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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 Year s).
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 '' is probably first performed.
- 1676 - Feodor III becomes Tsar of Russia .
- 1814 - France defeated Russia and Prussia in the Battle Of Brienne .
- 1834 - US President Andrew Jackson orders first use of federal soldiers to suppress a Labor dispute.
- 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 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.
- is first bombed by German Zeppelin s .
- 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 - The battleship USS ''Missouri'' is launched.
- 1944 - takes place in central Italy .
- 1944 - in Poland .
- 1958 - Police capture Charles Starkweather in Wyoming .
- 1959 - '' Sleeping Beauty '', an animated feature produced by Walt Disney 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 .
- 1964 - Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb is released in the US
- 1966 - The first of 608 performances of '' Sweet Charity '' opens at the Palace Theatre in New York City .
- 1986 - Yoweri Museveni is sworn in as President of Uganda .
- 1978 - Sweden outlaws Aerosol Spray s due to their harmful effect on the Ozone Layer , becoming the first Nation to enact such a Ban .
- 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.
- 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 '', in which he includes Iraq , Iran and North Korea .
- 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 .
- 2006 - Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah is sworn in as the Emir of Kuwait .
Births
- 1584 - Frederick Henry, Prince Of Orange (d. 1647 )
- 1632 - Johann Georg Graevius , German classical scholar and critic (d. 1703 )
- 1688 - Emanuel Swedenborg , Swedish scientist and philosopher (d. 1772 )
- 1711 - Giuseppe Bonno , Austrian composer (d. 1788 )
- 1715 - Georg Christoph Wagenseil , Austrian composer (d. 1777 )
- 1717 - Jeffrey Amherst , British military leader (d. 1797 )
- 1718 - Paul Rabaut , French Huguenot pastor (d. 1794 )
- 1737 - Thomas Paine , American patriot (d. 1809 )
- 1749 - King Christian VII Of Denmark (d. 1808 )
- 1754 - Moses Cleaveland , founder of the city of Cleveland (d. 1806 )
- 1782 - Daniel Auber , French composer (d. 1871 )
- 1843 - William McKinley , 25th President Of The United States (d. 1901 )
- 1846 - Karol Olszewski , Polish scientist (d. 1915 )
- 1860 - Anton Chekhov , Russian writer (d. 1904 )
- 1862 - Frederick Delius , English composer (d. 1934 )
- 1866 - Romain Rolland , French writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1944 )
- 1874 - John D. Rockefeller Jr. , American entrepreneur (d. 1960 )
- 1876 - Havergal Brian , British composer (d. 1972 )
- 1880 - W.C. Fields , American actor (d. 1946 )
- 1885 - Leadbelly , American musician (d. 1949 )
- 1891 - Elizaveta Gerdt , Russian ballerina (d. 1975 )
- 1905 - Barnett Newman , American painter (d. 1970 )
- 1910 - Colin Middleton , Northern Irish artist (d. 1983 )
- 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 , American actor
- 1921 - Anthony George , American TV actor (d. 2005 )
- 1923 - Paddy Chayefsky , American writer (d. 1981 )
- 1923 - Ivo Robic , Croatian singer and songwriter (d. 2000 )
- 1924 - Luigi Nono , Italian composer (d. 1990 )
- 1926 - Franco Cerri , Italian musician
- 1926 - Abdus Salam , Pakistani physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1996 )
- 1927 - Edward Abbey , American environmentalist (d. 1989 )
- 1928 - Lee Shau Kee , Hong Kong SAR property developer
- 1929 - Gordon Solie , wrestling announcer (d. 2000 )
- 1932 - Tommy Taylor , English footballer (d. 1958 )
- 1939 - Germaine Greer , Australian feminist writer
- 1940 - Katharine Ross , American actress
- 1942 - Claudine Longet , French singer and dancer
- 1945 - Jim Nicholson , Northern Irish politician
- 1945 - Tom Selleck , American actor
- 1947 - Linda B. Buck , American scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize In Physiology Or Medicine
- 1948 - Cristina Saralegui , Hispanic talk-show host
- 1948 - Marc Singer , Canadian actor
- 1950 - Ann Jillian , American actress
- 1950 - Jody Scheckter , South African race car driver
- 1952 - Tommy Ramone , Hungarian-born musician and record producer ( The Ramones )
- 1953 - Hwang Woo-Suk , South Korean biomedical scientist
- 1953 - Teresa Teng , Chinese pop singer (d. 1995 )
- 1954 - Richard "Handsome Dick" Manitoba , American punk rock singer ( The Dictators , MC5 )
- 1954 - Terry Kinney , American actor
- 1954 - Oprah Winfrey , American talk-show host, producer, actress, and publisher
- 1957 - Grazyna Miller , Italian poet, translator and journalist
- 1960 - Gia Carangi , American model (d. 1986 )
- 1960 - Sean Kerly , British field hockey player
- 1960 - Greg Louganis , American diver
- 1960 - Steve Sax , American baseball player
- 1960 - J. G. Thirlwell , Australian-born musician
- 1962 - Nicholas Turturro , American actor
- 1964 - Andre Reed , American football player
- 1965 - Dominik Hasek , Czech hockey player
- 1966 - Romário , Brazilian footballer
- 1968 - Edward Burns , American actor
- 1969 - Thomas Jane , American actor
- 1969 - Hyde (singer) , Japanese singer
- 1970 - Heather Graham , American actress
- 1970 - Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore , Indian shooter
- 1973 - Jason Schmidt , baseball player
- 1975 - Sara Gilbert , American actress
- 1979 - Sui Feifei , Chinese basketball player
- 1980 - Yael Bar Zohar , Israeli actress and model
- 1981 - Jonny Lang , American musician
- 1986 - Drew Tyler Bell , American actor
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Deaths
- 1119 - Pope Gelasius II
- 1342 - Louis I, Duke Of Bourbon (b. 1279 )
- 1597 - Elias Ammerbach , German organist (b. 1530 )
- 1608 - Frederick I, Duke Of Württemberg (b. 1557 )
- 1647 - Francis Meres , English writer (b. 1565 )
- 1676 - Tsar Alexis I Of Russia (b. 1629 )
- 1678 - Jeronimo Lobo , Portuguese Jesuit missionary (b. 1593 )
- 1696 - Ivan V , Russian tsar;reigned from (1682-1689)
- 1706 - Charles Sackville, 6th Earl Of Dorset , English poet and courtier (b. 1638 )
- 1730 - Tsar Peter II Of Russia (b. 1715 )
- 1737 - George Hamilton, 1st Earl Of Orkney , British soldier (b. 1666 )
- 1743 - Cardinal André-Hercule De Fleury, Bishop Of Fréjus , chief minister under Louis XV Of France (b. 1653 )
- 1763 - Louis Racine , French poet (b. 1692 )
- 1820 - King George III Of The United Kingdom (b. 1738 )
- 1829 - Paul François Jean Nicolas Barras , French politician (b. 1755 )
- 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 , American poet (b. 1884 )
- 1934 - Fritz Haber , German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1868 )
- 1946 - Harry Hopkins , American politician (b. 1890 )
- 1950 - Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah , Emir of Kuwait (b. 1885 )
- 1951 - Frank Tarrant , Australian cricketer (b. 1880 )
- 1956 - H. L. Mencken , American journalist (b. 1880 )
- 1962 - Fritz Kreisler , Austrian violinist (b. 1875 )
- 1963 - Robert Frost , American poet (b. 1874 )
- 1964 - Alan Ladd , American actor (b. 1913 )
- 1969 - Allen Dulles , American Central Intelligence Agency director (b. 1893 )
- 1970 - Basil Liddell Hart , British military historian (b. 1895 )
- 1977 - Buster Nupen , South African cricketer (b. 1902 )
- 1977 - Freddie Prinze , American actor and comedian (b. 1954 )
- 1980 - Jimmy Durante , American actor, singer, and comedian (b. 1893 )
- 1986 - Leif Erickson , American actor (b. 1911 )
- 1989 - Halina Konopacka Polish athlete (b. 1900 )
- 1991 - Yasushi Inoue , Japanese historian (b. 1907 )
- 1992 - Willie Dixon , American composer and musician (b. 1915 )
- 1998 - Joseph Alioto , Mayor of San Francisco (b. 1916 )
- 1999 - Lili St. Cyr , American dancer (b. 1918 )
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