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January 29

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1964 Winter Olympics

62 years ago

Born this day

1860

Anton Chekhov

Died aged 44

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Siege of Baghdad

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Famous births25

1688 · 338 yrs

Emmanuel Swedenborg

Emanuel Swedenborg (Swedish:; born Emanuel Swedberg; 29 January 1688 – 29 March 1772) was a Swedish polymath; a scientist, engineer, astronomer, anatomist, Christian theologian, philosopher, and mystic. He became best known for his book on the afterlife, Heaven and Hell (1758).

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1700 · 326 yrs

Daniel Bernoulli

Daniel Bernoulli (8 February 1700 – 27 March 1782) was a Swiss mathematician and physicist and was one of the many prominent mathematicians in the Bernoulli family from Basel.

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1749 · 277 yrs

Christian VII of Denmark

Christian VII (29 January 1749 – 13 March 1808) was King of Denmark and Norway and Duke of Schleswig and Holstein from 1766 until his death in 1808. He was affected by mental illness and was only nominally king for most of his reign.

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1783 · 243 yrs

Vasily Zhukovsky

Vasily Andreyevich Zhukovsky (Russian: Василий Андреевич Жуковский; 9 February 1783 – 24 April 1852) was the foremost Russian poet of the 1810s and a leading figure in Russian literature in the first half of the 19th century.

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LiteratureDied aged 69

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1843 · 183 yrs

William McKinley

William McKinley (January 29, 1843 – September 14, 1901) was the 25th president of the United States, serving from 1897 until his assassination in 1901. A member of the Republican Party, he led a realignment that made Republicans largely dominant in the industrial states and nationwide for decades.

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1860 · 166 yrs

Anton Chekhov

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (Russian: Антон Павлович Чехов; 29 January 1860 – 15 July 1904) was a Russian playwright, short story writer, and physician.

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LiteratureDied aged 44

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1866 · 160 yrs

Romain Rolland

Romain Rolland (French:; 29 January 1866 – 30 December 1944) was a French dramatist, novelist, essayist, art historian and mystic who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1915 "as a tribute to the lofty idealism of his literary production and to the sympathy and love of truth with which he has described…

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1867 · 159 yrs

Vicente Blasco Ibáñez

Vicente Blasco Ibáñez (Spanish pronunciation:, 29 January 1867 – 28 January 1928) was a journalist, politician, and a bestselling Spanish novelist in various genres whose most widespread and lasting fame in the English-speaking world is from Hollywood films that were adapted from his works.

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LiteratureDied aged 60

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1892 · 134 yrs

Ernst Lubitsch

Ernst Lubitsch (January 29, 1892 – November 30, 1947) was a German and American film director, producer, writer, and actor. His urbane comedies of manners gave him the reputation of being Hollywood's most elegant and sophisticated director; as his prestige grew, his films were promoted as having "the Lubitsch touch".

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1924 · 102 yrs

Dorothy Malone

Dorothy Malone (born Mary Dorothy Maloney; January 29, 1924 – January 19, 2018) was an American actress. Her film career began in 1943, and in her early years, she played small roles, mainly in B-movies, with the exception of a supporting role in The Big Sleep (1946).

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1926 · 100 yrs

Abdus Salam

Mohammad Abdus Salam (29 January 1926 – 21 November 1996) was a Pakistani theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate.

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1939 · 87 yrs

Germaine Greer

Germaine Greer (born 29 January 1939) is an Australian writer and public intellectual, regarded as one of the major voices of the second-wave feminism movement in the latter half of the 20th century.

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Famous deaths15

1676 · 350 yrs

Alexei I of Russia

Alexei Mikhailovich (Russian: Алексей Михайлович, IPA:; 19 March 1629 – 8 February 1676), also known as Alexis, was Tsar of all Russia from 1645 until his death in 1676. He was the second Russian tsar from the House of Romanov.

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RoyaltyDied aged 46

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1696 · 330 yrs

Ivan V of Russia

Ivan V Alekseyevich (Russian: Иван V Алексеевич; 6 September 1666 – 8 February 1696) was Tsar of all Russia between 1682 and 1696, jointly ruling with his younger half-brother Peter I.

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RoyaltyDied aged 29

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1814 · 212 yrs

Johann Gottlieb Fichte

Johann Gottlieb Fichte (19 May 1762 – 29 January 1814) was a German philosopher, and a founding figure of German idealism, which developed from the theoretical and ethical writings of Immanuel Kant.

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PhilosophyDied aged 51

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1820 · 206 yrs

George III of Great Britain

George III (George William Frederick; 4 June 1738 – 29 January 1820) was King of Great Britain and Ireland from 25 October 1760 until his death in 1820. During his reign, the Acts of Union 1800 merged Great Britain and Ireland into the United Kingdom.

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RoyaltyDied aged 81

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1865 · 161 yrs

Emil Lenz

Heinrich Friedrich Emil Lenz (German:; also Emil Khristianovich Lenz; Russian: Эми́лий Христиа́нович Ленц; 24 February 1804 – 10 February 1865), usually cited as Emil Lenz or Heinrich Lenz in some countries, was a Russian physicist of Baltic German descent who is most noted for formulating Lenz's law in…

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1888 · 138 yrs

Edward Lear

Edward Lear (12 May 1812 – 29 January 1888) was an English artist, illustrator, musician, author and poet, who is known mostly for his literary nonsense in poetry and prose and especially his limericks, a form he popularised but which term he never used.

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1899 · 127 yrs

Alfred Sisley

Alfred Sisley (French:; 30 October 1839 – 29 January 1899) was an Impressionist landscape painter, born in Paris to British expatriate parents.

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1906 · 120 yrs

Christian IX of Denmark

Christian IX (8 April 1818 – 29 January 1906) was King of Denmark from 15 November 1863 until his death in 1906. From 1863 to 1864, he was concurrently Duke of Schleswig, Holstein and Lauenburg.

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RoyaltyDied aged 87

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1934 · 92 yrs

Fritz Haber

Fritz Jakob Haber (German:; 9 December 1868 – 29 January 1934) was a German chemist who received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1918 for his invention of the Haber process, a method used in industry to synthesize ammonia from nitrogen gas and hydrogen gas.

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1956 · 70 yrs

H. L. Mencken

Henry Louis Mencken (September 12, 1880 – January 29, 1956) was an American journalist, essayist, satirist, cultural critic, and scholar of American English. He commented widely on literature, music, prominent politicians, and contemporary movements.

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1963 · 63 yrs

Robert Frost

Robert Lee Frost (March 26, 1874 – January 29, 1963) was an American poet.

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LiteratureDied aged 88

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1994 · 32 yrs

Yevgeny Leonov

Yevgeny Pavlovich Leonov (Russian: Евгений Павлович Леонов; 2 September 1926 – 29 January 1994) was a Soviet and Russian actor who played main parts in several of the most famous Soviet films, such as Gentlemen of Fortune, Mimino and Striped Trip.

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Events5

1258 · 768 yrs

Siege of Baghdad

The Siege of Baghdad, also known as the Sack of Baghdad, took place in early 1258. A large army commanded by Hulegu, a prince of the Mongol Empire, attacked the historic capital of the Abbasid Caliphate after a series of provocations from its ruler, caliph al-Musta'sim.

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War

1964 · 62 yrs

1964 Winter Olympics

The 1964 Winter Olympics, officially known as the IX Olympic Winter Games (German: IX. Olympische Winterspiele) and commonly known as Innsbruck 1964 (Austro-Bavarian: Innschbruck 1964), were a winter multi-sport event which was celebrated in Innsbruck, Austria, from January 29 to February 9, 1964.

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Sports

2005 · 21 yrs

Satsuma Rebellion

The Satsuma Rebellion, known more widely in Japanese as the Seinan War (Japanese: 西南戦争, Hepburn: Seinan Sensō; lit. 'Southwestern War'), was a revolt of disaffected samurai against the new imperial government of the Empire of Japan, nine years into the Meiji era.

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War

2024 · 2 yrs

Killing of Hind Rajab

Hind Rami Iyad Rajab (Arabic: هند رامي إياد رجب; 3 May 2018 – 29 January 2024) was a five-year-old Palestinian girl in the Gaza Strip who was killed by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), which also killed six of her family members and two paramedics coming to her rescue, during the Gaza war.

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War

2025 · 1 yrs

2025 Potomac River mid-air collision

On January 29, 2025, a Bombardier CRJ700 airliner operating as American Airlines Flight 5342 (operated by PSA Airlines as American Eagle) and a United States Army Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter operating as Priority Air Transport 25 collided in mid-air over the Potomac River in Washington, D.C.

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