Page 7: Historical Events In January - 29

1959  Walt Disney's "Sleeping Beauty" released on this day in history.   

1960  Louis Jean Heydt, actor (Joe-Waterfront), dies at 54 on January - 29.   

1961  On January - 29 uS female Figure Skating championship won by Laurence Owen   

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

1963  On January - 29 poet Robert Frost dies in Boston at age 88.   

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

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

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

1964  On January - 29 unmanned Apollo 1 Saturn launcher test attains Earth orbit   

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

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

1966  Lawry &Simpson complete 244 opening stand vs England, Adelaide on this day in history.   

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 January - 29.   

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

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

1966  Josef Winckler, German dentist/writer (Tolle Bomberg), dies at 84 on this day in history.   

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

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

1967  Wlodzimierz Pozniak, composer, dies at 62 on January - 29.   

1968  On this day in history nauru adopts constitution   

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

1969  On January - 29 britain refused entry into the European Economic Community   

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 this day in history.   

1969  On January - 29 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  On January - 29 basil H Liddell Hart, English military historian, dies at 74   

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1584  Frederik Hendrik, count of Nassau/Prince of Orange was born on this day in history.   

1632  Johann Georg Graevius, German classical scholar and critic (d. 1703) was born on January - 29.   

1688  On January - 29 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 this day in history.   

1703  Carlmann Kolb, composer was born on this day in history.   

1711  On this day in history birth of giuseppi Bonno, composer   

1715  On this day in history birth of georg Christoph Wagenseil, Austrian (court)composer/pianist   

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  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 this day in history 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 this day in history robert Sanderson, Bishop of Lincoln (1660-63), dies