January 29
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January 29 is the 29th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 336 days remaining until the end of the year (337 in leap years).
Events [change]
- 1676 – Feodor III becomes Tsar of Russia.
- 1814 - France defeats Russia and Prussia in the Battle of Brienne.
- 1819 – Singapore is founded.
- 1834 - Andrew Jackson orders the first use of federal soldiers to suppress a labor dispute.
- 1845 - The Raven in published in the New York Evening Mirror newspaper, the first publication with the name of the author, Edgar Allan Poe.
- 1856 – Queen Victoria institutes the Victoria Cross.
- 1861 – Kansas becomes the 34th state to join the United States.
- 1863 – Union forces massacre 400 Native Americans at Bear River, Idaho.
- 1886 – Karl Benz patents his automobile.
- 1891 – Liliuokalani is proclaimed Queen of Hawaii.
- 1907 – Charles Curtis becomes United States Senator for Kansas. He is the first in his position known to have Native American ancestors.
- 1916 – World War I: Paris is first bombed by German zeppelins.
- 1929 – All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque is first published.
- 1936 – The first inductees into the Baseball Hall of Fame are announced.
- 1940 - Three trains on the Sakurajima Line in Osaka, Japan, collide and explode while approaching Ajikawaguchi Station, killing 181 people.
- 1941 – Alexandros Koryzis succeeds the Ioannis Metaxas, who died, as Prime Minister of Greece.
- 1942 – At the end of the Peruvian-Ecuadorean War, Ecuador loses half of its territory to Peru.
- 1943 - World War II: On the first day of the Battle of Rennell Island, US cruiser Chicago is torpedoed and heavily damaged by Japanese bombers.
- 1944 - World War II: Around 38 men, women and children die in the Koniuchy massacre in Poland.
- 1963 – Charles de Gaulle rejects UK membership of the European Community.
- 1964 – The movie Dr. Strangelove is first shown.
- 1967 - The 'ultimate high' of the hippie era, the Mantra-Rock Dance, takes place in San Francisco, featuring Janis Joplin, the Grateful Dead and Allen Ginsberg.
- 1979 - Brenda Ann Spencer kills 2 people and injures 8 in the Grover Cleveland Elementary School shooting.
- 1985 - Final recording session for We Are the World, by the supergroup USA for Africa.
- 1989 – Hungary establishes diplomatic relations with South Korea.
- 1991 – Gulf War: The Battle of Khafji begins.
- 1996 – The La Fenice Opera House in Venice is destroyed by fire.
- 1996 – Jacques Chirac announces the end of French nuclear testing in the Pacific.
- 1998 - In Birmingham, Alabama a bomb explodes at an abortion clinic, killing 1 person, and injuring another.
- 2001 – Thousands of student protesters in Indonesia storm the parliament, demanding the resignation of President Abdurrahman Wahid over corruption scandals.
- 2002 – US President George W. Bush first used the term "Axis of Evil" in his State of the Union speech to describe the governments of Iraq, Iran, and North Korea.
- 2005 - The first direct flights between mainland China and the island of Taiwan since 1949 take place.
- 2009 - Governor of Illinois Rod Blagojevich is convicted of several corruption charges.
- 2011 - The Asian football championship is won by the Japan national football team over the Australia national football team, which had reached the final in only its second participation at the tournament.
- 2012 – Tennis: In the Australian Open, Novak Djokovic wins in five sets against Rafael Nadal in the longest Grand Slam final to date.
Births [change]
- 1499 – Katharina von Bora, religious reformer and wife of Martin Luther (d. 1552)
- 1584 – Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange (d. 1647)
- 1688 – Emanuel Swedenborg, Swedish scientist, philosopher and theologian (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 writer (d. 1809)
- 1749 – King Christian VII of Denmark (d. 1808)
- 1751 - Joseph Bradley Varnum, American politician (d. 1821)
- 1754 - Moses Claeveland, founder of Cleveland, Ohio (d. 1806)
- 1756 - Henry Lee III, Governor of Virginia (d. 1818)
- 1761 – Albert Gallatin, Swiss-born United States Secretary of the Treasury (d. 1849)
- 1792 - Lemuel H. Arnold, Governor of Rhode Island (d. 1852)
- 1801 - Johannes Bernardus van Bree, Dutch composer, violinist and conductor (d. 1857)
- 1801 – Horatia Nelson, daughter of Horatio Nelson and Emma Hamilton (d. 1881)
- 1810 - Ernst Kummer, German mathematician (d. 1893)
- 1832 - Nikolay Pavlovich Ignatiev, Russian general and diplomat (d. 1908)
- 1838 - Edward Morley, American chemist (d. 1923)
- 1843 – William McKinley, 25th President of the United States (d. 1901)
- 1846 – Karol Olszewski, Polish scientist (d. 1915)
- 1853 - Kitasato Shibasaburo, Japanese physician and bacteriologist (d. 1931)
- 1860 – Anton Chekhov, Russian writer (d. 1904)
- 1862 – Frederick Delius, English composer (d. 1934)
- 1866 – Romain Rolland, French writer (d. 1944)
- 1866 - Julio Peris Brell, Spanish painter (d. 1944)
- 1867 – Vicente Blasco Ibañez, Spanish writer (d. 1928)
- 1874 – John D. Rockefeller, Jr., American businessman (d. 1960)
- 1880 – WC Fields, American actor (d. 1946)
- 1884 - Douglass Cadwallader, American golfer (d. 1971)
- 1887 – Wellington Koo, Chinese diplomat (d. 1985)
- 1888 - Sydney Chapman, British mathematician and geophysicist (d. 1970)
- 1891 - Elizaveta Gerdt, Russian ballerina (d. 1975)
- 1895 - Muna Lee, American poet (d. 1965)
- 1901 - Allen B. DuMont, American scientist and inventor (d. 1965)
- 1911 – Peter von Siemens, German industry (d. 1986)
- 1913 – Peter von Zahn, German journalist (d. 2001)
- 1913 - Victor Mature, American actor (d. 1999)
- 1918 – John Forsythe, American actor (d. 2010)
- 1920 - Jose Luis de Vilallonga, Spanish aristocrat (d. 2007)
- 1923 - Ivo Robic, Croatian singer-songwriter (d. 2000)
- 1924 - Luigi Nono, Italian composer (d. 1990)
- 1925 – Tofik Bakhramov, Soviet-Azerbaijani linesman (d. 1993)
- 1926 – Franco Cerri, Italian jazz guitarist
- 1926 – Abdus Salam, Pakistani Nobel Prize in Physics winner (d. 1996)
- 1927 - Edward Abbey, American naturalist, philosopher and writer (d. 1989)
- 1929 - Ed Shaughnessy, American jazz musician
- 1931 – Ferenc Madl, President of Hungary (d. 2011)
- 1933 – Sacha Distel, French singer (d. 2004)
- 1936 - James Jamerson, American bass guitarist (d. 1983)
- 1937 - Hassan Habibi, 1st Vice president of Iran (d. 2013)
- 1937 - Bobby Scott, American musician
- 1939 – Germaine Greer, Australian writer, publicist, feminist and activist
- 1940 - Kunimitsu Takahashi, Japanese motorcycle racer and racing driver
- 1943 – Tony Blackburn, British disc jockey
- 1944 - Katharine Ross, American actress
- 1944 – Yoweri Museveni, President of Uganda
- 1945 – Tom Selleck, American actor
- 1945 – Ibrahim Boubacar, former Prime Minister of Mali
- 1947 – Linda B. Buck, American scientist
- 1947 – David Byron, British musician (d. 1985)
- 1948 – Guido Knopp, German historian, journalist and publicist
- 1950 – Jody Scheckter, South African racecar driver
- 1952 – Tommy Ramone, Hungarian-born American musician and record producer (The Ramones)
- 1953 - Peter Baumann, German musician
- 1954 – Oprah Winfrey, American television host and businesswoman
- 1954 - Doug Riseborough, Canadian ice hockey player, coach and executive
- 1955 – Eddie Jordan, American basketball player and coach
- 1958 - Glen Cochrane, Canadin ice hockey player
- 1962 - Nicholas Turturro, American actor
- 1966 – Romario, Brazilian footballer
- 1969 – Hyde, Japanese singer
- 1969 - Sasa Obradovic, Serbian basketball coach
- 1970 – Heather Graham, American actress
- 1970 - Paul Ryan, American politician
- 1971 - Clare Balding, British television presenter
- 1979 - Sarah Kuttner, German television presenter and author
- 1979 - April Scott, American actress and model
- 1980 – Ivan Klasnic, Croatian footballer
- 1980 – Ingimundur Ingimundarson, Icelandic handball player
- 1980 – Jason James Richter, American musician and actor
- 1982 - Kim Dong-Jin, South Korean footballer
- 1982 – Adam Lambert, American singer
- 1984 - Yukio Peter, Nauruan weightlifter
- 1985 – Marc Gasol, Spanish basketball player
- 1985 – Athina Onassis, heiress
- 1986 – Simon Vukcevic, Montenegrin footballer
- 1986 - Drew Tyler Bell, American actor
- 1988 - Tatyana Chernova, Russian athlete
- 1988 - Stephanie Gilmore, Australian surfer
- 1989 – Kevin Shattenkirk, American ice hockey player
- 1993 - Kyary Pamyu Pamyu, Japanese model, blogger and recording artist
Deaths [change]
- 969 – Tsar Peter I of Bulgaria (b. 895)
- 1119 - Pope Gelasius II
- 1342 - Louis I, Duke of Bourbon (b. 1279)
- 1676 – Tsar Alexis I of Russia (b. 1629)
- 1696 - Tsar Ivan V of Russia (b. 1666)
- 1743 - Andre-Hercule de Fleury, French statesman (b. 1653)
- 1763 – Louis Racine, French poet (b. 1692)
- 1814 - Johann Gottlieb Fichte, German philosopher (b. 1762)
- 1820 – George III, King of Great Britain and Ireland (b. 1738)
- 1828 - Paul de Barras, French politician (b. 1775)
- 1860 – Ernst Moritz Arndt, German writer (b. 1769)
- 1870 – Leopold II, Grand Duke of Tuscany (b. 1797)
- 1888 – Edward Lear, British author, illustrator, artist and poet (b. 1812)
- 1899 – Alfred Sisley, French impressionist painter (b. 1839)
- 1901 – Milan I of Serbia (b. 1855)
- 1906 – King Christian IX of Denmark (b. 1818)
- 1928 – Douglas Haig, British soldier (b. 1861)
- 1934 – Fritz Haber, German chemist (b. 1868)
- 1941 – Ioannis Metaxas, Greek military leader (b. 1871)
- 1946 - Harry Hopkins, American politician (b. 1890)
- 1948 - Prince Aimone, Duke of Aosta, Italian aristocrat (b. 1900)
- 1950 – Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, Emir of Kuwait (b. 1885)
- 1963 – Robert Frost, American poet (b. 1874)
- 1964 - Alan Ladd, American actor (b. 1913)
- 1969 – Allen Dulles, CIA director (b. 1893)
- 1977 – Freddie Prinze, American actor and comedian (b. 1954)
- 1986 - Leif Erickson, American actor (b. 1911)
- 1989 - Halina Konopacka, Polish athlete (b. 1900)
- 1992 - Willie Dixon, American composer and musician (b. 1915)
- 1994 – Ulrike Maier, Austrian skier (b. 1967)
- 1998 - Jospeh Alioto, American politician (b. 1916)
- 2002 - Harold Russell, Canadian-born American actor (b. 1914)
- 2003 - Frank Moss, American politician (b. 1911)
- 2004 – Janet Frame, New Zealand writer (b. 1924)
- 2005 – Eric Griffiths, Welsh musician (b. 1940)
- 2006 – Nam June Paik, South Korean artist (b. 1932)
- 2008 - Bengt Lindstrom, Swedish artist (b. 1925)
- 2008 – Margaret Truman, American writer (b. 1924)
- 2009 – John Martyn, British musician (b. 1948)
- 2011 – Milton Babbitt, American composer (b. 1916)
- 2012 – Oscar Luigi Scalfaro, 9th President of Italy (b. 1918)
