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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

• 904 – Sergius III comes out of retirement to take over the papacy from the deposed antipope Christopher.
• 1676 – Feodor III becomes Tsar of Russia.
• 1814 – France defeats Russia and Prussia in the Battle of Brienne.
• 1834 – US President Andrew Jackson orders first use of federal soldiers to suppress a labor dispute.
• 1845 – "The Raven" is published in the New York Evening Mirror, the first publication with the name of the author, Edgar Allan Poe
• 1850 – Henry Clay introduces the Compromise of 1850 to the U.S. Congress.
• 1856 – Queen Victoria institutes the Victoria Cross.
• 1861 – Kansas is admitted as the 34th U.S. state.
• 1863 – Bear River Massacre.
• 1886 – Karl Benz patents the first successful gasoline-driven automobile.
• 1891 – Liliuokalani is proclaimed Queen of Hawaii, its last monarch.
• 1900 – The American League is organized in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania with 8 founding teams.
• 1916 – World War I: Paris is first bombed by German zeppelins.
• 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. 181 people are killed.
• 1943 – The first day of the Battle of Rennell Island, U.S. cruiser Chicago is torpedoed and heavily damaged by Japanese bombers.
• 1944 – USS Missouri the last battleship commissioned by the United States Navy is launched.
• 1944 – World War II: The Battle of Cisterna takes place in central Italy.
• 1944 – World War II: Approximately 38 men, women, and children die in the Koniuchy massacre in Poland.
• 1944 – In Bologna, Italy, the Anatomical Theatre of the Archiginnasio is destroyed in an air-raid.
• 1963 – The first inductees into the Pro Football Hall of Fame are announced.
• 1979 – Brenda Spencer kills two people and wounds eight at the Grover Cleveland Elementary School shootings.
• 1985 – Final recording session of We Are The World, by the supergroup USA for Africa.
• 1989 – Hungary establishes diplomatic relations with South Korea, making it the first Eastern Bloc nation to do so
• 1996 – President Jacques Chirac announces a "definitive end" to French nuclear weapons testing.
• 1996 – La Fenice, Venice's opera house, is destroyed by fire.
• 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.
• 2001 – Thousands of student protesters in Indonesia storm parliament and demand that President Abdurrahman Wahid resign due to alleged involvement in corruption scandals.
• 2002 – In his State of the Union Address, 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 mainland China (from Guangzhou) to Taiwan since 1949 arrived in Taipei. Shortly afterwards, a China Airlines flight lands in Beijing.

Births

• 1584 – Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange (d. 1647)
• 1632 – Johann Georg Graevius, German classical scholar and critic (d. 1703)
• 1688 – Emanuel Swedenborg, Swedish scientist and philosopher (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, English-born American patriot (d. 1809)
• 1749 – King Christian VII of Denmark (d. 1808)
• 1754 – Moses Cleaveland, founder of Cleveland (d. 1806)
• 1756 – Henry Lee III, American General (d. 1818)
• 1761 – Albert Gallatin, Swiss-American United States Secretary of the Treasury (d. 1849)
• 1782 – Daniel Auber, French composer (d. 1871)
• 1801 – Horatia Nelson, daughter of Emma Hamilton and Horatio Nelson (d. 1881)
• 1810 – Ernst Kummer, German mathematician (d. 1893)
• 1843 – William McKinley, 25th President of the United States (d. 1901)
• 1846 – Karol Olszewski, Polish scientist (d. 1915)
• 1860 – Anton Chekhov, Russian writer (d. 1904)
• 1862 – Frederick Delius, English composer (d. 1934)
• 1866 – Romain Rolland, French writer, Nobel Laureate (d. 1944)
• 1866 – Julio Peris Brell, Spanish painter (d. 1944)
• 1867 – Vicente Blasco Ibáñez, Spanish writer (d. 1928)
• 1874 – John D. Rockefeller Jr., American entrepreneur (d. 1960)
• 1876 – Havergal Brian, British composer (d. 1972)
• 1877 – Georges Catroux, French general (d. 1969)
• 1880 – W.C. Fields, American actor (d. 1946)
• 1888 – Sydney Chapman, British mathematician and geophysicist (d. 1970)
• 1891 – Elizaveta Gerdt, Russian ballerina (d. 1975)
• 1891 – R. Norris Williams, American survivor of the RMS Titanic sinking (d. 1968)
• 1895 – Muna Lee, American poet (d. 1965)
• 1901 – Allen B. DuMont, American scientist and inventor (d. 1965)
• 1905 – Barnett Newman, American painter (d. 1970)
• 1910 – Colin Middleton, Irish artist (d. 1983)
• 1911 – Peter von Siemens, German industrialist (d. 1986)
• 1913 – Victor Mature, American actor (d. 1999)
• 1913 – Daniel Taradash, American screenwriter (d. 2003)
• 1913 – Peter von Zahn, German journalist and writer (d. 2001)
• 1915 – John Serry, Sr., American musician and arranger (d. 2003)
• 1918 – John Forsythe, American actor
• 1920 – José Luis de Villalonga, Spanish aristocrat (d. 2007)
• 1921 – Anthony George, American actor (d. 2005)
• 1922 – Gerda Steinhoff, Nazi concentration camp supervisor (d. 1946)
• 1923 – Paddy Chayefsky, American writer (d. 1981)
• 1923 – Ivo Robic, Croatian singer and songwriter (d. 2000)
• 1924 – Luigi Nono, Italian composer (d. 1990)
• 1924 – Marcelle Ferron, Quebec painter and stained glass artist (d. 2001)
• 1924 – Peter Voulkos, American artist (d. 2002)
• 1926 – Franco Cerri, Italian musician
• 1926 – Abdus Salam, Pakistani physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1996)
• 1927 – Edward Abbey, American author and environmentalist (d. 1989)
• 1928 – Lee Shau Kee, Hong Kong property developer
• 1930 – Derek Bailey, English guitar virtuoso (d. 2005)
• 1930 – John Junkin, English radio, television and film performer (d. 2006)
• 1932 – Tommy Taylor, English footballer (d. 1958)
• 1932 – George Allen, English footballer
• 1933 – Sacha Distel, French singer and guitarist (d. 2004)
• 1933 – Paul Sally, American mathematician
• 1933 – Hugo Herrestrup, Danish actor
• 1936 – James Jamerson, American bass guitarist for Motown Records (d. 1983)
• 1939 – Germaine Greer, Australian writer
• 1940 – Katharine Ross, American actress
• 1940 – Kunimitsu Takahashi, Japanese motorcycle racer and racing driver
• 1941 – Robin Morgan, American feminist and activist
• 1942 – Claudine Longet, French singer and dancer
• 1944 – Andrew Loog Oldham, English rock and roll producer
• 1944 – Yoweri Museveni, President of Uganda
• 1944 – Patrick Lipton Robinson, Jamaican judge
• 1945 – Jim Nicholson, Irish politician
• 1945 – Tom Selleck, American actor, screenwriter and film producer
• 1947 – Linda B. Buck, American scientist, Nobel laureate
• 1947 – David Byron, English singer (Uriah Heep) (d. 1985)
• 1947 – Marián Varga, Slovak musician
• 1948 – Cristina Saralegui, American talk-show host
• 1948 – Marc Singer, Canadian-born actor
• 1948 – Pat Kenny, Irish TV presenter & radio host
• 1950 – Ann Jillian, American actress
• 1950 – Jody Scheckter, South African race car driver
• 1951 – Andy Roberts, West Indian cricketer
• 1952 – Tommy Ramone, Hungarian-born musician and record producer (The Ramones)
• 1952 – Rupert Hanley, South African cricketer
• 1953 – Paulin Bordeleau, Quebec ice hockey player
• 1953 – Hwang Woo-Suk, South Korean biomedical scientist
• 1953 – Teresa Teng, Taiwanese singer (d. 1995)
• 1953 – Lynne McGranger, Australian actress
• 1954 – Richard Manitoba, American singer (The Dictators and MC5)
• 1954 – Terry Kinney, American actor
• 1954 – Oprah Winfrey, American talk show host and actress
• 1954 – Doug Risebrough, Canadian ice hockey player, coach and executive
• 1955 – Eddie Jordan, American basketball player and head coach
• 1957 – Grazyna Miller, Italian poet, translator, and journalist
• 1957 – Rino Schreuder, Dutch publisher
• 1960 – Matthew Ashford, American actor
• 1960 – Gia Carangi, American model (d. 1986)
• 1960 – Sean Kerly, English field hockey player
• 1960 – Greg Louganis, American diver
• 1960 – Steve Sax, American baseball player
• 1960 – J. G. Thirlwell, Australian-born musician
• 1962 – Nicholas Turturro, American actor
• 1963 – Bob Holly, American professional wrestler
• 1963 – Monica Horan, American actress
• 1964 – Andre Reed, American football player
• 1964 – Anna Ryder Richardson, British interior designer and television presenter
• 1965 – Dominik Hašek, Czech ice hockey player
• 1965 – Peter Lundgren, Swedish tennis coach
• 1966 – Romário, Brazilian footballer
• 1967 – Cyril Suk, Czech tennis player
• 1967 – Stacey King, American basketball player
• 1968 – Edward Burns, American actor
• 1968 – Susi Erdmann, German bobsledder and luger
• 1968 – Sora Jung, Korean actress
• 1969 – Hyde, Japanese singer (L'Arc-en-Ciel)
• 1970 – Heather Graham, American actress
• 1970 – Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore, Indian shooter
• 1970 – Jörg Hoffmann, German swimmer
• 1973 – Jason Schmidt, American baseball player
• 1975 – Sara Gilbert, American actress
• 1976 – Chris Castle, American singer-songwriter
• 1976 – Charles Divins, American model and actor
• 1977 – Justin Hartley, American actor
• 1977 – Chaly Jones, Dutch Footballer
• 1978 – Martin Schmitt, German ski jumper
• 1978 – Rob Bironas, American football player
• 1979 – April Scott, American actress and model
• 1979 – Sui Feifei, Chinese basketball player
• 1979 – Andrew Keegan, American actor
• 1979 – Joseph Todd, Arena Football League player
• 1979 – Andreas Thorstensson, Website developer
• 1980 – Yael Bar-Zohar, Israeli actress and model
• 1980 – Ivan Klasnić, Croatian football player
• 1980 – Ingimundur Ingimundarson, Icelandic handball player
• 1981 – Jonny Lang, American musician
• 1981 – Álex Ubago, Spanish musician
• 1981 – Darío Lopilato, Argentine actor
• 1982 – Adam Lambert, American Actor & singer
• 1982 – Irina Shabayeva American fashion designer
• 1982 – Heidi Mueller, American actress
• 1983 – Nedžad Sinanović, Bosnian basketball player
• 1985 – Athina Onassis, French heiress
• 1985 – Isabel Lucas, Australian actress
• 1985 – Mikey Hachey, American musician (Suburban Legends)
• 1985 – Marc Gasol, Spanish basketball player
• 1985 – Todd Herzog, American reality-show contestant
• 1986 – Drew Tyler Bell, American actor
• 1986 – Mark Howard, English football player
• 1986 – Jair Jurrjens, Dutch baseball player
• 1986 – Simon Vukčević, Montenegrin footballer
• 1987 – Matthew Wilson, English world rally driver
• 1988 – Stephanie Gilmore, Australian surfer
• 1991 – Hugh Grosvenor, Earl Grosvenor, Son of the Duke of Westminster
• 1993 – Michelle Larcher de Brito, Portuguese tennis player

Deaths

• 1119 – Pope Gelasius II
• 1240 – Pelagio Galvani, Cardinal-Bishop of Albano (b. c. 1165)
• 1342 – Louis I, Duke of Bourbon (b. 1279)
• 1597 – Elias Ammerbach, German organist (b. 1530)
• 1608 – Frederick I, Duke of Württemberg (b. 1557)
• 1647 – Francis Meres, English writer (b. 1565)
• 1676 – Tsar Alexis I of Russia (b. 1629)
• 1678 – Jeronimo Lobo, Portuguese Jesuit missionary (b. 1593)
• 1696 – Ivan V, Russian tsar (b. 1666)
• 1706 – Charles Sackville, 6th Earl of Dorset, English poet and courtier (b. 1638)
• 1737 – George Hamilton, 1st Earl of Orkney, British soldier (b. 1666)
• 1743 – André-Hercule de Fleury, French statesman (b. 1653)
• 1763 – Louis Racine, French poet (b. 1692)
• 1820 – King George III of the United Kingdom (b. 1738)
• 1829 – Paul François Jean Nicolas Barras, French politician (b. 1755)
• 1870 – Leopold II, Grand Duke of Tuscany (b. 1797)
• 1871 – Philippe-Joseph Aubert de Gaspé, French Canadian writer (b. 1786)
• 1899 – Alfred Sisley, British impressionist painter (b. 1839)
• 1901 – King Milan I of Serbia (b. 1855)
• 1906 – King Christian IX of Denmark (b. 1818)
• 1918 – Aleksei Maksimovich Kaledin, Russian-counter revolutionary (b. 1861)
• 1928 – Douglas Haig, British soldier (b. 1861)
• 1933 – Sara Teasdale, American poet (b. 1884)
• 1934 – Fritz Haber, German chemist, Nobel Laureate (b. 1868)
• 1941 – Ioannis Metaxas, Greek general and dictator (b. 1871)
• 1946 – Harry Hopkins, 8th United States Secretary of Commerce (b. 1890)
• 1948 – Tomislav II of Croatia, 4th Duke of Aosta, Italian aristocrat (b. 1900)
• 1950 – Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, Emir of Kuwait (b. 1885)
• 1951 – Frank Tarrant, Australian cricketer (b. 1880)
• 1956 – H. L. Mencken, American journalist (b. 1880)
• 1961 – John F. O'Ryan, American major general (b. 1874)
• 1962 – Fritz Kreisler, Austrian violinist (b. 1875)
• 1963 – Robert Frost, American poet (b. 1874)
• 1964 – Alan Ladd, American actor (b. 1913)
• 1966 – Pierre Mercure, French Canadian composer (b. 1927)
• 1969 – Allen Dulles, American CIA director (b. 1893)
• 1970 – B. H. Liddell Hart, British historian (b. 1895)
• 1975 – Orestis Makris, Greek actor (b. 1898)
• 1977 – Buster Nupen, South African cricketer (b. 1902)
• 1977 – Freddie Prinze, American actor and comedian (b. 1954)
• 1980 – Jimmy Durante, American actor and comedian (b. 1893)
• 1986 – Leif Erickson, American actor (b. 1911)
• 1989 – Halina Konopacka, Polish athlete (b. 1900)
• 1991 – Yasushi Inoue, Japanese historian (b. 1907)
• 1992 – Willie Dixon, American composer and musician (b. 1915)
• 1993 – Ron Kostelnik, American football player (b. 1940)
• 1994 – Ulrike Maier, Austrian alpine skier (b. 1967)
• 1998 – Joseph Alioto, American politician (b. 1916)
• 1999 – Lili St. Cyr, American dancer (b. 1918)
• 2002 – Dick "Night Train" Lane, American football player (b. 1928)
• 2002 – Harold Russell, Canadian-born American actor (b. 1914)
• 2003 – Frank Moss, American politician (b. 1911)
• 2004 – M. M. Kaye, British writer (b. 1908)
• 2004 – Janet Frame, New Zealand writer (b. 1924)
• 2005 – Eric Griffiths, Welsh guitarist (The Quarrymen) (b. 1940)
• 2005 – Ephraim Kishon, Israeli satirist (b. 1924)
• 2007 – Barbaro, American thoroughbred racehorse (b. 2003)
• 2007 – Dia Abdul Zahra Kadim, Iraqi extremist leader (b. 1970)
• 2008 – Raymond Jacobs, American soldier (b. 1925)
• 2008 – Philippe Khorsand, French actor (b. 1948)
• 2008 – Margaret Truman, American writer, daughter of Harry S. Truman (1924)
• 2009 – Hélio Gracie, Brazilian martial artist (b. 1913)
• 2009 – John Martyn, Scottish singer and songwriter (b. 1948)
• 2009 – Bill Frindall, English cricket scorer and statistician (b. 1939)

Holidays and observances

• Christian Feast Day
  • Juniper
  • Valerius of Trèves
  • January 29 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
• Constitution Day (Gibraltar)

External links

• BBC: On This Day
• The New York Times: On This Day
• On this day in Canada

From Wikiquote

Quotes of the day from previous years:

2004

I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good thing, therefore, that I can do or any kindness I can show to any fellow human being let me do it now. Let me not defer nor neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again. ~ Stephen Grellet

• selected by Kalki

2005

Time's glory is to command contending kings,
To unmask falsehood, and bring truth to light.
~ William Shakespeare ~

• selected by Kalki

2006

Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent. To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring — it was peace. ~ Milan Kundera

• selected by Kalki — 29 January 2006 is the start of the Chinese New Year 4704, a "Year of the Dog".

2007

I speak an open and disinterested language, dictated by no passion but that of humanity. To me, who have not only refused offers, because I thought them improper, but have declined rewards I might with reputation have accepted, it is no wonder that meanness and imposition appear disgustful. Independence is my happiness, and I view things as they are, without regard to place or person; my country is the world, and my religion is to do good. ~ Thomas Paine

• proposed by Kalki

2008

The fear of freedom is strong in us. We call it chaos or anarchy, and the words are threatening. We live in a true chaos of contradicting authorities, an age of conformism without community, of proximity without communication. We could only fear chaos if we imagined that it was unknown to us, but in fact we know it very well. ~ Germaine Greer (born 29 January 1939)

• proposed by InvisibleSun

2009

The refusal to rest content, the willingness to risk excess on behalf of one's obsessions, is what distinguishes artists from entertainers, and what makes some artists adventurers on behalf of us all. ~ John Updike (recent death)

• proposed by Kalki

2010

Suggestions

Man is not the enemy of man but through the medium of a false system of government. ~ Thomas Paine (born January 29, 1737)

• 3 InvisibleSun 14:15, 28 January 2007 (UTC)
• 1 Zarbon 19:21, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
• 2 Kalki 00:14, 28 January 2009 (UTC)

Society in every state is a blessing, but government even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one; for when we suffer, or are exposed to the same miseries BY A GOVERNMENT, which we might expect in a country WITHOUT GOVERNMENT, our calamity is heightened by reflecting that we furnish the means by which we suffer. ~ Thomas Paine

• 3 InvisibleSun 14:15, 28 January 2007 (UTC)
• 3 Kalki 23:12, 28 January 2007 (UTC)
• 1 Zarbon 19:21, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

It is impossible to calculate the moral mischief, if I may so express it, that mental lying has produced in society. When a man has so far corrupted and prostituted the chastity of his mind, as to subscribe his professional belief to things he does not believe, he has prepared himself for the commission of every other crime. ~ Thomas Paine

• 3 InvisibleSun 14:15, 28 January 2007 (UTC)
• 3 Kalki 00:29, 29 January 2007 (UTC)
• 2 Zarbon 19:21, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

Every science has for its basis a system of principles as fixed and unalterable as those by which the universe is regulated and governed. Man cannot make principles, he can only discover them. ~ Thomas Paine

• 3 InvisibleSun 14:15, 28 January 2007 (UTC)
• 3 Kalki 23:12, 28 January 2007 (UTC)
• 2 Zarbon 19:21, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

People who live alone always have something on their minds that they would willingly share. ~ Anton Chekhov (born January 29, 1860)

• 3 InvisibleSun 14:15, 28 January 2007 (UTC)
• 1 Zarbon 19:21, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
• 2 Kalki 00:14, 28 January 2009 (UTC)

Medicine is my lawful wife and literature is my mistress. When I get tired of one I spend the night with the other. Though it's disorderly it's not so dull, and besides, neither really loses anything through my infidelity. ~ Anton Chekhov

• 3 InvisibleSun 14:15, 28 January 2007 (UTC)
• 2 Zarbon 19:21, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
• 2 Kalki 00:14, 28 January 2009 (UTC)

He who doesn’t know how to be a servant should never be allowed to be a master; the interests of public life are alien to anyone who is unable to enjoy others’ successes, and such a person should never be entrusted with public affairs. ~ Anton Chekhov

• 3 InvisibleSun 14:15, 28 January 2007 (UTC)
• 3 Kalki 23:12, 28 January 2007 (UTC)
• 2 Zarbon 19:21, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

Despicable means used to achieve laudable goals render the goals themselves despicable. ~ Anton Chekhov

• 3 InvisibleSun 14:15, 28 January 2007 (UTC)
• 1 Zarbon 19:21, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
• 2 Kalki 00:14, 28 January 2009 (UTC)

The person who wants nothing, hopes for nothing, and fears nothing can never be an artist. ~ Anton Chekhov

• 3 InvisibleSun 14:15, 28 January 2007 (UTC)
• 3 Kalki 00:29, 29 January 2007 (UTC)
• 2 Zarbon 19:21, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

We're all undesireable elements from somebody's point of view. ~ Edward Abbey (born January 29, 1927)

• 3 InvisibleSun 14:15, 28 January 2007 (UTC)
• 3 Kalki 23:12, 28 January 2007 (UTC)
• 2 Zarbon 19:21, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

We need wilderness whether or not we ever set foot in it. We need a refuge even though we may not ever need to go there. ~ Edward Abbey

• 3 InvisibleSun 14:15, 28 January 2007 (UTC)
• 3 ~ Kalki 23:12, 28 January 2007 (UTC)
• 3 because it's true. People want many things although they may never need them. It's a perplex explanation of the human spirit and the will for things, and refuge would suffice as a perfect example, for someone to want to have it regardless of ever needing it. Zarbon 19:21, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

The love of wilderness is more than a hunger for what is always beyond reach; it is also an expression of loyalty to the earth, the earth which bore us and sustains us, the only home we shall ever know, the only paradise we ever need — if only we had the eyes to see. ~ Edward Abbey

• 3 InvisibleSun 14:15, 28 January 2007 (UTC)
• 3 ~ Kalki 00:29, 29 January 2007 (UTC)
• 2 Zarbon 19:21, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

Next time round Hitler will be a machine. ~ Germaine Greer

• 3 InvisibleSun 14:15, 28 January 2007 (UTC)
• 2 Zarbon 19:21, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
• 2 Kalki 00:14, 28 January 2009 (UTC)

Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace, and wit, reminders of order, calm, and continuity, lakes of mental energy, neither warm nor cold, light nor dark. The pleasure they give is steady, unorgastic, reliable, deep, and long-lasting. In any library in the world, I am at home, unselfconscious, still, and absorbed. ~ Germaine Greer

• 3 InvisibleSun 14:15, 28 January 2007 (UTC)
• 3 ~ Kalki 23:12, 28 January 2007 (UTC)
• 1 Zarbon 19:21, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

Women over fifty already form one of the largest groups in the population structure of the western world. As long as they like themselves, they will not be an oppressed minority. In order to like themselves they must reject trivialization by others of who and what they are. A grown woman should not have to masquerade as a girl in order to remain in the land of the living. ~ Germaine Greer

• 3 InvisibleSun 14:15, 28 January 2007 (UTC)
• 1 Zarbon 19:21, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

When a person doesn’t understand something, he feels internal discord: however he doesn’t search for that discord in himself, as he should, but searches outside of himself. Thence a war develops with that which he doesn’t understand. ~ Anton Chekhov

• 3 Kalki 23:12, 28 January 2007 (UTC)
• 3 InvisibleSun 23:21, 27 January 2008 (UTC)
• 3 because people search for fault in others when it may lie in themselves. Very true and very well said, climactic. Zarbon 19:21, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

Thought and beauty, like a hurricane or waves, should not know conventional, delimited forms. ~ Anton Chekhov (born 29 January 1860)

• 3 Kalki 23:12, 28 January 2007 (UTC)
• 3 InvisibleSun 23:21, 27 January 2008 (UTC)
• 2 Zarbon 19:21, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

It’s not a matter of old or new forms; a person writes without thinking about any forms, he writes because it flows freely from his soul. ~ Anton Chekhov

• 3 Kalki 23:12, 28 January 2007 (UTC)
• 3 InvisibleSun 23:21, 27 January 2008 (UTC)
• 2 Zarbon 19:21, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

Each of us is full of too many wheels, screws and valves to permit us to judge one another on a first impression or by two or three external signs. ~ Anton Chekhov

• 3 Kalki 23:12, 28 January 2007 (UTC)
• 3 InvisibleSun 23:21, 27 January 2008 (UTC)
• 3 Zarbon 19:21, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

A long habit of not thinking a thing WRONG, gives it a superficial appearance of being RIGHT, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason. ~ Thomas Paine (born 29 January 1737)

• 3 Kalki 23:12, 28 January 2007 (UTC)
• 3 InvisibleSun 23:21, 27 January 2008 (UTC)
• 1 Zarbon 19:21, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

Love, friendship, respect, do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something. ~ Anton Chekhov

• 4 Zarbon 06:18, 22 November 2008 (UTC)
• 2 Kalki 00:14, 28 January 2009 (UTC)
• 2 InvisibleSun 21:22, 28 January 2009 (UTC)

From StrategyWiki, the free strategy guide and walkthrough wiki

Games released on January 29.

From Wikia Gaming, your source for walkthroughs, games, guides, and more!

Game releases

• 2004
  • [[Pok�?©mon FireRed and LeafGreen]] for the Game Boy Advance in Japan
• 1996
  • Duke Nukem 3D for the PC

From Familypedia

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

• 904 - Sergius III comes out of retirement to take over the papacy from the deposed antipope Christopher.
• 1595 - William Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet is probably first performed.
• 1676 - Feodor III becomes Tsar of Russia.
• 1814 - France defeats Russia and Prussia in the Battle of Brienne.
• 1834 - US President Andrew Jackson orders first use of federal soldiers to suppress a labor dispute.
• 1845 - "The Raven" by Edgar Allan Poe is published in the New York Evening Mirror.
• 1850 - Henry Clay introduces the Compromise of 1850 to the U.S. Congress.
• 1856 - Queen Victoria institutes the Victoria Cross.
• 1861 - Kansas admitted as the 34th U.S. state.
• 1863 - Bear River Massacre.
• 1886 - Karl Benz patents the first successful gasoline-driven automobile.
• 1891 - Liliuokalani is proclaimed Queen of Hawaii, its last monarch.
• 1900 - The American League is organized in Philadelphia with 8 founding teams.
• 1916 - World War I: Paris is first bombed by German zeppelins.
• 1936 - The first inductees into the Baseball Hall of Fame are announced.
• 1943 - The first day of the Battle of Rennell Island, U.S. cruiser Chicago is torpedoed and heavily damaged by Japanese bombers.
• 1944 - USS Missouri the last battleship commissioned by the US Navy is launched.
• 1944 - World War II: The Battle of Cisterna takes place in central Italy.
• 1944 - World War II: About 38 men, women, and children die in the Koniuchy massacre in Poland.
• 1959 - Sleeping Beauty, an animated feature produced by Walt Disney based upon a fairy tale, is released.
• 1963 - First inductees into the Pro Football Hall of Fame are announced.
• 1964 - Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb is released in the United States.
• 1966 - The first of 608 performances of Sweet Charity opens at the Palace Theatre.
• 1978 - Sweden outlaws aerosol sprays due to their harmful effect on the ozone layer, becoming the first nation to enact such a ban.
• 1989 - Hungary establishes diplomatic relations with South Korea, making them the first Eastern Bloc nation to do so
• 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, Venice's opera house, is destroyed by fire.
• 1998 - In Birmingham, a bomb explodes at an abortion clinic, killing one and severely wounding another. Serial bomber Eric Robert Rudolph is suspected as the culprit.
• 2001 - Thousands of student protesters in Indonesia storm parliament and demand that President Abdurrahman Wahid resign due to alleged involvement in corruption scandals.
• 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.
• 2004 - Cannabis and cannabis resin downgraded from Class B in United Kingdom
• 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.
• 2006 - Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah is sworn in as the Emir of Kuwait.

Births

• 1584 - Frederick Henry (d. 1647)
• 1632 - Johann Georg Graevius, German classical scholar and critic (d. 1703)
• 1688 - Emanuel Swedenborg, Swedish scientist and philosopher (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 patriot (d. 1809)
• 1749 - King Christian VII of Denmark (d. 1808)
• 1754 - Moses Cleaveland, founder of the city of Cleveland (d. 1806)
• 1782 - Daniel Auber, French composer (d. 1871)
• 1810 - Ernst Kummer, German mathematician (d. 1893)
• 1843 - William McKinley, 25th President of the United States (d. 1901)
• 1846 - Karol Olszewski, Polish scientist (d. 1915)
• 1860 - Anton Chekhov, Russian writer (d. 1904)
• 1862 - Frederick Delius, English composer (d. 1934)
• 1866 - Romain Rolland, French writer, Nobel Laureate (d. 1944)
• 1867 - Vicente Blasco Ibáñez, Spanish writer (d. 1928)
• 1874 - John D. Rockefeller Jr., American entrepreneur (d. 1960)
• 1876 - Havergal Brian, British composer (d. 1972)
• 1877 - Georges Catroux, French general (d. 1969)
• 1880 - W.C. Fields, American actor (d. 1946)
• 1891 - Elizaveta Gerdt, Russian ballerina (d. 1975)
• 1891 - R. Norris Williams, American tennis player, also a survivor of the RMS Titanic Disaster d. 1968)
• 1895 - Muna Lee, American poet (d. 1965)
• 1901 - Allen B. DuMont, American scientist and inventor (d. 1965)
• 1905 - Barnett Newman, American painter (d. 1970)
• 1910 - Colin Middleton, Irish artist (d. 1983)
• 1911 - Peter von Siemens, German industrialist (d. 1986)
• 1913 - Victor Mature, American actor (d. 1999)
• 1913 - Daniel Taradash, American screenwriter (d. 2003)
• 1913 - Peter von Zahn, German journalist and writer (d. 2001)
• 1915 - John Serry, American musician, composer, arranger (d. 2003)
• 1918 - John Forsythe, American actor
• 1920 - José Luis de Villalonga, Spanish aristocrat, author, and actor (d. 2007)
• 1921 - Anthony George, American actor (d. 2005)
• 1922 - Gerda Steinhoff, Nazi concetraation camp supervisor (d. 1946)
• 1923 - Paddy Chayefsky, American writer (d. 1981)
• 1923 - Ivo Robic, Croatian singer and songwriter (d. 2000)
• 1924 - Luigi Nono, Italian composer (d. 1990)
• 1924 - Marcelle Ferron, Quebec painter and stained glass artist (d. 2001)
• 1926 - Franco Cerri, Italian musician
• 1926 - Abdus Salam, Pakistani physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1996)
• 1927 - Edward Abbey, American author and environmentalist (d. 1989)
• 1928 - Lee Shau Kee, Hong Kong property developer
• 1929 - Gordon Solie, American professional wrestling announcer (d. 2000)
• 1930 - Derek Bailey, English guitar virtuoso (d. 2005)
• 1930 - John Junkin, English radio, television and film performer and scriptwriter (d. 2006)
• 1932 - Tommy Taylor, English footballer (d. 1958)
• 1932 - George Allen, English footballer
• 1933 - Sacha Distel, French singer and guitarist (d. 2004)
• 1933 - Ron Townson, American singer (The 5th Dimension) (d. 2001)
• 1936 - James Jamerson, American bass guitarist for Motown Records (d. 1983)
• 1939 - Germaine Greer, Australian writer
• 1940 - Katharine Ross, American actress
• 1940 - Kunimitsu Takahashi, Japanese motorcycle racer and racing driver
• 1942 - Claudine Longet, French singer, dancer and convicted murderer
• 1944 - Yoweri Museveni, President of Uganda
• 1945 - Jim Nicholson, Irish politician
• 1945 - Tom Selleck, American actor
• 1947 - Linda B. Buck, American scientist, Nobel laureate
• 1947 - David Byron, English singer (Uriah Heep) (d. 1985)
• 1947 - Marián Varga, Slovak musician
• 1948 - Cristina Saralegui, American talk-show host
• 1948 - Marc Singer, Canadian-born actor
• 1950 - Ann Jillian, American actress
• 1950 - Jody Scheckter, South African race car driver
• 1951 - Andy Roberts, West Indian cricketer
• 1952 - Tommy Ramone, Hungarian-born musician and record producer (The Ramones)
• 1953 - Hwang Woo-Suk, South Korean biomedical scientist
• 1953 - Teresa Teng, Taiwanese singer (d. 1995)
• 1953 - Lynne McGranger, Australian actress
• 1954 - Richard "Handsome Dick" Manitoba, American singer (The Dictators and MC5)
• 1954 - Terry Kinney, American actor
• 1954 - Oprah Winfrey, American producer, actress, talk show host, and publisher
• 1954 - Doug Risebrough, Canadian ice hockey player, coach and executive
• 1955 - Lynne McGranger, Australian actress
• 1957 - Grazyna Miller, Italian poet, translator, and journalist
• 1960 - Matthew Ashford, American actor
• 1960 - Gia Carangi, American model (d. 1986)
• 1960 - Sean Kerly, English field hockey player
• 1960 - Greg Louganis, American diver
• 1960 - Steve Sax, American baseball player
• 1960 - J. G. Thirlwell, Australian-born musician
• 1962 - Nicholas Turturro, American actor
• 1963 - Bob Holly, American professional wrestler
• 1964 - Andre Reed, American football player
• 1964 - John Habyan, American baseball player
• 1964 - Roddy Frame, lead singer of Scottish New Wave band Aztec Camera
• 1965 - Dominik Hašek, Czech ice hockey player
• 1965 - Peter Lundgren, Swedish tennis coach
• 1966 - Romário, Brazilian footballer
• 1967 - Cyril Suk, Czech tennis player
• 1968 - Edward Burns, American actor
• 1968 - Sora Jung, Korean actress
• 1969 - Thomas Jane, American actor
• 1969 - Hyde, Japanese singer
• 1970 - Heather Graham, American actress
• 1970 - Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore, Indian shooter
• 1970 - Jörg Hoffmann, German swimmer
• 1973 - Jason Schmidt, American baseball player
• 1975 - Sara Gilbert, American actress
• 1976 - Charles Divins, American model-turned-actor
• 1977 - Justin Hartley, American actor
• 1978 - Martin Schmitt, German ski jumper
• 1978 - Rob Bironas, American football player
• 1979 - April Scott, American actress and model
• 1979 - Sui Feifei, Chinese basketball player
• 1980 - Yael Bar-Zohar, Israeli actress and model
• 1981 - Jonny Lang, American musician
• 1981 - Álex Ubago, Spanish musician
• 1982 - Heidi Mueller, American actress
• 1983 - Nedžad Sinanović, Bosnian basketball player
• 1985 - Athina Onassis, French heiress
• 1985 - Marc Gasol, Spanish basketball player
• 1986 - Drew Tyler Bell, American actor
• 1986 - Mark Howard, English football player
• 1987 - Spencer Clark, American race car driver (d. 2006)
• 1987 - Matthew Wilson, English world rally driver
• 1991 - Hugh Grosvenor, Son of the British Duke of Westminster and heir-apparent to his father's estate
• 1993 - Michelle Larcher De Brito, Portuguese tennis player.
• 1996 - Megan Jossa, English actress

Deaths

• 1119 - Pope Gelasius II
• 1342 - Louis I (b. 1279)
• 1597 - Elias Ammerbach, German organist (b. 1530)
• 1608 - Frederick I (b. 1557)
• 1647 - Francis Meres, English writer (b. 1565)
• 1676 - Tsar Alexis I of Russia (b. 1629)
• 1678 - Jeronimo Lobo, Portuguese Jesuit missionary (b. 1593)
• 1696 - Ivan V, Russian tsar (b. 1666)
• 1706 - Charles Sackville, English poet and courtier (b. 1638)
• 1730 - Tsar Peter II of Russia (b. 1715)
• 1737 - George Hamilton, British soldier (b. 1666)
• 1743 - André-Hercule de Fleury, chief minister under Louis XV of France (b. 1653)
• 1763 - Louis Racine, French poet (b. 1692)
• 1820 - King George III of the United Kingdom (b. 1738)
• 1829 - Paul François Jean Nicolas Barras, French politician (b. 1755)
• 1870 - Leopold II (b. 1797)
• 1871 - Philippe-Joseph Aubert de Gaspé, French Canadian writer and Seigneur (b. 1786)
• 1899 - Alfred Sisley, British impressionist painter (b. 1839)
• 1901 - Milan I, King of Serbia (b. 1855)
• 1906 - King Christian IX of Denmark (b. 1818)
• 1918 - Aleksei Maksimovich Kaledin, Russian counter revolutionary (b. 1861)
• 1928 - Douglas Haig, British soldier (b. 1861)
• 1933 - Sara Teasdale, American poet (b. 1884)
• 1934 - Fritz Haber, German chemist, Nobel Laureate (b. 1868)
• 1941 - Ioannis Metaxas, Greek general and dictator (b. 1871)
• 1946 - Harry Hopkins, 8th United States Secretary of Commerce (b. 1890)
• 1948 - Tomislav II of Croatia, Italian aristocrat (b. 1900)
• 1950 - Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, Emir of Kuwait (b. 1885)
• 1951 - Frank Tarrant, Australian cricketer (b. 1880)
• 1956 - H. L. Mencken, American journalist (b. 1880)
• 1962 - Fritz Kreisler, Austrian violinist (b. 1875)
• 1963 - Robert Frost, American poet (b. 1874)
• 1964 - Alan Ladd, American actor (b. 1913)
• 1966 - Pierre Mercure, French Canadian composer (b. 1927)
• 1969 - Allen Dulles, American CIA director (b. 1893)
• 1970 - Basil Liddell Hart, British historian (b. 1895)
• 1977 - Buster Nupen, South African cricketer (b. 1902)
• 1977 - Freddie Prinze, American actor and comedian (b. 1954)
• 1980 - Jimmy Durante, American actor and comedian (b. 1893)
• 1986 - Leif Erickson, American actor (b. 1911)
• 1989 - Halina Konopacka, Polish athlete (b. 1900)
• 1991 - Yasushi Inoue, Japanese historian (b. 1907)
• 1993 - Willie Dixon, American composer and musician (b. 1915)
• 1994 - Ulrike Maier, Austrian alpine skier (b. 1967)
• 1998 - Joseph Alioto, mayor of San Francisco (b. 1916)
• 1999 - Lili St. Cyr, American dancer (b. 1918)
• 2002 - Dick "Night Train" Lane, American football player (b. 1928)
• 2002 - Harold Russell, Canadian-born actor (b. 1914)
• 2003 - Frank Moss, United States Senator from Utah (b. 1911)
• 2004 - M. M. Kaye, British writer (b. 1908)
• 2004 - Janet Frame, New Zealand writer (b. 1924)
• 2005 - Eric Griffiths, Welsh guitarist (The Quarrymen) (b. 1940)
• 2005 - Ephraim Kishon, Israeli satirst (b. 1924
• 2007 - Barbaro, American thoroughbred racehorse (b. 2003)
• 2007 - Dia Abdul Zahra Kadim, leader of the Iraqi cult Soldiers of Heaven (b. 1970)

Holidays and observances

• Roman Catholic saints - Valerius of Trèves, Saint Juniper
• January 29

External links

• BBC: On This Day
• The New York Times: On This Day

• On this day in Canada