Saturday, January 29th The 029th day of 2011. There are 336 days left in the year. | |
Today's Highlights in History | |||
See a larger version of this front page. | On Jan. 29, 1963, poet Robert Frost died in Boston. (Go to article.) | ||
On January 29, 1859, Harper's Weekly featured a cartoon about drug use. (See the cartoon and read an explanation.) |
On this date in: | |
1820 | Britain's King George III died insane at Windsor Castle. |
1843 | William McKinley, the 25th president of the United States, was born in Niles, Ohio. |
1845 | Edgar Allan Poe's poem "The Raven" was first published, in the New York Evening Mirror. |
1850 | Henry Clay introduced in the Senate a compromise bill on slavery that included the admission of California into the Union as a free state. |
1860 | Russian author and playwright Anton Chekhov was born in the port city of Taganrog. |
1861 | Kansas became the 34th state of the Union. |
1900 | The American League, consisting of eight baseball teams, was organized in Philadelphia. |
1936 | The first five members of baseball's Hall of Fame, including Ty Cobb and Babe Ruth, were named in Cooperstown, N.Y. |
1958 | Actors Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward were married. |
1979 | President Jimmy Carter welcomed Chinese Vice Premier Deng Xiaoping to the White House following the establishment of diplomatic relations. |
1995 | The San Francisco 49ers became the first team to win five Super Bowl titles when they beat the San Diego Chargers 49-26 in Super Bowl XXIX. |
1998 | A bomb exploded at an abortion clinic in Birmingham, Ala., killing an off-duty policeman and severely wounding a nurse. (The bomber, Eric Rudolph, was captured in May 2003 and is serving a life sentence.) |
2002 | In his first State of the Union address, President George W. Bush warned of "an axis of evil" consisting of North Korea, Iran and Iraq. |
2006 | ABC "World News Tonight" co-anchor Bob Woodruff and a cameraman were seriously injured in a roadside bombing in Iraq. |
2009 | The Illinois Senate voted to remove Gov. Rod Blagojevich from office. |
Current Birthdays | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Oprah Winfrey turns 57 years old today. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
AP Photo/Mary Altaffer Talk show host Oprah Winfrey turns 57 years old today. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Historic Birthdays | |
William McKinley | |
1/29/1843 - 9/14/1901 America's 25th President (Go to obit.) | |
84 | Emanuel Swedenborg 1/29/1688 - 3/29/1772 Swedish scientist/Christian mystic |
80 | Jeffery Amherst 1/29/1717 - 8/3/1797 English/American army commander |
72 | Thomas Paine 1/29/1737 - 6/8/1809 English/American political pamphleteer |
62 | Henry Lee 1/29/1756 - 3/25/1818 American Revolutionary War officer |
44 | Anton Chekhov 1/29/1860 - 7/15/1904 Russian playwright |
72 | Frederick Delius 1/29/1862 - 6/10/1934 English/French composer |
78 | Romain Rolland 1/29/1866 - 12/30/1944 French novelist/dramatist |
86 | John D. Rockefeller, Jr. 1/29/1874 - 5/11/1960 American philanthropist |
68 | Barney Oldfield 1/29/1878 - 10/4/1946 American race car driver |
66 | W.C. Fields 1/29/1880 - 12/25/1946 American comedian |
58 | Paddy Chayefsky 1/29/1923 - 8/1/1981 American playwright/screenwriter |
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