Day: January 29, 2012

Updated January 28, 2012, 1:28 pm

On Jan. 29, 1963, poet Robert Frost died in Boston.

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On Jan. 29, 1843, William McKinley, the 25th president of the United States, was born. Following an assassination attempt on Sept. 6, 1901, his biography appeared in The Times. He died from the wounds eight days later.

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On This Date

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1820	Britain’s King George III died insane at Windsor Castle.
1843	William McKinley, the 25th president of the United States, was born in Niles, Ohio.
1845	Edgar Allan Poe’s poem “The Raven” was first published, in the New York Evening Mirror.
1850	Henry Clay introduced in the Senate a compromise bill on slavery that included the admission of California into the Union as a free state.
1860	Russian author and playwright Anton Chekhov was born in the port city of Taganrog.
1861	Kansas became the 34th state of the Union.
1900	The American League, consisting of eight baseball teams, was organized in Philadelphia.
1936	The first five members of baseball’s Hall of Fame, including Ty Cobb and Babe Ruth, were named in Cooperstown, N.Y.
1958	Actors Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward were married.
1963	Poet Robert Frost died at age 88.
1979	President Jimmy Carter welcomed Chinese Vice Premier Deng Xiaoping to the White House following the establishment of diplomatic relations.
1995	The San Francisco 49ers became the first team to win five Super Bowl titles when they beat the San Diego Chargers 49-26 in Super Bowl XXIX.
1998	A bomb exploded at an abortion clinic in Birmingham, Ala., killing an off-duty policeman and severely wounding a nurse. (The bomber, Eric Rudolph, was captured in May 2003 and is serving a life sentence.)
2006	ABC “World News Tonight” co-anchor Bob Woodruff and a cameraman were seriously injured in a roadside bombing in Iraq.
2009	The Illinois Senate voted to remove Gov. Rod Blagojevich from office.
2010	Abortion opponent Scott Roeder was convicted of murder by a jury in Wichita, Kan., in the shooting death of Dr. George Tiller, one of the only doctors to offer late-term abortions in the U.S.
2011	With protests raging, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak named his intelligence chief, Omar Suleiman, as his first-ever vice president as chaos engulfed Cairo.

Current Birthdays

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Talk show host Oprah Winfrey turns 58 years old today.

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House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan, R-Wis., turns 42 years old today.

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1940	Katharine Ross, Actress, turns 72
1945	Tom Selleck, Actor (“Magnum P.I.”), turns 67
1950	Ann Jillian, Actress, turns 62
1956	Irlene Mandrell, Country singer, turns 56
1958	Judy Norton Taylor, Actress (“The Waltons”), turns 54
1960	Greg Louganis, Olympic gold-medal diver, turns 52
1962	Nicholas Turturro, Actor (“NYPD Blue”), turns 50
1965	Dominik Hasek, Hockey player, turns 47
1968	Edward Burns, Actor, director, turns 44
1970	Heather Graham, Actress, turns 42
1975	Sara Gilbert, Actress (“Roseanne,” “The Big Bang Theory”), turns 37
1981	Jonny Lang, Blues musician, turns 31

 

Historic Birthdays

William McKinley 1/29/1843 – 9/14/1901 America’s 25th President.Go to obituary »

84	Emanuel Swedenborg 1/29/1688 – 3/29/1772 Swedish scientist/Christian mystic
80	Jeffery Amherst 1/29/1717 – 8/3/1797 English/American army commander
72	Thomas Paine 1/29/1737 – 6/8/1809 English/American political pamphleteer
62	Henry Lee 1/29/1756 – 3/25/1818 American Revolutionary War officer
44	Anton Chekhov 1/29/1860 – 7/15/1904 Russian playwright
72	Frederick Delius 1/29/1862 – 6/10/1934 English/French composer
78	Romain Rolland 1/29/1866 – 12/30/1944 French novelist/dramatist
86	John D. Rockefeller, Jr. 1/29/1874 – 5/11/1960 American philanthropist
68	Barney Oldfield 1/29/1878 – 10/4/1946 American race car driver
66	W.C. Fields 1/29/1880 – 12/25/1946 American comedian
58	Paddy Chayefsky 1/29/1923 – 8/1/1981 American playwright/screenwriter