This Day in History
29 Jan 1258
Mongols defeated by Dai Viet at the battle of Dong Bo Dau
29 Jan 1523
Sermon of Constanz Zwingli defends 67 Schlussreden
29 Jan 1574
Sea battle of Reimerswaal - Admiral Boisot beats Spanish fleet
29 Jan 1676
Feodor III succeeds his father and becomes Tsar of Russia
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King George III dies
Ten years after mental illness forced him to retire from public life King George III the British king who lost the American colonies dies at the age of 82.In...
Divided Kansas enters the Union
The territory of Kansas is admitted into the Union as the 34th state or the 28th state if the secession of eight Southern states over the previous six weeks is...
Deng Xiaoping and Jimmy Carter sign accords
On January 29 1979 Deng Xiaoping deputy premier of China meets President Jimmy Carter and together they sign historic new accords that reverse decades of U...
William McKinley, first U.S. president to ride in a car, is born
On this day in 1843 William McKinley who will become the 25th American president and the first to ride in an automobile is born in Niles Ohio. McKinley serv...
U.S. Baseball Hall of Fame elects first members
On January 29 1936 the U.S. Baseball Hall of Fame elects its first members in Cooperstown New York Ty Cobb Babe Ruth Honus Wagner Christy Matthewson and ...
German lieutenant Erwin Rommel leads daring mission in France
On January 29 1915 in the Argonne region of France German lieutenant Erwin Rommel leads his company in the daring capture of four French block-houses the st...
President Johnson requests additional funds
In his annual budget message President Lyndon B. Johnson asks for 26.3 billion to continue the Vietnam War and announces an increase in taxes. The war was b...
Baseball Hall of Fame inducts first members
On this day in 1936 in Cooperstown New York the Baseball Hall of Fame announces the election of five charter members Ty Cobb Babe Ruth Honus Wagner Chris...
William McKinley is born
On this day in 1843 future President William McKinley is born in Niles Ohio. McKinley fought bravely as a Union infantryman in the Civil War and was awarded a...
Jackson sends troops to put down labor riot
On this day in 1834 Andrew Jackson becomes the first president to use federal troops to quell labor unrest. Workers building the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal were...
Edward Abbey is born
Uncompromising environmentalist and author Edward Abbey is born in Home Pennsylvania.A self-proclaimed enemy of the modern military-industrial state...
Peter, Paul and Mary sign their first recording contract
Peter Paul and Mary didnt revolutionize folk music the way Bob Dylan did. Dylans songwriting fundamentally altered and then ultimately transcen...
The Raven is published
Edgar Allan Poes famous poem The Raven beginning Once upon a midnight dreary is published on this day in the New York Even...
Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward marry
One of Hollywoods most enduring marriages begins on this day in 1958 when Paul Newman weds Joanne Woodward in Las Vegas Nevada.The two actors first me...
Theater collapses in Washington, D.C.
Accumulated snowfall from a blizzard collapses the Knickerbocker Theatre in Washington D.C. on this day in 1922.The blizzard formed in the Carolinas on Januar...
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