Historical Events on January 29

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• 661 Rashidun Caliphate, then the largest empire in history, ends with the death of its leader, Ali. Succeeded by the Umayyad Caliphate.
• 904 Sergius III comes out of retirement to take over the papacy from the deposed antipope Christopher

• 1258 Mongols defeated by Dai Viet at the battle of Dong Bo Dau
• 1523 Sermon of Constanz: Zwingli defends 67 Schlussreden
• 1574 Sea battle of Reimerswaal - Admiral Boisot beats Spanish fleet
• 1587 Deventer and Zutphen surrender to Spain

• 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

• 1802 John Beckley of Virginia appointed first Librarian of Congress

• 1814 War of the Sixth Coalition: Russia and Prussia are defeated by France in the Battle of Brienne


• 1834 President Jackson orders first use of US troops to suppress a labor dispute

• 1848 Sicily accepts new Constitution (choose parliament/freedom of press)

• 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 US state of Kansas admitted to the Union as the 34th state
• 1863 Bear River Massacre: American soldiers slaughter hundreds of Native Americans at the confluence of the Bear River and Beaver Creek in present day Idaho
• 1872 Francis L Cardoza elected State Treasurer of South Carolina

• 1891 Liliuokalani is proclaimed Queen of Hawaii, its last monarch
• 1892 The Coca-Cola Company is incorporated in Atlanta, Georgia
• 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 and Minneapolis
• 1903 Dutch railroad workers strike
• 1904 1st athletic letters given (University of Chicago football team)

• 1906 Coen de King skates a world record 32,370m in one hour
• 1907 Charles Curtis becomes U.S. Senator from Kansas, first Native American to become a Senator
• 1908 Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, at Cornell University, incorporates
• 1912 Martial law declared in textile strike in Lawrence, Massachusetts
• 1913 Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, at Howard University, incorporates
• 1916 1st bombing of Paris by German Zeppelins takes place
• 1917 British submarine K13 sank in Gaire Loch, Scotland; 32 of her crew died
• 1918 Ukrainian-Soviet War: Battle of Kruty

• 1921 Hurricane hits Washington & Oregon
• 1922 Union of Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras and 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
• 1924 Swiss team of Denis Vaucher (C), Alfred Aufdenblatten, Antoine Julen & Alfons Julen win the military patrol gold medal at the Chamonix Winter Olympics; first version of the biathlon

• 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

• 1940 Australian Championships Women's Tennis: Nancye Wynne Bolton wins her 2nd Australian singles titles; beats Thelma Coyne 5-7, 6-4, 6-0
• 1940 Australian Championships men's Tennis: Australian Adrian Quist beats countryman Jack Crawford 6-3, 6-1, 6-2 for his 2nd Australian title
• 1941 Alexandros Koryzis becomes Prime Minister of Greece
• 1942 1st broadcast of Roy Plomley's "Desert Island Discs" on BBC radio
• 1942 German & Italian troops occupy Benghazi, Libya
• 1942 Peru and Ecuador sign Protocol of Rio (boundary determination)
• 1943 New Zealand cruiser Kiwi collides with Japanese submarine I-1 at Guadalcanal
• 1943 Sidney Kingsley's "Patriots" premieres in NYC
• 1943 U.S. cruiser "Chicago" is heavily damaged by Japanese bombers on the first day of the Battle of Rennell Island
• 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
• 1946 Australian Championships Women's Tennis: Nancye Wynne Bolton beats Joyce Fitch 6-4, 6-4 for her 3rd Australian singles crown
• 1946 Australian Championships Men's Tennis: John Bromwich wins his 2nd Australian title; beats fellow Australian Dinny Pails 5-7, 6-3, 7-5, 3-6, 6-2

• 1947 Australian Championships Women's Tennis: Nancye Wynne Bolton wins 3rd consecutive Australian singles crown; beats Nell Hall Hopman 6-3, 6-2
• 1947 Australian Championships Men's Tennis: Dinny Pails beats fellow Australian John Bromwich 4-6, 6-4, 3-6, 7-5, 8-6 for his only Grand Slam title
• 1948 "Look Ma, I'm Dancin'" opens at Adelphi Theater NYC for 188 performances
• 1948 Commissioner Happy Chandler fines the Yankees, Cubs and Phillies $500 each for signing high school players
• 1948 Pakistan Socialist Party is founded
• 1949 Great Britain, Belgium, Luxembourg, Netherlands, New Zealand and 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

• 1955 John Williams Cox buys Yankee Stadium, sells grounds to Knights of Columbus, later leaves structure to Rice University (1962)
• 1956 Friedrich Durrenmatt's "Der Besuch der Alten Dame" premieres in Zurich

• 1958 Murderer, Charles Starkweather, captured by police in Wyoming
• 1959 Walt Disney's "Sleeping Beauty" released
• 1959 'The Great Smog' hits London, many die of chest and lung-related illnesses
• 1961 US female Figure Skating championship won by Laurence Owen
• 1961 US male Figure Skating championship won by Bradley Lord

• 1964 IX 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 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 performances
• 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 (NBC) begins broadcasting
• 1967 The Arusha Declaration written by Tanzanian President Julius Nyerere is issued, clarifying Tanzania's path towards Ujamaa (African socialism)
• 1968 Nauru (formerly Pleasant Island) adopts constitution

• 1968 Australian Championships Men's Tennis: Australian Bill Bowrey wins his first and only Grand Slam title; beats Juan Gisbert Sr. of Spain 7-5, 2-6, 9-7, 6-4

• 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, Chicago Stadium: Western Division beats Eastern Division, 6-4; MVP: Garry Unger, St. Louis, C
• 1974 Kuwait announces 60 percent government participation in BP-Gulf concession
• 1974 1974 NFL Draft: Ed Jones from Tennessee State first pick by Dallas Cowboys
• 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 win an exciting series 3-2


• 1976 Zeiss planetarium in Hague destroyed by fire
• 1976 Bombs set off in London's West End by the IRA; 1 person is injured

• 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 Brenda Spencer kills 2, inspires Boomtown Rats "I Don't Like Mondays"

• 1979 Emerson, Lake & Palmer disband after 10 years together
• 1979 NFL Pro Bowl, LA Memorial Coliseum: NFC beats AFC, 13-7; MVP: Ahmad Rashād, Minnesota Vikings, WR

• 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 Louisiana Tech's women's basketball record 54-game winning streak
• 1982 Wayne Garland, baseball 1st millionaire free agent, waived by Indians
• 1983 "Down Under" by Men At Work hits #1 on UK pop chart

• 1984 NFL Pro Bowl, Aloha Stadium, Honolulu, HI: NFC beats AFC, 45-3; MVP: Joe Theismann, Washington Redskins, QB

• 1986 193.8 million shares traded in NY Stock Exchange
• 1986 Yoweri Museveni sworn in as President of Uganda

• 1987 The president of the Philippines puts down a rebellion against their government in Manila
• 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 Second largest NBA crowd in history; Boston Celtics at Pontiac Silverdome, Detroit (61,938); Pistons win, 125-108
• 1988 United Airlines Boeing 747SP, circles world in 36h54m15s


• 1988 Detroit Pistons draw a then NBA regular season record crowd of 61,983 fans to the Pontiac Silverdome for a 125-108 win over the Boston Celtics
• 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 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, Aloha Stadium, Honolulu, HI: NFC beats AFC, 34-3; MVP: Randall Cunningham, Philadelphia Eagles, QB
• 1989 Orlando Arena opens in Orlando, Florida
• 1989 USSR's Phobos II enters Martian orbit

• 1989 5th Sundance Film Festival: "True Love" wins Grand Jury Prize Dramatic
• 1990 Exxon Valdez capt Joseph Hazelwood goes on trial due to oil spill
• 1991 "Piano Lesson" closes at Walter Kerr Theater NYC after 320 performances

• 1991 The Battle of Khafji begins, the first major ground engagement of the Gulf War
• 1993 Test debut of Vinod Kambli, prolific Indian batsman

• 1994 Frankie Randall beats Mexican boxing legend Julio César Chávez by split decision to win WBC super lightweight title at MGM Grand, Las Vegas; Chavez's 1st knockdown of career in 11th and 1st loss in 91 pro fights
• 1995 Greg Blewett scores century on Test debut vs England, Adelaide
• 1995 Super Bowl XXIX, Joe Robbie Stadium, Miami, FL: San Francisco 49ers beat San Diego Chargers, 49-26; MVP: Steve Young, SF, QB

• 1995 11th Sundance Film Festival: "The Brothers McMullen" and "The Young Poisoner's Handbook" (tie) win Grand Jury Prize Dramatic

• 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 and Netherlands, 6 die
• 1998 Woman's Clinic in Birmingham Alabama bombed, 1 killed
• 2000 Australian Open Women's Tennis: American Lindsay Davenport claims her 3rd and final career Grand Slam title; beats Martina Hingis 6-1, 7-5

• 2001 Thousands of student protesters in Indonesia storm parliament and demand that President Abdurrahman Wahid resign due to alleged involvement in corruption scandals.

• 2002 "Foolish" single released by Ashanti (Billboard Song of the Year 2002)
• 2003 Sally Clark cleared of murdering her 2 sons after more than 3 years of prison in what was a life sentence
• 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.
• 2005 Australian Open Women's Tennis: In an all-American final Serena Williams wins her 2nd Australian title; beats Lindsay Davenport 2-6, 6-3, 6-0

• 2006 22nd Sundance Film Festival: "Quinceanera", directed by Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland, wins Grand Jury Prize Dramatic

• 2006 Irfan Pathan becomes first bowler to take a Test cricket hat-trick in the opening over of a match

• 2009 Rod Blagojevich, the Governor of Illinois, is removed from office after being convicted of corruption charges
• 2011 Australian Open Women's Tennis: Kim Clijsters wins her 4th and final Grand Slam title; beats Li Na of China 3-6, 6-3, 6-3
• 2012 NFL Pro Bowl, Aloha Stadium, Honolulu, HI: AFC beats NFC, 59-41; MVP: Brandon Marshall, Miami Dolphins, WR

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