Historical Events and Current Affairs on January 29

1523: Sermon of Constanz: Zwingli defends 67 Schlussreden
1574: Sea battle of Reimerswaal - Admiral Boisot beats Spanish fleet
1587: Deventer & Zutphen surrender to Spain
1613: Galileo observes Neptune but fails to recognize what he sees
1676: Fjodor Aleksejevitsj becomes czar of Russia
1728: John Gays' "Beggar's Opera," premieres in London [NS=Feb 9]
1732: Paris churchyard Saint-M‚dard closed after Jansenistic ritual
1781: Mozart's opera "Idomeneo" premieres, Munich
1788: Australia Day
1802: John Beckley of Virginia appointed 1st Librarian of Congress
1834: Pres Jackson orders 1st use of US troops to suppress a labor dispute
1839: Charles Darwin marries Emma Wedgwood
1845: Edgar Allen Poe's "Raven" 1st published (NYC)
1848: Sicily accepts new Constitution (choose parliament/freedom of press)
1850: Henry Clay introduces a comprise bill on slavery to US Senate
1856: Victoria Cross established to acknowledge bravery
1860: American College established in Rome by Pope Pius IX
1861: Kansas becomes 34th state
1863: Battle at Bear River, Washington: US army vs indians
1864: Battle of Moorefield, WV (Rosser's Raid)
1872: Francis L Cardoza elected State Treasurer of South Carolina
1879: Custer Battlefield National Monument, Mont established
1886: 1st successful gasoline-driven car patented, Karl Benz, Karlsruhe
1895: King Koko's Kopermannen assault on Akassa Niger, 100's killed
1896: Emile Grubbe is 1st dr to use radiation treatment for breast cancer
1900: American League organized in Buffalo, Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit,
1900: Boers under Joubert beat English at Spionkop Natal, 2,000 killed
1900: Indianapolis, Kansas City, Milwaukee & Minneapolis
1903: Dutch railroad workers strike
1904: 1st athletic letters given (Univ of Chicago football team)
1908: Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, at Cornell University, incorporates
1912: Martial law declared in textile strike in Lawrence, MA
1913: Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, at Howard University, incorporates
1916: 1st bombings of Paris by German Zeppelins takes place
1917: English submarine K13 leaves Gaire Loch
1919: Secretary of state proclaims 18th amendment (prohibition)
1920: Walt Disney starts 1st job as an artist; $40 week with KC Slide Co
1921: Hurricane hits Washington & Oregon
1922: Union of Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras & El Salvador dissolved
1923: 1st flight of autogiro (Juan de la Cierva, Madrid Spain)
1924: Ice cream cone rolling machine patented by Carl Taylor, Cleveland
1925: British Liberals choose David Lloyd George as party leader
1927: 4th German govt of Marx forms
1929: Seeing Eye Guide Dog Organization forms
1932: #1968 Mehltretter, #2485 & #2942
1932: Test debut of Bill O'Reilly, vs South Africa at Adelaide
1933: German president von Hindenburg appoints Hitler chancellor
1936: 1st players elected to Baseball Hall of Fame-Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth,
1936: Honus Wagner, Christy Mathewson & Walter Johnson
1942: 1st broadcast of Roy Plomley's "Desert Island Discs" on BBC
1942: German & Italian troops occupy Banghazi
1942: Peru & Ecuador sign Protocol of Rio (boundary determiniation)
1943: New Zealand's Kiwi cruiser collides with Jap sub I-1 at Guadalcanal
1943: Sidney Kingsley's "Patriots," premieres in NYC
1944: 285 German bombers attack London
1947: Arthur Miller's "All My Sons," premieres in NYC
1948: "Look Ma, I'm Dancin'" opens at Adelphi Theater NYC for 188 perfs
1948: Commissioner Happy Chandler fines the Yankees, Cubs, & Phillies $500
1948: each for signing high school players
1949: Brit, Belgium, Lux, Neth, NZ & Switz recognize Israel
1951: "Where's Charley?" opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 56 performances
1951: Baseball signs 6 year All-Star pact for TV-radio rights for $6 million
1951: Liz Taylor's 1st divorce (Conrad Hilton Jr)
1953: 1st movie in Cinemascope (The Robe) premieres
1954: Arnold Schoenberg's "De Profundis," premieres in Cologne
1955: John Williams Cox buys Yankee Stadium, sells grounds to Knights
1955: of Columbus, later leaves structure to Rice University (1962)
1956: F Drrenmatt's "Der Besuch der Alten Dame," premieres in Zrich
1957: Graham Greene's "Potting Shed," premieres in NYC
1958: Murderer, Charles Starkweather, captured by police in Wyoming
1958: Paul Newman & Joanne Woodward wed
1959: Walt Disney's "Sleeping Beauty" released
1963: Jim Thorpe, Red Grange & George Halas elected to football hall of fame
1964: Beatles record in German "Komm, Gib Mir Diene Hand" & "Sie Leibt Dich"
1964: Most lopsided high-school basketball score 211-29 (Louisiana)
1964: NBC purchases AFL 5 year (1965-69) TV rights for $36 million
1964: Stanley Kubrick's"Dr Strangelove," premieres
1964: Unmanned Apollo 1 Saturn launcher test attains Earth orbit
1966: "Sweet Charity" opens at Palace Theater NYC for 608 performances
1966: Lawry & Simpson complete 244 opening stand v England, Adelaide
1966: Snow storm in north east US kills 165
1967: "Let's Sing Yiddish" closes at Brooks Atkinson NYC after 107 perfs
1967: Branch Rickey & Lloyd Waner elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
1967: WDAZ TV channel 8 in Devils Lake, ND (ABC) begins broadcasting
1968: Nauru adopts constitution
1969: Jimi Hendrix & Peter Townshend wage a battle of guitars
1969: Sheahan & Connolly hang on for exciting draw Aust v W Indies
1970: USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1971: Test debut of Dennis Keith Lillee, v England at Adelaide
1972: 5th ABA All-Star Game: East 142 beats West 115 at Louisville
1975: "Men on the Moon" opens at Little Theater NYC for 5 performances
1975: 1st Annual Comedy Awards of the Year hosted by Alan King
1975: W I win Fifth Test against India to take exciting series 3-2
1976: Zeiss planetarium in Hague destroyed by fire
1978: Joanne Carner wins Colgate Triple Crown Match-Play Golf Championship
1979: 9th AFC-NFC pro bowl, NFC wins 13-7
1979: Brenda Spencer kills 2, inspires Boomtown Rats "I Don't Like Mondays"
1979: Chinese vice-premier Deng Xiaoping visits Washington, DC
1979: Emerson, Lake & Palmer disband after 10 years together
1979: NFL Pro Bowl: NFC beats AFC 13-7
1979: Pres Carter commuted Patricia Hearst's 7 year sentence to 2 years
1980: 6 Iranian held US hostages escape with help of Canadians
1980: Cleve Cavaliers beat LA Lakers 154-153 in quadruple OT
1981: AL approves sale of White Sox to Jerry Reinsdorf & Eddie Einhorn
1981: for $20 million, & 80% of Mariners to George Argyros for $104 million
1982: Old Dominion ends La Tech's women's basketball rec 54-game win streak
1982: Wayne Garland, baseball 1st millionaire free agent, waived by Indians
1983: "Down Under" by Men At Work hit #1 on UK pop chart
1983: 40th Golden Globes: Gandhi, ET & Tootsie win
1984: 34th NBA All-Star Game: East beats West 154-145 (OT) at Denver
1984: Actress Lynda Carter (Wonder Woman) marries Robert Altman
1984: NFL Pro Bowl: NFC beats AFC 45-3
1984: Pres Reagan formally announces he will seek a 2nd term
1984: Space Shuttle 41-B (STS-11) Challenger launched
1985: Jari Kurri of Edmonton Oilers scores 100th pt of season in game 39
1985: pop stars in LA record "We Are The World"
1986: 193.8 million shares traded in NY Stock Exchange
1986: Yoweri Museveni sworn in as president of Uganda
1987: Lisa files for separation from husband NY Met Darryl Strawberry
1987: William J Casey, ends term as 13th director of CIA
1988: Detroit's Kirk Gibson signs a 3-year contract with Dodgers
1988: Largest NBA crowd-Boston Celtics at Detroit (61,938)
1988: United Airlines Boeing 747SP, circles world in 36h54m15s
1989: 77th Australian Men Tennis: Ivan Lendl beats Miloslav Mecir (62 62 62)
1989: Cleveland's Chris Dudley misses 5 free throws during 1 foul attempt
1989: Dow jumps 38.06 recoups 508-pt loss since Oct 1987; index at 2,256.43
1989: Episcopal church appoints 1st female bishop
1989: Game-winning RBI, official statistic dropped after 9 years of use
1989: L I preacher Gene Profeta pleads guilty to tax-evasion
1989: NFL Pro Bowl: NFC beats AFC 34-3
1989: NY Mets Keith Hernandez is the all-time leader with 129
1989: Orlando Arena opens
1989: USSR's Phobos II enters Martian orbit
1990: Exxon Valdez capt Joseph Hazelwood goes on trial due to oil spill
1991: "Piano Lesson" closes at Walter Kerr Theater NYC after 320 perfs
1991: Nelson Mandela & Mangosuthu Buthelezi meet after 28 years
1993: Test debut of Vinod Kambli, prolific Indian batsman
1995: Andre Agassi defeats Pete Sampras to win Australian Open
1995: Greg Blewett scores century on Test debut vs England, Adelaide
1995: Superbowl MVP: Steve Young, San Francisco, QB
1995: Superbowl XXIX: SF 49ers beat SD Chargers, 49-26 in Miami
1996: 23rd American Music Award: Garth Brooks wins
1996: 6,138th performance of "Cats" is held in London, surpassing record
1996: of Broadway's longest-running musical, "A Chorus Line"
1998: "Capeman," opens at Marquis Theater NYC
1998: Singers Bobby Brown found guiilty of DWI in Ft Lauderdale Fla
1998: Soyuz TM-27 launches to MIR
1998: Thick Fog causes highway carnage in Belgium & Netherlands, 6 die
1998: Woman's Clinic in Birmingham Ala bombed, 1 killed

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