Historical Events In January - 29

1959  On January - 29 walt Disney's "Sleeping Beauty" released   

1960  On January - 29 louis Jean Heydt, actor (Joe-Waterfront), dies at 54   

1961  US female Figure Skating championship won by Laurence Owen on January - 29.   

1961  US male Figure Skating championship won by Bradley Lord on this day in history.   

1962  Fritz Kreisler, Austria/US violinist/composer, dies at 86 on January - 29.   

1963  Jim Thorpe, Red Grange &George Halas elected to football hall of fame on this day in history.   

1963  Poet Robert Frost dies in Boston at age 88 on this day in history.   

1963  The first inductees to the Football Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio, are revealed. They include Earl Lambeau, Earl (Dutch) Clark, and Sammy Baugh on this day in history.   

1963  On this day in history jim Thorpe, Red Grange & George Halas elected to football hall of fame   

1963  Robert Lee Frost, US poet (New Hampshire, 4 Pulitzers), dies at 88 on January - 29.   

1964  9th Winter Olympic games open in Innsbruck, Austria on January - 29.   

1964  On this day in history beatles record in German "Komm, Gib Mir Diene Hand" &"Sie Leibt Dich"   

1964  On January - 29 stanley Kubrick's"Dr Strangelove," premieres   

1964  On this day in history unmanned Apollo 1 Saturn launcher test attains Earth orbit   

1964  Alan Ladd, actor (Shane), dies at 50 in Palm Springs Calif on this day in history.   

1965  John Larkin, actor (Saints & Sinners, 12 O'Clock High), dies at 52 on January - 29.   

1966  On January - 29 lawry &Simpson complete 244 opening stand vs England, Adelaide   

1966  On January - 29 snow storm in north east US kills 165   

1966  US female Figure Skating championship won by Peggy Fleming on January - 29.   

1966  US male Figure Skating championship won by Scott Allen on January - 29.   

1966  On this day in history "Sweet Charity" opens at Palace Theater NYC for 608 performances   

1966  Josef Winckler, German dentist/writer (Tolle Bomberg), dies at 84 on January - 29.   

1967  In Ottawa Terrorists bomb Yugoslav Embassy in Ottawa and Consulate in Toronto on this day in history.   

1967  "Let's Sing Yiddish" closes at Brooks Atkinson NYC after 107 perfs on January - 29.   

1967  On January - 29 wlodzimierz Pozniak, composer, dies at 62   

1968  Nauru adopts constitution on January - 29.   

1968  Laxmidas Purshottamdas Jai, cricketer (Test for India), dies on this day in history.   

1969  Britain refused entry into the European Economic Community on January - 29.   

1969  On this day in history jimi Hendrix &Peter Townshend wage a battle of guitars   

1969  Sheahan &Connolly hang on for exciting draw Australia vs West Indies on January - 29.   

1969  Jimi Hendrix & Peter Townshend wage a battle of guitars on January - 29.   

1970  On January - 29 uSSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakstan/Semipalatinsk USSR   

1970  On January - 29 uSSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR   

1970  Basil H Liddell Hart, English military historian, dies at 74 on January - 29.   

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1584  On January - 29 birth of frederik Hendrik, count of Nassau/Prince of Orange   

1632  On this day in history birth of johann Georg Graevius, German classical scholar and critic (d. 1703)   

1688  Emmanuel Swedenborg, Sweden, religious leader (Angelic Wisdom) was born on this day in history.   

1689  On this day in history birth of hubert K Poot, Dutch poet   

1700  On January - 29 birth of daniel Bernoulli, Basel Switz, mathematician (10 time French award)   

1703  On this day in history birth of carlmann Kolb, composer   

1711  Giuseppi Bonno, composer was born on January - 29.   

1715  Georg Christoph Wagenseil, Austrian (court)composer/pianist was born on January - 29.   

0969  Peter, tsar of Bulgaria (927-69), dies on this day in history.   

1240  Death of Pelagio Galvani, Cardinal-Bishop of Albano (b. va. 1165) on this day in history.   

1342  Death of Louis I, Duke of Bourbon (b. 1279) on January - 29.   

1559  On January - 29 thomas Pope, English politician, benefactor, dies at about 52   

1597  On January - 29 death of elias Ammerbach, German organist (b. 1530)   

1608  On January - 29 death of frederick I, Duke of Württemberg (b. 1557)   

1647  On this day in history death of francis Meres, English writer (b. 1565)   

1663  On January - 29 robert Sanderson, Bishop of Lincoln (1660-63), dies