von Siemens , German industrialist (d. 1986 )
1913 - Peter von Zahn , German journalist and writer (d. 2001 )
1915 - Victor Mature , American actor (d. 1999 )
1918 - John Forsythe , actor
1923 - Paddy Chayefsky , writer (d. 1981 )
1923 - Ivo Robic , singer and songwriter (d. 2000 )
1924 - Luigi Nono , Italian composer (d. 1990 )
1926 - Franco Cerri , Italian jazzman
1926 - Abdus Salam , Pakistani physicist, co-winner of the 1979 Nobel Prize in Physics (d. 1996 )
1927 - Edward Abbey , environmentalist (d. 1989 )
1929 - Gordon Solie , professional wrestling announcer (d. 2000 )
1932 - Tommy Taylor , English footballer (d. 1958 )
1939 - Germaine Greer , writer, feminist
1940 - Katharine Ross , American actress
1942 - Claudine Longet , French singer, dancer
1945 - Tom Selleck , actor
1947 - Linda B. Buck , scientist
1948 - Marc Singer , Canadian actor
1950 - Jody Scheckter , South African racing driver
1950 - Ann Jillian , American actress
1952 - Tommy Ramone , Hungarian-American musician (The Ramones )
1954 - Oprah Winfrey , actress, talk show host, producer, publisher
1954 - Yukinobu Hoshino , Japanese mangaka
1960 - Greg Louganis , Olympics gold medalist in diving
1960 - Gia Carangi , supermodel (d. 1986 )
1962 - Nicholas Turturro , American actor
1964 - Andre Reed , American football player
1965 - Dominik Hasek , NHL goalie
1968 - Edward Burns , actor
1970 - Heather Graham , actress
1970 - Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore , shooter
1973 - Jason Schmidt , Major League Baseball All-Star
1975 - Sara Gilbert , actress
1976 - Grigorios Paliouras , Canadian , scientist
1978 - Mikko Kent , Finnish-American Consultant
1981 - Jonny Lang , musician
Deaths
1119 - Pope Gelasius II
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 )
1870 - Leopold II, Grand Duke of Tuscany (b. 1797 )
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
1951 - Frank Tarrant , Australian all-rounder and one of the best cricketers never to play a Test match (b. 1880 ).
1956 - H. L. Mencken , journalist
1962 - Fritz Kreisler , Austrian violinist (b. 1875 )
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 )
1986 - Leif Erickson , American actor
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 )
1998 - Joseph Alioto , former mayor of San Francisco
1999 - Lili St. Cyr , exotic dancer (b. 1918 )
2002 - Daniel Pearl , journalist (one possible date) (b. 1963 )
2002 - Harold Russell , actor
2002 - Dick "Night Train" Lane , American football player
2003 - Frank Moss , U.S. Senator from Utah (b. 1911 )
2004 - Joe Viterelli , American actor
2005 - Eric Griffiths , guitarist of The Quarrymen , the rock band that would become The Beatles (b. 1940 )
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