January 29
2010-01-30 7:14 AM PST
1820 Britain's King George III died insane at Windsor Castle.
1843 William McKinley, the 25th president of the United States, was born in Niles, Ohio.
1845 Edgar Allan Poe's poem "The Raven" was first published, in the New York Evening Mirror.
1850 Henry Clay introduced in the Senate a compromise bill on slavery that included the admission of California into the Union as a free state.
1860 Russian author and playwright Anton Chekhov was born in the port city of Taganrog.
1861 Kansas became the 34th state of the Union.
1900 The American League, consisting of eight baseball teams, was organized in Philadelphia.
1936 The first five members of baseball's Hall of Fame, including Ty Cobb and Babe Ruth, were named in Cooperstown, N.Y.
1939 Irish poet-dramatist William Butler Yeats died at age 73.
1958 Actors Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward were married.
1979 President Jimmy Carter welcomed Chinese Vice Premier Deng Xiaoping to the White House following the establishment of diplomatic relations.
1995 The San Francisco 49ers became the first team to win five Super Bowl titles when they beat the San Diego Chargers 49-26 in Super Bowl XXIX.
1998 A bomb exploded at an abortion clinic in Birmingham, Ala., killing an off-duty policeman and severely wounding a nurse. (The bomber, Eric Rudolph, was captured in May 2003 and is serving a life sentence.)
2002 In his first State of the Union address, President George W. Bush warned of "an axis of evil" consisting of North Korea, Iran and Iraq.
2004 A suicide bomber struck a bus in Jerusalem, killing 10 Israelis.
2006 ABC "World News Tonight" co-anchor Bob Woodruff and a cameraman were seriously injured in a roadside bombing in Iraq.
2008 Margaret Truman, the only child of President Harry S. Truman, died at age 83.
2009 The Illinois Senate voted to remove Gov. Rod Blagojevich from office. (Blagojevich faces federal corruption charges over an alleged effort to sell or trade President Barack Obama's vacant Senate seat.)
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1843 William McKinley, the 25th president of the United States, was born in Niles, Ohio.
1845 Edgar Allan Poe's poem "The Raven" was first published, in the New York Evening Mirror.
1850 Henry Clay introduced in the Senate a compromise bill on slavery that included the admission of California into the Union as a free state.
1860 Russian author and playwright Anton Chekhov was born in the port city of Taganrog.
1861 Kansas became the 34th state of the Union.
1900 The American League, consisting of eight baseball teams, was organized in Philadelphia.
1936 The first five members of baseball's Hall of Fame, including Ty Cobb and Babe Ruth, were named in Cooperstown, N.Y.
1939 Irish poet-dramatist William Butler Yeats died at age 73.
1958 Actors Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward were married.
1979 President Jimmy Carter welcomed Chinese Vice Premier Deng Xiaoping to the White House following the establishment of diplomatic relations.
1995 The San Francisco 49ers became the first team to win five Super Bowl titles when they beat the San Diego Chargers 49-26 in Super Bowl XXIX.
1998 A bomb exploded at an abortion clinic in Birmingham, Ala., killing an off-duty policeman and severely wounding a nurse. (The bomber, Eric Rudolph, was captured in May 2003 and is serving a life sentence.)
2002 In his first State of the Union address, President George W. Bush warned of "an axis of evil" consisting of North Korea, Iran and Iraq.
2004 A suicide bomber struck a bus in Jerusalem, killing 10 Israelis.
2006 ABC "World News Tonight" co-anchor Bob Woodruff and a cameraman were seriously injured in a roadside bombing in Iraq.
2008 Margaret Truman, the only child of President Harry S. Truman, died at age 83.
2009 The Illinois Senate voted to remove Gov. Rod Blagojevich from office. (Blagojevich faces federal corruption charges over an alleged effort to sell or trade President Barack Obama's vacant Senate seat.)