January 29......

January 29 is the 29th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 336 (337 in leap years) days remaining in the year on this date.

{Disclaimer: I have attempted to give credit to the many different sources that I get entries. Any failure to do so is unintentional. Any statement enclosed by brackets like these are the opinion of the blogger, A Proud Liberal.}

EVENTS

● 904 - Sergius III comes out of retirement to take over the papacy from the deposed antipope Christopher.

● 993 - St. Ulrich, who lived c.890-973, and was Bishop of Augsburg from 923, was canonized at a Lateran Synod. With this action by Pope John XV, St. Ulrich became the first individual in Roman Catholic history formally elevated to sainthood.

● 1499 - Birth of Katherine von Bora, the former German nun who became Martin Luther's wife in 1525 when he was 41 and she 26. During their 21-year marriage, Katie bore Martin 3 sons and 3 daughters. Her death in 1552 followed six years after her husband's in 1546.

● 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.

● 1613 - Galileo observes Neptune but fails to recognize what he sees

● 1676 - Feodor III (Fjodor Aleksejevitsj) becomes Tsar of Russia.

● 1732 - Paris churchyard Saint-Médard closed after Jansenistic ritual

● 1737 - Thomas Paine, radical writer, born, Thetford, Britain. Will die in obscurity, still a revolutionary.

● 1780 - Pioneer American Methodist bishop Francis Asbury wrote in his journal: 'My soul is more at rest from the tempter when I am busily employed.'

● 1788 - Australia Day

● 1802 - John Beckley of Virginia appointed 1st Librarian of Congress

● 1814 - France defeats Russia and Prussia in the Battle of Brienne.

● 1820 - Britain's King George III died insane at Windsor Castle.

● 1834 - US President Andrew Jackson orders first use of federal soldiers to suppress a labor dispute.

● 1839 - Charles Darwin marries Emma Wedgwood

● 1843 - William McKinley , the 25th president of the United States , was born in Niles, Ohio.

● 1845 - The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe is published in the New York Evening Mirror.

● 1848 - Greenwich Mean Time was adopted by Scotland.

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

● 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.

● 1856 - Leschi, chief of the Nisqually and Yakama, leads 1,000 warriors in an attack on the town of Seattle. The attack is repulsed by naval forces in the harbor.

● 1856 - Britain's highest military decoration, the Victoria Cross, was founded by Queen Victoria.

● 1860 - American College established in Rome by Pope Pius IX

● 1861 - Kansas admitted as the 34th U.S. state.

● 1863 - Col. P.E. Connor surprises Bannock and Shoshone Indians in camp on Bear River, Utah; 400 massacred in four hours.

● 1864 - Battle of Moorefield WV (Rosser's Raid)

● 1872 - Francis L Cardoza elected State Treasurer of South Carolina

● 1879 - Custer Battlefield National Monument, Montana established

● 1885 - Congress rejects Central American canal treaty with Nicaragua.

● 1886 - Birth of Romain Rolland (1866-1944), author and pacifist, France. Won 1915 Nobel Prize.

● 1886 - Karl Benz patents the first successful gasoline-driven automobile.

● 1889 - Six thousand railway workers strike for union and end of 18-hour day.

● 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 1st doctor to use radiation treatment for breast cancer

● 1900 - The American League is organized in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania with 8 founding teams.

● 1900 - Boers under Joubert beat English at Spionkop Natal, 2,000 killed

● 1903 - Dutch railroad workers strike

● 1908 - Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, at Cornell University, incorporates

● 1910 - Birth of Maurice Joyeux, outstanding figure of French anarchism. In and out of prison for his activities, including the Committee of the Unemployed, l'Union Anarchiste, factory occupations, prison revolt.

● 1911 - The Mexican liberal party of anarchist Ricardo Flores Magon goes on the offense. The town of Mexicali is taken, under control of Simon Berthold and Jose Maria Leyva. Tijuana falls next, and the revolution extends to the other states. The Magonistes were joined by many internationalists, revolutionaries, and members of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) who came to help. Under the rallying cry of "Tierra y Libertad," the "commune of Lower California" attempts a libertarian communist experiment - abolition of property, collective work of the land, cooperative groups of producers, etc. Five months later, in late June, revolutionary opportunist Francisco Madero, with the support of the American government, sends troops to crush them. The Magonistes are routed from Tijuana, and are trapped by the American army when they attempt to take refuge in the U.S. This libertarian revolution remains little-known, eclipsed by the exploits of Villa and Zapata.

● 1912 - During the Bread & Roses Strike in Lawrence, Massachusetts, police kill Anna LoPizzo. Nineteen witnesses see an officer named Benoit fire the fatal shot, but strike leaders Joseph Ettor and Arturo Giovannitti, three miles away at the time, are arrested and held for eight months as accessories. The city will declare martial law and bring in 22 extra militia companies. For more than nine weeks, strikers will not waver, even when 18-year-old Syrian worker John Rami is killed, when Annie Welzenbach and her two teenage sisters are arrested and dragged from their beds in the middle of the night, or when 200 police draw their clubs on February 19th and go after 100 women pickets, knocking them to the ground and beating them.

● 1916 - World War I: Paris is first bombed by German zeppelins.

● 1917 - English submarine K13 leaves Gaire Loch

● 1919 - Secretary of state proclaims the 18th amendment (prohibition)

● 1920 - Walt Disney starts 1st job as an artist; $40 week with Kansas City Slide Co

● 1921 - Hurricane hits Washington & Oregon

● 1921 - The Congregational Holiness Church was formally organized, following a split the previous year with the Pentecostal Holiness Church. Headquartered today in Griffin, GA, most CHC churches are located in the Southeast US.

● 1922 - Union of Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras & El Salvador dissolved

● 1923 - 1st flight of the autogiro (Juan de la Cierva, Madrid Spain)

● 1924 - Ice cream cone rolling machine patented by Carl Taylor, Cleveland

● 1925 - British Liberals choose David Lloyd George as party leader

● 1927 - 4th German government of Marx forms

● 1927 - Birth of Edward Abbey, American xenophobic anarchist/ecologist/writer, Home, Pennsylvania. Generally considered the godfather of the Earth First! movement, his uncompromising works include The Monkey Wrench Gang," "Desert Solitaire," and "Hayduke Lives."

● 1929 - The Seeing Eye Dog organization is formed.

● 1933 - Mass anti-Nazi demonstrations throughout Germany the day before Adolf Hitler's ascension to Chancellor.

● 1933 - President of Germany Paul von Hindenburg appoints Adolf Hitler as Chancellor of Germany.

● 1936 - Sit-down strike helps establish United Rubber Workers as a national union, Akron, Ohio.

● 1936 - The first inductees into the Baseball Hall of Fame are announced.

● 1940 - The W. Atlee Burpee Seed Company displayed the first tetraploid flowers at the New York City Flower Show.

● 1942 - German & Italian troops occupy Benghazi

● 1942 - Peru & Ecuador sign Protocol of Rio (boundary determination)

● 1943 - The first day of the Battle of Rennell Island, U.S. cruiser Chicago is torpedoed and heavily damaged by Japanese bombers.

● 1943 - New Zealand's Kiwi cruiser collides with Japanese sub I-1 at Guadalcanal

● 1944 - 285 German bombers attack London

● 1944 - The battleship USS Missouri 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 - Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) established. Its predecessor, the OSS, was instrumental, along with the Vatican, in helping Nazi war criminals flee to North and South America, and in creating a new German spy agency run by former Nazis.

● 1949 - Britain, Belgium, Luxembourg, Netherlands, New Zealand & Switzerland recognize Israel

● 1949 - "The Newport News" was commissioned as the first air-conditioned naval ship in Virginia.

● 1956 - H. L. Mencken dies at 75, Baltimore.

● 1958 - Paul Newman & Joanne Woodward wed

● 1958 - Police capture Charles Starkweather in Wyoming.

● 1959 - Fog brings transport chaos; Dense fog - the worst for seven years - brings road, rail and air transport in many parts of England and Wales to a virtual standstill.

● 1959 - Sleeping Beauty, an animated feature produced by Walt Disney based upon a fairy tale, is released.

● 1963 - poet Robert Frost died in Boston.

● 1963 - Britain was refused entry into the EEC.

● 1964 - Olympic Games: Winter Olympic Games - The IX Olympic Winter Games open in Innsbruck, Austria.

● 1964 - Stanley Kubrick's regrettably timeless "Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb" is released in the United States.

● 1964 - Unmanned Apollo 1 Saturn launcher test attains Earth orbit

● 1966 - Snow storm in north east US kills 165

● 1967 - Pope Paul VI and Soviet President Nikolai Podgorny conferred at the Vatican in the first meeting in history between a Roman Catholic pontiff and the head of a Communist state.

● 1967 - Bobby Baker, former secretary to the Senate Democratic majority, convicted of income tax invasion, theft, and conspiracy to defraud the government.

● 1968 - Nauru adopts constitution

● 1970 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakstan/Semipalatinsk USSR

● 1971 - Three cosmonauts die on re-entry over the U.S.S.R. from depressurization of their space craft.

● 1975 - Bomb explosion, set off by the left-wing Weather Underground, damages 20 rooms in Washington's State Department Building.

● 1976 - Explosions rock London's West End; A series of bombs explode in the West End of London during the night - one person, believed to be a taxi driver, has been hurt.

● 1976 - Zeiss planetarium in Hague destroyed by fire

● 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 Ann Spencer kills 9 people and wounds 2 in a shooting spree at Cleveland Elementary School in San Diego, California. Inspires Boomtown Rats "I Don't Like Mondays."

● 1979 - President Carter commuted Patricia Hearst's 7 year sentence to 2 years

● 1979 - U.S. President Carter formally welcomed Chinese Vice Premier Deng Xiaoping to the White House. The visit followed the establishment of diplomatic relations.

● 1980 - 6 Iranian held US hostages escape with help of the Canadians

● 1983 - Demonstrators against military aid to El Salvador blockade naval base, Port Chicago, California.

● 1984 - President Reagan formally announces he will seek a 2nd term

● 1984 - Space Shuttle 41-B (STS-11) Challenger launched

● 1985 - Thatcher snubbed by Oxford dons; Oxford University snubs Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher by refusing her an honorary degree.

● 1985 - The Dow Jones industrial average peaked at 1,292.62.

● 1986 - 193.8 million shares traded in New York Stock Exchange

● 1986 - Yoweri Museveni is sworn in as President of Uganda.

● 1987 - William J. Casey ends term as 13th director of CIA.

● 1987 - Aquino suppresses rebel uprising; The president of the Phillippines has put down a rebellion against her government in Manila.

● 1987 - "Physician’s Weekly" announced that the smile on the face of Leonardo DeVinci's Mona Lisa was caused by a "...facial paralysis resulting from a swollen nerve behind the ear."

● 1988 - Talks break down between Sandinistas and Contras

● 1988 - United Airlines Boeing 747SP, circles world in 36 hours 54 minutes 15 seconds

● 1989 - The Orlando Arena, now titled the TD Waterhouse Centre, opens in Downtown Orlando. The TD Waterhouse Centre is currently the home to the Orlando Magic of the NBA and the Orlando Predators of the AFL.

● 1989 - Dow jumps 38.06 recoups 508-point loss since October 1987; index at 2,256.43

● 1989 - Episcopal church appoints 1st female bishop

● 1989 - L I preacher Gene Profeta pleads guilty to tax-evasion

● 1989 - USSR's Phobos II enters Martian orbit

● 1990 - Joseph Hazelwood, the former skipper of the Exxon Valdez, went on trial in Anchorage, AK, on charges that stemmed from America's worst oil spill. Hazelwood was later acquitted of all the major charges and was convicted of a misdemeanor.

● 1991 - Battle for Khafji in Saudi Arabia (begins)

● 1991 - Nelson Mandela & Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi meet in Durban after 28 years

● 1995 - Super Bowl XXIX: The San Francisco 49ers defeat the San Diego Chargers 49-26 and become the first NFL team to win five Super Bowl titles.

● 1996 - France halts nuclear testing; French President Jacques Chirac says France will no longer test nuclear weapons after uproar over Pacific tests.

● 1996 - Four women Ploughshares activists cause millions in damage, disarming a British Aerospace F-16 fighter jet destined to be sold to Indonesia for use in its illegal occupation and genocide of East Timor. The women were later acquitted of all charges on the grounds of preventing a greater crime. Warton, England.

● 1996 - La Fenice, the 204 year old opera house in Venice, was destroyed by fire. Arson was suspected.

● 1997 - America Online agreed to give refunds to frustrated customers under threat of lawsuits across the country. Customers were unable to log on after AOL offered a flat $19.95-a-month rate.

● 1998 - In Birmingham, Alabama, a bomb explodes at an abortion clinic, killing one and severely wounding another. Serial bomber Eric Robert Rudolph is suspected as the culprit.

● 1998 - Soyuz TM-27 launches to MIR

● 1998 - Thick Fog causes highway carnage in Belgium & Netherlands, 6 die

● 1999 - Paris prosecutors announced the end of the investigation into the accident that killed Britain's Princess Diana.

● 1999 - The U.S. Senate delivered subpoenas for Monica Lewinsky and two presidential advisers for private, videotaped testimony in the impeachment trial.

● 2001 - In Indonesia, thousands of student protesters stormed the parliament property and demanded that President Abdurrahman Wahid quit due to his alleged involvement in two corruption scandals. Wahid announced that he would not resign.

● 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.

● 2003 - Solicitor cleared of killing sons; Solicitor Sally Clark is cleared by the Court of Appeal of murdering her two sons after serving more than three years of a life sentence.

● 2004 - A suicide bomber struck a bus in Jerusalem, killing 10 Israelis.

● 2004 - A whale explodes in the town of Tainan, Taiwan. A build-up of gas in the decomposing 56-foot long Sperm whale is suspected of causing the explosion.

● 2006 - Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah is sworn in as the Emir of Kuwait.

● 2006 - ABC "World News Tonight" co-anchor Bob Woodruff and a cameraman were seriously injured in a roadside bombing in Iraq.

BIRTHS

● 1584 - Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange (d. 1647)

● 1632 - Johann Georg Graevius, German classical scholar and critic (d. 1703)

● 1688 - Emanuel Swedenborg, Swedish scientist and philosopher (d. 1772)

● 1711 - Giuseppe Bonno, Austrian composer (d. 1788)

● 1715 - Georg Christoph Wagenseil, Austrian composer (d. 1777)

● 1717 - Jeffrey Amherst, British military leader (d. 1797)

● 1718 - Paul Rabaut, French Huguenot pastor (d. 1794)

● 1737 - Thomas Paine, American patriot (d. 1809)

● 1749 - King Christian VII of Denmark (d. 1808)

● 1754 - Moses Cleaveland, founder of the city of Cleveland (d. 1806)

● 1756 - Henry Lee, American Revolutionary War officer (d. 1818)

● 1782 - Daniel Auber, French composer (d. 1871)

● 1810 - Ernst Kummer, German mathematician (d. 1893)

● 1843 - William McKinley, 25th President of the United States (d. 1901)

● 1846 - Karol Olszewski, Polish scientist (d. 1915)

● 1860 - Anton Chekhov, Russian writer (d. 1904)

● 1862 - Frederick Delius, English composer (d. 1934)

● 1866 - Romain Rolland, French writer, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1944)

● 1874 - John D. Rockefeller Jr., American entrepreneur (d. 1960)

● 1876 - Havergal Brian, British composer (d. 1972)

● 1878 - Barney Oldfield, American race car driver (d. 1946)

● 1880 - W.C. Fields, American actor (d. 1946)

● 1891 - Elizaveta Gerdt, Russian ballerina (d. 1975)

● 1895 - Muna Lee, American poet (d. 1965)

● 1905 - Barnett Newman, American painter (d. 1970)

● 1910 - Colin Middleton, Irish artist (d. 1983)

● 1911 - Peter von Siemens, German industrialist (d. 1986)

● 1913 - Peter von Zahn, German journalist and writer (d. 2001)

● 1913 - Daniel Taradash, American screenwriter (d. 2003)

● 1915 - Victor Mature, American actor (d. 1999)

● 1915 - John Serry, Sr., American musician, composer, arranger (d. 2003)

● 1918 - John Forsythe, American actor (''Dynasty'')

● 1921 - Anthony George, American actor (d. 2005)

● 1923 - Paddy Chayefsky, American writer (d. 1981)

● 1923 - Ivo Robic, Croatian singer and songwriter (d. 2000)

● 1924 - Luigi Nono, Italian composer (d. 1990)

● 1926 - Franco Cerri, Italian musician

● 1926 - Abdus Salam, Pakistani physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1996)

● 1927 - Edward Abbey, American environmentalist (d. 1989)

● 1928 - Lee Shau Kee, Hong Kong property developer

● 1929 - Gordon Solie, wrestling announcer (d. 2000)

● 1932 - Tommy Taylor, English footballer (d. 1958)

● 1932 - George Allen, English footballer

● 1934 - Noel Harrison, Actor

● 1936 - James Jamerson, Electric Bass legend & Motown's master of groove. (d. 1983)

● 1939 - Germaine Greer, Australian writer

● 1940 - Katharine Ross, American actress

● 1942 - Claudine Longet, French singer and dancer

● 1944 - Yoweri Museveni, President of Uganda

● 1945 - Jim Nicholson, Irish politician

● 1945 - Tom Selleck, American actor (''Magnum P.I.'')

● 1946- Bettye LaVette, R&B singer

● 1947 - Linda B. Buck, American scientist, Nobel Prize Laureate

● 1948 - Cristina Saralegui, American talk-show host

● 1948 - Marc Singer, Canadian actor

● 1950(51? NYT) - Ann Jillian, American actress

● 1950 - Jody Scheckter, South African race car driver

● 1952 - Tommy Ramone, Hungarian-born musician and record producer (The Ramones)

● 1953 - Hwang Woo-Suk, South Korean biomedical scientist

● 1953 - Louie Perez, Rock musician (Los Lobos)

● 1953 - Teresa Teng, Taiwanese singer (d. 1995)

● 1954 - Richard "Handsome Dick" Manitoba, American singer (The Dictators and MC5)

● 1954 - Terry Kinney, American actor

● 1954 - Oprah Winfrey, American producer, actress, and publisher

● 1957 - Diane Delano, Actress

● 1957 - Grazyna Miller, Italian poet, translator, and journalist

● 1958 - Judy Norton Taylor, Actress (''The Waltons'')

● 1959 - Johnny Spampinato, Rock musician (NRBQ)

● 1960 - Gia Carangi, American model (d. 1986)

● 1960 - Sean Kerly, British field hockey player

● 1960 - Greg Louganis, American diver

● 1960 - Steve Sax, American baseball player

● 1960 - J. G. Thirlwell, Australian-born musician

● 1961 - David Baynton-Power, Rock musician (James)

● 1961 - Eddie Jackson, Rock musician (Queensryche)

● 1962 - Nicholas Turturro, American actor (''NYPD Blue'')

● 1963 - Bob Holly, American professional wrestler

● 1964 - Roddy Frame, Rock musician (Aztec Camera)

● 1964 - Andre Reed, American football player

● 1964 - John Habyan, baseball player

● 1965 - Dominik Hasek, Czech hockey player

● 1965 - Peter Lundgren, Swedish tennis coach

● 1966 - Romário, Brazilian footballer

● 1967 - Cyril Suk, Czech tennis player

● 1968 - Edward Burns, American actor

● 1968 - Sora Jung, Korean actress

● 1969 - Thomas Jane, American actor

● 1969 - Hyde, Japanese singer

● 1970 - Heather Graham, American actress

● 1970 - Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore, Indian shooter

● 1973 - Jason Schmidt, baseball player

● 1975 - Sharif Atkins, Actor (''ER'')

● 1975 - Sara Gilbert, American actress (''Roseanne'')

● 1976 - Charles Divins, American model-turned-actor

● 1979 - Andrew Keegan, Actor

● 1979 - Sui Feifei, Chinese basketball player

● 1979 - April Scott, American actress and model

● 1980 - Jason James Richter, Actor

● 1980 - Yael Bar Zohar, Israeli actress and model

● 1981 - Jonny Lang, American musician

● 1986 - Drew Tyler Bell, American actor

● 1987 - Spencer Clark, American race car driver (d. 2006)

DEATHS

● 1119 - Pope Gelasius II

● 1342 - Louis I, Duke of Bourbon (b. 1279)

● 1597 - Elias Ammerbach, German organist (b. 1530)

● 1608 - Frederick I, Duke of Württemberg (b. 1557)

● 1647 - Francis Meres, English writer (b. 1565)

● 1676 - Tsar Alexis I of Russia (b. 1629)

● 1678 - Jeronimo Lobo, Portuguese Jesuit missionary (b. 1593)

● 1696 - Ivan V, Russian tsar

● 1706 - Charles Sackville, 6th Earl of Dorset, English poet and courtier (b. 1638)

● 1730 - Tsar Peter II of Russia (b. 1715)

● 1737 - George Hamilton, 1st Earl of Orkney, British soldier (b. 1666)

● 1743 - André-Hercule de Fleury, chief minister under Louis XV of France (b. 1653)

● 1763 - Louis Racine, French poet (b. 1692)

● 1820 - King George III of the United Kingdom (b. 1738)

● 1829 - Paul François Jean Nicolas Barras, French politician (b. 1755)

● 1870 - Leopold II, Grand Duke of Tuscany (b. 1797)

● 1901 - Milan I, King of Serbia (b. 1855)

● 1906 - King Christian IX of Denmark (b. 1818)

● 1918 - Aleksei Maksimovich Kaledin, Russian counter revolutionary (b. 1861)

● 1928 - Douglas Haig, British soldier (b. 1861)

● 1933 - Sara Teasdale, American poet (b. 1884)

● 1934 - Fritz Haber, German chemist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1868)

● 1946 - Harry Hopkins, 8th United States Secretary of Commerce (b. 1890)

● 1948 - Tomislav II of Croatia, 4th Duke of Aosta, Italian aristocrat (b. 1900)

● 1950 - Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, Emir of Kuwait (b. 1885)

● 1951 - Frank Tarrant, Australian cricketer (b. 1880)

● 1956 - H. L. Mencken, American journalist (b. 1880)

● 1962 - Fritz Kreisler, Austrian violinist (b. 1875)

● 1963 - Robert Frost, American poet (b. 1874)

● 1964 - Alan Ladd, American actor (b. 1913)

● 1969 - Allen Dulles, American CIA director (b. 1893)

● 1970 - Basil Liddell Hart, British historian (b. 1895)

● 1977 - Buster Nupen, South African cricketer (b. 1902)

● 1977 - Freddie Prinze, American actor and comedian (b. 1954)

● 1980 - Jimmy Durante, American actor and comedian (b. 1893)

● 1986 - Leif Erickson, American actor (b. 1911)

● 1989 - Halina Konopacka, Polish athlete (b. 1900)

● 1991 - Yasushi Inoue, Japanese historian (b. 1907)

● 1992 - Willie Dixon, American composer and musician (b. 1915)

● 1998 - Joseph Alioto, mayor of San Francisco (b. 1916)

● 1999 - Lili St. Cyr, American dancer (b. 1918)

● 2002 - Dick "Night Train" Lane, American football player (b. 1928)

● 2002 - Harold Russell, Canadian-born actor (b. 1914)

● 2003 - Frank Moss, United States Senator from Utah (b. 1911)

● 2004 - M. M. Kaye, British writer (b. 1908)

● 2004 - Joe Viterelli, American actor (b. 1937)

● 2004 - Janet Frame, New Zealand writer (b. 1924)

● 2005 - Eric Griffiths, Welsh guitarist (The Quarrymen) (b. 1940)

● 2005 - Ephraim Kishon, Israeli satirst (b. 1924)

HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES

● Roman Catholic:
● St. Aquilinus
● St. Blath
● St. Caesarius
● Sts. Papias & Maurinus
● St. Sabinian
● Sts. Sarbelius & Barbea
● St. Valerius of Trèves
● St. Voloc

● Old Roman Catholic:
● St. Francis of Sales, bishop of Geneva, doctor

● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for January 17 (Civil Date: January 29)
● St. Anthony the Great.
● Emperor St. Theodosius the Great.
● St. Achilles the Confessor, hermit of Egypt.
● St. Anthony the New, of Berrhia in Macedonia.
● St. Anthony of Dymsk (Novgorod).
● St. Anthony of Krasny Kholm, monk.
● St. Anthony of Chernoezersk, monk.
● St. Anthony the Roman, of Novgorod.
● New-Martyr George of Ioannina.

● Kansas : Admission Day/Kansas Day (1861)

● Note: This Holiday is only applicable on a given "day of the week"
● Australia : Australia Day (1788 - 1993) - ( Monday )


Click on this LINK to see original Wikipedia list with many having links with details.

Additional facts taken from:

On this day in the New York Times

The BBC’s Take on the day

On This Day Website

Geov Parrish's this Day in Radical History, things that happened on this day that you never had to memorize in school.

Scope Systems Any Day Website

Roman Catholic Saint of the Day

Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar

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