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Thursday, 29 January 2026
1976 Neville Lindsay, cricketer (S Afr batsman in Test v Aust 1921), dies 
1977 Pauline Starke, actress (Dante's Inferno, Viking, Sun Up), dies at 76
1979 "YMCA" by Village People peaks at #2 on pop singles chart
1979 US female Figure Skating championship won by Linda Fratianne.
1979 US male Figure Skating championship won by Charles Tickner.
1979 Jody Gilbert, actress (Willard, Shaggy, Blonde Dynamite), dies
1980 Muhammed Ali tours Africa as President Carter's envoy.
1981 Gro Harlem Brundtland elected premier of Norway.
1982 Columbia Shuttle moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating for STS-3 mission.
1982 Greatest helicopter lift, 56888 kg, Podmoscovnoe, USSR.
1982 Porn star John Holmes ordered to stand trial for murder.
1983 US female Figure Skating championship won by Rosalynn Sumners
1984 10th Space Shuttle Mission (41B)-Challenger 4 launched
1984 The inaugural baby conceived by embryo transplant born in Long Beach CA
1984 Anne Townsend, lacrosse/tennis/field hockey star, dies.
1985 "Harrigan 'n Hart" closes at Longacre Theater NYC after 5 performances.
1986 President Reagan announces formation of Committee on Challenger Accident
1987 San Diego Yacht Club celebrates return of America's Cup
1989 Twenty villages evacuated in Russia, after high radiation fall-out from the Chernobyl nuclear disaster.
1989 Uruguayan president Alfredo Stroessner is overthrown in a military coup.
1989 John Cassavetes, actor/director (Husbands, Dirty Dozen), dies at 59.
1991 Nancy Kulp, actress (Jane Hathaway-Beverly Hillbillies), dies at 69
1992 Defense opens calling Noriega "our ally in the war on drugs"
1992 Labor strike at Royal Canadian Mint ends.
1992 Maximum New York State unemployment benefits raised to $300 per week.
1993 Cincinnati Reds owner Marge Schott suspended for 1 year due to racist comments.
1993 Federal trial of 4 police officers charged with civil rights violations in videotaped beating of Rodney King begins in Los Angeles CA.
1993 General Hospital's Tristan Rogers convicted of drunk driving
1993 Karel Goeyvaerts, Flemish composer (8 Horse Bet), dies at 69.
1994 "Les Miserables," opens at Kallang Theatre, Singapore
1994 Actor Jean-Claude van Damme (32) weds Darcy Lapier (28) in Bangkok.
1994 President Bill Clinton lifts US trade embargo against Vietnam
1994 STS-60 (Discovery) launches into orbit.
1995 Air Force Lt. Colonel Eileen Collins is recorded as becoming the inaugural woman commander of a U.S. space mission as the shuttle Discovery blasts off from Cape Kennedy.
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