TODAY’S HISTORY LESSON – JAN 29
1595 William Shakespeare’s play “Romeo and Juliet” is thought to have been first performed. Officially published early 1597.
1802 John Beckley became the first Librarian of Congress. He was paid $2 a day.
1813 Jane Austin publishes Pride and Prejudice.
1834 President Jackson orders 1st use of US troops to suppress a labor dispute
1845 Edgar Allan Poe’s The Raven was published.
1861 Kansas is admitted into the Union as the 34th state.
1886 Karl Benz patents the “Benz Patent-Motorwagen” in Karlsruhe, Germany, the world’s 1st automobile with a burning motor
1926 Violette Neatley Anderson becomes the first African-American woman admitted to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court.
1929 The Seeing Eye, America’s first school for training dogs to guide the blind, founded in Nashville, Tennessee.
1942 German and Italian troops take Benghazi in North Africa.
1944 The world’s greatest warship, Missouri, is launched.
1950 Riots break out in Johannesburg, South Africa, over the policy of Apartheid.
1959 Walt Disney’s “Sleeping Beauty” released
1980 6 Iranian held US hostages escape with help of the Canadians
1984 The Soviets issue a formal complaint against alleged U.S. arms treaty violations.
1991 Iraqi forces attack into Saudi Arabian town of Kafji, but are turned back by Coalition forces.
1996 France stops nuclear testing
2002 US President George W. Bush in his State of the Union address describes “regimes that sponsor terror” an “Axis of Evil”, which includes Iraq, Iran and North Korea
** history.net, onthisday.com, infoplease.com, timeanddate.com, thepeoplehistory.com, on-this-day.com **
