Notable Historical Events on January 29th
January 29th Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
904 |
Sergius III comes out of retirement to take over the papacy from the deposed antipope Christopher. |
1523 |
Sermon of Constanz: Zwingli defends 67 Schlussreden |
1574 |
Sea battle of Reimerswaal - Admiral Boisot beats Spanish fleet |
1587 |
Deventer & Zutphen surrender to Spain |
1595 |
William Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet is probably first performed. First published early 1597 |
1676 |
Feodor III succeeds his father and becomes Tsar of Russia. |
1728 |
John Gays' "Beggar's Opera," premieres in London [NS=Feb 9] |
1732 |
Paris churchyard of Saint-Medard closed after Jansenistic ritual |
1781 |
Mozart's opera "Idomeneo" premieres, Munich |
1785 |
In a surprising announcement, John Hancock resigns as Governor of Massachusetts, allegedly due to his failing health |
1802 |
John Beckley of Virginia appointed first Librarian of Congress |
1834 |
President Jackson orders first use of US troops to suppress a labor dispute |
1840 |
First Governor of New Zealand and co-author of the Treaty of Waitangi Captain William Hobson arrives in the Bay of Islands, NZ |
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 valour in the face of the enemy (United Kingdom and Commonwealth countries) |
1860 |
American College established in Rome by Pope Pius IX |
1861 |
Kansas secedes from the Union (US Civil War) |
1863 |
Battle at Bear River, Washington: US army vs indians |
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 |
1891 |
Liliuokalani is proclaimed Queen of Hawaii, its last monarch. |
1895 |
King Koko's Kopermannen assault on Akassa Niger, 100's killed |
1896 |
Emile Grubbe is the first doctor to use radiation treatment for breast cancer |
1900 |
Boers under Joubert beat British at Spionkop Natal, 2,000 killed |
1900 |
American League organized in Buffalo, Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit, Indianapolis, Kansas City, Milwaukee & Minneapolis |
1903 |
Dutch railroad workers strike |
1904 |
1st athletic letters given (Univ of Chicago football team) |
1905 |
Tsar Nicolas II of Russia, unsettled by the rising violence and protest, enacts reforms to improve the conditions of workers; these changes will do little to stop disorder throughout Russia in ensuing months |
1906 |
Coen de King skates world record time: 32,370 km |
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 bombing of Paris by German Zeppelins takes place |
1917 |
British submarine K13 leaves Gaire Loch |
1920 |
Walt Disney starts work as an artist with KC Slide Co for $40 a week |
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 Liberal Party chooses David Lloyd George as leader |
1927 |
4th German government of Marx forms |
1929 |
Seeing Eye Guide Dog organization forms in USA |
1932 |
Test debut of Bill O'Reilly, vs South Africa at Adelaide |
1933 |
German president Paul von Hindenburg appoints Adolf Hitler as chancellor |
1936 |
1st players elected to Baseball Hall of Fame: Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth, Honus Wagner, Christy Mathewson & Walter Johnson |
1942 |
1st broadcast of Roy Plomley's "Desert Island Discs" on BBC |
1942 |
German & Italian troops occupy Banghazi, Libya |
1942 |
Peru & Ecuador sign Protocol of Rio (boundary determiniation) |
1943 |
New Zealand cruiser Kiwi collides with Japanese submarine I-1 at Guadalcanal |
1943 |
Sidney Kingsley's "Patriots," premieres in NYC |
1944 |
285 German bombers attack London |
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. |
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 each for signing high school players |
1949 |
Great Britain, Belgium, Luxembourg, Netherlands, New Zealand & Switzerland 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 |
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 of Columbus, later leaves structure to Rice University (1962) |
1956 |
F Durrenmatt's "Der Besuch der Alten Dame," premieres in Zurich |
1957 |
Graham Greene's "Potting Shed," premieres in NYC |
1958 |
Murderer, Charles Starkweather, captured by police in Wyoming |
1959 |
Walt Disney's "Sleeping Beauty" released |
1961 |
US female Figure Skating championship won by Laurence Owen |
1961 |
US male Figure Skating championship won by Bradley Lord |
1963 |
Jim Thorpe, Red Grange & George Halas elected to football Hall of Fame |
1964 |
9th Winter Olympic games open in Innsbruck, Austria |
1964 |
Beatles record in German "Komm, Gib Mir Deine Hand" & "Sie Liebt 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 |
1966 |
US female Figure Skating championship won by Peggy Fleming |
1966 |
US male Figure Skating championship won by Scott Allen |
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 |
Kees Verkerk becomes European skating champ |
1967 |
WDAZ TV channel 8 in Devils Lake, ND (ABC) begins broadcasting |
1968 |
Nauru (formerly Pleasant Island) adopts constitution |
1969 |
Jimi Hendrix & Peter Townshend wage a battle of guitars |
1969 |
Sheahan & Connolly hang on for exciting draw Australia v West 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 |
1974 |
27th NHL All-Star Game: West beat East 6-4 at Chicago |
1974 |
Kuwait announces 60 percent government participation in BP-Gulf concession |
1975 |
"Men on the Moon" opens at Little Theater NYC for 5 performances |
1975 |
First American Annual Comedy Awards, hosted by Alan King |
1975 |
West Indies 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 |
1978 |
Sweden outlaws aerosol sprays due to their harmful effect on the ozone layer, becoming the first nation to enact such a ban. |
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 |
Cleveland Cavaliers beat LA Lakers 154-153 in quadruple OT |
1981 |
AL approves sale of White Sox to Jerry Reinsdorf & Eddie Einhorn 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 |
NFL Pro Bowl: NFC beats AFC 45-3 |
1984 |
President Reagan formally announces he will seek a 2nd term |
1984 |
Silvia Bertolaccini wins LPGA Mazda Golf Classic of Deer Creek |
1985 |
Jari Kurri of Edmonton Oilers scores 100th pt of season in game 39 |
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 |
Canadian Ben Johnson breaks own 50-yard dash world record at 5.15 |
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 |
Dottie Mochrie wins Oldsmobile LPGA Golf Classic |
1989 |
Dow jumps 38.06 recoups 508-pt loss since Oct 1987; index at 2,256.43 |
1989 |
Episcopal Church of the United States appoints Barbara Harris as its first female bishop |
1989 |
L I preacher Gene Profeta pleads guilty to tax-evasion |
1989 |
NFL Pro Bowl: NFC beats AFC 34-3 |
1989 |
Orlando Arena opens |
1989 |
USSR's Phobos II enters Martian orbit |
1989 |
Game-winning RBI, official statistic dropped after 9 years of use NY Mets Keith Hernandez is the all-time leader with 129 |
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 and 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 |
Super Bowl XXIX: SF 49ers beat San Diego Chargers, 49-26 in Miami, MVP: Steve Young, San Francisco, QB |
1996 |
23rd American Music Award: Garth Brooks wins |
1996 |
Last day of Test cricket for David Boon |
1996 |
6,138th performance of "Cats" is held in London, surpassing record of Broadway's longest-running musical, "A Chorus Line" |
1996 |
La Fenice, Venice's opera house, is destroyed by fire. |
1998 |
"Capeman," opens at Marquis Theater NYC |
1998 |
Singers Bobby Brown found guiilty of DWI in Fort Lauderdale, Florida |
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 |
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. |
2002 |
The San Diego Chargers hire Marty Schottenheimer as their 13th head coach |
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. |
2007 |
Ken Dryden's #29 jersey is retired by the Montreal Canadiens |
2012 |
NFL Pro Bowl: AFC beats NFC 59-41 |
2014 |
Archaeologists discover the oldest Roman Temple (6th C BC) at Sant'Omobono |
2014 |
Scientists discover how to convert normal cells into stem cells in mice |
2014 |
Bohuslav Sobotka becomes Prime Minister of the Czech Republic |
2016 |
Bank of Japan introduces negative interest rates |
2016 |
State Department will not release 22 'top secret' Clinton emails |
2017 |
Trump says new order on refugees is not a Muslim ban |
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