Historical Events In January - 29

1959  Walt Disney's "Sleeping Beauty" released on January - 29.  

1960  On this day in history 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  On this day in history fritz Kreisler, Austria/US violinist/composer, dies at 86  

1963  On January - 29 jim Thorpe, Red Grange &George Halas elected to football hall of fame  

1963  On this day in history poet Robert Frost dies in Boston at age 88.  

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

1963  Robert Lee Frost, US poet (New Hampshire, 4 Pulitzers), dies at 88 on this day in history.  

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

1964  Beatles record in German "Komm, Gib Mir Diene Hand" &"Sie Leibt Dich" on January - 29.  

1964  On this day in history stanley Kubrick's"Dr Strangelove," premieres  

1964  Unmanned Apollo 1 Saturn launcher test attains Earth orbit on January - 29.  

1964  Alan Ladd, actor (Shane), dies at 50 in Palm Springs Calif on January - 29.  

1965  On this day in history john Larkin, actor (Saints & Sinners, 12 O'Clock High), dies at 52  

1966  Lawry &Simpson complete 244 opening stand vs England, Adelaide on January - 29.  

1966  On this day in history snow storm in north east US kills 165  

1966  US female Figure Skating championship won by Peggy Fleming on this day in history.  

1966  On January - 29 uS male Figure Skating championship won by Scott Allen  

1966  On January - 29 "Sweet Charity" opens at Palace Theater NYC for 608 performances  

1966  On this day in history josef Winckler, German dentist/writer (Tolle Bomberg), dies at 84  

1967  In Ottawa Terrorists bomb Yugoslav Embassy in Ottawa and Consulate in Toronto on January - 29.  

1967  On this day in history "Let's Sing Yiddish" closes at Brooks Atkinson NYC after 107 perfs  

1967  Wlodzimierz Pozniak, composer, dies at 62 on this day in history.  

1968  On January - 29 nauru adopts constitution  

1968  Laxmidas Purshottamdas Jai, cricketer (Test for India), dies on January - 29.  

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

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

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

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

1970  On this day in history uSSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakstan/Semipalatinsk USSR  

1970  On this day in history 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  Johann Georg Graevius, German classical scholar and critic (d. 1703) was born on January - 29.  

1688  On this day in history birth of emmanuel Swedenborg, Sweden, religious leader (Angelic Wisdom)  

1689  On January - 29 birth of hubert K Poot, Dutch poet  

1700  Daniel Bernoulli, Basel Switz, mathematician (10 time French award) was born on January - 29.  

1703  On January - 29 birth of carlmann Kolb, composer  

1711  Giuseppi Bonno, composer was born on this day in history.  

1715  On January - 29 birth of georg Christoph Wagenseil, Austrian (court)composer/pianist  

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

1240  On this day in history death of pelagio Galvani, Cardinal-Bishop of Albano (b. va. 1165)  

1342  On January - 29 death of louis I, Duke of Bourbon (b. 1279)  

1559  Thomas Pope, English politician, benefactor, dies at about 52 on this day in history.  

1597  Death of Elias Ammerbach, German organist (b. 1530) on this day in history.  

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  Robert Sanderson, Bishop of Lincoln (1660-63), dies on this day in history.