29 Januar

The 29t o Januar is the 29t day o the year in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 336 days ti come (337 in lowp years).

 Events 
 1676 - Feodor III o Roushie becomes Tsar.
 1819 - Singapore is foondit.
 1820 - George IV o the Unitit Kinrick becomes Keeng.
 1845 - Edgar Allan Poe's poem "The Raven" is published.
 1861 - Kansas becomes the 34t State o the Unitit States.
 1886 - Karl Benz patents the petrol-driven automobile.
 1891 - Liliuokalani is proclaimed Queen o Hawaii.
 1908 - Frederick VIII o Denmark becomes King.
 1916 - German zeppelins bomb Paris.
 1940 - Three trains collide on the Sakurajima Line in Osaka, killin 181 fowk.
 1942 - The Peruvian-Ecuadorian War ends. Ecuador loses nearly half o its territory tae Peru.
 1964 - The Winter Olympic Gemmes in Innsbruck, Austrick, begin.
 1986 - Yoweri Museveni becomes Preses o Uganda.
 1989 - Hungary staiblishes diplomatic relations wi Sooth Korea. 
 1996 - The La Fenice Opera Hoose in Venice burns doon.
 1996 - French Preses Jacques Chirac decides tae end French nuclear testin.
 2002 - US Preses George W. Bush uses the phrase "Axis o Evil" tae describe Iran, Iraq an North Korea.

 Births 
 1688 - Emanuel Swedenborg, Swadish scientist, philosopher, theologian an meestic (d. 1773)
 1749 - Christian VII o Denmark (d. 1808)
 1843 - William McKinley, 25t Preses o the Unitit States (d. 1901)
 1847 - John Ramsay, 13t Yerl o Dawhoosie, Scots naval commander an politeecian (d. 1887)
 1849 - David Murray, Scots penter (d. 1933)
 1860 - Anton Chekhov, Roushie playwricht (d. 1904)
 1866 - Romain Rolland, French writer (d. 1944)
 1887 - Wellington Koo, Cheenese diplomat (d. 1985)
 1918 - John Forsythe, American actor (d. 2010)
 1924 - Bobby Combe, Scots fitbawer (d. 1991)
 1926 - Abdus Salam, Pakistani theoretical pheesicist (d. 1996)
 1939 - Germaine Greer, Australian writer an feminist
 1943 - Tony Blackburn, Inglis DJ an presenter
 1944 - Yoweri Museveni, Preses o Uganda
 1945 - Tom Selleck, American actor
 1947 - Linda B. Buck, American biologist
 1948 - David Hay, Scots fitbawer an manager
 1953 − Richard Younger-Ross, Inglis politeecian
 1954 - Oprah Winfrey, American telly presenter an businesswoman
 1962 - Olga Tokarczuk, Pols writer
 1966 - Romário, Brazilian fitbawer
 1970 - Paul Ryan, American politeecian 
 1982 - Adam Lambert, American sangster
 1985 - Rag'n'Bone Man, Inglis sangster an sangwriter

 Daiths 
 1820 - King George III o the Unitit Kinrick (b. 1738)
 1874 - John Christian Schetky, Scots marine penter (b. 1778)
 1888 - Edward Lear, Inglis author, poet an illustrator (b. 1812)
 1899 - Alfred Sisley, Inglis-French penter (b. 1839)
 1906 - Christian IX o Denmark (b. 1818)
 1934 - Fritz Haber, German chemist (b. 1868)
 1951 - James Bridie, Scots playwricht, screenwriter an surgeon (b. 1888)
 1963 - Robert Frost, American poet (b. 1874)
 2012 - Oscar Luigi Scalfaro, 9nt Preses o Italy (b. 1918)
 2015 - Rod McKuen, American poet (b. 1933)

 Halidays 
 Statehood Day (Kansas)

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