January 29th
Today in America's Present Past
1737 | Founding: Thomas Paine was born.
1754 | Founding: Moses Cleveland was born.
1756 | Founding: Henry “Lighthorse” Lee was born.
1785 | Founding: John Hancock resigns from the Governorship of Massachusetts.
1802 | Congress: First Librarian of Congress appointed John Beckley of Virginia.
1821 | General Isaac Ferdinand Quinby was born.
1834 | POTUS: Democrat President Andrew Jackson orders U.S. troops to quell labor unrest.
1836 | General Benjamin Franklin Potts was born.
1843 | POTUS: President William McKinley was born.
1845 | Edgar Allan Poe publishes “The Raven.”
1850 | Congress: Senator Henry Clay introduced the “Compromise of 1859.”
1859 | Entrepreneur Seth Thomas died.
1861 | Statehood: Kansas granted statehood.
1863 | Indian Wars: Bear River massacre.
1874 | Entrepreneur John D. Rockefeller, Jr. was born.
1879 | Indian Wars: Custer Battlefield Monument established.
1880 | Comedian W.C. Fields was born.
1891 | Tennis player R. Noris Williams was born.
1895 | Poet Muna Lee was born.
1896 | Emile Grubbe is the first medical professional to use radiation treatment for breast cancer.
1901 | Inventor Allen B. DuMont was born.
1907 | Civil Rights: Charles Curtis of Kansas becomes the first Native American U.S. Senators.
1908 | Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority incorporates at Howard University.
1923 | SCOTUS: Justice Edward Sanford is sworn in.
1924 | Carl Taylor patented a rolling ice cream cone machine.
1929 | Seeing Eye Dog organized in the U.S.
1933 | Poet Sara Teasdale was born.
1942 | Poet Robin Morgan was born.
1943 | WWII: U.S.S. Chicago is heavily damaged in the Battle of Rennell Island.
1944 | WWII: The U.S.S. Missouri is commissioned.
1945 | Actor Tom Selleck was born.
1947 | Scientist Linda B. Buck was born.
1951 | Elizabeth Taylor divorces Conrad Hilton.
1954 | Talk show host Oprah Winfrey was born.
1956 | Journalist H.L. Mencken died.
1958 | Paul Newman weds Joanne Woodward.
1959 | Walt Disney releases “Sleeping Beauty.”
1963 | Poet Robert Frost died.
1964 | Actor Alan Ladd died.
1970 | Congress: Speaker Paul Ryan was born.
1976 | SCOTUS: Supreme Court decided Buckley v. Valeo.
1979 | POTUS: Democrat President Jimmy Carter commutes the sentence of domestic terrorist Patty Hearst.
1980 | Actor Jimmy Durante died.
1991 | Gulf War: The Battle of Khafji begins.
1991 | Architect John Graham died.
1994 Bill Murray divorces Margaret Kelly.
2009 | POTUS: Democrat President Barack Obama signs the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act.