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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 is probably first performed.
  • 1676 - Feodor III becomes Tsar of Russia.
  • 1814 - France defeated Russia and Prussia in the Battle of Brienne.
  • 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.
  • 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, the last animated feature produced by 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 opens at the Palace Theatre in 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.

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