On this day in History - Jan. 29

• 0904 - Sergius III came out of retirement to take over the papacy from the deposed Pope Christopher.
• 1119 - Pope Gelasius II dies.
• 1342 - Louis I, Duke of Bourbon dies (b. 1279)
• 1523 - Ulrico Zuinglio da a conocer sus 67 tesis para la reforma de la Iglesia.
• 1584 - Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange was born (d. 1647)
• 1595 - Romeo and Juliet, a famous play by William Shakespeare concerning the fate of two young star-crossed lovers, was probably first performed.
• 1597 - Elias Ammerbach dies (b. 1530). German organist.
• 1608 - Frederick I, Duke of Württemberg dies (b. 1557).
• 1613 - Galileo observes Neptune but fails to recognize what he sees.
• 1632 - Johann Georg Graevius was born (d. 1703). German classical scholar and critic.
• 1635 - É fundada a Academia Francesa (Academie Française), uma das mais renomadas sociedades literárias da Europa.
• 1647 - Francis Meres dies (b. 1565). English writer.
• 1676 - Feodor III becomes Tsar of Russia.
• 1676 - Tsar Alexis I of Russia dies (b. 1629)
• 1678 - Jeronimo Lobo dies (b. 1593). Portuguese Jesuit missionary.
• 1688 - Emanuel Swedenborg was born (d. 29 Mar 1772). Swedish naturalist, philosopher and theologian.
• 1696 - Ivan V dies. Russian tsar
• 1706 - Charles Sackville, 6th Earl of Dorset dies (b. 1638). English poet and courtier.
• 1711 - Giuseppe Bonno was born (d. 1788). Austrian composer.
• 1712 - Le congrès d'Utrecht. Les diplomates français et anglais se réunissent en congrès à Utrecht. Ils veulent en finir avec la guerre de la succession d'Espagne, qui épuise l'Europe .
• 1715 - Georg Christoph Wagenseil was born (d. 1777). Austrian composer.
• 1717 - Jeffrey Amherst was born (d. 1797). British Military leader.
• 1718 - Paul Rabaut was born (d. 1794). French Huguenot pastor.
• 1730 - Tsar Peter II of Russia died of smallpox on the day set for his wedding (b. 1715).
• 1737 - Thomas Paine was born (d. 1809). Patriot, radical, pamphleteer.
• 1737 - George Hamilton, 1st Earl of Orkney dies (b. 1666). British soldier.
• 1743 - Cardinal André-Hercule de Fleury, Bishop of Fréjus dies (b. 1653). Chief minister of France under Louis XV
• 1749 - King Christian VII of Denmark was born (d. 1808) .
• 1754 - Moses Cleaveland was born (d. 1806). Founder of the city of Cleveland.
• 1763 - Louis Racine dies (b. 1692). French poet.
• 1782 - Daniel Auber was born (d. 1871). French composer.
• 1810 - Ernst Kummer was born (d. 1893). German mathematician.
• 1814 - France defeated Russia and Prussia in the Battle of Brienne.
• 1814 - Johann Gottheb Fichte dies. Philosopher
• 1820 - King George III of the United Kingdom dies (b. 1738).
• 1829 - Paul François Jean Nicolas Barras dies (b. 1755). French politician.
• 1834 - US President Andrew Jackson orders first use of federal soldiers to suppress a labor dispute.
• 1838 - João de Oliveira Penha Fortuna was born in Braga (d. 3 Feb 1919). Portuguese poet.
• 1839 - Charles Darwin marries Emma Wedgwood .
• 1841 - Durante la Guerra del Opio, Gran Bretaña ocupa Hong Kong.
• 1843 - William McKinley was born in Niles, Ohio (d. 1901). 25th President of the United States [1897-1901]. Was assassinated six months after the start of his second term, on 14 September, in Buffalo, New York.
• 1845 - The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe is published for the first time (New York Evening Mirror).
• 1846 - Karol Olszewski was born (d. 1915). Polish scientis.
• 1848 - Chile: se adopta el sistema métrico decimal.
• 1850 - Henry Clay introduces the Compromise of 1850 to the U.S. Congress.
• 1856 - Queen Victoria institutes the Victoria Cross.
• 1859 -William Cranch Bond dies (b. 9 Sep 1789); American astronomer who, with his son, George Phillips Bond (1825-65), discovered Hyperion, the eighth satellite of Saturn, and an inner ring called Ring C, or the Crepe Ring.
• 1860 - Anton Pavlovich Chekhov was born (d. 1904). Playwright and short story writer.
• 1861 - Kansas is admitted as the 34th U.S. state.
• 1862 - Frederick Delius was born (d. 1934). Composer.
• 1863 - Bear River Massacre
• 1866 - Romain Rolland was born (d. 1944). Dramatist, winner of Nobel Prize in Literature in 1915.
• 1867 - Vicente Blasco Ibáñez was born in Valencia (d. 1928). Spanish writer.
• 1870 - Leopold II, Grand Duke of Tuscany dies (b. 1797)
• 1871 - Philippe-Joseph Aubert de Gaspé dies (b. 1786). French-Canadian writer and Seigneur.
• 1874 - John D. Rockefeller Jr. was born (d. 1960). American entrepreneur.
• 1876 - Havergal Brian was born (d. 1972). British composer.
• 1880 - W.C. Fields was born (d. 1946). American actor.
• 1886 - Karl Benz patents the first successful gasoline-driven automobile.
• 1888 - Sydney Chapman, was born (d. 16 Jun 1970). English mathematician and physicist noted for his research in geophysics.
• 1889 - O rápido reconhecimento internacional do novo regime foi o primeiro objetivo do ministro Quintino Bocaiúva, responsável pela pasta das Relações Exteriores do Governo Provisório, sob a liderança do marechal Manoel Deodoro da Fonseca.
• 1890 - Os Estados Unidos reconhecem a República brasileira, proclamada em novembro de 1889.
• 1891 - Liliuokalani proclaimed Queen of Hawaii.
• 1891 - Elizaveta Gerdt was born (d. 1975). Russian ballerina.
• 1893 - Sensacional robo en un hotel de París de cuadros de pintores famosos .
• 1895 - José Martí ordena el inicio del levantamiento por la independencia de Cuba de España.
• 1895 - Barão de Itararé was born (d. 1971). Brazilian journalist.
• 1895 - Muna Lee was born (d. 1965). American poet.
• 1898 - Angel Ortíz de Villajos Cano was born. Spanish musician and composer .
• 1899 - Alfred Sisley dies in Moret-sur-Loing (b. 1839). French painter.
• 1900 - The Baseball's American League is organized in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania with 8 founding teams.
• 1901 - Allen Du Mont was born. Television pioneer.
• 1901 - Milan I dies (b. 1855). King of Serbia.
• 1905 - Barnett Newman was born (d. 1970). American painter.
• 1906 - King Christian IX of Denmark dies (b. 1818) .
• 1908 - Piero Leonardi was born. Italian geologist and prehistorian, known for his research on the stratigraphy and paleontology of the Triassic invertebrates (from 190-225 million years ago) and the Permian vertebrates (from 225-280 million years ago).
• 1910 - Colin Middleton was born (d. 1983). Northern Irish artist.
• 1911 - Peter von Siemens was born (d. 1986). German industrialist.
• 1913 - Peter von Zahn was born (d. 2001). German journalist and writer.
• 1913 - Daniel Taradash was born (d. 2003). American screenwriter.
• 1915 - John Serry, Sr. was born (d. 2003). American musician, composer, arranger
• 1915 - Victor Mature was born (d. 1999). American actor.
• 1916 - World War I: Paris is bombed by German zeppelins for the first time.
• 1918 - John Forsythe was born. American actor .
• 1918 - Aleksei Maksimovich Kaledin dies (b. 1861). Russian counter revolutionary
• 1921 - Anthony George was born (d. 2005). American actor.
• 1922 - Union of Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras & El Salvador dissolved .
• 1923 - Paddy Chayefsky was born (d. 01 Aug 1981). Academy Award-winning playwright, (Marty [1955]; Paint Your Wagon, Altered States, Network).
• 1923 - Ivo Robic was born (d. 2000). Croatian singer and songwriter.
• 1924 - Luigi Nono was born (d. 1990). Italian composer.
• 1924 - Marcelle Ferron was born (d. 2001). Quebec painter and stained glass artist.
• 1926 - Abdus Salam was born (d. 21 Nov 1996). Pakistani nuclear physicist who shared the 1979 Nobel Prize for Physics with Steven Weinberg and Sheldon Lee Glashow.
• 1926 - Franco Cerri was born. Italian jazzman
• 1927 - Edward Abbey was born (d. 1989). American environmentalist.
• 1927 - António Alçada Baptista was born in Covilhã. Portuguese writer.
• 1928 - João Abel Manta was born in Lisbon. Portuguese architect, painter, graphic artist and caricaturist.
• 1928 - Douglas Haig dies (b. 1861). British soldier.
• 1928 - Lee Shau Kee was born. Hong Kong SAR property developer
• 1929 - Seeing Eye Dog organization is formed.
• 1929 - Gordon Solie was born (d. 2000). Wrestling announcer.
• 1932 - Tommy Taylor was born (d. 1958). English footballer.
• 1932 - George Allen was born. English footballer
• 1933 - President of Germany Paul von Hindenburg appoints Adolf Hitler as Chancellor of Germany.
• 1933 - Sacha Distel was born (d. 2004). French singer and guitarist.
• 1933 - Sara Teasdale dies (b. 1884). American poet.
• 1934 - Un temblor de tierra en Acapulco (México) daña el 90 por cien de los edificios
• 1934 - Fritz Haber dies (b. 9 Dec 1868). German physical chemist, winner of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry (1918) for his development of a method of synthesizing ammonia (1909) directly from nitrogen and hydrogen .
• 1936 - First inductees into the Baseball Hall of Fame are announced.
• 1936 - James Jamerson was born (d. 1983). Electric Bass legend & Motown's master of groove.
• 1938 - Armando Palacio Valdés dies. Spanish writer.
• 1939 - Germaine Greer was born. Australian feminist writer.
• 1940 - Katharine Ross was born. American actress.
• 1942 - Claudine Longet was born. French singer and dancer
• 1942 - World War II: North AfricaBenghazi, Libya, is taken by German and Italian forces.
• 1942 - Peru & Ecuador sign Protocol of Rio (boundary determination); Ecuador y Perú firman el Tratado de Río de Janeiro, para el arreglo definitivo del pleito de límites en la zona amazónica fronteriza de ambos países, con Argentina, Brasil, Chile y EE.UU como garantes.
• 1942 - Arnaldo Tamayo- Mendez , was born, cosmonaut, 1st Cuban in space (Soyuz 38)
• 1943 - The first day of the Battle of Rennell Island, U.S. cruiser Chicago is torpedoed and heavily damaged by Japanese bombers.
• 1944 - World War II: About 38 men, women, and children die in the Koniuchy massacre in Poland.
• 1944 - Battleship Missouri is launched.
• 1944 - Battle of Cisterna takes place in central Italy.
• 1944 - Yoweri Museveni was born. President of Uganda.
• 1945 - Jim Nicholson was born. Irish politician
• 1945 - Tom Selleck was born in Detroit MI. American actor (Lance-Rockford Files, Magnum PI) .
• 1945 - Nascimento de A BOLA, um marco histórico na imprensa desportiva portuguesa e jornal de grande prestígio internacional. Não podia deixar de assinalar este facto no meu blog, eu que ainda me lembro perfeitamente quando, miúdo, me deslocava ao pequeno clube de bairro da terra onde vivia "Azes Valboenses F.C" para poder ler "A Bola", tendo muitas vezes que esperar que outros o acabassem de ler, para então sim, me deleitar não só com as notícias desportivas em sentido estrito, mas também particularmente com as crónicas que fazia das regiões e países estrangeiros onde as equipas portuguesas jogavam ou as as provas internacionais importantes decorriam (p. ex. Volta à França em bicicleta). MUITOS PARABÉNS.
• 1946 - Harry Hopkins dies (b. 1890). American politician.
• 1947 - Linda B. Buck was born. American scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
• 1948 - Cristina Saralegui was born. American talk-show host.
• 1948 - Marc Singer was born. Canadian actor
• 1948 - Tomislav II of Croatia, 4th Duke of Aosta dies (b. 1900). Italian aristocrat.
• 1949 - Britain, Belgium, Luxembourg, Netherlands, New Zealand & Switzerland recognize Israel.
• 1950 - Ann Jillian was born. American actress
• 1950 - Jody Scheckter was born. South African racing driver.
• 1950 - Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah dies (b. 1885). Emir of Kuwait.
• 1951 - Frank Tarrant dies (b. 1880). Australian cricketer.
• 1952 - Tommy Ramone was born. Hungarian-born musician and record producer (The Ramones)
• 1953 - Hwang Woo-Suk was born. South Korean fiomedical scientist
• 1953 - Louie Perez was born. Mexican-American drummer (Los Lobos)
• 1953 - Teresa Teng was born (d. 1995). Taiwanese singer.
• 1954 - Terry Kinney was born. American actor.
• 1954 - Doug Risebrough was born. National Hockey League player, coach and executive
• 1954 - Oprah Winfrey was born. American actress, talk show host, producer, publisher.
• 1954 - Richard "Handsome Dick" Manitoba was born. American punk rock singer (The Dictators, MC5)
• 1954 - Yukinobu Hoshino was born. Japanese mangaka .
• 1956 - H. L. Mencken dies (b. 1880). American journalist .
• 1957 - Grazyna Miller was born. Italian poetess,translator and journalist
• 1958 - Paul Newman & Joanne Woodward wedding.
• 1958 - Police capture Charles Starkweather in Wyoming.
• 1958 - The Boston Herald printed a letter from Olga Owens Huckins attacking DDT pesticide as dangerous
• 1959 - Sleeping Beauty, the last animated feature produced by Walt Disney to be based upon a fairy tale, was first released.
• 1960 - Gia Carangi was born (d. 1986). American model.
• 1960 - Sean Kerly was born. British field hockey player
• 1960 - Greg Louganis was born. American diver, Olympics gold medalist.
• 1960 - Steve Sax was born. American baseball player.
• 1960 - J. G. Thirlwell was born. Australian-born musician.
• 1962 - Nicholas Turturro was born. American actor
• 1962 - Fritz Kreisler dies (b. 1975). Austrian violinist.
• 1963 - Bob Holly was born. American professional wrestler
• 1963 - Robert Lee Frost dies (b. 1874). US poet, 4 Pulitzers (b. 1874) .
• 1963 - Isaías de Noronha dies (b. 06 Jul 1874). President of Brazil.
• 1963 - First inductees into the Football Hall of Fame are announced.
• 1964 - The IX Winter Olympic Games open in Innsbruck, Austria.
• 1964 - Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb is released in the United States.
• 1964 - Andre Reed was born. American football player
• 1964 - John Habyan was born. Baseball player
• 1964 - Alan Ladd dies at 50 in Palm Springs CA . Actor (Shane)
• 1965 - Dominik Hasek was born. Czech hockey player.
• 1965 - Peter Lundgren was born. Swedish tennis coach
• 1966 - Romário was born. Brazilian footballer
• 1966 - The first of 608 performances of Sweet Charity opens at the Palace Theatre in New York City.
• 1966 - Britain imposes a complete trade ban on Rhodesia.
• 1966 - Pierre Mercure dies (b. 1927). French Canadian composer.
• 1967 - Cyril Suk was born. Czech tennis player.
• 1968 - Sora Jung was born. Korean actress.
• 1968 - Edward Burns was born. American actor.
• 1969 - Thomas Jane was born. American actor.
• 1969 - Hyde was born. Japanese singer.
• 1969 - Britain refused entry into the European Economic Community.
• 1969 - Allen Dulles dies (b. 1893). Director of the CIA.
• 1970 - Heather Graham was born. American actress, model.
• 1970 - Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore was born. Indian shooter
• 1970 - Basil Liddell Hart dies (b. 1895). British historian.
• 1973 - Jason Schmidt was born. Major League Baseball All-Star
• 1975 - Sara Gilbert was born. American actress.
• 1975 - Manuel Guimarães dies (b. 1915). Portuguese painter and film director.
• 1976 - Grigorios Paliouras was born. Canadian scientist.
• 1976 - Charles Divins was born. American model-turned-actor
• 1977 - Freddie Prinze dies (b. 1954). American actor, comedian.
• 1977 - Buster Nupen dies (b. 1902). South African cricketer.
• 1978 - Sweden outlaws aerosol sprays due to their harmful effect on the ozone layer, becoming the first nation to enact such a ban.
• 1979 - Brenda Ann Spencer kills 9 people and wounds 2 in a shooting spree at Cleveland Elementary School in San Diego, California.
• 1979 - Sui Feifei was born. Chinese basketball player.
• 1979 - April Scott was born. American actress and model.
• 1980 - Yael Bar Zohar was born. Israeli actress and model.
• 1980 - Antonio Molina composer dies at 85 .
• 1980 - Jimmy Durante dies (b. 1893). Actor, singer, comedian, vaudevillian.
• 1981 - Jonny Lang was born. American musician
• 1981 - España: Adolfo Suárez dimite de sus cargos de presidente del Gobierno y del partido de Unión de Centro Democrático.
• 1983 - 40th Golden Globes Gandhi, ET & Tootsie win
• 1984 - Actress Lynda Carter (Wonder Woman) marries Robert Altman.
• 1986 - The Height 611 UFO Incident.
• 1986 - Yoweri Museveni becomes president of Uganda. Museveni's National Resistance Movement, NRM, took power after an army coup removed Apollo Milton Obote from office. (The army's military rule had been particularly ineffectual, and lasted for just under a month.)
• 1986 - Drew Tyler Bell was born. American actor.
• 1986 - Leif Erickson dies (b. 1911). American actor.
• 1987 - Physician’s Weekly announces that the smile on the face of Leonardo DaVinci's Mona Lisa is caused by a "...facial paralysis resulting from a swollen nerve behind the ear."
• 1987 - Spencer Clark was born (d. 2006). American race car driver.
• 1987 - Josep V. Foix dies (b. 28 Jan 1893). Spanish poet.
• 1989 - The Orlando Arena, now titled the TD Waterhouse Centre, opens in Downtown Orlando. The TD Waterhouse Centre is currently the home to the Orlando Magic of the NBA and the Orlando Predators of the AFL.
• 1989 - 77th Australian Open Men Tennis Ivan Lendl beats Miloslav Mecir (6-2, 6-2, 6-2).
• 1989 - Halina Konopacka dies (b. 1900). Polish athlete.
• 1990 - The trial of the former skipper of the Exxon Valdez, Joseph Hazelwood, begins in Anchorage, Alaska. He is accused of negligence that resulted in America's worst oil spill.
• 1990 - Jessica D. Stone was born. Actress.
• 1990 - O Congresso da Somália Unificada nomeia Alí Mahdi Mohamed como novo presidente do país.
• 1991 - Yasushi Inoue dies. Japanese historian.
• 1992 - Willie Dixon dies (b. 1915). Composer, musician
• 1992 - Manuel González Valcárcel dies. Spanish architect.
• 1993 - Leo Lowental dies. German pholosopher.
• 1993 - French marines land in Kinshasa, Zaire, to free French nationals confined to the embassy.
• 1994 - Ulrike Maier dies in a downhill skiing accident (b. 1967). Alpine skiing world champion.
• 1995 - Super Bowl XXIX: The San Francisco 49ers defeat the San Diego Chargers 49-26 and become the first NFL team to win five Super Bowl titles.
• 1996 - President Jacques Chirac announces a "definitive end" to French nuclear testing.
• 1996 - La Fenice, the opera house of Venice, Italy, is destroyed by fire.
• 1996 - First release of Duke Nukem 3D
• 1998 - In Birmingham, Alabama a bomb explodes at an abortion clinic killing one and severely wounding another. Serial bomber Eric Robert Rudolph is suspected as the culprit.
• 1998 - Joseph Alioto dies (b. 1916). Mayor of San Francisco.
• 1998 - Sierra Marcoux was born. American actress.
• 1999 - Lili St. Cyr dies (b. 1918). American exotic dancer.
• 1999 - Estados Unidos: el cuadro Santa Rufina, del pintor sevillano Diego Velázquez es adquirido por un coleccionista anónimo por 1166 millones de pesetas en Nueva York.
• 2000 - A BOLA passa a ter divulgação através da Internet.
• 2001 - Thousands of student protesters in Indonesia storm parliament and demand that President Abdurrahman Wahid resign due to alleged involvement in corruption scandals.
• 2001 - El juez Juan Guzmán dicta una orden de procesamiento y arresto domiciliario contra el dictador chileno Augusto Pinochet.
• 2002 - In his State of the Union Address, United States President George W. Bush described "regimes that sponsor terror" as an Axis of Evil.
• 2002 - Daniel Pearl dies (b. 1963). Journalist.
• 2002 - Dick "Night Train" Lane dies (b. 1928). American football player.
• 2002 - Harold Russell dies (b. 1914). Canadian-born actor.
• 2003 - Frank Moss dies (b. 1911). U.S. Senator from Utah.
• 2003 - Solicitor Sally Clark, aged 38, jailed for life for murdering her two baby sons, was freed by the Court of Appeal.
• 2004 - A whale explodes in the town of Tainan, Taiwan. A build-up of gas in the decomposing 56-foot long Sperm whale is suspected of causing the explosion.
• 2004 - M. M. Kaye dies (b. 1908). British writer.
• 2004 - Janet Frame dies (b. 1924). New Zealand writer.
• 2005 - Eric Griffiths dies (b. 1940). Welsh guitarist (The Quarrymen)
• 2005 - Ephraim Kishon dies (b. 1924). Israeli satirst.
• 2006 - Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah is sworn in as the Emir of Kuwait.
• 2006 - ABC News co-anchor Bob Woodruff and his cameraman Doug Vogt are severely injured in Iraq following a car blast.
• Roman Catholic saints - Valerius of Trèves
• Brazil: Journalist Day /Brasil: Dia do Jormalista
• National Cornchip Day