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Today in History ~ January 29
Events
1170 - Thomas Becket is murdered at Canterbury Cathedral by barons who heard Henry II cry out, "Will no one rid me of this meddlesome priest?!"
1802 - John Beckley of Virginia appointed 1st Librarian of Congress
1834 - President Jackson orders 1st use of US troops to suppress a labor dispute [H]
1839 - Charles Darwin marries Emma Wedgwood
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 which included the admission of California into the Union as a free state.
1861 - Kansas became the 34th state of the Union as a non-slavery state at a time when Southern states were seceding from the Union. [H]
1886 - 1st successful gasoline-driven car patented, Karl Benz, Karlsruhe
1891 - Liliuokalani, the last monarch of the Hawaiian Islands, is proclaimed queen. [H]
1900 - Boers under Joubert beat English at Spionkop Natal, 2,000 killed
1900 - American League organized in Buffalo, Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit, Indianapolis, Kansas City, Milwaukee & Minneapolis
1904 - 1st athletic letters given (Univ of Chicago football team)
1916 - 1st bombings of Paris by German Zeppelins takes place
1921 - Hurricane hits Washington & Oregon
1924 - Ice cream cone rolling machine patented by Carl Taylor, Cleveland
1929 - Seeing Eye Guide Dog Organization forms
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 were named in Cooperstown, New York.
1951 - Liz Taylor's 1st divorce (Conrad Hilton Jr)
1958 - Paul Newman & Joanne Woodward were married.
1959 - Walt Disney's "Sleeping Beauty" released
1963 - The first members of football's Hall of Fame were named in Canton, Ohio.
1966 - Snow storm in north east US kills 165
1979 - President Carter formally welcomed Chinese Vice Premier Deng Xiaoping to the White House, following the establishment of diplomatic relations.
1979 - Pres Carter commuted Patricia Hearst's 7 year sentence to 2 years
1980 - 6 Iranian held US hostages escape with help of Canadians (U.S. time)
1984 - President Reagan formally announced that he would seek a second term as president, with George Bush as his running mate.
1988 - Amid broad efforts toward peace in Central America, Pope John Paul II gave Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega a wary Vatican reception.
1989 - Dow jumps 38.06 recoups 508-pt loss since Oct 1987; index at 2,256.43
1990 - Exxon Valdez capt Joseph Hazelwood goes on trial due to oil spill
1991 - In his State of the Union address, President Bush assured Americans that the war against Iraq would be won and that the recession at home would end in short order. (Extraordinary security measures were in effect for the first wartime State of the Union address since the Vietnam era.)
1991 - The United States and Soviet Union announced they would agree to a ceasefire in the Gulf War if Iraq made an "unequivocal commitment to withdraw from Kuwait."
1991 - In South Africa, the Africa National Congress and the Inkatha Freedom Party agreed to end their rivalry.
1992 - Russian President Boris Yeltsin unveiled an ambitious plan to cut nuclear weapons spending and said his republic's weapons would no longer be aimed at any U.S. targets.
1992 - A multinational Middle East peace conference ended in Moscow with participants sounding upbeat.
1992 - President Bush presented a $1.2 trillion budget plan.
1993 - President Clinton directed the military to stop asking recruits about their sexual orientation as a compromise first step in his plan to lift the ban on homosexuals in the armed services.
1995 - The San Francisco 49ers defeated the San Diego Chargers, 49-26, in Super Bowl XXIX to become the first team to win five Super Bowls.
1996 - A Navy F-14 fighter jet crashed in Nashville, Tennessee, demolishing three houses and killing five people.
1996 - French President Jacques Chirac ordered an early end to underground nuclear tests in the South Pacific.
1996 - Fire destroyed Italy's opera house La Fenice.
1997 - Threatened with lawsuits across the country, America Online agreed to give refunds to customers who weren't able to log on because of the overwhelming demand created by AOL's flat $19.95-a-month rate.
1998 - A security guard was killed and a nurse seriously injured when a bomb exploded outside an abortion clinic in Birmingham, Ala.
2000 - Delegates from more than 130 nations meeting in Montreal adopted the first global treaty regulating trade in genetically modified food products.
2000 - Joe Montana and Ronnie Lott, architects of San Francisco's Super Bowl dynasty, were among five individuals elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
2001 - President Bush promised to "act boldly and swiftly" to address the nation's energy problems, and directed Vice President Dick Cheney to head a task force to develop an energy strategy.
2001 - DaimlerChrysler announced it was eliminating 26,000 jobs at its money-losing Chrysler division.
2002 - President George W. Bush, in his first State of the Union address, warned that the war on terrorism was just beginning with thousands of potential terrorists "spread throughout the world like ticking time bombs."
Birthdays Today
1688 - Swedish scientist and philosopher Emanuel Swedenborg
1700 - Daniel Bernoulli, Basel Switz, mathematician (10 time French award)
1737 - Thomas Paine (American revolutionary leader, political philosopher: Common Sense, The Age of Reason, The Crisis: "These are the times that try men's souls.")
1843 - William McKinley (25th U.S. President, assassinated while in office) was born in Niles, Ohio.
1850 - Ebenezer Howard, London, pioneer of garden cities
1850 - Lawrence Hargrave, inventor (box kite)
1874 - John Davison Rockefeller, Jr. (industrialist: founder of Standard Oil Co.; Rockefeller Foundation)
1880 - W C Fields, [William Claude Dukenfield], Phila, actor (Bank Dick)
1906 - Joe Primeau (Hockey Hall of Fame player and coach: Toronto Maple Leafs: only coach to win Memorial Cup, Allan Cup and Stanley Cup)
1912 - "Professor" Irwin Corey, Brooklyn NY, comedian (Car Wash, Doc)
1916 - Victor Mature (actor: The Robe, Samson and Delilah, The Las Vegas Story, Song of the Islands, After the Fox)
1917 - John Raitt (actor, singer: The Pajama Game)
1918 - Bill Rigney (baseball)
1918 - John Forsythe (Freund) (actor: Bachelor Father, Charlie's Angels, Dynasty, And Justice for All, Scrooged)
1923 - Paddy (Sidney) Chayefsky (Academy Award-winning playwright: Marty [1955]; Paint Your Wagon, Altered States, Network)
1936 - Noel Harrison (actor)
1938 - Bill Christian, US, ice hockey player (Olympic-gold-1960)
1939 - Bobby Bolin (baseball)
1939 - Germaine Greer, Melbourne Australia, feminist/author (Female Eunich)
1941 - Bill Nelson (football)
1942 - Claudine Longet (singer; actress; ex-Mrs. Andy Williams)
1943 - Katharine Ross (actress: The Graduate, The Final Countdown, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, The Singing Nun)
1945 - Donna Maria Caponi (Young) (golf champion: U.S. Open [1969, 1970], Nabisco Dinah Shore [1980], Du Maurier Classic [1976], LPGA [1979, 1981]; sportscaster: ABC Sports)
1945 - Tom Selleck (Emmy Award-winning actor: Magnum, P.I. [1983-84], Three Men and a Baby, Mr. Baseball, Runaway, Lassiter, Quigley Down Under)
1945 - Wayne Stephenson (hockey)
1949 - Jim Tyrone (baseball)
1950 - Ann Jillian, Cambridge Mass, actress (Mr Mom, Jennifer Slept Here)
1952 - Billy Harris (hockey)
1954 - Oprah Winfrey (Emmy Award-winning talk show host: Oprah Winfrey [1986, 1990 - 1994]; actress: The Color Purple, Native Son, The Women of Brewster Place)
1960 - Greg Louganis (diver: Olympic gold medalist: [1984 & '88])
Famous deaths
1559 - Thomas Pope, English politician, benefactor, dies at about 52
1663 - Robert Sanderson, Bishop of Lincoln (1660-63), dies
1820 - Britain's King George III (1760-1820) died insane at Windsor Castle, at 81, ending a reign that had seen both the American and French revolutions. [H]
1934 - Fritz Haber, German chemist (Nobel 1918), dies at 65
1956 - H[enry] L[ouis] Mencken, US essayist/critic (Smart Set, American Mercury, In Defense of Women, Treatise on the Gods, A Mencken Chrestomathy), dies at 75
1963 - Robert Lee Frost, US poet (New Hampshire, 4 Pulitzers), dies at 88
1977 - Freddie Prinze, comedian/actor (Chico & the Man), shoots himself
1992 - Willie Dixon, blues composer (Backdoor Man), dies at 76
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