January 29
January 29 is the 29th day of the Gregorian calendar.
Events
1616: Dutch navigator Willem Cornelis Schouten (b. 1567 - m. 1625) was the first explorer who bypassed Cape Horn, the expedition to search for a new route to the Pacific Ocean
1845: "Raven" (The Raven), by Edgar Allan Poe is published for the first time in "New York Evening Mirror"
1886: German Karl Friedrich Benz (1844-1929 was licensed to manufacture the first functional car in the world, fueled by gasoline
1896: Dr. Emile Grubb first radiation used to treat breast cancer of his patient Rose Lee of Chicago
1916: First World War Germany made its first air raid devices "Zeppelin" over Paris
1923: Council of Ministers approved the status of General Union of Industrialists in Romania (UGIR)
1947: USSR signs peace treaty with Romania (after the second World War)
1949: Britain recognizes Israel
1950: At Johannesburg (South Africa) first burst disturbances caused by South Africa's racial policy
1981: It was put into operation the largest bridge on the Siret in the hydropower Yellow
1990: NSF fellow-storm the headquarters of parties in Bucharest and other cities
2002: U.S. President George W. Bush declared Iraq, Iran and North Korea as "axis of evil"
Births
1688: Emanuel Swedenborg, philosopher, Swedish scientist (d. 1772)
1838: Edward Williams Morley, American chemist and physicist (d. 1923)
1843: William McKinley, the 25th U.S. president (d. 1901)
1860: Anton Chekhov, Russian writer (d. 1904)
1866: Romain Rolland, French writer, Nobel Prize for Literature in 1915 (d. 1944)
1867: Vicente Blasco Ibañez, Spanish writer (d. 1928)
1881: Lajos Ady, writer, literary historian, educator Hungary (d. 1940)
1890: (SV) Boris L. Pasternak, poet, novelist and translator of Russian literature Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1960)
1893: Martian Negrea, composer and musicologist Romanian (d. 1975)
1895: Dumitru D. Rosca, Romanian philosopher, member of the Romanian Academy (d. 1980)
1926: Tudor Vornicu, Romanian journalist (d. 1989)
Abdus Salam, Pakistani physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1996)
1931: Ferenc Mádl, President of Hungary (2000-2005)
1933: Sacha Distel, French singer (d. 2004)
1946: Irina Nicolau, Romanian ethnologist (d. 2002)
1953: Michael Lungeanu, Romanian director of theater
Dan Marcoci, Romanian director
1956: Matthew Visniec, Romanian poet and playwright, established in 1987 in Paris
Florin Calinescu, Romanian theater and film actor
1962: Oana Pellea, Romanian actress of theater and film
Şeuleanu Dragos, former director of the Romanian Radio Broadcasting Corporation, Vice President of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Romania
Dorinel Ursărescu, Romanian politician
1966: Romario Souza, Brazilian footballer
1973: Catalin Radu Tanase, Romanian journalist
1975: Lambrino Radu, Romanian politician
Deaths
1119: Pope Gelasiu II
1601: Louise de Lorraine-Vandémont, wife of King Henry III of France (b. 1553)
1820: King George III of England (b. 1738)
1906: King Christian IX of Denmark (b. 1818)
1918: Constantin I. Istrati, chemist and physician, member and president (1913-1916) of the Romanian Academy (b. 1850)
1996: Marian Hudac, Romanian actor (b. 1934)
2003: Matt Gheorghiu, Romanian actor (b. 1926)
2006: Ludovic Spiess, Romanian tenor (b. 1938)
Celebrate
Bringing relics of Saint Sanctified Mc. Ignatius (Christian Orthodox calendar)
Valeriu St., ep. (Roman Catholic calendar)
St. Ignatius the God, ep. (Bringing his relics to Const., Sec V) (Greek Catholic calendar)
Palau: National Day
