1/29/2023 3:57:00 AM Today In History - January 29
Reprinted By Permission From OnThisDay.com
Today in History Our On This Day In History HistoryOrb.com archives contain over 200,000 events, birthdays and deaths from 6,000 years of history. Here is a roundup of some of them for January 29:
Historical Events
1595 - William Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet is probably first performed.
1613 - Galileo observes Neptune but fails to recognize what he sees
1802 - John Beckley of Virginia appointed first Librarian of Congress
1834 - President Jackson orders first use of US troops to suppress a labor dispute
1839 - English Naturalist and author of Origin of the Species Charles Darwin marries Emma Wedgwood
1845 - Edgar Allen Poe's "Raven" 1st published (NYC)
1861 - Kansas becomes 34th state
1879 - Custer Battlefield National Monument, Montana established
1896 - Emile Grubbe is 1st doctor to use radiation treatment for breast cancer
1900 - American League organized in Buffalo, Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit, Indianapolis, Kansas City, Milwaukee & Minneapolis
1916 - 1st bombings of Paris by German Zeppelins takes place
1919 - Secretary of state proclaims 18th amendment (prohibition)
1920 - Walt Disney starts 1st job as an artist; $40 week with KC Slide Co
1924 - Ice cream cone rolling machine patented by Carl Taylor, Cleveland
1933 - German president von Hindenburg appoints Hitler chancellor
1936 - 1st players elected to Baseball Hall of Fame-Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth, Honus Wagner, Christy Mathewson & Walter Johnson
1944 - USS Missouri, the last battleship commissioned by the US Navy, is launched.
1953 - 1st movie in Cinemascope (The Robe) premieres
1958 - Academy Award-winning actor Paul Newman (33) weds "The Three Faces of Eve" actress Joanne Woodward (27) at the El Rancho hotel-casino in Las Vegas
1959 - Walt Disney's "Sleeping Beauty" released
1961 - US female Figure Skating championship won by Laurence Owen
1961 - US male Figure Skating championship won by Bradley Lord
1963 - Jim Thorpe, Red Grange & George Halas elected to football Hall of Fame
1964 - 9th Winter Olympic games open in Innsbruck, Austria
1964 - Most lopsided high-school basketball score 211-29 (Louisiana)
1964 - Stanley Kubrick's "Dr Strangelove," premieres
1964 - Unmanned Apollo 1 Saturn launcher test attains Earth orbit
1966 - US female Figure Skating championship won by Peggy Fleming
1966 - US male Figure Skating championship won by Scott Allen
1969 - Jimi Hendrix & Peter Townshend wage a battle of guitars
1975 - First American Annual Comedy Awards, hosted by Alan King
1979 - Emerson, Lake & Palmer disband after 10 years together
1979 - President Carter commuted Patricia Hearst's 7 year sentence to 2 years
1983 - "Down Under" by Men At Work hit #1 on UK pop chart
1983 - 40th Golden Globes: Gandhi, ET & Tootsie win
1984 - Actress Lynda Carter (Wonder Woman) marries Robert Altman
1984 - President Reagan formally announces he will seek a 2nd term
1984 - Space Shuttle 41-B (STS-11) Challenger launched
1989 - Episcopal church appoints 1st female bishop
1995 - Andre Agassi defeats Pete Sampras to win Australian Open
1995 - Super Bowl XXIX: SF 49ers beat San Diego Chargers, 49-26 in Miami, MVP: Steve Young, San Francisco, QB
1996 - 23rd American Music Award: Garth Brooks wins
1996 - 6,138th performance of "Cats" is held in London, surpassing record of Broadway's longest-running musical, "A Chorus Line"
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.
2005 - The first direct commercial flights from the mainland China (from Guangzhou) to Taiwan since 1949 arrived in Taipei. Shortly afterwards, a China Airlines carrier landed in Beijing.
Famous Birthdays
1737 - Thomas Paine, political essayist (Common Sense, Age of Reason)
1754 - Moses Cleaveland, founder of Cleveland (d. 1806)
1756 - Henry "Light Horse Harry" Lee III, Congressman, Governor of Virginia and American General
1821 - Isaac Ferdinand Quinby, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1891
1823 - Franklin Gardner, Major General (Confederate Army)
1836 - Benjamin Franklin Potts, Bvt Mjr Gen (Union volunteers), died in 1887
1836 - James Meech Warner, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1897
1843 - William McKinley, Niles Ohio, 25th US President (1897-1901), (d. 1901)
1860 - Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, Tagarov Russia, playwright (Cherry Orchard)
1862 - Frederick Delius, Bradford England, composer (Hiawatha)
1874 - John David Rockefeller Jr, Cleveland Ohio, philanthropist
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