29 January
Henry Clay Addressing the U.S. Senate, 1850,
P. F. Rothermel, artist,
R. Whitechurch, engraver,
. copyright 1855.
Prints and Photographs Division
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| 1523 Sermon of Constanz: Zwingli defends 67 Schlussreden |
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| 1574 Sea battle of Reimerswaal - Admiral Boisot beats Spanish fleet | ||
| 1584 Frederik Hendrik, count of Nassau/Prince of Orange was born | ||
| 1587 Deventer & Zutphen surrender to Spain | ||
| 1613 Galileo observes Neptune but fails to recognize what he sees | ||
| 1676 Fjodor Aleksejevitsj becomes czar of Russia | ||
| 1732 Paris churchyard Saint-M‚dard closed after Jansenistic ritual | ||
| 1788 Australia Day | ||
| 1798 Henry Neele, London, poet was born | ||
| 1802 John Beckley of Virginia appointed 1st Librarian of Congress | ||
| 1837 Aleksandr Pushkin, poet/novelist (Golden Cockeral), killed in a duel | ||
| 1839 Charles Darwin marries Emma Wedgwood | ||
| 1845 Edgar Allen Poe's "Raven" 1st published (NYC) | ||
| 1848 Sicily accepts new Constitution (choose parliament/freedom of press) | ||
| 1850 Henry Clay introduces a comprise bill on slavery to US Senate | ||
| 1860 American College established in Rome by Pope Pius IX | ||
| 1872 Francis L Cardoza elected State Treasurer of South Carolina | ||
| 1895 King Koko's Kopermannen assault on Akassa Niger, 100's killed | ||
| 1896 Emile Grubbe is 1st dr to use radiation treatment for breast cancer | ||
| 1900 Boers under Joubert beat English at Spionkop Natal, 2,000 killed | |
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| 1903 Dutch railroad workers strike | ||
| 1912 Hermann Bang, writer, dies at 54 | ||
| 1916 1st bombings of Paris by German Zeppelins takes place | ||
| 1922 Union of Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras & El Salvador dissolved | ||
| 1927 4th German govt of Marx forms | ||
| 1933 German president von Hindenburg appoints Hitler chancellor | ||
| 1934 Fritz Haber, German chemist (Nobel 1918), dies at 65 | ||
| 1942 German & Italian troops occupy Banghazi | ||
| 1942 Peru & Ecuador sign Protocol of Rio (boundary determiniation) | ||
| 1943 New Zealand's Kiwi cruiser collides with Jap sub I-1 at Guadalcanal | ||
| 1944 285 German bombers attack London | Henry Clay Addressing the U.S. Senate, 1850, |
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| 1958 Paul Newman & Joanne Woodward wed | ||
| 1959 Walt Disney's "Sleeping Beauty" released | ||
| 1964 9th Winter Olympic games open in Innsbruck, Austria | ||
| 1964 Alan Ladd, actor (Shane), dies at 50 in Palm Springs Calif | ||
| 1966 Snow storm in north east US kills 165 | ||
| 1968 Nauru adopts constitution | ||
| 1976 Zeiss planetarium in Hague destroyed by fire | ||
| 1980 6 Iranian held US hostages escape with help of Canadians | ||
| 1984 Space Shuttle 41-B (STS-11) Challenger launched | ||
| 1986 Yoweri Museveni sworn in as president of Uganda | ||
| 1989 Episcopal church appoints 1st female bishop | ||
| 1998 Soyuz TM-27 launches to MIR | ||
| 1998 Thick Fog causes highway carnage in Belgium & Netherlands, 6 die | ||
| 1998 Woman's Clinic in Birmingham Ala bombed, 1 killed | ||