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Jan 16, 2009
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Thursday, January 29, 2009

This will be 29th day of the year and 336 days will remain in the year.


January 29 Birthdays

William McKinley
1843–1901, American President.

Emanuel Swedenborg
scientist, religious teacher (1688)

 Jeffrey Amherst
army officer (1717)

 Thomas Paine
political theorist and writer (1737)

 Anton Chekhov
writer (1860)

 Frederick Delius
composer (1862)

 John D. Rockefeller, Jr.
philanthropist (1874)

 W. C. Fields
actor (1880)

 Edward Abbey
writer (1927)

 Tom Selleck
actor (1945)

 Oprah Winfrey
T.V. personality (1954)

 Greg Louganis
diver (1960)

January 29 in History

1802

John Beckley became the first Librarian of Congress. He was paid $2 a day.

1845

Edgar Allan Poe's The Raven was published.

1850

Henry Clay introduced the Compromise of 1850 to the Senate.

1861

Kansas became the 34th state in the United States.

1886

Karl Benz received a patent for the first successful gasoline-driven car.

1936

Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth, Honus Wagner, Christy Mathewson, and Walter Johnson were the first players elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York.

1963

Poet Robert Frost died in Boston.

2002

In his State of the Union address, President Bush labels Iraq, Iran, and North Korea an "axis of evil."

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Note: Dates in the Islamic calendar are provided for planning purposes only, and calculated with the hdate Islamic calendar program for moonrise in Boston, Masschusetts. Depending on your location and other factors, this result may differ from actual religious observances by one day. Please consult your local religious authority for any religious determinations of hejiric date.

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