Today in History : January 29
1813 : Jane Austin publishes Pride and Prejudice.
1861 : Kansas is admitted into the Union as the 34th state.
1865 : William Quantrill and his Confederate raiders attack Danville, Kentucky.
1918 : The Supreme Allied Council meets at Versailles.
1926 : Violette Neatley Anderson becomes the first African-American woman admitted to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court.
1929 : The Seeing Eye, America’s first school for training dogs to guide the blind, founded in Nashville, Tennessee.
1931 : Winston Churchill resigns as Stanley Baldwin’s aide.
1942 : German and Italian troops take Benghazi in North Africa.
1944 : The world’s greatest warship, Missouri, is launched.
1950 : Riots break out in Johannesburg, South Africa, over the policy of Apartheid.
1967 : Thirty-seven civilians are killed by a U.S. helicopter attack in Vietnam.
1979 : President Jimmy Carter commutes the sentence of Patty Hearst.
1984 : President Ronald Reagan announces that he will run for a second term.
1984 : The Soviets issue a formal complaint against alleged U.S. arms treaty violations.
1991 : Iraqi forces attack into Saudi Arabian town of Kafji, but are turned back by Coalition forces.
Born on January 29
1737 : Thomas Paine, political essayist (The Rights of Man, The Age of Reason).
1843 : William McKinley, 25th President of the United States.
1880 : W.C. Fields, comedian and actor (David Copperfield, My Little Chickadee).
1813 : Jane Austin publishes Pride and Prejudice.
1861 : Kansas is admitted into the Union as the 34th state.
1865 : William Quantrill and his Confederate raiders attack Danville, Kentucky.
1918 : The Supreme Allied Council meets at Versailles.
1926 : Violette Neatley Anderson becomes the first African-American woman admitted to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court.
1929 : The Seeing Eye, America’s first school for training dogs to guide the blind, founded in Nashville, Tennessee.
1931 : Winston Churchill resigns as Stanley Baldwin’s aide.
1942 : German and Italian troops take Benghazi in North Africa.
1944 : The world’s greatest warship, Missouri, is launched.
1950 : Riots break out in Johannesburg, South Africa, over the policy of Apartheid.
1967 : Thirty-seven civilians are killed by a U.S. helicopter attack in Vietnam.
1979 : President Jimmy Carter commutes the sentence of Patty Hearst.
1984 : President Ronald Reagan announces that he will run for a second term.
1984 : The Soviets issue a formal complaint against alleged U.S. arms treaty violations.
1991 : Iraqi forces attack into Saudi Arabian town of Kafji, but are turned back by Coalition forces.
Born on January 29
1737 : Thomas Paine, political essayist (The Rights of Man, The Age of Reason).
1843 : William McKinley, 25th President of the United States.
1880 : W.C. Fields, comedian and actor (David Copperfield, My Little Chickadee).
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