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What happened in history on this day: January 29?
On January 29 in ...
- 1864 - Battle of Moorefield, West Virginia (Rosser's Raid).
- 1874 - US Congress passes an act allowing the Bureau of the Mint to produce coinage for foreign governments.
- 1900 - The American League of Professional Baseball Clubs, also known as the American League, is organized in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, with eight founding teams in Buffalo, Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit, Indianapolis, Kansas City, Milwaukee, and Minneapolis.
- 1912 - Martial law declared in textile strike in Lawrence, Massachusetts, USA.
- 1913 - Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, at Howard University, incorporates.
- 1919 - US Secretary of State proclaims the 18th Amendment (prohibition).
- 1924 - Ice cream cone rolling machine patented by Carl Taylor, Cleveland, Ohio.
- 1953 - First movie in Cinemascope (The Robe) premieres.
- 1955 - John William Cox buys Yankee Stadium, sells grounds to Knights of Columbus, later leaves structure to Rice University (1962).
- 1958 - Murderer Charles Starkweather captured by police in Wyoming, USA.
- 1959 - Buena Vista premieres Disney's animated feature film Sleeping Beauty at the Fox Wilshire Theater in Los Angeles, California. The film is based on Charles Perrault's version of the story of Sleeping Beauty.
- 1964 - Unmanned Apollo 1 Saturn launcher test attains Earth orbit.
- 1966 - Snow storm in north-east US kills 165.
- 1979 - Chinese vice-premier Deng Xiaoping visits Washington DC.
- 1979 - President Jimmy Carter commutes Patricia Hearst's seven-year sentence to two years.
- 1983 - 40th Golden Globes: Gandhi, ET and Tootsie win.
- 1984 - US President Ronald Reagan formally announces he will seek a second term.
- 1984 - Space Shuttle 41-B (STS-11) Challenger launched.
- 1987 - William J Casey ends term as 13th director of US Central Intelligence Agency.
- 1988 - Spectrum Holobyte introduces the Tetris computer game in the US. This is the first entertainment software imported to the US from the Soviet Union. The game was written by Vagim Gerasimov and Alexi Paszitnov at the Computer Center of the USSR Academy of Sciences in Moscow.
- 1988 - United Airlines Boeing 747SP circles world in 36 hours 54 minutes 15 seconds.
- 1989 - Dow Jones Industrial Average jumps 38.06 to hit 2256.43; recoups 508-point loss since October 1987.
- 1990 - The trial of Joseph Hazelwood, former skipper of the Exxon Valdez, begins in Anchorage, Alaska. He is accused of negligence that resulted in America's worst oil spill to date.
- 1996 - 23rd American Music Awards: Garth Brooks wins.
- 1997 - Eric Schneider, murderer of two teachers, executed in Missouri at age 35.
- 1998 - In Birmingham, Alabama, a bomb explodes at an abortion clinic, killing one and severely wounding another. Serial bomber Eric Rudolph is the prime suspect.
- 2004 - The Castaways hotel and casino in Las Vegas closes.
- 2009 - Ford Motor Company reports a record US$14.6 billion full-year loss.
- 2009 - Former American Idol winner Kelly Clarkson's single "My Life Would Suck Without You" makes the largest ever leap to number one in Billboard chart history, rising 96 places in one week.
Births on January 29
- 1912 - Birth of Professor Irwin Corey in Brooklyn, New York, USA; comedian (Car Wash, Doc).
- 1913 - Birth of Victor Mature in Louisville, Kentucky, USA; actor (One Million BC, The Robe, Samson and Delilah).
- 1917 - Birth of John Raitt in Santa Ana, California, USA; actor/singer (Chevy Show, Pajama Game).
- 1918 - Birth of John Forsythe in New Jersey, USA; actor (Bachelor Father, Charlie's Angels, Dynasty).
- 1925 - Birth of Anthony George in Endicott, New York, USA; actor (Untouchables, Checkmate).
- 1942 - Birth of Katharine Ross in Hollywood, California, USA; actress (The Graduate, Francesca - The Colbys).
- 1942 - Birth of Robin Morgan in Lake Worth, Florida, USA; actress (Dagmar - Mama).
- 1944 - Birth of Barbara Moore in Wardell, Missouri, USA; actress (Lisa Rogers - Man From UNCLE).
- 1945 - Birth of Donna Marie Caponi Young in Detroit, Michigan, USA; LPGA golfer (US Open 1969, 1970).
- 1945 - Birth of Tom Selleck in Detroit, Michigan, USA; actor (Lance White - The Rockford Files, Magnum P.I.).
- 1950 - Birth of Ann Jillian in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA; actress (Mr Mom, Jennifer Slept Here).
- 1954 - Birth of Oprah Winfrey in Kosciusko, Michigan, USA; actress/TV host (Color Purple, Oprah).
- 1957 - Birth of Irlene Mandrell in Corpus Christi, Texas, USA; country singer (Mandrell Sisters).
- 1958 - Birth of Judy Norton-Taylor in Santa Monica, California, USA; actress (Mary Ellen - The Waltons).
- 1960 - Birth of Gregory Efthimos Louganis in San Diego, California, USA; champion diver (Olympics-gold-1984, 1988).
- 1960 - Birth of Matthew Ashford in Davenport, Iowa, USA; actor (Jack Devaraux - Days of Our Lives).
- 1960 - Birth of Steve Sax; second baseman (Los Angeles Dodgers, New York Yankees, Chicago White Sox).
- 1962 - Birth of Nicholas Turturro in Queens, New York, USA; actor (James Martinez - NYPD Blue).
- 1963 - Birth of Michelle Bell in Melrose, Massachusetts, USA; LPGA golfer (1981 Mass School Girls Champ).
- 1968 - Birth of Kevin Roberson; US baseball outfielder (Chicago Cubs).
- 1970 - Birth of Heather Graham in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA; actress (Drugstore Cowboy, Diggstown).
- 1972 - Birth of Scott Davis in Great Falls, Montana, USA; figure skater (Olympics-1994).
- 1973 - Birth of Jason Schmidt in Lewiston, Idaho; pitcher (Atlanta Braves).
- 1975 - Birth of Kelly Packard in Glendale, California, USA; actress (Tiffani Smith - California Dreams).
- 1975 - Birth of Sara Gilbert in Santa Monica, California; actress (Darlene - Roseanne, Poison Ivy).
- 1980 - Birth of Jason James Richter in Medford, Oregon; actor (Free Willy).
- 1981 - Birth of Jonny Lang; American musician.
- 1986 - Birth of Drew Tyler Bell; American actor.
Deaths on January 29
- 1944 - William Allen White, US journalist (Emporia Gazette), dies at age 75.
- 1946 - Harry L Hopkins, American minister of Business (Loan and Lease law), dies at age 55.
- 1956 - H[enry] L[ouis] Mencken, American essayist/critic/satirist (Smart Set), dies in Baltimore, Maryland at age 75.
- 1962 - Fritz Kreisler, Austria/US violinist/composer, dies at age 86.
- 1963 - Robert Lee Frost, American poet (New Hampshire, four Pulitzers), dies at age 88.
- 1964 - Alan Ladd, actor (Shane), dies at age 50 in Palm Springs, California.
- 1977 - Freddie Prinze, comedian/actor (Chico and the Man), shoots himself dead at age 22.
- 1980 - Jimmy Durante, American actor/singer/comedian (Ink-a-dink-a-doo, Palooka, The Jimmy Durante Show), dies at age 86 in New York City, New York (born 1893).
- 1988 - Bantcho Bantchevsky, US opera singer, commits suicide.
- 1988 - James R Killian Jr, MIT president (1948-59), dies at age 83.
- 1992 - Willie Dixon, American blues composer ("I'm a Man", "Backdoor Man"), dies at age 76 (born 1915).
- 1993 - Hank Werba [Herman Werblowski], US journalist (Variety), dies at age 79.
- 2003 - Death of Frank Moss, U.S. Senator from Utah (born 1911).
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