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Birthday January 29, 1688 Emanuel Swedenborg, Swedish religious leader |
Birthday January 29, 1737 Thomas Paine, political essayist (Common Sense and Age of Reason) |
Birthday January 29, 1756 Henry (Light Horse Harry) Lee, cavalryman |
Birthday January 29, 1843 William McKinley, first U.S. president to ride in a car, is born |
Birthday January 29, 1843 William McKinley is born |
Birthday January 29, 1843 William McKinley, (R) 24th US pres (1897-1901) |
Birthday January 29, 1850 Lawrence Hargrave, invented box kite |
Birthday January 29, 1860 Anton Chekhov, writer (The Cherry Orchard) |
Birthday January 29, 1862 Frederick Delius, English composer |
Birthday January 29, 1866 Romain Rolland, French writer (Jean-Christophe) (Nobel 1915) |
Birthday January 29, 1874 John D Rockefeller Jr, financier |
Birthday January 29, 1880 Claude William Dukenfield, (better known as WC Fields) |
Birthday January 29, 1901 Allen B DuMont, perfected 1st coml practical cathode ray tube |
Birthday January 29, 1916 Victor Mature, Actor (One Million BC and Robe) |
Birthday January 29, 1918 John Forsythe, Actor |
Birthday January 29, 1927 Edward Abbey is born |
Birthday January 29, 1939 Germaine Greer, in Melbourne Australia |
Birthday January 29, 1942 Claudine Longet, in France - Former Mrs Andy Williams |
Birthday January 29, 1943 Katharine Ross, in Hollywood Cal |
Birthday January 29, 1945 Tom Selleck, Actor (Magnum PI) |
Birthday January 29, 1951 Ann Jillian, in Cambridge Mass |
Birthday January 29, 1953 Oprah Winfrey, Actress and TV host (The Color Purple) |
Birthday January 29, 1958 Judy Norton-Taylor, in Santa Monica - Cal (Waltons) |
Birthday January 29, 1960 Gregory Louganis, champion diver |
History January 29, 1777 Americans retreat from Fort Independence |
History January 29, 1788 Australia Day |
History January 29, 1820 King George III dies |
History January 29, 1834 Jackson sends troops to put down labor riot |
History January 29, 1845 The Raven is published |
History January 29, 1861 Divided Kansas enters the Union |
History January 29, 1861 Kansas becomes 34th state |
History January 29, 1861 Kansas enters the Union |
History January 29, 1891 Liliuokalani proclaimed queen of Hawaii |
History January 29, 1900 American (baseball) League formed with 8 teams |
History January 29, 1904 1st athletic letters given: to Univ of Chicago football team |
History January 29, 1915 German lieutenant Erwin Rommel leads daring mission in France |
History January 29, 1919 Prohibition goes into effect (18th amendment) |
History January 29, 1920 Walt Disney starts 1st job as an artist $40 week with KC Slide Co |
History January 29, 1922 Theater collapses in Washington, D.C. |
History January 29, 1922 Union of Costa Rica Guatemala Honduras & El Salvador dissolved |
History January 29, 1936 1st players elected to Baseball Hall of Fame |
History January 29, 1936 Baseball Hall of Fame inducts first members |
History January 29, 1942 Iran signs Treaty of Alliance with Great Britain and USSR |
History January 29, 1955 William Cox buys Yankee Stadium |
History January 29, 1958 Charles Starkweather captured by police in Wyoming |
History January 29, 1958 Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward marry |
History January 29, 1959 Walt Disney's "Sleeping Beauty" is released |
History January 29, 1962 Peter, Paul and Mary sign their first recording contract |
History January 29, 1964 Dr. Strangelove premieres |
History January 29, 1968 President Johnson requests additional funds |
History January 29, 1974 Fighting continues in South Vietnam |
History January 29, 1979 Deng Xiaoping and Jimmy Carter sign accords |
History January 29, 1979 School shooting in San Diego |
History January 29, 1984 41-B (STS-11) Challenger launched |
History January 29, 1986 193.8 million shares traded in NY Stock Exchange |